Goodness, what a year. You know the Lenin ditty. Perhaps you were somewhat distracted and missed some of the high-quality #content we published this year? Don’t worry: you can make it your New Year’s resolution to read more of the Blog. In the meantime, we’ll help you catch up on what you missed. Today’s post will get us started with a list of everything we’ve published. Later in the week the editorial team will pick out some of our favorites.
Let’s start with some of the developments at the blog itself:
| Signing Off | Kate Redburn |
| Introducing Guest Editors | Angela P. Harris, Noah Zatz |
We did make time to cover other things besides ourselves. Most of our posts were organized into symposia:
Race for Profit Symposium
| Race for Profit | Keeanga-Yamahatta Taylor |
| Predatory Inclusion: A Long View of Race for Profit | K-Sue Park |
| Addressing Race and Gender Inequities at the Root of Housing Injustice | Rasheedah Phillips |
| Exploitation Entrepreneurialism | Mehrsa Baradaran |
Bail Reform Symposium
| What Comes After Money Bail? | Jocelyn Simonson |
| “Bail Reform” & Carceral Control: A Critique of New York’s Bail Laws | Survived & Punished NY |
| Moving From Ending Money Bail to Demanding Pretrial Freedom | Brett Davidson, Elisabeth Epps, Saryln Grace, Atara Rich-Shea |
| Community Bail Funds as a Tool for Prison Abolition | Brett Davidson, Elisabeth Epps, Saryln Grace, Atara Rich-Shea |
| Reading Bail Reform Through a Critical Race Lens | Sean Allan Hill II |
| After Money Bail: Lifting the Veil on Pretrial Detention | Sandra G. Mayson |
Methods Symposium
| Stocking the Toolshed | Luke Herrine |
| Privatizing Sovereignty, Socializing Property: What Economics Doesn’t Teach You About the Corporation | David Ciepley |
| The Sociology of Markets: An Alternative Political Economy | Neil Fligstein |
| The Constitutional Theory of the Business Enterprise | Jamee K. Moudud |
| Tracking Extraction | Angela P. Harris |
| In Praise of Blindspots | Suresh Naidu |
| Promises All the Way Down: A Primer on the Money View | Elham Saiedinezhad |
Public Options Symposium
| Enriching the Narrative Economics of Public Options | Frank Pasquale |
| The Case for Universal Labor and Employment Rights | Amanda Jaret, Sandeep Vaheesan |
The Meritocracy Trap Symposium
| Liberate the Meritocrats–From their Bosses | Andrew Hart, Marshall Steinbaum |
| Guiding Innovation’s Hand: Industrial Policy Against Inequality | Jeff Gordon |
| Are the Rich Rentiers or Superordinate Workers? | Daniel Markovits |
| Are We Prisoners of Technological Fate? | Daniel Markovits |
| Labor vs. Capital: Continuing the Meritocracy Trap Debate | Andrew Hart, Marshall Steinbaum, Daniel Markovits |
Right to Counsel Symposium
| Moving Beyond Liberal Legal Rights: An Expansive Vision of Right to Counsel | John Whitlow |
| Gideon and the Promise of Right to Counsel | John Sadek, Sam Natale |
LPE on COVID
| Coronavirus and the Politics of Care | Amy Kapczynski |
| Slumlord Capitalism v. Global Pandemic: LPE on COVID | John Whitlow |
| Two Timelines of COVID Crisis | Frank Pasquale |
| The Fiscal Reckoning to Come: Paying for Virus Relief in an Era of Tax Cuts | Ajay K. Mehrotra |
| The Economics of Shortages | Ramsi A. Woodcock |
| Flattening the Curve and Closing the Gap: The Civil Rights of Health During a Global Pandemic | Angela P. Harris, Aysha Pamukcu |
| The “New Normal” Privatization of the Workplace | Ivana Isailovic |
| Where is the Care in the CARES Act? | Noah Zatz |
| Rent Cancellation: Social Protection in Uncertain Times | Krystle Okafor |
| A Nightmare of Work and Care | Lynn Lu |
| Blame China? On the Very Possibility of Responsibility for COVID | Sebastian Guidi, Nahuel Maisley |
| Not an “Achievement Gap”, a Racial Capitalist Chasm | Nataliya Braginsky |
Mutant Neoliberalism Symposium
| Dead Again? Mutant Neoliberalism and Crisis Reinvention | William Callison, Zachary Manfredi |
| The Bourgeois Internationale (Part 1, 2) | David Singh Grewal |
| Up or Out Migration and Rated Governance | Atossa Araxia Abrahamian |
| Mutant Neoliberalism, Originary Violence and Feminist Revolts in Latin America | Veronica Gago |
| Nationalism and Neoliberal Governance | William Davies |
| Mutant Neoliberaliam and the Politics of Culture | Corinne Blalock |
Black Lives Matter Symposium
| The Many Forms of Police Violence | Monica Bell |
| Don’t Reform Policing, Transform It | Jocelyn Simonson |
| We Cannot Prosecute Our Way to Making Black Lives Matter | Kate Levine |
| Who Should Pay for Police Misconduct? | Joanna Schwartz |
| On Reimagining State and Local Budgets in an Abolitionist Moment | Brian Highsmith |
