Martha T. McCluskey P R O F E S S O R E M E R ITA W I L L I A M J . M A G A V E R N F A C U LT Y S C H O L A R E M E R I TA JSD, Columbia University School of Law LLM, Columbia University School of Law JD, Yale Law School BA, Colby College mcclusk@buffalo.edu
AREAS OF INTEREST LAW AND ECONOMICS CLIMATE JUSTICE CONSTITUTIONAL LAW
My interest is in exploring
WELFARE LAW
questions of economic policy
GENDER AND LAW
and regulation from outside
CRITICAL LEGAL STUDIES
the conventional boundaries
HEALTH LAW
and strained assumptions of
EMPLOYMENT LAW
‘private’ law and neo-classical economics. As part of the growing Law and Political Economy movement, I am
Are We Economic Engines Too? Precarity, Productivity and Gender, 49 Toledo Law Review 631 (Spring 2018) (Symposium Issue, Gender Equality: Progress and Possibilities). Civil Justice in the United States: How Access to Courts is Essential to a Fair Economy (with Thomas
FAMILY LAW
McGarity, Sidney Shapiro, Karen
DISABILITY LAW
Sokol & James Goodwin), Center for
CIVIL RIGHTS LAW
Progressive Reform (Sep. 2018).
RACE AND THE LAW
active in several scholarly organizations focused on developing an affirmative vision of legal economics
INSURANCE AND THE LAW
Defining the Economic Pie, Not
OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY AND HEALTH
Dividing or Maximizing It, 5 Critical
GOVERNMENT ETHICS
Analysis of Law 77 (April 2018).
REGULATION
capable of responding to contemporary crises of climate, health, inequality, and democracy. My work challenges the divide between economics
ENERGY LAW
CHAPTERS
HIGHER EDUCATION LAW
Critical Legal Power for Twenty-First
FINANCE
Century Change, in De Lege 2020:
ARTICLES
and social justice, and draws
Voices on Law and Activisim (Maria Grahn-Farley, eds., Iustus, 2021).
All Costs Have a Right, in Eleven Things
on critical legal perspectives to examine the relationships between economics and questions of race, gender, class, sexuality, and disability status.”
32
They Don’t Tell You About Law and
Law and Economics Against Feminism,
Economics: An Informal Introduction
in Oxford Handbook on Feminism
to Political Economy and the Law, 37
and Law in the U.S. (Deborah L. Brake,
Law & Inequality: A Journal of
Martha Chamallas & Verna L. Williams
Theory and Practice 105 (2019).
eds., Oxford University Press, 2021).
