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The Other Environmental Law: Climate Law’s Police Phase

By Ted Hamilton

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!

Essay

Embedding Societal Values in International Law

By Sonia E. Rolland

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. . .

Essay

The Indian Country Abortion Safe Harbor Fallacy

By Lauren van Schilfgaarde, Aila Hoss, Sarah Deer, Ann E. Tweedy, Stacy Leeds

In response to the likely fall of Roe, commentators have suggested that tribal lands might serve as safe harbors for abortion in conservative states. While tribes ought to possess the territorial authority to regulate reproductive healthcare as they see fit, this proposal overlooks important legal, financial, political, and ethical considerations that make. . .

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.

Symposium

Law and Countervailing Tenant Power in the Real Estate State

By John Whitlow

In the housing context, a law to facilitate countervailing power must be geared toward encouraging tenant participation at the grassroots, building-by-building level, and it must be sufficiently robust so as to check the enormous power of corporate, financialized real estate.

Symposium

Social Housing and Housing Justice: Pathways to Housing Decommodification

By Jacob Udell, Celeste Hornbach, Oksana Mironova, Samuel Stein

we argue that to decommodify urban property, we need to fight not only for policy and funding which transfers land and housing to social ownership, but also for policies that make extractive and predatory housing models less viable and organizing more feasible. We need a strategy that incorporates both social housing and housing justice.

Weekly Roundup

Weekly Roundup: May 27, 2022

By LPE Editors

A new series on the decommodifying urban property, Sheila Foster on efforts by cities to transfer underutilized structures and land to underserved urban populations, a dynamite new LPE syllabus, and more!

Symposium

From Vacancy to Decommodification: Co-Cities and the Enabling State

By Sheila Foster

When vacant land and structures fall into the hands of the state, new possibilities emerge. How can local governments transform these assets into co-governed spaces?

Symposium

Taking the Market Off Land: Symposium on Decommodifying Urban Property

By Molly Gordon, Ann Sarnak

Introducing a symposium on non-market approaches to governance over land and housing.

Weekly Roundup

Weekly Roundup: May 20, 2022

By LPE Editors

A call for contestation in the administrative state, a plan to use international tax law to mitigate the exploitative harms of informational capitalism, and a tip of the hat to two of our finest.

Essay

Advancing Equity in the Data Economy: The Case for International Taxation

By Amanda Parsons

Companies and their investors extract large amounts of wealth from people’s data. Yet because tax law treats users of digital platforms as consumers, rather than producers, neither these users nor their home countries receive any compensation in return. How might international tax law be used to mitigate the harms of this exploitative arrangement?

Essay

Taking Democracy Seriously in the Administrative State

By Daniel E. Walters

In a society as deeply divided as our own, it is fanciful to think that we will be able to deliberate our way to a consensus. To resolve the longstanding puzzle of the administrative state’s democratic legitimacy, we need to resist the neoliberal impulse to erase politics and, instead, design opportunities for genuine contestation.

Weekly Roundup

Weekly Roundup: May 13, 2022

By LPE Editors

A look at the power-building strategies adopted by the Black Panthers, the Gray Panthers, and the Young Lords. Plus, a CFP for LPE scholars, a podcast you won’t want to miss, and the scourge of price-gouging.

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Symposium

The Young Lords: Building Power through Direct Action

By Johanna Fernández

Creative and strategic militancies interrupt the normal functioning of society, shift the terms of debate in public discourse, and expand the definition of the common good. Never has this been more evident than when the Young Lords barricaded themselves inside The First Spanish United Methodist Church in East Harlem.

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