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Weekly Roundup: December 2, 2022

By LPE Editors

An LPE-themed Crossword Puzzle, an LPE Academic Fellowship, Seven rapid reactions to the recent FTC policy statement, and a look at the failures of neoliberal electricity. Plus, NYC x LPE and an open letter in support of the railway workers.

Essay

Energy Price Shocks and the Failures of Neoliberalism

By William Boyd

The global energy price shocks of the past two years have made it painfully clear that energy cannot be treated as an ordinary commodity. They also offer an opportunity to rethink the push to liberalize energy markets over the past forty years, and particularly the use of markets for electricity provisioning.

Roundtable

Seven Reactions to the FTC’s Policy Statement on Unfair Methods of Competition

By Sanjukta Paul, Sandeep Vaheesan, Matthew Buck, Luke Herrine, Marshall Steinbaum, Katharine Jackson, Darren Bush, Mark Glick

Seven friends of the blog offer their initial reactions to the FTC’s recent policy statement on unfair methods of competition.

Announcement

We’re Hiring an Academic Fellow!

By LPE Editors

Do you want to help organize amazing events, shape field-defining conferences, and support the spread of LPE student groups across the globe, all while having the time and space to pursue your own research agenda? Well, you’re in luck: we’re hiring!

Yearly Roundup

LPE Blog Anniversary Crossword Puzzle

By Natan Last

To celebrate the blog’s fifth anniversary, we challenge you to test your LPE knowledge. Are you ready to play the puzzle?

Weekly Roundup

Weekly Roundup: November 18, 2022

By LPE Editors

Helen Hershkoff and Luke Norris on the Oligarchic Courthouse, Missy Risser-Lovings on training students to partner with grassroots organizing groups, and Stephanie Campos-Bui on the use of creative, non-litigation strategies to address systemic racial, economic, and social injustice. Plus, an upcoming event on Jamie Martin’s The Meddlers, two CFPs,. . .

Symposium

Where the Law Falls Short: The Value of an Interdisciplinary Approach to Problem Solving

By Stephanie Campos-Bui

Many of us went to law school in the hopes of acquiring the tools necessary to contest and overhaul systems of oppression that have harmed our families and communities. The law, as we saw it, was the means or site of resolution. Yet for the increasingly complex and interconnected social problems that face our communities, traditional means of lawyering through. . .

Symposium

Designing an Emancipatory Clinic

By Missy Risser-Lovings

By helping students understand the broad extractive forces that shape the lives of precarious communities under racial capitalism, CUNY’s Community & Economic Development Clinic seeks to train not just technicians, but movement lawyers who partner with grassroots organizing groups.

Essay

The Oligarchic Courthouse

By Helen Hershkoff, Luke Norris

Subject matter jurisdiction isn’t the dry, technical topic you think it is! Two civil procedure scholars argue that jurisdiction battles are central to corporate efforts to slant litigation and enforcement in service of corporate actors.

Weekly Roundup

Weekly Roundup: November 11, 2022

By LPE Editors

Sameer Ashar, Renee Hatcher, and John Whitlow kick off a new series on Law Clinics and Racial Capitalism, Julia Hernandez and Tarek Ismail explain how law clinics can disrupt the family policing system, and Alicia Virani calls for a holistic approach to harm in training future public defenders. Plus, new entries from The Sling, an upcoming conference on. . .

Symposium

Reaching Beyond the Binary to Find Humanity

By Alicia Virani

The criminal legal system functions by separating acts of harm and violence into two opposed sides—“perpetrator” and “victim”—and lining up legal workers to vindicate one side’s rights to the exclusion of the other. This approach puts forth a scarcity model of justice, in which attending to harm is a zero-sum game. But if we wish to train our. . .

Symposium

Leveraging Law School Clinics Against Family Policing

By Julia Hernandez, Tarek Z. Ismail

Every year, the American family policing system separates roughly half a million children from their parents. This system, though long overlooked, is increasingly being recognized for what it is: a way to control and terrorize politically marginalized communities. To date, however, challenges to family policing have largely focused on state agencies as. . .

Symposium

Law Clinics and Racial Capitalism

By Sameer Ashar, Renee Hatcher, John Whitlow

Law schools are disorienting spaces, particularly for those who arrive seeking tools for justice and transformation. The basic 1L curriculum is steeped in our country’s history of settler colonialism and slavery, and the law taught in the first year largely constitutes a legal infrastructure that has fostered and protected racial capitalism. This symposium. . .

Weekly Roundup

Weekly Roundup: November 4, 2022

By LPE Editors

SAQ week at the blog, featuring Ntina Tzouvala on Marxism and international law, Wendy Brown and Amy Kapczynski on democracy, and Veena Dubal on essentially dispossessed workers. Plus, a new site on progressive competition policy, an interview with Karen Levy, and how ex-twitterati can keep up with the blog.

Symposium

On Being Essentially Dispossessed

By Veena Dubal

During the pandemic, many workers deemed “essential” were nevertheless denied access to even the most rudimentary social safety net. How did this cruel paradox become possible? And how should we make sense of the antagonistic terms of the law in the lives of workers during this moment of extreme crisis?

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