Before the Blog goes on its annual August hiatus, we count down the ten most read posts of 2026 so far, say a fond farewell to our departing student editors, and welcome three new additions to the team.

Madison Condon and Luke Herrine on the economics that Law & Economics ignores, Jeremy Bearer-Friend and Sarah Polcz on why we should tax AI equity, Matt Bodie on the persistence of shareholder primacy, and Diana Reddy on theorizing discrimination for the bad jobs economy. Plus, two PhD scholarships available at UNSW Law, a set of new papers from the empowering democracy initiative, and Allison Tait on the necrotecture of mass incarceration and luxury apartments.

Fifteen of our favorite films on law and political economy, Jeff Gordon proposes an anti-entrenchment industrial policy, M. Sandhu makes the case against legislative primacy, Aslı Bâli revisits The Constitutional Bind during the interregnum, and R.H. Lossin looks back at early-20th-century criminal syndicalism laws. Plus, a CFP for the Conference of Australian Progressive Legal Studies, a two-year post-doc on rethinking the anti-corruption toolkit, Diana Reddy on employment as a social institution, Luke Herrine on progressive financial empowerment programs, Lev Menand on the Court's Federal Reserve carveout, and Beau Baumann with even more LPE cinema.

The old school year is dying, and the new one struggles to be born: now is the time of movies.

Amy Kapczynski on LPE and social science, Sam Moyn on the class reductionist response to Gerontocracy, and Rakeen Mabud on why the affordability frame needs a power analysis. Plus, a bevy of new essays, papers, and events, covering the history of the consumer price index, left critiques of the constitution, the international right to strike, worker control over AI governance, administrative law pluralism, the economic function of rent stabilization, and more!

Evan Behrle on income inequality, Frank Pasquale on Magnifica Humanitas, and Wanshu Cong on the informal governance of global capitalism. Plus, a new report by Sanjay Jolly on advancing a constitutional regime for labor rights, Melinda Cooper offers a typology of factions of asset-based capitalism, Elliot Lewis and Zach Lewis explain how to democratize the United States, Ilias Alami & Thea Riofrancos examine the core features and fault lines of Trumpian State Capitalism, and the Roosevelt Institute lays out the Good Life Agenda: a vision of what our society could look like if all of us had access to the building blocks of economic security and prosperity.