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Weekly Roundup: Feb 7

Six perspectives on fissures on the right, Jed Kroncke on the rise of anti-democratic super-property, and Ben Sachs on what happens to labor preemption without a functioning labor board. Plus, our favorite pieces on the Treasury payments crisis, Blake Emerson on the systemic constitutional violations under Trump, Samuel Bagenstos on writing about the illegality of it all, JW Mason on writing about policy in the Trump era, a housing rights staff attorney position at TakeRoot Justice, a new issue of the Journal of Law and Political Economy, and a new piece on consent from David Pozen and Daryl Levinson.

Weekly Roundup: Jan 31

Gaurav Mukherjee on America's first religious charter school, Beth Popp Berman on the relevance of policy-adjacent scholarship in a broken world, and Evan Bernick on the anti-constitutional attack on birthright citizenship. Plus, a lefty law conference at HLS, an(other!) event with Dean Spade, a CfP on offshore finance, and new pieces by Jan-Werner Müller, Laleh Khalili, and Basel Musharbash.

Weekly Roundup: Jan 24

A.J. Bauer on how to oppose Trumpism, Genevieve Lakier on the TikTok Ban and the limits of the First Amendment, and Chrystin Ondersma on a dignity-based approach to debt. Plus, upcoming events with Dean Spade on sticking together and Michael Fakhri on Palestianian Food Sovereignty, CFPs for workshops on social reproduction and the post-neoliberal moment in labor law, a new syllabus on Law after Neoliberalism, a summer academy for scholars of American Political Economy, a new paper on unions and AI governance, and the launch of Common Wealth's US research & policy program.

Weekly Roundup: Jan 17

Amy Kapczynski on institutional neutrality rules, and Greg Baltz on tenant union organizing in the shadow of law. Plus, a changing of the guard on the LPE editorial board, a CFP on Carceral Political Economy, a lunch talk with Dean Spade, two political-economy focused post-doc positions, Jasmine Harris on conservatorships, Jonathan Harris on the FTC's non-compete rule, Karen Tani on Digging a Hole, a debate over the YIMBY agenda, Amna Akbar on Mangione and Malm, Beth Popp Berman on antitrust and industrial policy, and the Michigan Journal of Law and Society is looking for interdisciplinary scholarship.