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Session Type: Section Pedagogy Programs

Session Capacity: N/A

Location: Marriott Marquis Washington, DC

Room: Liberty Salon J

Floor: Level M4

Recent years have witnessed growing political and scholarly attention to how infrastructure, both material and intangible, can perpetuate injustice or promote justice. Scholarship has increasingly repudiated fixed, neutral views of infrastructure, a term encompassing the underlying systems needed for a society or institution to function, instead construing infrastructure as a tool of power. The concept of infrastructural injustice has underpinned scholarship in law, including property law, environmental law, immigration law, law and technology, and legal research and writing. While infrastructural justice is imperative for democracy, achieving it often remains elusive. This session discusses infrastructural injustice and models of reform.