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.
Go to LearnEngage
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!
Go to EngageEvents
A compendium of upcoming (and past) events put on by the LPE Project, LPE student groups, and other organizations in the LPE ecosystem.
Go to EventsSticking Together in Tough Times with Dean Spade
Please join the LPE Project on Thursday, January 30th, from 12:10 to 1:30 PM ET, for a lunch talk with Dean Spade titled Sticking Together in Tough Times. Dean Spade is a Professor at Seattle University School of Law, where he teaches courses in Administrative Law, Poverty Law, Gender and Law, Policing and Imprisonment, Professional…
LPE NYC: Dismantling Racial Capitalism: In Conversation with Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor &...
On February 13th, LPE NYC is thrilled to be teaming up with The Action Lab, The Initiative for Community Power, The Center on Race, Inequality, and the Law, and NYU Gallatin for the next event in our a Dismantling Racial Capitalism Series, a Conversation with Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor & Steve Williams. Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor writes and speaks…
Systemic Justice Project Conference: Facing the Future: Organizing and Lawyering for...
The Systemic Justice Project’s 2025 conference (Jan 31 – Feb 2) will bring together justice-oriented law students, lawyers, organizers, and scholars and will focus on the future of justice-oriented lawyering in the face of mounting systemic challenges and rising authoritarianism. The LPE Project is thrilled to be cosponsoring the conference alongside the People’s Parity Project.…
Weekly Roundup: Jan 17
Amy Kapczynski on institutional neutrality rules, and Greg Baltz on tenant union organizing in the shadow of law. Plus, a changing of the guard on the LPE editorial board, a CFP on Carceral Political Economy, a lunch talk with Dean Spade, two political-economy focused post-doc positions, Jasmine Harris on conservatorships, Jonathan Harris on the FTC's non-compete rule, Karen Tani on Digging a Hole, a debate over the YIMBY agenda, Amna Akbar on Mangione and Malm, Beth Popp Berman on antitrust and industrial policy, and the Michigan Journal of Law and Society is looking for interdisciplinary scholarship.