At the Blog
On Monday, Omer Ein-Habar argued that as cities fight to take back control of local utilities, they should dust off the legal playbook of the original “Sewer Socialists.”
On Tuesday, Ioannis Kampourakis considered what follows, politically, from the idea that law is constitutive of capitalism. What theories of social change does this view make available, where does it locate possibilities for political agency, and what kinds of political energies might it unleash?
And on Thursday, Yochai Benkler continued our symposium on Katharina Pistor’s The Law of Capitalism and How to Transform It. To design the right program for capitalism’s legal transformation, he argues, we must begin with the right theory of capitalism.
In LPE Land
ALPE’s inaugural Junior Faculty Forum has issued a Call for Proposals! The Forum will be a one-day, intensive workshop devoted to emerging scholarship in law and political economy. Selected junior scholars will present original works in progress to a small cohort. Each paper will receive focused commentary from a senior scholar, followed by discussion among all Forum participants. Deadline to submit: January 15, 2027.
Are you keen to review a book for the Journal of Law and Political Economy? Find their revamped submission guidelines here.
The Law & Political Economy stream of the Socio-Legal Studies Association (SLSA) Annual Conference 2027 is now accepting abstracts. Submissions due by Dec. 3.
At the Vanderbilt Policy Accelerator’s new AI Governance Project, Asad Ramzanali has a new paper outlining 34 ways to tax AI.
In the New Republic, Adam Bonica & Jake Grumbach explain how the consulting class is eating the democratic party.
Trying to understand the relationship between Trumpism and big business? You might want to start following Kate Jackson’s new substack.
