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Weekly Roundup: June 12

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Evan Behrle on income inequality, Frank Pasquale on Magnifica Humanitas, and Wanshu Cong on the informal governance of global capitalism. Plus, a new report by Sanjay Jolly on advancing a constitutional regime for labor rights, Melinda Cooper offers a typology of factions of asset-based capitalism, Elliot Lewis and Zach Lewis explain how to democratize. . .
Symposium

The Informal Governance of Global Capitalism

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The marginalization of international law under the second Trump administration has been a shock to the post-Cold War world order. Yet the impact of this development on the global economy has been far from uniform. Some of the most important sectors to trade — including telecommunications and civil aviation — were already governed primarily through informal,. . .
Essay

You Didn’t Earn That

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When defending income inequality, high-earners often appeal to an old left-wing idea: that workers are entitled to the fruits of their labor and should be paid the value of their productive contribution. But does this idea make sense in a complex, interdependent economy?
Weekly Roundup

Weekly Roundup: June 5

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Richard Joyce assesses Mark Carney’s speech at Davos, while Sarah Schindler and Kellen Zale discuss the abundance agenda’s anti-tenancy blindspot. Plus, Tanzil Chowdhury on legislative supremacy in Great Britain, Aslı Bâli on the emerging world order, Sandeep Vaheesan and Claire Kelloway on the consolidation of the US food system, some straight. . .
Symposium

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. . .
Symposium

The Shakedown

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The overt gangsterfication of US foreign policy, formalized through the so-called “Board of Peace,” marks the culmination of a dangerous transformation in the nature of American hegemony.
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

Law & Political Economy, or Legal Theory & Capitalism?

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What is this thing called capitalism? What, if anything, is the use of legal theory in understanding capitalist society? Is anything gained, or anything lost, if we replace the phrase “Law and Political Economy” with “Legal Theory and Capitalism”? Answers to these questions (and more!) in a hot new double issue of Law & Contemporary Problems.

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