Paintings & Prostitutes with Stephen Clowney

Taboo Trades

My guest today is the always interesting and funny Steve Clowney, a professor of law at the University of Arkansas. He has also worked as a legal consultant in Hawaii, a college admissions officer, and a gravedigger. His main areas of research include zoning regulations, monuments, the history of cities, handwritten wills, and the presence of violence in informal property systems. He joins us today to discuss a paper that I’ve long admired, Does Commodification Corrupt: Lessons From Paintings And Prostitutes, published in the Seton Hall Law Review.

Reading list:

Clowney Bio https://law.uark.edu/directory/directory-faculty/uid/sclowney/name/Steve+Clowney/

Clowney, Nationalize Zoning, 72 Kan. L. Rev. (forthcoming) (symposium essay).

Clowney, Do Rural Places Matter?, 57 Conn. L. Rev. 1 (forthcoming).

Clowney, Anonymous Statues: An Empirical Study of Monuments in One American Neighborhood, 71 Wash. U. J.L. & Pol'y 35 (2023) (symposium essay).

Clowney, The White Houses? An Empirical Study of Segregation in the Greek System, 41 Yale L. & Pol'y Rev. 151 (2023).

Clowney, Sororities as Confederate Monuments, 105 Ky. L.J. 617 (2020) (symposium essay).

Clowney, Does Commodification Corrupt: Lessons From Paintings and Prostitutes, 50 Seton Hal L. Rev. 1005 (2020).

Clowney, Should We Buy Selling Sovereignty, 66 Duke L.J. Online 19 (2017).

Krawiec Bio https://www.law.virginia.edu/faculty/profile/kdk4q/1181653

Krawiec, Markets, repugnance, and externalities, Journal of Institutional Economics 1–12 (2023).

Krawiec, No Money Allowed, 2022 University of Chicago Legal Forum 221–240 (2022).