FOREWORD: RACIAL CAPITALISM AS LEGAL ANALYSIS.

In 2010, the Journal of Legal Commentary was renamed the Journal of Civil Rights & Economic Development (JCRED) to reflect its status as the official journal of the Ron Brown Center for Civil Rights here at St. John's University School of Law. From then on, the Journal has been dedicated to exploring issues of social, racial, and economic justice in the law. Thus, JCRED is situated to be a publication that breaches the divide that has held so much power over legal scholarship through the years. That divide is the segregation of issues of Public Law and Private Law, the realm of Public Law being considered the only appropriate space to discuss issues of identity-based oppression covered in the civil rights cases and anti-discrimination litigation of Constitutional Law. The realm of Private Law, on the other hand, has been considered the "neutral" economic space devoid of any considerations of identity or historical context, where the law of Contracts, Business Organizations, and Property exists. There is no doubt that this arbitrary division has been a major disservice to legal scholarship. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]