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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.

Weekly Roundup: May 3, 2024

Darryl Li on the political economy of artillery shells, and Student reflections from the encampments at Columbia, CUNY, NYU and Yale. Plus, a CfP on dollar hegemony, a collection of critical legal work on Gaza, two open letters from law faculty, and new pieces by Adam Tooze on the political economy of Columbia University, David Stein & Ira Regmi on the civil rights struggle for full employment, Aziz Rana on why the constitution won't save us from Trump, and several YLS students on efforts by universities to smother pro-Palestinian activism.

Weekly Roundup: April 26

Maggie Blackhawk on The Constitutional Bind, Vincent Bevins on a decade of failed protests, and Sandeep Vaheesan and Jonathan Harris on the FTC's final rule banning non-compete clauses. Plus, new pieces from around the web by Gabriel Winant, Laleh Khalili, Cynthia Estlund & Alan Bogg, Meena Jagannath & Nikki Thanos, Michael Fakhri & Alex de Waal, and JW Mason.

Weekly Roundup: April 18

Aziz Rana and Willy Forbath kick off a symposium on the The Constitutional Bind, and Uʻilani Tanigawa Lum and Kaulu Luʻuwai discuss the disastrous effects of plantation capitalism in Maui. Plus, a cool job with the Health and Political Economy Project, a CFP for junior work law scholars, and several new LPE-relevant papers, interviews, and articles from around the internet.

Weekly Roundup: April 12

We offer our biannual round-up of forthcoming LPE and LPE-adjacent scholarship, while Premal Dharia concludes our symposium on Radical Acts of Justice. Plus, the fourth session of our Courts series with Amy Kapczynski and Ganesh Sitaraman; a special issue of Law & Contemporary Problems with work by David Grewal, Christine Desan, and others; an online reading group on Brenna Bhandar and Cheryl Harris; and an upcoming event with the FTC's consumer protection chief, alongside Frank Pasquale and Luke Herrine.