Publications by Professor Munger

Professor Frank Munger
Publications

BOOKS

Law and Poverty. (Ashgate International Library of Essays in Law and Society, 2006) (editor & author of introductory essay).

Rights of Inclusion: Law and Identity in the Life Stories of Americans with Disabilities. (University of Chicago Press, 2003) (with D. Engel).

CHAPTERS IN BOOKS

“Law and Poverty,” in Encyclopedia of Law & Society (David Clark, ed., Sage Publications, forthcoming.)

“Rights in the Shadow of Class: Poverty, Welfare, and the Law,” Chapter 18 in The Blackwell Companion to Law and Society at 330–353 (A. Sarat, ed., Blackwell Publishing, 2004).
 
“Dependency by Law: Welfare and Identity in the Lives of Poor Women,” chapter in Lives in the Law (A. Sarat, L. Douglas & M. Umphrey, eds., University of Michigan Press, 2002).
 
“Mapping Law and Society,” chapter in Crossing Boundaries: Traditions and Transformations in Law and Society Research at 21–88 (A. Sarat, ed., Northwestern University Press, 1998).
 
“Miners and Lawyers: Law Practice and Class Conflict in Appalachia, 1872–1920,” Chapter 8 in Lawyers in a Postmodern World: Translation and Transgression at 185–228 (M. Cain & C.B. Harrington, eds., New York University Press, 1994).
 
“Movements for Court Reform: A Preliminary View,” Chapter 4 in The Politics of Judicial Reform at 51–67 (P.L. Dubois, ed., Lexington Books, 1982).
 
“Contentious Gatherings in Lancashire, England 1750–1830,” Chapter 4 in Class Conflict and Collective Action at 73–109 (L.A. Tilly & C. Tilly, eds., Sage Publications, 1981). 

CONFERENCE MATERIALS, MONOGRAPHS, and REPORTS

Statutory Interpretation of Federal Grants-In-Aid after Pennhurst State Mental Hospital v. Halderman (Legal Services Corporation Fellowship Paper Series, 1982).

Paradise Lost: Public Benefits Litigation After Pennhurst (Legal Services Corporation Fellowship Paper Series, 1982).
 
Implication of Remedies Under Federal Grants-In-Aid (Legal Services Corporation Fellowship Paper Series, 1982). 

LAW REVIEW and OTHER SCHOLARLY PUBLICATIONS

“Narrative, Disability, and Identity,” in Narrative (forthcoming) (with D. Engel).

"Culture, Power, and Law: Thinking About the Anthropology of Rights in Thailand in an Era of Globalization" (New York Law School Faculty Presentation Day III), 51 New York Law School Law Review 817-838 (2006-2007).

“Dependency by Law: Poverty, Identity, and Welfare Privatization,” 13 Indiana Journal of Global Legal Studies 391-415 (2006).

 
“Social Citizen as ‘Guest Worker’: A Comment on Identities of Immigrants and the Working Poor” (New York Law School Faculty Presentation Day II), 49 New York Law School Law Review 665–685 (2004–2005).
 
“Afterword: How Can We Save the Safety Net?” (Edward V. Sparer Public Interest Law Program Symposium: The New Economy and the Unraveling Social Safety Net), 69 Brooklyn Law Review 543–581 (2004).
 
“Beyond Welfare Reform: Can We Build a Local Welfare State” (Symposium: Meeting Human Needs: Examining the Social Safety Net for Working America), 44 Santa Clara Law Review 999–1028 (2004).
 
Poverty, Welfare, and the Affirmative State (Review Essay of John Gilliom’s “Overseers of the Poor: Surveillance, Resistance, and the Limits of Privacy,” Michael B. Katz’s “The Price of Citizenship: Redefining the American Welfare State,” and Alice O’Connor’s “Poverty Knowledge: Social Science, Social Policy, and the Poor in Twentieth Century U.S. History”), 37 Law & Society Review 659–686 (2003).
 
