At the Blog
On Monday, A.J. Bauer argued that to meaningfully oppose Trump, the Democrats and the press must stop depicting Trumpism as a monolith and stop embracing the right’s framing of the problems we face.
On Wednesday, Genevieve Lakier explained why the Supreme Court’s willingness to uphold the TikTok ban is a bad sign for freedom of speech under the second Trump administration.
And on Thursday, Chrystin Ondersma set out an approach to debt relief based on the principle of human dignity.
In LPE Land
A reminder that the Law and Political Project (that’s us!) will be holding two great events next Thursday (January 30): join us at YLS for lunch (or online) to hear Dean Spade talk about “Sticking Together in Tough Times.” And later that evening, come back (or reboot zoom) for a conversation with Michael Fakhri on Palestinian Food Sovereignty and Starvation.
Cool CFP alert: The Law and Political Economy Collective is pleased to announce a one-day pre-LSA workshop on the law & political economy of social reproduction, to be held on May 21 at the University of Chicago. Abstracts due February 1.
Cool CFP alert #2: The School of Law at the University of Glasgow will be holding a conference on 13-14 November on Interrogating the ‘Post-Neoliberal Moment’ in Labour Law. Abstracts due February 28.
Over at Common Wealth, Melanie Brusseler launched their US research & policy program: A New Green Democratic Republic for the 21st Century.
We have added Columbia Law Prof. Kendall Thomas’s fantastic “Law after Neoliberalism” syllabus to our ever-growing syllabus bank.
Alvin Velazquez has posted a new paper: The Union’s Role in Artificial Intelligence Governance and Regulation.
The Consortium on the American Political Economy invites advanced graduate students (ABD), postdocs, and junior faculty to apply to its 6th Annual Summer Academy, which will be held at UC Berkeley from May 28-31. Applications due by February 24.
