At the Blog
On Monday, James Tierney argued that that the government’s recent $8.9 billion equity investment in Intel represents a new model of American state capitalism: one that entrenches corporate power while foreclosing more democratic and effective alternatives.
On Tuesday, David Abraham examined how various fractions of capital—both in our time and during Weimar Germany—chose to abandon democracy in favor of an uncertain future.
And on Thursday, Rana Jaleel and Risa Lieberwitz explained how the Trump administration has used Title VI to pressure universities to abandon their fundamental principles, and how universities have largely crumbled in the face of this pressure.
In LPE Land
Veena Dubal, Genevieve Lakier, and the AAUP released a letter to the Offices of the General Counsel at US colleges & universities, in which they detail why the “Compact for Excellence in Higher Education” violates the Constitution and urge schools not to sign it.
In a new YLJ Forum piece, Oren Bracha shows how originalism and textualism have led to perplexing and unsatisfactory results in intellectual-property law, and explains why this particular legal field dramatically exposes the inadequacies of originalism and textualism more generally.
Chris Morten, Karim Sariahmed, Janice E. Graham, and Matthew Herder have a hot new open-access paper for all you vaccine-heads out there: “Public sector innovation and the constraints of ‘platform thinking’: An account of Johnson & Johnson’s adenoviral vector vaccines.”
Cool event: for those in NYC, on Nov. 8, APPEAL will be hosting Heterodox Economics Meets Law and Political Economy: Reclaiming Democracy. A full day of talks, panels, and emerging scholar sessions at John Jay College. More information and (free) registration details here.
