What’s good in LPElandia?
- This week on the blog, we featured Allison Tait’s take on teaching Trusts and Estates from an LPE perspective.
- An interview with political scientist Alex Gourevitch on the history of labor republicanism in the United States over at The Dig.
- Gabe Winant wrote on the political valence of being in the “professional-managerial class” at n+1.
And an Upcoming ACS Event in DC:
Income inequality has taken center stage in America’s political debate. As the 2020 presidential election heats up, candidates on all sides of the political divide are tapping into feelings of economic anxiety fueled by a disappearing middle class and increased concentrations of wealth. Indeed, the continually rising gap between the rich and everyone else has fueled unrest across the globe and has shown itself to have a corrupting effect on democracy itself. Labor law, antitrust law, and tax law all offer potential avenues to help increase wages, grow the middle class, deconsolidate corporate power, and shrink the racial wealth gap. What policy proposals should be on the table? Would increasing antitrust enforcement help? Could a wealth tax be the answer to growing inequality? What changes to labor law might help reduce income disparities? And perhaps most importantly, what constitutional potholes should advocates make sure to avoid as they go about this work?
Panelists are Lisa Cylar Barrett (Director of Policy at LDF), Lina Khan (Counsel, U.S. House Subcommittee on Antitrust, Commercial, and Administrative Law), Anne Marie Lofaso (West Virginia College of Law), and Ganesh Sitaraman (Vanderbilt Law). Nicole Berner, SEIU General Counsel will moderate.