“Re-Interpreting the Effect of Rights: Career Narratives and the ADA” (Symposium: Facing the Challenges of the ADA: The First Ten Years and Beyond), 62 Ohio State Law Journal 285–333 (2001) (with D. Engel).
 
“Civil Rights and Self-Concepts: Life Stories of Law, Disability and Employment,” 35 Droit et Culture 43 (1998) (with D. Engel).
 
Immanence and Identity: Understanding Poverty Through Law and Society Research (A review of Joel Handler’s and Yeshkel Hasenfeld’s “We the Poor People: Work, Poverty, and Welfare”; Elizabeth Bussiere’s “(Dis)Entitling the Poor: The Warren Court, Welfare Rights, and the American Political Tradition”; and Herbert J. Gans’s “The War Against the Poor: The Underclass and Anti-Poverty Policy”), 32 Law & Society Review 931–967 (1998).
 
“Fooling all of the People Some of the Time: 1990s Welfare Reform and the Exploitation of American Values,” 4 Virginia Journal of Social Policy & the Law 3–125 (1996) (with K.A. Kost).
 
“Law and Inequality: Race, Gender…and, of Course,” Class, 22 Annual Review of Sociology 187 (1996) (with C. Seron).
 
“Rights, Remembrance, and the Reconciliation of Difference,” 30 Law & Society Review 7–53 (1996) (with D. Engel). (Winner of the First Annual Law and Society Association Article Prize in 1997.)
 
“Asking the Right Question,” 19 Law and Social Inquiry 605–608 (1994).
 
“Sociology of Law for a Postliberal Society,” 27 Loyola of Los Angeles Law Review 89–125 (1993).
 
“Making a Commitment to Social Change: Extending the Canon of Dispute Processing Research,” 12 Studies in Law, Politics, and Society 431–445 (1992).
 
“Legal Resources of Striking Miners: Notes for a Study of Class Conflict & Law,” 15 Social Science History 1–33 (1991).
 
Trial Courts and Social Change: the Evolution of a Field of Study (Special Issue: Longitudinal Studies of Trial Courts), 24 Law & Society Review 217–227 (1990).
 
Afterword: Studying Litigation and Social Change (Special Issue: Longitudinal Studies of Trial Courts), 24 Law & Society Review 595–615 (1990).
 
Review of Richard Lampert’s and Joseph Sanders’s “Invitation to Law and Social Science,” 12 Legal Studies Forum 89–101 (1988).
 
“Law, Change, and Litigation: a Critical Examination of an Empirical Research Tradition,” 22 Law & Society Review 57–101 (1988).
 
“Social Change and Tort Litigation: Industrialization, Accidents, and Trial Courts in Southern West Virginia, 1872 to 1940,” 36 Buffalo Law Review 75–118 (1987).
 
“Commercial Litigation in West Virginia State and Federal Courts 1870–1940,” 30 American Journal of Legal History 322–349 (1986).
 
Review of Richard L. Abel’s “The Politics of Informal Justice,” 90 American Journal of Sociology 477–480 (1984).
 
“Critical Legal Studies Versus Critical Legal Theory: a Comment on Method,” 6 Law & Policy 257–297 (1984) (with C. Seron).
 
Review of MacFarlane “Justice and the Mare’s Ale: Law and Disorder in Seventeenth Century England,” 10 Journal of International History 353 (1982).
 
“Suppression of Popular Gatherings in England, 1800–1830,” 25 American Journal of Legal History 111–140 (1981).
 
“Clinical Legal Education: the Case Against Separatism” (Symposium: Clinical Legal Education and the Legal Profession), 29 Cleveland State Law Review 715–734 (1980).
 
“Measuring Repression of Popular Protests by English Justices of the Peace in the Industrial Revolution,” 11 Historical Methods 58 (1979).
 
“Consumer Sensitivity to Interest Rates: An Empirical Study of New-Car Buyers and Auto Loans,” 69 Michigan Law Review 1207–1258 (1971) (with J.J. White).