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African Americans, Labor Regulations, and the Courts: From Reconstruction to the New Deal

BOOK FORUM
Wednesday, March 7, 2001
12:00 p.m.

Featuring David E. Bernstein, Law Professor, George Mason University Law School, with comments by Mark V. Tushnet, Associate Dean, Georgetown University Law Center.

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Conventional wisdom has it that economic regulation, labor unions, and the civil rights movement have long been fast friends. Not so, says George Mason University law professor David Bernstein in a new book, Only One Place of Redress. Applying the insights of public choice theory to legal history, Bernstein argues that the much-maligned jurisprudence of the Lochner era-with its emphasis on freedom of contract and private market ordering-actually discouraged discrimination and assisted groups with little political clout. Please join us for a discussion of this provocative thesis with its author.

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