Sabeel Rahman on legislative supremacy, Joe Soss and Joshua Page on criminal-legal predation, and Justin Deystone on the return of critical legal theory. Plus, new jobs with Rutgers' Housing Justice Clinic and NYU's federal Indian Law Clinic, a CFP for junior work law scholars (broadly construed), a report on the nordic-US childcare gap, and Steve Vladek on how Congress used to bully the Court.
Our spring scouting report on some of the hottest new LPE and LPE-adjacent articles, and Andrew Miller on how personalized markets undermine solidarity. Plus, a new book from Shaun Ossei-Owusu, an upcoming event with Aziz Rana, Kate Andrias and Alexander Hertel-Fernandez on unions and abundance, Jordan Cozby on Federalism’s Labor-Law Exception, and Brian Shearer on the overinflated costs of property insurance.
A selection of worthy additions to your “important PDFs” folder.
Patrick Lin on surveillance pricing, and Quinn Slobodian and Ben Tarnoff on the political economy of Elon Musk. Plus, last call for hot new scholarship, an opportunity for students to join ALPE, the University of Chicago launches a law and political economy minor, an interview with Stuart Schrader on the history of police unions, a report on how gig nursing platforms are deregulating healthcare, and a vision for how cities can fight back against Trump's tax on remittances.
Ben Kaufman discusses our broken banking bargain, and Vincent Joralemon reflects on the neglected class dimension of addictive platform design. Plus, a call for (your!) hot new LPE scholarship, an upcoming event on the law, politics, and economy of apocalypse, Christine Desan on the constitutional conflict over the power to make money, a new strategic agenda to address the climate and affordability crises, and a celebration of tax day with your favorite mayor, Nobel laureate, and rabble rousing economist.
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.
