Howard Engelskirchen has joined OPE-L. Howard is a lawyer (!) and a pioneer of sorts in the field of law and value. His addition will broaden some of our discussions (e.g. the one from Feb/March, 2000 on "the employment contract and capitalism" -- which we can revisit if he wants to). Here is his introduction: --------------------------------------------- From: "lynne engelskirchen" <lhengels@igc.org> > Jerry -- > > I've been a law professor for 20 years at the University of Santa Clara and > Western State University, both in California, primarily in the fields of > contracts and constitutional law, and I am now working independently in > Ithaca, New York. My law degree is from UC Berkeley and I have a masters > in literature from Columbia University and a masters in political economy > from UC Riverside. I also studied economics in France for a year with > Charles Bettelheim. My work takes seriously the Preface of 1857: I'm > interested in how legal rules are generated by value and capital. So far > value theory has been my primary focus. I've published "Locating the > Analysis of Legal Form" on Pashukanis in Rethinking Marxism and > "Consideration as a Commitment to Relinquish Autonomy" in the Seton Hall > Law Review. The latter piece provides the technical foundation for a > paper, "Value and Contract Formation," presented to the recent IWGVT > mini-conference in NYC. I've also presented papers on negligence and > value, on the problem of legality (how can law be determined by economic > relations if economic relations presuppose ownership?), and on the > materialist semiotics of F. Rossi-Landi. In general, in working out the > relation of base and legal superstructure I've found the work on semiotics > of Volosinov indispensable. I'm deeply interested in questions of > philosophy, methodology and social theory -- what makes law a social > science, for one -- and approach Marx as a scientific realist. Among my > abiding obsessions is the transformation problem. I've presented a paper > on worker ownership to the Industrial Cooperative Association and > co-authored a paper for the Midwest Center for Labor Research called > "Towards A New Vision of Community Economic Development." I've been a > special editor of the National Lawyers Guild's Guild Practitioner and have > been a member of the the NLG's Labor and Media Committees. > > Howard ---------------------------------- Howard: welcome aboard! In solidarity, Jerry
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