What We Are Reading. Today: ‘Women Architects at Work’

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Updated 23 June 2024
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What We Are Reading. Today: ‘Women Architects at Work’

Authors: Mary Ann Hunting and Kevin D. Murphy

In the decades preceding World War II, professional architecture schools enrolled increasing numbers of women, but career success did not come easily.

“Women Architects at Work” tells the stories of the resilient and resourceful women who surmounted barriers of sexism, racism, and classism to take on crucial roles in the establishment and growth of Modernism across the United States.


What We Are Reading Today: Corporate Crime and Punishment

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Updated 27 February 2026
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What We Are Reading Today: Corporate Crime and Punishment

  • Many critics of globalization and corporate impunity cheer this turn toward accountability

Author: Cornelia Wall

Over the past decade, many of the world’s biggest companies have found themselves embroiled in legal disputes over corruption, fraud, environmental damage, tax evasion, or sanction violations.

Corporations including Volkswagen, BP, and Credit Suisse have paid record-breaking fines.

Many critics of globalization and corporate impunity cheer this turn toward accountability. Others, however, question American dominance in legal battles that seem to impose domestic legal norms beyond national boundaries.

In this book, Cornelia Woll examines the politics of American corporate criminal law’s extraterritorial reach.