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Weekly Roundup: April 3

Ruthy Gourevitch and Jacob Udell on financial distress in the rental market, Alaa Hajyahia and Helen Zhao on the scourge known as the Jones Act, and Kathleen Frydl on how corporations hijacked identity politics. Plus, Lina Khan and Lev Menand's new center for law and the economy, Niko Bowie and Daphna Renan's new book on judicial supremacy, a hot new issue of Law & Contemporary Problems on law and capitalism, a cool new Fordham Law Symposium on antitrust law and oligarchy, Kate Jackson's review of Lenore Palladino's Good Company, and a report by Rakeen Mabud and Melanie Brusseler on the authoritarian coalition's power grab.

Weekly Roundup: March 27

Sam Moyn and Jamelle Bouie on legislative supremacy, Mariano Féliz on Argentina's debt sustainability, Ntina Tzvouala on dollar hegemony (x2), Ivana Isailović on the LPE of Social Reproduction in the EU, Mohini Mookim and Veryl Pow on prefigurative lawyering, Adam Hanieh on the economic significance of the Strait of Hormuz, and JW Mason on his forthcoming book.

Weekly Roundup: March 20

Beau Baumann on the lost art of constitutional politics, Hal Singer on the market definition trap, and Ben Gerstein on the political economy of settler retrenchment. Plus, Alexander Hertel-Fernandez and Paul Sonn explain how cities and states can help boost funding for labor organizations, Samuel Bagg and Shai Agmon discuss the critical role of friction in market competition, Adelle Waldman and Matt Bruenig propose a right to full-time scheduling, Daniel Steinmetz-Jenkins interviews Sophia Rosenfeld about the rise of personal choice in the modern world, and Diana Reddy flips the script on a transaction cost-centric analysis of employment.

Weekly Roundup: March 13

Seven of our favorite labor scholars and lawyers on how to revive a pro-labor vision of the Constitution, Jeena Shah on how to make sense of Trump’s contradictory treatment of Hernández and Maduro, Noam Maggor on how “good” and “bad” capitalists are not born but made. Plus, a definitive ranking of the top 5,000 legal scholars, an upcoming conference on public debt, an upcoming LPE night school meeting on Social Movements & Municipal Governance, a CFP for LPE scholars dreaming of Switzerland, and last call for the Polan Fellowship in Constitutional Law and History.

Weekly Roundup: March 6

Veena Dubal and Aziza Ahmed on how feminists transformed the law and science of AIDS, Luke Herrine on market governance in Trumpworld, and Aditya Balasubramanian on the misnomer of modern Indian capital. Plus, a new special issue on Law & Economics vs. Law & Political Economy, Shahrzad Shams and Todd N. Tucker make the progressive case for court reform, Sandeep Vaheesan reflects on how to build the electrostate, Amy Kapczynski proposes a right to education as a free speech remedy, and Ben Fong takes readers inside the belly of same-day delivery.

Weekly Roundup: Feb 27

Sophina Clark on work-spreading as a non-reformist reform, Jason Jackson on the moral orders of capitalist legitimacy, and Amy Cohen on a potential post-moral turn in American capitalism. Plus, Lenore Palladino shines a slight on unregulated private capital, Lev Menand and Joel Michaels dismiss Trump's latest tariff gambit, Beatrice Adler-Bolton speaks with William Boyd about the rise of “risk assessment” in health and environmental law, Melinda Cooper discusses the billionaire patriarchs of the American far-right, Jack Gross interviews Pablo Bustinduy about Spain's progressive success, and Trevor Jackson reviews three books on the Federal Reserve.