Zohra Ahmed on the role that criminal fines and fees play in financing the state, Miguel Ruiz on the role of law and social movements in the fight against Spain's chronic housing crisis, and Matthew Glover and Joshua Ingram on fascism from an Afrikan perspective. Plus, a call for (your!) recently accepted LPE scholarship, an internship with the Movement Law Lab, a workshop on the LPE of Social Reproduction, new articles by Nicole Summers and Alyssa Battistoni, an analysis of Trump's likely judicial appointments, and a look at the new lobbying industry spawned by economic sanctions.

The LPE Blog goes global: the editors share some of our favorite recent global LPE and LPE-adjacent scholarship, Meena Jagannath and Felipe Mesel kick off a series on movement lawyering in times of rising authoritarianism, and Lamine Benghazi analyzes Tunisia's failed democratic transition. Plus, a fellowship in carceral studies, a symposium on Aziz Rana's The Constitutional Bind, Fragile Juggernaut on the South, Ivan Kilgore on prison officials thwarting prison reform, Sharon Block and Ben Sachs on state-level labor policy divergence, and a cool new rule from the FTC that will make canceling subscriptions much easier.

The LPE Blog goes worldwide, bringing you some of our favorite global LPE and LPE-adjacent scholarship from 2024.

Greg Baltz on Abolish Rent, Chaumtoli Huq on the student uprising in Bangladesh, and Etienne Toussaint on Afrofuturist legal critique. Plus, an upcoming event on Sandeep Vaheesan's Democracy in Power, an interview with Brian Highsmith on company towns old and new, a bombshell in Colorado's Kroger-Albertsons merger trial, a new online reading group on Labor & Colonialism in Palestine, an investigation into how Uber and Lyft circumvent NYC's minimum wage law, and two timely pieces on the crypto industry's undue influence on our elections.

Jeena Shah on BDS and neoimperial sanctions, Marshall Steinbaum on the legacy of Lake Powell, and another trip down into the LPE Vault. Plus, several cool job opportunities at the Vanderbilt Policy Accelerator, Asli Bali and Aziz Rana on the history of leftwing internationalism, Gabriel Winant on class analysis, Simon Torracinta on Swedish Social Democracy, and Laleh Khalili on the Corporeal Life of Seafaring.

The blog post is never dead. It's not even post. We reach into the vault and highlight some of our favorite posts on LPE and history, featuring K-Sue Park, Luke Herrine, Gabriel Winant, Johanna Fernández, Aziz Rana, Vanessa Ogle, Evelyn Atkinson, William Forbath and Joseph Fishkin, Claire Dunning, Beryle Satter, and Uʻilani Tanigawa Lum and Kaulu Luʻuwai.