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Weekly Roundup: June 14

Ethan Ris on why you should ignore the Ivy League, Greta Krippner on the puzzling persistence of gender discrimination in insurance markets, and Grace Li on the role of associative life in prisons. Plus, the final session in our series on What To Do About the Courts, a cool job at the Roosevelt Institute, a new series on Twail and economic sanctions, a hot new piece on presidential administration, and a rebuttal to the idea that abandoning the consumer welfare standard means abandoning consumers.

Weekly Roundup: June 7

Maryam Jamshidi on the securitization of the university, and Sarena Martinez on the quasi-sovereign power of insurers. Plus, a handful of must-attend LSA panels and events (including our happy hour!), a new report by Sabeel Rahman on State Capacity, Tim Wu and Lev Menand on the FTC's non-compete ban, the first LPE NYC happy hour of the summer, an upcoming event on the Political Economy of Genocide and Imperialism, and more!

Weekly Roundup: May 31

William Boyd on our broken system of toxics regulation, and Zac Taylor on the limits of property insurance in Florida. Plus, a new paper by Sanjukta Paul on labor law and the firm, an interview with Mehrsa Baradaran about her new book, a policy report by Suzanne Kahn on investing in the care economy, and a review of Aziz Rana's The Constitutional Bind by Sohum Pal.

Weekly Roundup: May 24

Kate Andrias on labor's constitutional vision, Kate Yoon on the LPE of insurance, and Anthony O'Rourke, Guyora Binder, and Rick Su on municipal insurers as an obstacle to democratic control over policing. Plus, the next session of What To Do About Those Pesky Courts with Ryan Doerfler, Aslı Bâli talks international law and Israel-Palestine, Karen Tani & Craig Konnoth discuss medicalizing civil rights, David Pozen's (free!) new book on the history of constitutional challenges to drug laws, Simon Torracinta reviews Visions of Inequality, and Adam Tooze looks at Netanyahu's surreal vision of Gaza 2035.

Weekly Roundup: May 17

Jeff Gordon clarifies the debate over derisking, while Davarian Baldwin examines how universities monetize their tax-exempt status. Plus, an upcoming session of our hit series What To Do About the Courts (with Ryan Doerfler), a new issue of the JLPE, Adam Gaffney on supply-side healthcare, Josh Eidelson on prison labor in Alabama, and Tim Barker on what the shortage of 155mm shells can tell us about the future of American capitalism.

Weekly Roundup: May 10

Jessica Whyte on the history of "economic peace" in Israel/Palestine, and a double dose of David Pozen: on the presidentialization of university governance, and on Aziz Rana's The Constitutional Bind. Plus, Adam Tooze on endowments and divestment, Jonathan Masur and Eric Posner on the FTC's noncompete ban, Aziz Rana on left internationalism past and present, Erin Pineda on Jefferson Cowie's Freedom’s Dominion, Ariel Ron on the Farm Bill, and Quinn Slobodian on the history of tax havens.