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On Monday, Beau Baumann and James Goodwin offered a provocation: while the LPE movement (that’s us!) has generated compelling positions on the limits of the courts and the promise of the administrative state, it has had strikingly little to say about about legislative procedure and politics. To rectify this, they chart what an LPE approach to Congress might look like.
On Tuesday, Shai Karp argued that rent strikes are a righteous form of resistance. Landlords wield significant power over tenants — including the power to set prices, surveil, neglect, harass, and evict — while legal processes offer little to tenants in terms of protection or means of redress when their rights are violated. Withholding rent in response to mistreatment is thus one justified way of resisting domination.
And on Thursday, we reached deep into the LPE vault to bring you some of our favorite posts on technology. Featuring Salomé Viljoen, Veena Dubal, Frank Pasquale, Yochai Benkler, Raúl Carrillo, Meredith Whittaker, Genevieve Lakier & Nelson Tebbe, Matthew Bodie, Elizabeth Joh, and Julie Cohen.
In LPE Land
In the American Prospect, Tara Raghuveer and Ruthy Gourevitch on tenant unions and a national regulatory agenda for housing.
In Dissent, Suzanne Kahn on the need for a feminist, progressive (post-neoliberal) populism.
Rare spot of good news: the EPA banned Perc and TCE, long known to cause kidney cancer and other ailments. A good reminder to revisit William Boyd’s tour de force, How Environmental Law Created a World Awash in Toxic Chemicals.
Second spot of good news: the FTC notches another win, successfully blocking the Kroger-Albertsons Grocery Merger. A good reminder to revisit Sandeep Vaheesan’s excellent, Merger Policy for a Fair Economy.
In a new paper, Alvin Velazquez argues that when disaster strikes bankrupt cities, bankruptcy judges and agencies should ensure that federal spending benefits communities rather than creditors. See also his earlier blog post: How Bankruptcy Prioritizes Property Rights Over Public Good.
At Legal Form, Fernando Quintana on Dimitrios Kivotidis’ The Dialectics of Democracy: Towards a Socialist Constitutionalism.
At the American Political Economy Blog (blogs are back, baby), Kathleen Thelen introduces a symposium on Sarah Staszak’s Privatizing Justice.
