James Gray Pope

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Contract, Race, and Freedom of Labor in the Constitutional Law of "Involuntary Servitude"

119 Yale L.J. 1474 (2010).  The Supreme Court has yet to adopt and apply a standard for assessing labor rights claims under the Involuntary Servitude Clause. This Article suggests that one may be found in the leading decision of Pollock v. Williams (1944), which contains the Court’s most thorough discussion of the interpretive issues. Under Pollock, a claimed right should...