Before the Blog goes on our annual August hiatus, we offer a final plug for the upcoming ALPE conference, count down the ten most read posts of 2025 so far, say a fond farewell to our departing editorial board members and student editors, and welcome two new additions to the team.
Hilary Allen on why we shouldn't subsidize fintech, Amy Kapczynski on what it will take to make public pharma work, and Maryam Jamshidi on the economic considerations at the heart of recent U.S. Sanctions. Plus, two cool CfPs (including one conference near and dear to our heart), a fellowship down under, an event on the post-Dobbs landscape, and new essays on fake GOP antitrust populism, the cost of law school, the centralization of power/knowledge in the executive branch, the new state "legal tender" laws, and the EPA’s attempts to reinterpret the Clean Air Act.
Bijal Shah on how the Supreme Court enables Trump's illegal immigrations actions, Fumika Mizuno on the consolidation of the dialysis market, and Morgan Harper on building the movement that Democrats won't. Plus, cool new CFPs, jobs, books, and think pieces on your favorite mayoral candidate.
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.
