At the Blog
On Monday, Ruthy Gourevitch and Jacob Udell explained why landlords nationwide are scrambling to repay their investors, and why confronting this growing financial distress is the first step toward solving our national housing nightmare.
On Wednesday, Alaa Hajyahia and Helen Zhao traced the Jones Act’s colonial origins, described its ongoing economic harms, and explained how this law, reviled by both the right and the left, has survived for over 100 years.
And on Thursday, Kathleen Frydl laid out how corporate advocates co-opted the language and tactics of modern social movements to graft identity-based attributes onto the corporate entity.
In LPE Land
Lina Khan and Lev Menand are leading a new center at Columbia Law School: The Center for Law and the Economy.
Niko Bowie and Daphna Renan have a new book available for pre-order, Supremacy: How Rule by the Court Replaced Government by the People.
The latest issue of Law and Contemporary Problems contains seven new pieces on law and capitalism. Featuring Amy Kapczynski, Odette Lienau & Aziz Rana, Umut Özsu, Jeremy Kessler, Akbar Rasulov, Justin Deystone, and Paulo Barrozo.
Not to be outdone, the latest issue of the Fordham Law Review contains eight new pieces on antitrust law and oligarchy. Featuring John M. Newman, Ganesh Sitaraman, Zephyr Teachout, Theodosia Stavroulaki, Shaoul Sussman, Maurice E. Stucke, Shaoul Sussman, Luigi Zingales, and Doha Mekki.
At Perspectives on Politics, Kate Jackson reviews Lenore Palladino’s recent book, Good Company: Economic Policy after Shareholder Primacy.
Over at Common Wealth, Rakeen Mabud and Melanie Brusseler have a new report on The Power Grab: The Authoritarian Coalition’s Strategy of Power Consolidation.
