At the Blog
On Monday, Sabeel Rahman responded to Beau Baumann’s recent call for legislative primacy. Such a vision, he argued, offers an attractive long-term vision for democracy. But to realize it, we’ll need to use every tool available (both legislative and executive) to address the underlying configurations of economic and political power that enabled the current crisis.
On Wednesday, Amna Akbar interviewed Joe Soss and Joshua Page about about their recent book, Legal Plunder: The Predatory Dimensions of Criminal Justice.
And on Thursday, Justin Deystone reflected on a revival of the critical impulse in legal theory and introduced a symposium that brings together Marxist thinkers, Law and Political Economy scholars, and critical legal theorists.
In LPE Land
Cool job alert #1: The Rutgers Law School Housing Justice & Tenant Solidarity Clinic is looking for a new staff attorney to join the team.
Cool job alert #2: New York University School of Law is launching a new federal Indian law clinic and looking to hire a two-year clinical fellow.
Cool CfP alert: submissions for the The 2026 UC Berkeley/Cornell ILR Junior Work Law Scholars Conference are due by June 15. Open to grad students, law students interested in an academic career, and practitioners interested in transitioning to academia, as well as junior professors.
At the People’s Policy Project, Brian Dew has a report on how the Nordic childcare systems work and what it would take for the United States to follow this path.
On his substack, Steve Vladek explains how for much of American history, Congress regularly nudged and even bullied the Supreme Court. As the Bard of Duluth once sang, you don’t need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows.
