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Collateral Cities

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Under financialized capitalism, corporate investors value homes not solely or primarily for rental income, or even as assets that can be bought and sold—but rather because they serve as collateral. Three episodes of institutional change in housing markets underscore the importance of not only decommodifying land and housing, but decollateralizing it.. . .
Weekly Roundup

Weekly Roundup: June 17, 2022

By LPE Editors

The increasing use of criminal penalties against climate activists, the importance of bankruptcy to American households, and an anti-monopoly open course for the pure at heart. Plus, a new summer academy in NYC on Law, Organizing, and Power Building.
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Bankruptcy as Social Safety Net

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By paying greater attention to who files bankruptcy, we can learn a great deal about the social and economic disparities that plague our society. By reforming and expanding access to bankruptcy, we can chip away at some of these disparities.
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The Other Environmental Law: Climate Law’s Police Phase

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The adoption of fossil fuels to power the world economy has depended upon a fossil law that arranges a particular type of market and enforces a particular balance of power. One understudied, but central, aspect of this process is the use of state and corporate violence to compel the extraction and consumption of oil, gas, and coal.
Weekly Roundup

Weekly Roundup: June 10, 2022

By LPE Editors

Why tribal lands aren’t a feasible safe haven from state abortion laws, why international economic law must reinvent itself as an enabler of non-market societal values, and why no one Court should have all that power. Plus, a CFP and online discussion you won’t want to miss!
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Embedding Societal Values in International Law

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The existing system of international economic law is under great strain. This post offers a reading of the problem and proposes alternative directions for the future. In brief, the system has evolved from what John Ruggie called “embedded liberalism” to what David M. Trubek and I describe as “embedded neoliberalism.” The past couple of decades have. . .

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Weekly Roundup

Weekly Roundup: June 3, 2022

By LPE Editors

Housing justice as a crucial predicate for the long-term success of social housing, the importance of tenant unions as a form of countervailing power, a CFP for ClassCrits XIII, and a virtual panel on power and justice in global value chains.

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