What is LPE? Is it a reaction to law and economics? Does it have a method? What is its normative north star? At this year's ALPE conference, Amy Kapczynski, Corinne Blalock, Aslı Bâli, Sabeel Rahman, Angela Harris, and Yochai Benkler offered their best answers to these questions in two sentences or less.

Academic freedom, a key indicator of the climate of university life, has seen a sharp decline in recent years. This change has been driven by both state and market forces, and reversing it will require not only defending the university we have, but building the university we want.

Just Transition calls us to center questions of justice and distribution in the fight for an ecologically sustainable future. This call resonates deeply with the core concerns of LPE.

Embracing the terms “economy” and “political economy,” as LPE has done, risks invoking just the kind of separate, reified realm that we are trying to critique. In our view, defining “the economy,” and studying how legal institutions have done so, should be central issues that LPE scholarship aims to address.

"I believe law school can be a place where people get "ways of being" training as much as doctrinal training. I envision legal education that prepares people to do the lawyering that honors the continuation of life on Earth." —Abby Reyes

The Editors in Chief of JLPE kick off our series celebrating its first issue!