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.
Sandeep Vaheesan and Brett Christophers kick off a symposium on Democracy in Power, while the Blog's editorial staff share some of their favorite housing posts from over the years. Plus, Søren Mau on Citizen Marx, Lev Menand and Benjamin Dinovelli on the Supreme Court's Federal Reserve shenanigans, Benjamin Braun & Cédric Durand on America’s Braudelian Autumn, Lisa Miller on the Dead End of Checks and Balances, and a Just Money workshop with Morgan Ricks on Financial Market Infrastructure.
A collection of our favorite posts about the legal underpinnings of today’s housing crisis, and about what might be done to restore a conception of housing as shelter, not commodity. Featuring Angela Harris, Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor, David Stein, Kathryn Sabbeth, Duncan Kennedy, Karl Klare, Tara Raghuveer, and more!
Dan Farbman on abolitionist lessons for the present crisis, along with a round-up of some of the best new LPE and LPE-adjacent scholarship. Plus, a CFP on the law and political economy of contemporary authoritarian rule, Allison Tait revisits Henry Hansmann on endowments, Jed Purdy discusses Ecology and Democracy in a World on Fire, Talha Syed calls for abolishing pharma patents, Sandeep Vaheesan reviews Abundance, Money on the Left offers a fiscal strategy for resisting Trump, Rick Hansen traces the collapse of campaign finance regulation in the US, and Stephanie Richard argues against criminalizing wage theft.
With summer just around the corner, are you looking to indulge in some juicy, page-turning scholarship? As always, the Blog has you covered with our biannual roundup of some of our favorite forthcoming LPE and LPE-adjacent articles.
Salomé Viljoen on data governance and techno-authoritarians, Kelly Grotke on the foundations of the current crisis in higher ed, and Isaac Kamola on the role of dark money organizations in the campus speech wars. Plus, an incredible CFP for junior work and labor scholars, a special issue of the JLPE on securities law and climate change, Katharina Pistor and David Pozen on Columbia's review of its University Senate, Adam Bonica on why Democrats should reject mega-donor money, Ben Dinovelli on the Federal Reserve's Forgotten Mandate, Nathaniel Donahue on Humphrey’s Executor, Kate Jackson on Lenore Palladino's Good Company, and Fred Block on the possibility of remaking finance for the public good.
