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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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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
(Some of) the Best New LPE and LPE-Adjacent Scholarship
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(Some of) the Best New LPE and LPE-Adjacent Scholarship

With the fall 2024 submission season in the books and our Twitter feeds abuzz with placement announcements, the LPE Blog highlights some of the most exciting forthcoming LPE and LPE-adjacent articles. Covering tech, labor, housing, admin law, family law, consumer protection, legal theory, local government law, and so much more, this scouting report is not to be missed.

Weekly Roundup: November 1
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Weekly Roundup: November 1

Eight experts on Palestinian liberation and international law, Luke Herrine on the little-noticed revolution in Consumer Protection, Alex Gourevitch on the anti-democratic power of the entrepreneurial elite, and Brandon Weiss and Michael Karam on the prospects for major housing regulations in a post-Chevron world. Plus, a call for legal volunteers around the election, a fellowship with the Information Society Project, and a boatload of new pieces from: Gregory Brazeal, Diana Reddy, Sandeep Vaheesan, Raúl Carrillo, Sarah Milov, Adam Tooze, and Jade Craig.

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CUNY LPE: Building Power to Fund a People’s CUNY

Please join CUNY Law’s LPE Collective as we speak to a panel featuring Assemblymember and mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani and members of the REPAIR NY coalition who are organizing to achieve a fully funded People’s CUNY by taxing Columbia and NYU’s billion-dollar property empires.   This event will take place on Tuesday, November 12, from 6pm…

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Are Major Housing Regulations Possible in a Post-Chevron World?

Faced with increasingly dire housing challenges, tenants and organizers have called on federal administrative agencies to impose rent regulations, curb discriminatory screening practices, and limit the grounds for eviction. But will such regulations survive in a post-Chevron world? And, if not, might they nevertheless serve long-term fair housing goals?