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Interview

Politics in, of, and through the Legal Academy: Akbar Interviews Matsuda, Part 2

By Amna Akbar, Mari Matsuda

Mari Matsuda is a central scholar within the critical traditions of legal scholarship: in particular Critical Legal Studies, Critical Race Theory, and feminist legal theory. Amna Akbar sat down with her virtually, on December 3, 2020, to ask some questions about her insights on where we are today, where we have been, and where we might go. Today’s part. . .

Interview

Politics in, of, and through the Legal Academy: Akbar Interviews Matsuda, Part 1

By Amna Akbar, Mari Matsuda

Mari Matsuda is a central scholar within the critical traditions of legal scholarship: in particular Critical Legal Studies, Critical Race Theory, and feminist legal theory. Amna Akbar sat down with her virtually, on December 3, 2020, to ask some questions about her insights on where we are today, where we have been, and where we might go. Today’s part. . .

Weekly Roundup

Weekly Roundup: January 15, 2021

By LPE Editors

Aaaaaand we’re back! As the crises deepen, we’re doing our best to maintain our rigorous focus on the deep causes and what we can do about them. First things first: we have some new editors! Derrick Rice is a 3L at Yale Law School and a co-founder of the LPE student group. At the Blog,…

Essay

Constitutionalizing Property’s Priority over Farm Worker Organizing: The Threat of Cedar Point

By Don Rhodes

This year the Supreme Court will hear Cedar Points Nursery v. Hassid, a case out of California which challenges a forty-five-year-old farm labor regulation. The petitioners are alleging that this regulation, which grants farm labor unions a limited right of access to an employer’s property, is unconstitutional on the grounds that it amounts to the government. . .

Essay

Democratizing Health Systems to Advance Health Justice

By Alicia Ely Yamin, Tara Boghosian

The staggeringly disproportionate ravages of the COVID-19 pandemic among people of color, juxtaposed with the summer’s wave of protest against police violence against Black people in the United States, make clear that population health is bound up with existing patterns of social subordination. This reality transcends presidencies and pandemics—even in. . .

Essay

Critiquing Legal Futurism and Imagining a Radical, Emancipatory Legal Liberalism

By Robert Weber

The exact trajectory predictive legal analytics will take in the coming years is really anyone’s guess, but we can be fairly sure that the discourse of cost cutting and increased rationality via technology will be coming for the legal system, piece by piece. As such, it is worthwhile for left legal theory to take legal futurism, and even the idea of. . .

Essay

What the UK Student Rent Strikes Reveal about Financialization

By Kiana Boroumand

The Bristol Rent Strike, which now has over 1900 students pledging to withhold rent, is one of the many ongoing student strikes across the UK. Over the past few months, students at roughly 20 universities including Manchester, Oxford, and Cambridge have organized mass rent strikes, demanding overall reductions in rent, no-penalty contract releases, and. . .

Weekly Roundup

Weekly Roundup: January 8, 2021

By LPE Editors

No new posts, but prepare for the new year by checking out what we did last year! And a new video on the Race and Property in Historical Perspective Series

Yearly Roundup

Yearly Roundup: Editors’ Picks, Part 2

By Editors

As the final post in our series of roundups at the end of 2020, here are the final two editors’ picks.

Yearly Roundup

Yearly Roundup: Editors’ Picks, Part 1

By Editors

Day One of Editors’ favorite posts from the year.

Yearly Roundup

Yearly Roundup: What the LPE Blog Published in 2020

By Editors

A list of everything we published this year.

Interview

“Long Live Farmer-Laborer Unity”: Contextualizing the Massive Resistance Going on in India

By Veena Dubal, Navyug Gill

Although it has hardly broken through the parochialism of the US news cycle, India is currently experiencing what is perhaps the largest strike wave in world history. In this post, Veena Dubal interviews Navyug Gill about the strikes, the agricultural reforms that led to them, what those outside India can learn from them, and what the future might portend.. . .

Interview

K-Sue Park on How She Teaches Property

By K-Sue Park

This past semester, Emily Prifogle hosted a series of conversations on “Race and Property in Historical Perspective”. As part of that series, she talked with K-Sue Park about her article discussing how she teaches property. This conversation seems likely to be of interest to LPE-ers who teach or study property (and others!).

Weekly Roundup

Weekly Roundup: December 18, 2020

By LPE Editors

This week Henry Brooks interviewed Aziz Rana on the tenth anniversary of his book, The Two Faces of American Freedom. Stay tuned next week for our YEAR in Review roundup.

Interview

The Two Faces of American Freedom, Ten Years Later: Part Three

By Aziz Rana, Henry Brooks

In celebration of the tenth anniversary of its publication, Henry Brooks interviews Aziz Rana on his influential book and what it might teach us about the legacies of populism.