Judging Inequality in the American States: Do the Haves Come Out Ahead in State Supreme Court Cases Implicating Inequality?

• In Event: Have's and Have-Nots: Courts and Inequality

Brief Overview

We analyze of the role that state courts have played in creating, sustaining, or mitigating American inequality, revisiting Galanter’s classic argument about the “haves” and “have nots” in an age of politicized state judiciaries.

Authors

• James Gibson, Washington University in St Louis

• Michael J. Nelson, Pennsylvania State University-University Park