At the Blog
On Monday, we enlisted six former members of the Biden Administration – Elizabeth Wilkins, Chiraag Bains, Bharat Ramamurti, Samuel Bagenstos, Shilpa Phadke, and our own Sabeel Rahman – to help us think towards a more progressive future. Specifically, we asked them to identify a policy they worked on during the Administration, reflect on why it might not have landed with voters, and imagine what a more ambitious, progressive, and ultimately successful policy alternative might look like going forward.
For a response, see Beau Baumann’s substack post on why the usual cocktail of progressive policy and institutional proposals fundamentally misunderstands the moment.
And on Wednesday, we reached into the vault and highlighted some of our most illuminating posts on administrative law and democratic governance. Featuring Sabeel Rahman, Karen Tani, Luke Herrine, Frank Pasquale, Sophia Z. Lee, Kate Jackson, Daniel Walters, Blake Emerson, and more.
In LPE Land
Please join the LPE Project on Thursday, March 6th, at 12-1:30 ET for Organizing Red States: Challenges, Possibilities, and the Road Ahead, which will feature a panel of seasoned organizers working in and across red states to advance systemic change.
On Tuesday, March 4 at 2:15 ET, Sanjukta Paul will be delivering (in person and online) the 59th Annual William H. Leary Lecture on The Imagined History of the Labor Cartel: Economic Coordination and Competition in American Legal Thought.
Roll Call: did you or a scholar whose work you love have an article accepted this submission season? If so, let us know! Next month, we’ll be highlighting some of the hottest LPE and LPE-adjacent forthcoming work from this cycle. Send nominations to managingeditor@lpeblog.org with a short description of the piece, where it will be forthcoming, and if available, a link to SSRN. Self-nominations are highly encouraged.
The Systemic Justice Project is facilitating a new collaboration among lawyers and law students committed to supporting justice efforts through discrete, time-sensitive legal research and analysis in response to pressing challenges arising from the onslaught of threats to institutions, vulnerable communities, the environment, the rule of law, and democracy. If you are a lawyer or law student willing to contribute, please email them at justice@law.harvard.edu.
In case you missed LPE NYC’s recent event with Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor & Steve Williams on Dismantling Racial Capitalism, the video is now available.
In the past week, RFK’s HHS has scuttled next year’s flu vaccine, paused a study to develop an oral Covid vaccine, and is considering pulling the funding for a bird flu vaccine. Amidst the ongoing national self-immolation that is the Trump Administration, these actions merit a call or visit to your representatives: this is pure wanton incompetence that could kill tens if not hundreds of thousands of people.
Cool fellowship alert: The Brennan Center for Justice at NYU School of Law invites applications for its Steven M. Polan Fellowship in Constitutional Law and History. Proposals due March 14.
Nathan Tankus continues his heater of a month: Why Visiting Fort Knox Is Not About Selling Gold but is About Buying Bitcoin.
In the American Prospect, David Dayen covered five cases of alleged financial predation that Trump’s CFPB dismissed on Thursday.
