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A Tale of Two Seas

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For much of the past century, international lawyers have sought to drive a wedge between “economic” matters and the use of military force. Recent events in the Caribbean and the Strait of Hormuz suggest that wedge is no longer viable.
Weekly Roundup

Weekly Roundup: May 23

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Ntina Tzouvala and Zohra Ahmed on international law under Trump 2.0, Dylan Saba on the ganster-fication of US foreign policy, and Matthew Scherer on the dangers of an AI bubble. Plus, the first-ever ALPE elections, Nikolas Bowie’s congressional testimony on court packing, David Pozen and Daniel Hemel on the puzzling absence of university democracy, and. . .
Weekly Roundup

Weekly Roundup: May 15

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Sabeel Rahman on legislative supremacy, Joe Soss and Joshua Page on criminal-legal predation, and Justin Deystone on the return of critical legal theory. Plus, new jobs with Rutgers’ Housing Justice Clinic and NYU’s federal Indian Law Clinic, a CFP for junior work law scholars (broadly construed), a report on the nordic-US childcare gap, and. . .
Essay

Taking Legislative Primacy Seriously

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As we work toward a durable democratic future, a commitment to legislative primacy can serve as an orienting north star. Reaching that goal, however, will require using both legislative and executive tools, especially while we are working with an imperfect, hobbled, and significantly co-opted legislature.
Essay

Diversity as Value, Diversity as Risk

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Corporate diversity practices, long celebrated for driving revenue growth and stabilizing stock prices, are now being targeted as liabilities by conservative shareholder activists, consumer boycotts, and litigation. This shift from rainbow capitalism to today’s anti-woke agenda reveals how diversity’s value in the marketplace has always been politically. . .
Weekly Roundup

Weekly Roundup: May 1

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Our spring scouting report on some of the hottest new LPE and LPE-adjacent articles, and Andrew Miller on how personalized markets undermine solidarity. Plus, a new book from Shaun Ossei-Owusu, an upcoming event with Aziz Rana, Kate Andrias and Alexander Hertel-Fernandez on unions and abundance, Jordan Cozby on Federalism’s Labor-Law Exception, and Brian. . .
Weekly Roundup

Weekly Roundup: April 24

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Patrick Lin on surveillance pricing, and Quinn Slobodian and Ben Tarnoff on the political economy of Elon Musk. Plus, last call for hot new scholarship, an opportunity for students to join ALPE, the University of Chicago launches a law and political economy minor, an interview with Stuart Schrader on the history of police unions, a report on how gig nursing. . .
Weekly Roundup

Weekly Roundup: April 17

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Ben Kaufman discusses our broken banking bargain, and Vincent Joralemon reflects on the neglected class dimension of addictive platform design. Plus, a call for (your!) hot new LPE scholarship, an upcoming event on the law, politics, and economy of apocalypse, Christine Desan on the constitutional conflict over the power to make money, a new strategic agenda. . .
Essay

The Class Politics of the Feed

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By targeting the addictive design features of social media platforms, K.G.M. v. Meta marks a breakthrough in product liability law. Yet the case also reveals a neglected class dimension: the harms of addictive platform design fall most heavily on those with the fewest alternatives. In addition to regulating these harmful products, we must build. . .

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