At the Blog
On Tuesday, Victor Pickard argued that American media is not experiencing a single crisis, but rather cascading layers of capitalist, oligarchic, and authoritarian media capture. He offers a framework for teasing apart these discrete layers and considers what interventions are necessary to create a more democratic media system.
On Thursday, Mariana Pargendler and Olívia Pasqualeto explained how, in 1937, Brazil adopted a bold regime to protect workers that remains virtually nonexistent in the Global North: imposing joint and several liability on parent companies for labor obligations. Recovering this history, they argue, reveals that legal innovation often flows from the Global South, that limited liability is neither natural nor universal, and that seemingly technical corporate law doctrines are deeply entangled with questions of distribution, power, and sovereignty.
In LPE Land
The Brennan Center invites applications for the 2026-27 class of the Steven M. Polan Fellowship in Constitutional Law and History, a fellowship program aimed at enhancing public understanding and appreciation of the meaning and promise of the Constitution. Proposals are due by March 27, 2026.
An international committee of experts, including Isabelle Ferreras, Benjamin Braun, and Julie Battilana, has released a new report commissioned by the Spanish Government on the future of democracy at work: Two Promises to Those Who Work: Voice and Ownership.
In the New Yorker, Isaac Chotiner interviews Ahilan Arulanantham about how immigration authorities are overwhelming federal courts and getting away with third-country removals.
In the Ljubljana Law Review, Ivana Isailović reflects on the recent anti-corruption and anti-inequality student-led protests in Serbia.
Over at Phenomenal World, Ilias Alami, Tom Chodor, and Jack Taggart consider the causes and consequences of the emerging post-multilateral world.
And in the New York Times, Vanessa Williamson and Aziz Huq discuss the dissolution of laws that protect public money.
