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Civil Procedure in U.S.-China Relations

By Yanbai Andrea Wang

In comparison with American courts, which increasingly adjudicate a narrow set of transnational cases, Chinese courts rarely forfeit authority over transnational cases. This development is reshaping the landscape of transnational litigation, as China’s appetite for taking on transnational cases calls attention to the advantages of exercising jurisdiction over. . .

Essay

Rewiring Regulatory Review

By K. Sabeel Rahman

Last month, the Biden Administration released a long-awaited overhaul of the regulatory review process. Although these changes are aimed at a highly technical and behind-the-scenes process, their importance is hard to overstate. From lowering the social discount rate, to providing a method for income weighting, to incorporating hard-to-quantify impacts into. . .

Weekly Roundup

Weekly Roundup: April 28, 2023

By LPE Editors

Wanshu Cong on China’s recent efforts to pursue “foreign-related rule of law,” Eli Friedman on U.S. efforts to address labor exploitation in China, and Xiaoqian Hu on different ways of seeing, knowing, and analyzing China. Plus, an interview with Sabeel Rahman, a talk by Sanjukta Paul, and an upcoming event with the Sustainable Global Economic Law. . .

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Toward a Postmetaphysical Approach to the Study of Chinese Law

By Xiaoqian Hu

In a world where differences between the United States and China are increasingly amplified and weaponized, how can legal scholars study China fairly, insightfully, and constructively? Should we adopt a “metaphysical approach,” which holds that scholars can set aside their own value preferences and study other societies neutrally and objectively, or. . .

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Labor Rights and the U.S.-China Relationship: From Neoliberal Consensus to Imperial Rivalry

By Eli Friedman

From the 1990s until the Trump presidency, political and economic elites on both sides of the Pacific held a largely uncomplicated enthusiasm for the re-centering of global supply chains within the borders of the People’s Republic of China. More recently, however, the U.S. federal government has resorted to a range of interventions to try to derail China’s. . .

Symposium

Marxism and China’s Effort to Build “Foreign-Related Rule of Law”

By Wanshu Cong

Given its history, China is acutely aware of the hypocrisy of powerful countries speaking in the language of international law. Over the past two years, however, the so-called “foreign-related rule of law” (涉外法治) has gained enormous influence in Chinese official and academic discourse. While this turn is motivated, in part, by the China-U.S. rivalry,. . .

Weekly Roundup

Weekly Roundup: April 21, 2023

By LPE Editors

Andrew Crespo considers the power of plea strikes and defendant unions, Jed Kroncke kicks off a symposium on China, and Vincent Wong discusses the place of racial capitalism in China’s northwestern frontier. Plus, an interview with Amy Kapczynski, a new paper by Sanjukta Paul, a new issue of PRRAC on tenant power and social housing, events with Karen. . .

Symposium

On the Place of Racial Capitalism in China’s Northwestern Frontier

By Vincent Wong

Though its contemporary theorization emerged from Cedric Robinson and other scholars of the Black Radical Tradition, racial capitalism is neither an idea somehow restricted to the U.S. or Europe, nor an idea that can be provincialized solely within the processes and structures of Western colonial expropriation and exploitation. Rather, this approach can. . .

Symposium

China and the Political Economy of the International Legal Order

By Jedidiah Kroncke

There is an urgent need to develop a genuine critical left internationalism to help think through issues related to China. Yet engaging this subject from an LPE perspective confronts two broad challenges. First, it requires bringing LPE concepts into conversation with debates regarding the diverse legal underpinnings of the global economic order. Second, it. . .

Essay

Defendants, United, Could Strike the State Blindsided

By Andrew Manuel Crespo

The American penal system is astonishingly vulnerable to the threat of defendant collective action. The reason is simple: the system is massively overleveraged. Major city court systems, which only have the capacity to bring to trial about 3 percent of the cases they handle, are dependent on plea bargaining to remain minimally functional. If even a tiny. . .

Weekly Roundup

Weekly Roundup: April 14, 2023

By LPE Editors

Week in review: James Nelson, Liz Sepper, and Kate Redburn examine Groff v. DeJoy, while Tommaso Bardelli, Zach Gillespie, and Thuy Linh Tu explain the harms of an austerity-driven approach to criminal justice reform. Plus, Aziz Rana on Ntina Tzouvala’s recent book, Sandeep Vaheesan on non-competes, Saule Omarova on FedAccounts, Veena Dubal on variable. . .

Essay

The High Cost of Cheap Prisons

By Tommaso Bardelli, Zach Gillespie, Thuy Linh Tu

Starting in the early 2000s, a bipartisan consensus emerged around the untenable price tag of mass imprisonment. Twenty years later, this left-right consensus has hardly made a dent in the US prison population. Instead, an austerity-driven approach to criminal justice reform has led to reductions in basic services inside prisons and jails, ultimately shifting. . .

Essay

How the Court is Pitting Workers Against Each Other

By James D. Nelson, Elizabeth Sepper, Kate Redburn

Next week, the Supreme Court will hear arguments in a case that may allow some employees to foist the cost of their religious exercise onto their co-workers. Such an outcome, beyond its obvious unfairness, threatens to reduce collective labor power by pitting workers against each other.

Weekly Roundup

Weekly Roundup: April 7, 2023

By LPE Editors

César F. Rosado Marzán on whether wage boards can work in America, a sneak peek at the some of the most exciting forthcoming LPE and LPE-adjacent articles, and interviews with Duncan Kennedy and Jorts the Cat. Plus, the case against the new libertarian elitists, and a look at the distorting power of macroeconomic policy models.

Announcement

Early Edition: (Some of) the Best New LPE and LPE-Adjacent Scholarship

By Editors

With the spring submission season nearly in the books, and our Twitter feeds abuzz with placement announcements, the LPE Blog highlights some of the most exciting forthcoming LPE and LPE-adjacent articles. Covering tech, care, labor, criminal justice, religious freedom, money and banking, property, the administrative state, and so much more, this scouting report. . .

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