At the Blog
On Monday, the organizing committee for the Association for Law and Political Economy explained the impetus behind the creation of this new, democratic, membership-based organization, and why they want you (yes, you!) to join their ranks.
On Tuesday, Andrew Anastasi and Bench Ansfield discussed the wave of landlord-perpetrated arson during the 1970s, how residents organized to stop it, and what this tells us about the ongoing interplay between property and racial capitalism.
And on Thursday, Amna Akbar continued our series on Alyssa Battistoni’s Free Gifts, reflecting on what her account of capitalism tells us about the state and law as terrains of struggle.
In LPE Land
Andrew Elrod and Marshal Steinbaum have a new paper: “Rebuilding American Higher Education: From an Engine of Inequality to a Pillar of the Public Interest.”
A new report by Katie Wells, Lindsay Owens, Angel Han, and Alan Smith examines how Instacart is using AI algorithms to charge shoppers different prices for the same items.
At Balkinization, Sam Moyn considers the radical centrism currently haunting the legal academy.
On the hit podcast Supreme Betrayal, Genevieve Lakier, Mark Tushnet, and Louis Michael Seidman discuss whether we need the courts to protect free speech.
And in Jacobin, Ben Tarnoff explains what newly elected socialist mayors can do to fight the tech oligarchy and build a technological alternative at the municipal level.
