ACS Fall Scholarship Workshop: Daniel Markovits

In the fifth session of the ACS Fall Scholarship Workshop, Professor Daniel Markovits will present selections from his forthcoming book, The Good Life After the Age of Growth. 

The Fall Scholarship Workshop is a weekly discussion forum where Yale Law School professors present, discuss and solicit feedback for their forthcoming or recently published work. You can register for the course and receive reading group credit (CRN 16561), or attend on weeks where you find the subject matter particularly interesting. 

This year our theme is “Vindicating Courts, Vindicating Rights,” and we’ll largely be discussing papers which investigate (1) the changing nature of courts in the modern United States, from a preferred forum for progressive rights claims to an activist force of retrenchment; and (2) whether and how litigants should pursue communal and personal liberty claims before the Supreme Court’s conservative supermajority and the largely conservative federal bench.

Students will be exposed to scholarship regarding both theory and practice, as the progressive legal movement considers where to turn for engines of continued progress.