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Progressive Law, Activism, and Lawyering in an Age of Preemption

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Cummings, Scott L.Blue and Green: The Drive for Justice at America’s Port. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2018.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 February 2021

Rashmi Dyal-Chand
Rashmi Dyal-Chand*
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Northeastern University School of Law, 416 Huntington Avenue, Boston, MA02115, Phone: (617) 373-3493, Email: r.dyal-chand@northeastern.edu
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Abstract

Preemption is one of the most important legal doctrines for today’s progressives to understand because of its power to constrain progressive policymaking and social movement lawyering at the state and local level. By examining the detailed history of a decades-long campaign by the labor and environmental movements to improve working conditions in an industry at the heart of the global supply chain, Scott L. Cummings’s Blue and Green: The Drive for Justice at America’s Port (2018) provides a case study about the doctrine and impacts of preemption. The study also inspires lawyers and activists alike to reexamine core questions of factual relevance, representation and voice, and precedent.

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Law & Social Inquiry , Volume 46 , Issue 1 , February 2021 , pp. 252 - 267
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© 2021 American Bar Foundation

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