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Law & Political Economy

LPE project

The Law and Political Economy (LPE) Project brings together a network of scholars, practitioners, and students working to develop innovative intellectual, pedagogical, and political interventions to advance the study of political economy and law. Our work is rooted in the insight that politics and the economy cannot be separated and that both are constructed in essential respects by law. We believe that developments over the last several decades in legal scholarship and policy helped to facilitate rising inequality and precarity, political alienation, the entrenchment of racial hierarchies and intersectional exploitation, and ecological and social catastrophe. We aim to help reverse these trends by supporting scholarly work that maps where we have gone wrong, and that develops ideas and proposals to democratize our political economy and build a more just, equal, and sustainable future.

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Our Work

Learn

A variety of resources designed to help faculty and students learn more about LPE, including syllabi from LPE and LPE-related courses, primers on topics such as neoliberalism and legal realism, as well as videos from a number of events we have held over the last year.

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Engage

Information about the amazing work being done by LPE student groups, as well as guidance on starting a student group on your own campus! A bureau of affiliated professors and practitioners designed to help faculty and students to bring LPE scholars to their campuses!

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Events

A compendium of upcoming (and past) events put on by the LPE Project, LPE student groups, and other organizations in the LPE ecosystem.

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Recent Updates
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The Bangladesh Student Movement and the Promise of Movement Lawyering

Join the Brooklyn Law and Political Economy Collective for a timely discussion about the Bangaldesh student movement and the promises of movement lawyering. Professor Jocelyn Simonson (Brooklyn Law) and Professor Chaumtoli Huq (CUNY Law) will be in conversation around The Bangladesh Student Movement that Transformed a Nation, from the LPE Blog. The event will be held…

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Is Anyone Afraid of Breaking The Price-Fixing Laws Anymore?

The DOJ's price-fixing suit against RealPage, which has uncovered brazen collusion among competing landlords across the United States, is a welcome departure from decades of hands-off antitrust enforcement. Yet with prices going up in industry after industry, and so few price-fixing cases brought in recent years, it appears many businesses have determined that the risk of collusion is worth the reward.

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Weekly Roundup: November 15

Amy Kapczynski & Luke Herrine with some light election reading, Keith Orejel on the economic foundations of our modern urban-rural political divide, and Jacob Hamburger on how democrats should respond to the "migrant crisis." Plus, Karen Tani's new HLR Foreword, Jeffrey N. Gordon on the impending crypto financial crisis, a student note on the political economy of arbitration law, an interview with Isabella Weber on Biden and inflation, and more!