At the Blog
On Tuesday, the Blog went worldwide and shared some of our favorite global LPE and LPE-adjacent scholarship from 2024.
On Wednesday, Meena Jagannath and Felipe Mesel of the Movement Law Lab kicked off a symposium that will explore how movement lawyers across the world are confronting rising authoritarianism and neoliberal hegemony.
And on Thursday, Lamine Benghazi continued the series by offering an autopsy of Tunisia’s failed democratic transitions, with crucial lessons for democracies both new and old (We’re looking at you, America).
In LPE Land
Cool job alert: Brandeis University is hiring for a two year fellowship in carceral studies. Applicants’ scholarly disciplines may be rooted within the humanities, social sciences, or law.
Cool event alert (for those in Cambridge): On Friday, October 25, the Program on Law and Political Economy at HLS will be holding a public symposium centered on Aziz Rana’s The Constitutional Bind.
The hit podcast Fragile Juggernaut turned its attention to the South: joined by the historian Robin D.G. Kelley, the episode covers the patterns of Southern development, the rich organizational ecology of the region, the strategic misfires of the CIO, and the political and social bases of fascism in America.
Over at Inquest, Ivan Kilgore explains how prison officials in California have, through their power over policy implementation, thwarted legislative victories aimed at improving the quality of life in prisons.
In the American Prospect, Sharon Block and Benjamin Sachs examine the significant divergence between state-level Democrats and Republicans on labor policy.
The FTC announced its final “Click-to-Cancel” Rule that will require sellers to make it as easy for consumers to cancel their enrollment as it was to sign up. And if you feel like there’s something afoot in consumer protection, you aren’t alone: check out Luke Herrine’s forthcoming article on the recent paradigm shift in consumer protection.
Legal Form is launching a new “comment” section that will host short-form pieces (<1000 words) that respond to ongoing political/legal events from a broadly Marxist perspective.
And in the Washington Post, Geoffrey A. Fowler explains how Instagram and other platforms hide your political posts.
