Sameer Ashar on the potential transformation of the U.S. immigration system, Luke Herrine on the history of multilevel marketing and right-wing movement building, and a CFP for the second annual ALPE conference. Plus, a collaborative research project for law students interested in the transition from capitalism to socialism, a new book by Sabeel Rahman, two new academic job listings focused on political economy, a discussion with Astra Taylor, David Wallace-Wells, Madison Condon, and Moira Birss on insurance and climate catastrophe, a recent Roosevelt Institute report on durable climate policy, and new items from Sandeep Vaheesan, Claire Kelloway, Veena Dubal, Gabriel Winant, Alex Press, & Alvin Velazquez.

The Association of Law and Political Economy invites proposals for its second annual meeting, to be held on June 9-10, 2027, in Boston, MA.

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.