At the Blog
On Monday, Gaurav Mukherjee argued that an upcoming Supreme Court case about the first religious charter school in the United States reflects a broader contest over how law structures public responsibility and private power.
On Tuesday, Beth Popp Berman reflected on the current predicament of many academics: if the recent past is no longer a useful guide to seeking change in the present, what good is policy-adjacent scholarship?
And on Thursday, Evan Bernick explained why Trump’s executive order on birthright citizenship is not merely unconstitutional — it is an effort to perpetrate the very evils that abolitionists and Republicans sought to eradicate from our constitutional order.
In LPE Land
A reminder that this weekend (starting today!), the Systemic Justice Project’s 2025 conference will taking place at HLS on Facing the Future: Organizing and Lawyering for Justice.
Good news if you missed our event with Dean Spade this week: on February 12, he’ll be discussing his new book Love in a F*cked-Up World: How to Build Relationships, Hook Up, and Raise Hell Together with Angela Harris and Adrienne Davis, as part of Seattle University School of Law’s Organizing & Advocacy for Justice Virtual Speaker Series.
Cool CFP Alert: Over at the Socio-Economic Review, Vanessa Ogle, Brooke Harrington, and Kimberly Kay Hoang are planning a special issue on offshore finance. Submissions due May 15.
In the Guardian, Jan-Werner Müller on our increasingly visible oligarchs.
In the LRB, Laleh Khalili on Trump’s imperialist fantasies.
In the BIG newsletter, Basel Musharbash on a private equity roll-up of fire trucks in Los Angeles.
