Under the kafala system, tens of millions of migrant workers across the Levant and Gulf have their legal residency tied to a single employer, leaving them vulnerable to exploitation and state control. In the United States, the Trump administration’s immigration policy threatens to consolidate a similar regime of labor extraction and migrant precarity.

Is LPE scholarship anti-empirical? Has contemporary law and economics become a neutral social science? Don’t believe everything you hear in Chicago.

As legal protections for labor organizing face existential threats, the American labor movement must confront a deeper challenge: the erosion of social norms that once condemned union-busting as morally wrong.

Despite a recent surge in campus organizing, tenured faculty at private universities haven’t unionized. Why is this? The conventional answer is that the Supreme Court said they can’t. Fortunately, the conventional answer is wrong.

To kick off another school year, two 3L LPE fans (and Blog editors) reflect on what LPE has to offer to new law students.

A primer on constitutional law from the perspective of political economy.