At the Blog
On Monday, Luke Herrine argued that now is the time for leftist policy nerds to think about how to build new and better institutions out of the current wreckage. We may soon find ourselves in a situation where previously off-the-wall ideas become possible to implement, but without relatively detailed proposals in hand, we will squander this opportunity.
On Tuesday, Allison Tait explained that while trust law is often critiqued for making wealth hard to find, its effects are hiding in plain sight: in high-end real estate, private jets, and super-yachts that produce visible, even mappable effects on our physical landscape.
And on Thursday, Ezra Rosser considered what might happen if we took conservative justices at their word in Grants Pass and embraced a new, more robust necessity doctrine.
In LPE Land
On Thursday, February 20 at 12:10 ET, the LPE Project (that’s us!) is excited to host Umut Özsu talking about his new book, Completing Humanity: The International Law of Decolonization, 1960–82, with Sam Moyn. At YLS and on zoom.
In the Boston Review, Marshall Steinbaum outlines the longstanding Democratic reluctance to declare war on inequality.
A new paper by Brian Highsmith, Maya Sen, and Kathy Thelen looks at How US Courts Privilege Conservative Policy Outcomes.
At Academe, an Open Letter to Students of the Third Reconstruction.
