Ilias Alami on the new state capitalism, Sabeel Rahman on anti-domination and the administrative state, and Jonathan Glater on Students for Fair Admissions. Plus, Jacob Hacker and Patrick Sullivan on the lowlights of the Republican budget reconciliation bill, Adam Bonica on the war between the Supreme Court and the rest of the judiciary, Alyssa Battistoni on the free gifts of nature, Sandeep Vaheesan on the revival of non-domination in antitrust, and an interview with Ted Fertik on energy and the OBBB.
William Boyd on the history and future of renewable energy ownership, Renee Tapp on the affordable housing crisis as an antitrust issue, and Nathan Schneider on building collective worker power in the tech industry. Plus, an upcoming event on DOGE and austerity, Lenore Palladino and Harrison Karlewicz on the risk of private credit funds, David Super on a big beautiful bill and a broken congress, Brian Callaci on abundance and the need to discipline capital, and Nate Holdren on Trump and the trap of legalism.
Shelley Welton discusses the political hurdles facing modern public power movements, and Jed Britton-Purdy interviews Shitong Qiao about neighborhood democratization in urban China. Plus, a save the date for the inaugural Association of Law and Political Economy conference, the first LPE NYC happy hour of the summer, an upcoming ACS panel on building worker & tenant power, Sam Moyn on the limitations of freedom as independence, and Delaney Nolan on Louisiana's "creative" system for funding eviction courts.
Sandeep Vaheesan and Brett Christophers kick off a symposium on Democracy in Power, while the Blog's editorial staff share some of their favorite housing posts from over the years. Plus, Søren Mau on Citizen Marx, Lev Menand and Benjamin Dinovelli on the Supreme Court's Federal Reserve shenanigans, Benjamin Braun & Cédric Durand on America’s Braudelian Autumn, Lisa Miller on the Dead End of Checks and Balances, and a Just Money workshop with Morgan Ricks on Financial Market Infrastructure.
A collection of our favorite posts about the legal underpinnings of today’s housing crisis, and about what might be done to restore a conception of housing as shelter, not commodity. Featuring Angela Harris, Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor, David Stein, Kathryn Sabbeth, Duncan Kennedy, Karl Klare, Tara Raghuveer, and more!
Dan Farbman on abolitionist lessons for the present crisis, along with a round-up of some of the best new LPE and LPE-adjacent scholarship. Plus, a CFP on the law and political economy of contemporary authoritarian rule, Allison Tait revisits Henry Hansmann on endowments, Jed Purdy discusses Ecology and Democracy in a World on Fire, Talha Syed calls for abolishing pharma patents, Sandeep Vaheesan reviews Abundance, Money on the Left offers a fiscal strategy for resisting Trump, Rick Hansen traces the collapse of campaign finance regulation in the US, and Stephanie Richard argues against criminalizing wage theft.
