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On Monday, Shahd Hammouri argued that, as the United States continues to supply arms and jet fuel to Israel, third-party states have a legal obligation not to facilitate these shipments. As she writes, “states with the intent to dominate and subjugate will not cease until such acts are no longer economically viable. Fortunately, in times of globalisation, the supply chains of death and violence run long, giving third states the privilege and capacity to enact their obligations towards humanity.”
On Tuesday, Helen Hershkoff, Luke Norris, and Judith Resnik kicked off a series on civil procedure, by describing the promise of procedure to further equal treatment and accountable decision-making, as well as how such aspirations are undercut by resource disparities and efforts to replace the use of courts with private arbitration.
And on Wednesday, Kathryn Sabbeth continued the series by questioning the valorization of efficiency by civil procedure reformers. Eviction courts, she points out, are maximally efficient — with the average trial lasting less than two minutes. However, the procedures that allow for such speed, such as mass scheduling and limitations on the claims the court can hear, tend to benefit landlords and to shortchange tenants. When civil justice reform is taken up in the name of efficiency, eviction courts challenge us to ask: what, or whom, does efficiency sacrifice?
In LPE Land
Are you a law or graduate student interested in learning what LPE is all about? Join us this coming Tuesday, July 23rd at 12:10 PM ET, for an online information session with Amy Kapczynski, co-faculty director of the LPE Project, and Corinne Blalock, the Executive Director of the LPE Project. We will discuss everything from the Blog, student groups, and law and organizing, to what lies ahead, and answer any questions you may have! Please register here.
Also this Tuesday, LPE NYC will be holding their next summer happy hour! Come out to Ellington in the Park (105 & Riverside — lower level) from 5:30 – 7:30 to hang out and meet other NYers interested in LPE. All are welcome.
In The New Republic, Sandeep Vaheesan makes the case for publicly owned and operated clean energy.
In the Yale Journal of Law & Technology, Veena Dubal and Vitor Araújo Filgueiras argue that platforms should be understood not as a distinct subtype of firm but rather as a new labor management tool used for extreme labor surveillance & discipline.
For the Economic Policy Institute, Jake Grumbach, Thomas A. Kochan, and John Ahlquist examine the rise of “union curious” workers.
In the Yale Journal on Regulation, Lev Menand and Morgan Ricks put forward a comprehensive blueprint for banking law reform.
Over at the Knight First Amendment Institute, Victor Pickard lays out a positive-rights paradigm for guaranteeing a universal press system.
