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On Monday, we asked we asked eight international legal scholars, human rights attorneys, and experts on Palestine — Rabea Eghbariah, Noura Erakat, Alaa Hajyahia, Darryl Li, Aslı Bâli, Diala Shamas, Maha Abdallah, and Shahd Hammouri — to share their thoughts on how international law hinders Palestinian liberation, and how might it be used to contribute to it.
On Tuesday, Luke Herrine highlighted and theorized the little-noticed revolution in Consumer Protection, as regulators have shifted from a consumer sovereignty framework to an anti-domination framework.
On Wednesday, Alex Gourevitch diagnosed the near-universal celebration of the entrepreneurial elite in our culture, and explained why the economic power they wield represents a special problem of rule and domination.
And on Thursday, Brandon Weiss and Michael Karam considered the prospects for major housing regulations in a post-Chevron world, and argued that agencies should continue to regulate on major issues.
In LPE Land
Several progressive legal organizations have issued a call to action: they need legal volunteers across the country to protect grassroots groups taking collective action around the election.
Cool new fellowship alert: Yale Law School’s Information Society Project is hiring one-year resident fellow. Designed for recent graduates of law or Ph.D. programs interested in an academic career and whose research is related to the digital public sphere. Applications due Dec. 18.
Last call: did you or a scholar whose work you love have an article accepted this fall submission season? If so, let us know! Next week, we’ll be highlighting some of the hottest LPE and LPE-adjacent forthcoming work from this cycle. Send nominations to managingeditor [at] lpeblog.org with a short description of the piece, where it will be forthcoming, and if available, a link to SSRN. Self-nominations are highly encouraged.
Cool new paper: Gregory Brazeal has a recent paper — Markets as Legal Constructions — that offers a primer to the legal institutionalist view of markets, and is meant as a tool for LPE-affiliated professors who encounter students skeptical of the premises of LPE.
At the Roosevelt Institute, Diana Reddy has a new brief on Reviving State Capacity to Protect Workers Under the NLRA.
In Project Syndicate, Sandeep Vaheeson on How Antitrust Can Advance Kamala Harris’s Small-Business Agenda.
Cool new paper alert #2: in Platform Money, Raúl Carrillo synthesizes concerns based on banking law with concerns about data governance to promote a regulatory proposal for the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau to govern the digital wallet ecosystem.
In the Forge, Meena Jagannath argues for global strategies that trade U.S. exceptionalism for an international analysis that takes seriously the ever-reaching power of the wealthy elite.
At the Knight Institute, Sarah Milov on The Labor Origins of Whistleblowing.
In the LRB, Adam Tooze on Bidenomics.
Cool new paper alert #3: in Struggle Against the Water: Connecting Fair Housing Law and Climate Justice, Jade Craig frames the disproportionate impact of flooding induced by climate change on Black communities as a result of housing discrimination, and analyzes climate retreat policy within the framework of fair housing law to determine how climate change policy should further fair housing goals.
