At the Blog
On Monday, we asked some of our favorite labor lawyers and scholars—Kate Andrias, Willy Forbath, Jennifer Abruzzo, Keith Bolek, Andrea Hoeschen, Darin Dalmat, and Alvin Velazquez—how might we revive a pro-labor vision of the Constitution.
On Wednesday, Jeena Shah argued that Trump’s contradictory treatment of Hernández and Maduro reveals the consistency of U.S. foreign policy: the War on Drugs serves as a flexible tool for maintaining global capitalism’s necessary periphery.
And on Thursday, Noam Maggor concluded our symposium on Traders, Speculators, and Captains of Industry by discussing the book’s thoroughly global-comparative mode of analysis.
In LPE Land
If you enjoyed browsing the Top 100 Legal Scholars of 2025, don’t miss the latest, definitive ranking of the top 5,000(!) legal scholars by citation count.
On Tuesday, March 31, NYU LPE will be hosting “Jubilee: The Public Debt Dilemma,” a one-day conference on the escalating global public debt and development crises. Taking place at NYU and remote.
For those in NYC, don’t miss the upcoming LPE Night School event. Organizing for Power: Social Movements & Municipal Governance will take place at the CUNY School of Law, on Wednesday, March 25, at 6p.
Dreaming of traveling to Switzerland and meeting European colleagues working on law and political economy? The EAEPE Conference ‘Law and Political Economy’ CRN call for applications is live through 15 March.
A reminder: proposals for the Brennan Center’s 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, are due by March 27, 2026.
