Thanks, Jerry. I'm looking forward to it! Howard > >----- Original Message ----- >From: "Gerald_A_Levy" <Gerald_A_Levy@email.msn.com> >To: <ope-l@galaxy.csuchico.edu> >Sent: Monday, March 05, 2001 6:18 AM >Subject: [OPE-L:5109] Howard Engelskirchen > > >> 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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