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Weekly Roundup: March 3, 2023

By LPE Editors

Jonathan Harris on consumer law as work law, Alyssa Battistoni & Matthew Robinson on Reconsidering Reparations, an upcoming LPE Conference(!!), a call for submissions from the JLPE, and new pieces from Sandeep Vaheesan, Dan Rohde, and others.
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What Will Worldmaking Require?

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Building on Adom Getachew’s account of anticolonial “worldmaking,” Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò defends reparations as a worldmaking project aimed at creating a world free from domination. Yet given this ambition, his targets for climate justice seem, if anything, too modest: why stop with eliminating tax havens or endowing the Global Climate Fund? Why. . .
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Can Consumer Law Protect Workers?

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A growing number of employers are relying on Training Repayment Agreement Provisions to discourage workers from quitting. Courts, meanwhile, have routinely rejected legal challenges that claim these agreements violate employment laws, such as wage-and-hour laws and non-compete limitations. There is, however, another legal mechanism to stop this harmful and. . .
Weekly Roundup

Weekly Roundup: February 24, 2023

By LPE Editors

Charmaine Chua, Desiree Fields, & David Stein denounce the University of California’s investment in Blackstone, Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò kicks off a symposium on his recent book Reconsidering Reparations, and Daniel Aldana Cohen reflects on the book’s focus on historical time. Plus, the best new LPE-related conferences, events, post-docs,. . .
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Reconsidering the Future

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Reconsidering Reparations offers several sound policy proposals about how to pursue reparations and climate justice. Yet its main contribution to the realm of climate politics has little to do with policy. Rather, it’s about a way of situating oneself in historical time. Unlike ordinary philosophical parables that freeze time and abstract away. . .
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Reconsidering Reparations

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For better or worse, our world stands on the precipice of major changes. Our current energy system is driving a rapidly unfolding climate crisis, and the need for total transformation “at every level of society” is now the prevailing scientific opinion. Given this context, Reconsidering Reparations argues for two things. First, reparations for. . .
Weekly Roundup

Weekly Roundup: February 17, 2023

By LPE Editors

Morgan Ricks, Ganesh Sitaraman, Shelley Welton, and Lev Menand introduce their new casebook on Networks, Platforms, and Utilities, while Amy Kapczynski and Yochai Benkler assess its contribution from an LPE perspective. Plus, the hottest LPE papers and CFPs from around the interweb.
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The Political Economy of NPU Law

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What happens when we stop generalizing about the economy from the starting point of the grain market, as neoclassical models all seem to, and start generalizing from the post office, or the operating system? That’s the kind of question that Networks, Platforms, and Utilities puts on the table, and it is a major accomplishment. From an LPE perspective,. . .
Weekly Roundup

Weekly Roundup: February 10, 2023

By LPE Editors

Reed Shaw, Matthew Bodie, and Alvin Velazquez wrap up our symposium on Worker Surveillance & Collective Resistance by looking at the different ways that surveillance is undermining employment and labor law protections, and what we might do to challenge these invasive technologies. Plus, LPE-related fellowships, CFPs, and new pieces by Daniel Walters, Amy. . .
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Knitting Together Patchwork Privacy and Labor Law Frameworks to Protect Workers from Corporate Surveillance

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To protect low-wage workers from invasive digital surveillance that follows them home, Congress needs to adopt a comprehensive framework that protects both worker and consumer data. In the absence of such Congressional action, regulatory action such as the FTC’s advanced notice of proposed rulemaking and the National Labor Relations Board’s recent focus. . .

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