At the Blog
On Tuesday, Greg Baltz reviewed Tracy Rosenthal and Leonardo Vilchis’ Abolish Rent: How Tenants Can End the Housing Crisis, which he argues contains important lessons for legal scholars and tenant attorneys about how to conceptualize the tenant movement’s relationship with the state, and how to support and represent organized tenants.
On Wednesday, Chloe Miller interviewed Chaumtoli Huq about the student uprising that overthrew Bangladesh’s government, the future direction of the country, and the lessons we can take from this moment.
And on Thursday, Etienne Toussaint argued that Afrofuturist literature—such as Octavia Butler’s dystopian novel Parable of the Sower—can help us understand how legal meaning is produced and understood within the broader context of democratic life.
In LPE Land
On Wednesday, October 16th at 12:10pm ET, join us (at Yale or on zoom) for a lunch talk with Sandeep Vaheesan, the legal director at the Open Markets Institute, to discuss his forthcoming book Democracy in Power: A History of Electrification in the United States.
On Digging a Hole, Brian Highsmith discusses his recent paper, “Governing the Company Town.”
Over at Inquest, Lee Kovarsky discusses one issue where Harris and Trump significantly diverge: the future of the Death Penalty.
In the Denver Gazette‘s coverage of the Kroger-Albertsons merger trial, a Kroger executive confirms that the supermarket chain had a program that raised prices at “no-comp stores” — towns where there was no competition.
Sign-up for the next online reading group on Global Political Economy, Law, Race & Gender, which will cover Labor & Colonialism in Palestine.
In Bloomberg, an investigation into how Uber and Lyft locked drivers out of work to circumvent a NYC minimum wage law.
Both the New Yorker and Slate report on the consequences of our government’s failure to regulate the crypto industry when it had the chance: pro-crypto donors are responsible for almost half of all corporate donations to PACs in the 2024 election cycle, including spending $40 million against Sherrod Brown, in a race that could determine control of the Senate. Seems bad!
