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Weekly Roundup: Oct. 23

Omer Ein-Habar on the original sewer socialists, Ioannis Kampourakis on law as a produce force, and Yochai Benkler on the legal transformation of capitalism. Plus, ALPE announces its inaugural Junior Faculty Forum, the JLPE is looking for book reviewers, the LPE stream of the upcoming SLAS annual conference is accepting submissions, Asad Ramzanali identifies 34 ways to tax AI, Adam Bonica & Jake Grumbach discuss democracy's death by consultancy, and Kate Jackson reflects on Friedrick Pollock and Franz Neumann.

Weekly Roundup: Oct. 16

Katharina Pistor on the Law of Capitalism, and Ntina Tzouvala on capitalism beyond law. Plus, an upcoming event on governing for affordability, Aslı Bâli & Samuel Moyn on peace in a multipolar world, Hanna Folsz & Jake Grumbach on law firms folding and resistance, Sam Bagenstos on the "Nerd Circuit," Teal Arcadi on the forgotten history of the roadless rule, Pierre-Christian Fink on Hyman Minsky, Mechele Dickerson on student-athlete employment, and Stephen Maher and Scott Aquanno on Trumpism as capitalist triumph.

Weekly Roundup: Oct. 9

Two new entries in our LPE vs. Law and Economies series: James Tierney considers what LPE could want from a method, and Darren Bush, Mark Glick, and Gabriel Lozada search far and wide for "contemporary" law and economics. Plus, an upcoming LPE Night School event on the NYC housing crisis, Sam Levine on governing AI for consumers and workers, Ben Kaufman on the scourge of the lower courts, Lenore Palladino on the potential of public credit funds, and Joel Michaels on how to restore Congress’s fiscal powers.

Weekly Roundup: Oct 2

Marc Shkurovich on the case for public pharma, Katharina Pistor on the challenges of social democratic reform, and Yochai Benkler on taking social relations as the basic unit of analysis. Plus Niko Bowie and Daphne Renan on 5-4, Nate Holdren on Death Panel, new articles by Sanjukta Paul and Sandeep Vaheesan, and more!

Weekly Roundup: Sept. 25

Jed Purdy discusses law’s role in capitalism, while Megan Wachspress explores how the data center boom risks privatizing the power grid. Plus, Beatrice Adler-Bolton and Gabe Winant on gerontocracy, Lev Menand and Lina Khan on jurisdiction stripping, Ron Knox on forgotten lessons about monopolies and fascism, Jed Purdy on Raymond Williams, Noura Erakat on the Board on Peace, Corey Robin on the moral burdens of individual choice, Desirée LeClercq on labor organizing and the threat of automation, and Gali Racabi on status as a source of law.

Weekly Roundup: Sept. 18

Yochai Benkler on the dynamics of capitalism and law's role within it, Matthew Dimick on capital and law as social forms, and Matthew Lawrence on administrative law after transsubstantivity. Plus, new books by Nikolas Bowie, Daphna Renan, and Allison Tait, a symposium on the global political economy of artificial intelligence, an upcoming event on public pharma, and new pieces on the right to housing, the rise and fall of tech workers, and the transition from dollars hegemony to dollar dominance.