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Theories of Power, Poverty, and Law: In Commemoration of the Contributions of Peter Bachrach

Power, Law, and Final Thoughts: The Contributions of Peter Bachrach

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 January 2010

Elizabeth M. Schneider
Affiliation:
Brooklyn Law School

Extract

I am pleased to be part of this symposium to celebrate the life and work of Peter Bachrach. Although my focus is the relevance of Peter's ideas of power to law, I want to begin with some personal comments as well as raise some final thoughts, drawing on others' contributions. Like so many of Peter's other students, I adored him. Peter's joy in ideas, his passion for participatory democracy, his love of teaching, and his extraordinary capacity to listen to students were infectious. As others have said, he lit up every room that he was in. He inspired me to become a civil rights lawyer and law professor and to teach, write, and advocate about issues that he cared about.

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Profession Symposium
Copyright
Copyright © American Political Science Association 2010

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References

Schneider, Elizabeth M. 2000. Battered Women and Feminist Lawmaking. New Haven: Yale University Press.Google Scholar