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Weekly Roundup: Oct. 18

By Editors

The LPE Blog goes global: the editors share some of our favorite recent global LPE and LPE-adjacent scholarship, Meena Jagannath and Felipe Mesel kick off a series on movement lawyering in times of rising authoritarianism, and Lamine Benghazi analyzes Tunisia’s failed democratic transition. Plus, a fellowship in carceral studies, a symposium on. . .

Symposium

Tunisia: A Case Study in Democratic Backsliding

By Lamine Benghazi

Once hailed as a beacon of democratic hope, Tunisia has rapidly descended into autocracy over the past three years. The failure of its decade-long democratic transition offers crucial lessons for democracies old and new in this era of rising authoritarianism.

Symposium

Movement Lawyering in Times of Rising Authoritarianism

By Meena Jagannath, Felipe Mesel

In a time of rising authoritarianism and neoliberal hegemony, movement lawyers understand that the law and legal institutions primarily serve to protect capitalism, rather than everyday people. Nevertheless, as this symposium will show, from Argentina and Brazil to Palestine, Spain, and Tunisia, movement lawyers are devising creative legal tactics in. . .

Announcement

(Some of) the Best Recent Global LPE and LPE-Adjacent Scholarship

By Editors

The LPE Blog goes worldwide, bringing you some of our favorite global LPE and LPE-adjacent scholarship from 2024.

Weekly Roundup

Weekly Roundup: Oct. 11

By Editors

Greg Baltz on Abolish Rent, Chaumtoli Huq on the student uprising in Bangladesh, and Etienne Toussaint on Afrofuturist legal critique. Plus, an upcoming event on Sandeep Vaheesan’s Democracy in Power, an interview with Brian Highsmith on company towns old and new, a bombshell in Colorado’s Kroger-Albertsons merger trial, a. . .

Essay

Octavia Butler and Afrofuturist Legal Critique

By Etienne C. Toussaint

Butler’s speculative fiction uses the freedom dreams of Black Americans to show how the structure of a political economy not only reflects but also shapes legal concepts. By challenging the perceived permanence of existing power structures, Afrofuturism creates space for envisioning new, emancipatory futures.

Interview

The Bangladesh Student Movement that Transformed a Nation

By Chaumtoli Huq, Chloe Miller

An interview with Chaumtoli Huq about the student uprising that overthrew Bangladesh’s government, the future direction of the country, and the lessons we can take from this moment.

Essay

All Power To The Tenants

By Greg Baltz

Tracy Rosenthal and Leonardo Vilchis’ new book, Abolish Rent: How Tenants Can End the Housing Crisis, is both a polemic and a guide. Drawing on their experiences organizing with the Los Angeles Tenants Union, Rosenthal and Vilchis envision a world where tenants control housing – a liberatory horizon that legal scholars, lawyers, and law. . .

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Weekly Roundup: Oct. 4

By Editors

Jeena Shah on BDS and neoimperial sanctions, Marshall Steinbaum on the legacy of Lake Powell, and another trip down into the LPE Vault. Plus, several cool job opportunities at the Vanderbilt Policy Accelerator, Asli Bali and Aziz Rana on the history of leftwing internationalism, Gabriel Winant on class analysis, Simon Torracinta on Swedish Social Democracy, and. . .

Symposium

From the Vault: LPE & History

By Editors

The blog post is never dead. It’s not even post. We reach into the vault and highlight some of our favorite posts on LPE and history, featuring K-Sue Park, Luke Herrine, Gabriel Winant, Johanna Fernández, Aziz Rana, Vanessa Ogle, Evelyn Atkinson, William Forbath and Joseph Fishkin, Claire Dunning, Beryle Satter, and Uʻilani Tanigawa Lum and Kaulu. . .

Essay

The Death of Lake Powell and the Resurrection of the New Deal Order

By Marshall Steinbaum

As the water level drops on Lake Powell, we have a chance to restore both the habitat of Glen Canyon and an earlier approach to public energy provision, when natural resources were shielded from capitalist exploitation and harnessed for the public good.

Essay

Decolonizing Sanctions

By Jeena Shah

Recent calls for the use of boycotts, divestment, and economic sanctions against Israel may seem to stand in tension with another position widely held on the left: the condemnation of economic sanctions as neo-imperial warfare. However, we can resolve this tension by recovering a central insight from the period of anticolonial lawmaking.

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Weekly Roundup: September 26

By Editors

Mehrsa Baradaran on neoliberalism’s unlikely victors, Angela Harris on the assault on academic freedom, and David Boehm and Lynn Ta on the forgotten promise of the Norris-LaGuardia Act. Plus, an upcoming event with Sandeep Vaheesan, a CFP on Neoliberalism and the Capitalists, and new pieces by Amy Kapczynski, JW Mason, Matthew Dimick, Yochai Benkler,. . .

Essay

The Promise of America’s Forgotten Labor Law

By David Boehm, Lynn Ta

Given threats to the current system of labor rights protection — as well as unions’ increasing willingness to take an active role in addressing controversial political issues — the often overlooked Norris-LaGuardia Act is primed to take on new relevance in coming years.

Symposium

Climate Change: The War on Higher Education Comes for Law Schools

By Angela P. Harris

Academic freedom, a key indicator of the climate of university life, has seen a sharp decline in recent years. This change has been driven by both state and market forces, and reversing it will require not only defending the university we have, but building the university we want.