Publication Date

3-2018

Journal

University of Chicago Law Review

Abstract

Economic inequality is rising in democracies across the world and poses a clear threat to both the stability and legitimacy of liberal constitutional models. Can liberal constitutionalism respond to this threat? Or are there inherent limits to the liberal model that prevent an effective response? This Essay explores these questions by surveying the range of possible structural and rights-based constitutional responses to economic inequality, as well as possible obstacles to these responsesincluding problems of definition, leveling up versus down, unintended or counterproductive consequences, and institutional path dependence.

Volume

85

Issue

2

First Page

369

Last Page

402

Publisher

University of Chicago Law School

Disciplines

Communications Law | Consumer Protection Law | Law | Law and Economics | Law and Race | Law and Society

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