Nearly all communities are exclusive in some way. When race or wealth is the basis of exclusion, the homogeneity of a neighborhood, workplace, or congregation is controversial. In other instances, as with an artist's colony or a French language book club, exclusivity is tolerable or even laudable. In this engaging book, Lior Strahilevitz introduces a new theory for understanding how exclusivity is created and maintained in residential, workplace, and social settings, one that emphasizes information's role in facilitating exclusion.
The book provides many colorful examples to show how lawmakers frequently misunderstand the subtle mechanics of exclusion, leaving enormous loopholes in the law. Strahilevitz focuses particular attention on today's changing dynamics of exclusion and discusses how technology presents new opportunities for governments to stamp out the most offensive exclusionary behaviors.
Lior Jacob Strahilevitzis Deputy Dean and Professor of Law at the University of Chicago Law School, where he has taught since 2002.
This original study of the various ways we exclude others from resources explores how the law can most effectively constrain the most problematic forms of exclusion. It analyzes the new tools that have developed to facilitate and fight homogeneity in the information age.
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