Word: unger
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...This is really the first time that he’s getting this close to actual policy,” said Hariri Professor of International Political Economy Dani Rodrik ’79, who has taught alongside Unger at the Kennedy School. “He’s been involved in politics on and off in Brazil for sometime…but this is obviously a tremendous chance for him to actually be in a position where he can actually get things done...
Though this is his first ministerial position, Unger is no newcomer to policy adivising in Brazil, according to Ricardo Reisen de Pinho, a senior researcher at Harvard Business School’s Latin America Research Center, which is based in Buenos Aires. Reisen de Pinho said in an e-mailed statement that “Unger has been a close adviser [to] several controversial Brazilian politicians” and has devised “innovative political ideas for the country” in the past...
Among the reforms Unger, who declined to comment for this story, has proposed in the past are the levying of a value-added tax on purchases to broaden the nation’s tax base, making education and employment legal rights, and creating a governmental agency devoted to destabilizing entrenched interests...
...legal circles, Unger is best known for his integral role in the development of Critical Legal Studies (CLS), an influential and very controversial movement in legal theory that argues that existing legal frameworks are grounded in socioeconomic inequity rather than neutral principles...
Cromwell Professor of Law Mark V. Tushnet ’67, who is also regarded as a leading figure in the CLS movement, said in an interview that Unger was a “central” figure in developing the movement’s theory, and that “very early on he...described a number of important aspects of Critical Legal Studies and captured in very important ways what the enterprise was about...