At the Blog
On Monday, Veena Dubal interviewed Aziza Ahmed about her new book, Risk and Resistance: How Feminists Transformed the Law and Science of AIDS. The conversation covers why women were initially excluded from receiving AIDS diagnoses and support, the feminist lawyers and activists who fought against these policies, the adverse public health consequences of carceral feminism, and much else!
On Tuesday, Luke Herrine offered a whirlwind tour of market governance in Trumpworld. Though most agencies have embraced a pro-monopolist, pro-corruption reorientation, there is at least one partial exception: Andrew Ferguson’s FTC. Why this is? And what can tell us about how a market regulator must act to survive elimination in the current Trump administration?
And on Thursday, Aditya Balasubramanian continued our symposium on Jason Jackson’s Traders, Speculators, and Captains of Industry. How we should understand the modernity of so-called “modern Indian capitalists”? Jackson’s book, he suggests, can help us understand the various ways in which this classification has provided great utility to the firms deploying it, even if its correspondence to reality is thin.
In LPE Land
The University of Chicago Law Review has released a new issue featuring pieces from their Spring 2025 Symposium—Law & Economics (L&E) vs. Law & Political Economy (LPE): A Debate. Make sure to check out the great pieces by Amy Kaczynski, Sanjukta Paul, Adam A. Davidson & Jocelyn Simonson, and Amy J. Cohen & Ilana Gershon.
At the Roosevelt Institute, Shahrzad Shams and Todd Tucker explain why court reform should be a progressive priority.
In the New York Review of Books, Sandeep Vaheesan reflects on how to build the electrostate.
At the Knight Institute, Amy Kapczynski proposes a People’s College—the right to a two-year college degree at the accredited college of one’s choice—as a structural remedy for our free speech crisis.
And at Phenomenal World, Benjamin Fong looks at the increasingly complex logistics of Amazon’s same-day delivery expansion.
