Like many of you, we spent last week celebrating America and holding our pets tight, which means we have two weeks of content to recap.
At the Blog
Last Monday, J. Benton Heath explained how popular boycott movements – such as the global anti-apartheid movement and the contemporary BDS movement – may once again provide inspiration for alternative ways to organize the global political economy.
Last Tuesday, Moira Birss continued our series on the LPE of Insurance, arguing that policy responses to the current home insurance crisis should focus on protecting households, not insurance companies.
Last Wednesday, Ivana Isailović argued that the EU’s regulation of abortion access through economic and human rights frameworks undermines reproductive freedom across the EU.
This Monday, Elizabeth Sepper and Lindsay Wiley concluded our series on the LPE of Insurance, arguing that recent religious challenges to the Affordable Care Act should be understood as a major new vector in the campaign against social insurance in the United States.
And this Wednesday, Lenore Palladino examined the recent rise of private financial markets: how they are structured, how they undermine the protections afforded by existing securities laws, and how they have introduced new systemic risks into our financial system.
In LPE Land
On Tuesday, July 23rd at 12:10 PM ET, we invite all law and graduate students interested in learning more about LPE to join us for an online information session with Amy Kapczynski, co-faculty director of the LPE Project, and Corinne Blalock, the Executive Director of the LPE Project. We will discuss everything from the Blog, student groups, and law and organizing, to what lies ahead, and answer any questions you may have! Please register here.
Last Call: the deadline to submit an abstract to the Cornell Work Law Junior Scholar Workshop is July 15. Discussants will include Matt Bodie, Veena Dubal, Hiba Hafiz, Kerry Rittich, and Noah Zatz.
In the Atlantic, Noah Rosenblum explains how SEC v. Jarkesy continues the Court’s death-by-a-thousand-cuts approach to the Administrative State.
In the Journal of Law and Society, Foluke Adebisi, Suhraiya Jivraj, and Ntina Tzouvala discuss their recent volume: Decolonisation, Anti-Racism, and Legal Pedagogy: Strategies, Successes, and Challenges.
In Phenomenal World, Andrew Elrod interviewed John Marshall of the United Food and Commercial Workers, Locals 324 & 3000, about the history and economics of the US retail grocery industry
Over at the Roosevelt Institute, Lev Menand released a new report on “Money and Banking in the United States: A Guide to the Policy Landscape.”
Cool new paper alert: Decommodifying Electricity by William Boyd. See also his previous blog post, “Energy Price shocks and the Failures of Neoliberalism.”
Cool new paper alert: Radical Visions for the Law of Peace: How W.E.B. Du Bois and the Black Antiwar Movement Reimagined Civil Rights and the Laws of War and Peace by Andrew Lanham.
