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Weekly Roundup: Feb 20

Victor Pickard on the American media polycrisis and Mariana Pargendler on Brazil’s forgotten legal innovation. Plus, a fellowship in constitutional law and history, a new report on workplace democracy, an interview with Ahilan Arulanantham on third-country removals, Ivana Isailović on the Serbian student protests, Ilias Alami, Tom Chodor, and Jack Taggart on the causes and consequences of the emerging post-multilateral world, and Vanessa Williamson and Aziz Huq on the dissolution of laws that protect public money.

Weekly Roundup: Feb 13

Vincent Joralemon on the flawed legal architecture behind drug pricing, Eamon Coburn on the anti-worker character of "no taxes on overtime," and Emmanuel Mauleón on the gradual erosion of law preceding recent events in Minnesota. Plus, a cool new paper from Laura Portuondo, Amna Akbar on what's happening in South Minneapolis, JW Mason on the costs of affordable housing in NYC, Steffen Murau on the future of the international monetary system, Steve Kennedy on the Supreme Court's retreat from shared facts, and Daniel Schlozman on Anton Jäger’s Hyperpolitics.

Weekly Roundup: Feb 6

Patrick Driessen on Big Pharma's exit strategy, and Serena Mayeri on her recent history of marital privilege. Plus, Jake Grumbach and Adam Bonica on the scourge of moderation, JS Tan and Kathleen Thelen on cloud capitalism, Jessica Shoemaker & James Fallows Tierney on Wall Street’s arrival at rural America’s gate, and the third installment of the political economy of finance summer school.

Weekly Roundup: Jan 30

Edie Conekin-Tooze on hidden foster care as neoliberal family governance, an open letter from seventy-two UMN law faculty, and Luke Farrell on the means-testing industrial complex. Plus, Aslı Bâli and Aziz Rana on the roots of the Trump Doctrine, Sandeep Vaheesan and Brian Callaci on building democratic state capacity, Luke Herrine on the institutional foundations of free speech, an LPE fellowship at Open Markets, CfPs for conferences on carceral political economy, capitalism beyond neoliberalism, and Goffmanian Political Economy, a summer academy for American Political Economy, an upcoming event on the AI industry’s explosive demands for computing infrastructure, and new papers from Samuel Bagenstos and Michael Banerjee.

Weekly Roundup: Jan 23

Nathan Yaffe on the immigration agencies openly defying federal courts, and Sabeel Rahman and Jocelyn Simonson on the Part IV problem in legal scholarship. Plus, Michael Macher traces the bipartisan origins of Trump's immigration crackdown; Eric Blanc, Claire Sandberg, and Wes McEnany advocate targeting ICE's corporate collaborators; David Austin Walsh discusses socialism in one city; Alondra Nelson examines the Trump administration's more intensive and less transparent approach to AI regulation, William Boyd analyzes the White House's push for emergency auctions in the largest wholesale electricity market in the country, and Vincent Mancini, Marshall Steinbaum, and Robert Stutchbury propose an antitrust exemption for independent contractors.