It’s the first day of August, which means that the blog is officially on hiatus for the next month. But before we hit the beach (library) and catch some rays (plan our fall schedule), a few brief announcements.
Another Turning Point, a Fork Stuck in the Road
This summer, we say a fond farewell to three stalwart editors at the blog: Brett Davidson, who recently graduated from UCLA Law, and Matt Buck and Kate Yoon, who both recently graduated from Yale Law School.
Among other feats, Brett was responsible for our symposia on Carceral Labor (co-hosted with Inquest) and Jocelyn Simonson’s Radical Acts of Justice; for such excellent posts as Rick Weinmeyer’s The Public Reliance on Private Toilets, Andrew Crespo’s Defendants, United, Could Strike the State Blindsided, and Zohra Ahmed’s The Right to Counsel in a Neoliberal Age; and for holding down our coverage of the criminal legal system. Brett will spend the upcoming year clerking for Judge Jamal Whitehead on the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington in Seattle.
Kate Yoon’s highlights include our recent symposium on Private Insurance, Public Power, an interview Vincent Bevins about Why a Decade of Revolts Didn’t Bring the Revolution, and such posts as Mariana Pargendler’s Heterodox Corporate Laws in the Global South, Yiran Zhang’s The Care Bureaucracy, and J. Benton Heath’s Meddling with International Relations. She leaves the lofty heights of Blog editing to work as Assistant Legal Counsel at the Permanent Court of Arbitration in The Hague.
Matt Buck, our resident antimonopoly specialist, brought you such hit posts as Sandeep Vaheesan and Andy Fitch’s The Treatise That Has Misled Antitrust Lawyers for Decades, John Mark Newman’s Taking Stock of the New Antimonopoly Movement, and an interview with Ganesh Sitaraman about Why Flying is Miserable and Why It Doesn’t Have to Be. Next year, Matt will be clerking for Judge Richard Clifton on the U.S Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit.
Minions V
Will the Blog be able to survive such devastating losses?? Tune in this fall to fine out, where our editorial staff has several fantastic new additions:
Liz Brown is a rising 2L at Yale Law School, as well as an MPA student at Princeton. At the Blog, she will focus on housing, consumer protection, and antitrust.
Chloe Miller is a rising 3L at Yale Law School. At the Blog, she’ll be holding down the global political economy beat, as well as looking at alternative forms of economic cooperation.
Sohum Pal is a rising 2L at Columbia Law School, as well as a PhD student in the History at Columbia. At the Blog, he will focus on gender, legal history, and race and political economy.
Elliot Setzer is a rising 3L at Stanford Law School, as well as a PhD student in Political Science at Yale. At the Blog, his beat will encompass administrative law, constitutional political economy, regulated industries, and national security law.
And last but not least, Eve Zelickson is a rising 2L at NYU Law. At the Blog, she’ll be focusing on tech, labor, and health law.
Our Most Popular Posts of the Year So Far
They say absence makes the heart grow fonder. But if you find yourself pining for LPE content during the dog days of summer, you can revisit some of our most loved posts from the first half of 2024.
10. Six Reactions to the Proposed TikTok Ban
Featuring Ganesh Sitaraman, Sanjay Jolly, Zephyr Teachout, Nikolas Guggenberger, Anupam Chander, & Elettra Bietti
9. The Political Effects of Neoliberalism
Ilyana Kuziemko, Nicolas Longuet Marx, and Suresh Naidu explain why less-educated Americans have abandoned the Democratic Party.
8. The Limits of Anti-Monopsony Antitrust
Brian Callaci discusses the disconnect between labor and antitrust progressives when it comes to questions of power and fairness in labor markets.
7. Should Higher Education Ratify Privilege or Public Service?
Marshall Steinbaum identifies the hierarchical social theory that underlies the current hollowing out of public universities.
6. The Vicious Spiral of Political and Economic Inequality
Valentino Larcinese and Alberto Parmigiani describe new research about the mutually reinforcing nature of political and economic inequality.
Darryl li examines how the United States facilitates the global flow of 155mm artillery shells, and describes the role that these weapons have played in the destruction of Gaza.
4. The Real Lessons We Should Draw from Claudine Gay’s Resignation
Amy Kapczynski argues that recent attacks on the university have little to do with defending free speech or other academic virtues, and are better understood as part of an organized rightwing campaign to delegitimize universities.
3. Seeing the University More Clearly
David Pozen looks at the legal-institutional forces that helped bring Columbia University to its current conjuncture this spring.
2. From the Encampments: Student Reflections on Protests for Palestine
Law students involved with the protests at Columbia, CUNY, Yale, and NYU explain the demands behind the encampments and share their perspectives on the brutal responses by their universities.
1. Social Media, Authoritarianism, and the World As It Is
Meredith Whittaker uses the divide over recent TikTok legislation to reflect on a more fundamental question: how should we think about regulating social media platforms at a time of rising illiberalism in the United States?
