Jewel on Dark Connections @ljewel @CreightonLawRev @UTKLaw

Lucy A. Jewel, University of Tennessee College of Law, is publishing Dark Connections in volume 56 of the Creighton Law Review (2023). Here is the abstract.

This paper explores the troubling cultural connections between plantation management relations and the patriarchy, pugilism, and privilege that run through contemporary U.S. business culture. First, the Comment will briefly describe some theoretical concepts that explain why an interdisciplinary study of legal history and culture provides value for scholars interested in stopping the same old hierarchical patterns from recurring. Second, the Comment will summarize the plantation owner's and overseer's dichotomous social identities, as McMurtry-Chubb expertly describes them. Third, this paper undertakes a deep reading of United States v. Hazelwood, a recent United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit case that grapples with heinous racist behavior in a business milieu. The Hazelwood case illustrates the dark connections between the plantation and modern business and plots the course lines for an accurate reckoning.

Download the article from SSRN at the link.