The History of Equity Jurisprudence

Peter Bergen: What's the difference between equality and equity? He says what equity tries to do is correct those moments when the letter of the law gets out of line with the spirit of the law. In one sense, progressives are using the term equity properly because they're looking at how applications of law in the past have produced results, he says. But there is another sense in which the term equity is being pressed into use as a metaphor for authoritarian settlements on long-standing historical problems," writes Bergen.