| Law Student Perspectives: On Grief, Organizing, and Joy in Support of Black Lives | Editors |
| Carceral Feminism at a Crossroads | Aya Gruber |
| An Abolitionist Horizon for Child Welfare | Cynthia Godsoe |
| Policing as Unequal Protection | Evan D. Bernick |
Socialist Constitutionalism Symposium
| Socialism Past and Future (Part 1, 2) | William E. Forbath |
| The Relevance of Weimar | Samuel Moyn |
| Socialism Past and Future–Or Socialism is Past, and the Future? | Alvaro Santos |
| On Socializing the Constitution of Economic Coordination | Sanjukta Paul |
| The Constitution of Social Progress | Blake Emerson |
| Countering the Neoliberal Structural Constitution | Martha McCluskey |
Getting By Symposium
| LPE In Practice: Why We Wrote Getting By | Helen Hershkoff, Stephen Loffredo |
| Politics and Poverty Law | John Whitlow |
| LPE Praxis for Intergenerational Joy | Julia Hernandez |
| The Clean Sea Breeze of Bad Men | Gregory Louis |
| From Altruism to Solidarity: A New (or Perhaps Old) Model for Public Service | Sam Allison-Natale |
| You Planted a Seed: Legal Problems as Power Building Possibilities | Jamila Michener |
The Deficit Myth Symposium
| Breadth and Taxes | Emma Caterine |
| The Deficit Myth: Banking Between the Lines | Raul Carrillo |
| MMT and the Homes Guarantee | Ashley Burke |
Transforming a Broken System Symposium
| Introduction to the Transforming a Broken System Symposium | Tariq El-Gabalawy |
| The Intergenerational Impact of Carceral Punishment | Marcelo Lopez, Alejandra Gutierrez |
| Greensboro to Kenosha: The Failure to Root Out Racism, Toxicity, and Fraternalism in Law Enforcement | Tariq El-Gabalawy |
| Establishing a Right to Replacement Counsel | Nathan Fennell |
| Imperfect Progressive Reforms: Situating the Problem of Gender Violence | Deborah Weissman |
| The Academy and the (Undoing of) the Carceral State | Shaun Ossei-Owusu, Jocelyn Simonson |
JLPE Symposium
| Introducing the JLPE | Angela P. Harris, Jay Varellas |
| Different Paths: Colonization is More than Exploitation | Natsu Saito |
| A Labor Theory of Negotiation | Amy Cohen |
| The Functional Logic of Antitrust: Oligarchy vs. Democracy | Sandeep Vaneesan |
| Climate Change and Racial Capitalism | Carmen Gonzalez |
| Learning Like a State: Statecraft in the Digital Age | Marion Fourcade, Jeff Gordon |
LPE of Meat Symposium
Introduction | Caroline Parker |
| Break Up the Modern Meat Trust | Viveca Morris |
| At the Cost of an Animal | Matthew Liebman |
| We Treat Animals as Legal Objects. We Should Treat Them as Legal Subjects Instead | Jeff Sebo |
| Environmental Justice is Climate Justice is Justice for Animals | Lee Miller |
But not all of our #content was organized into symposia. Here are our one-off posts, loosely organized by topic:
Finance
| Buybacks are the Symptom, Shareholder Power the Disease | Jeff Gordon |
| Money in Context (Part 1, 2) | Robert Hockett |
| The Capital Commons (Part 1, 2) | Robert Hockett |
| Spread the Fed (Part 1, 2) | Robert Hockett |
| Tax Havens: Legal Recoding of Colonial Plunder | Vanessa Ogle |
Market Governance
| Historicizing Consumer Protection | Luke Herrine |
| Consumer Protection after Consumer Sovereignty | Luke Herrine |
| The Hidden Shortages of the Market Economy | Ramsi A. Woodcock |
| Coordination Rights Beyond Nation States | Erik Peinert |
Work
Legal and Political Theory
| A Tribute to David Graeber | Luke Herrine |
| Progressive Democracy and Legislative Form | Blake Emerson |
| Situating the Role of Democracy in LPE | Katharine Jackson |
| What Makes an Administrative Agency “Democratic”? | Katherine Jackson |
| Toward a Democratic Political Economy for the First Amendment | Nelson Tebbe |
| On Socialism and Critical Theory | Karl Klare |
| Overrating Under-determination; Underrating Capitalism (A Response to Karl Klare) | Nate Holdren |
Organizing & Democratic Alternatives
| Planting an Orchard | Connie Razza |
| Climate Accountability and the Moral Logic of Stigma | Scott Stern, Camila Bustos |
| The Institutional Design of Community Control | K. Sabeel Rahman, Jocelyn Simonson |
Housing
| How the Philly #HousingNow Encampment Movement Prompts Us to Reimagine a Right to Contract (Part 1, 2) | Madison Gray |
| Privatized “Affordable Housing” is a Scam | Jeff Woocher |
Interviews
| Automation of Labor, Labor of Automation | Frank Pasquale |
| The Two Faces of American Freedom, Ten Years Later (Part 1, 2, 3) | Aziz Rana, Henry Brooks |
| K-Sue Park on How She Teaches Property | K-Sue Park |
| “Long Live Farmer-Laborer Unity”: Contextualizing the Massive Resistance Going on in India | Navyug Gill, Veena Dubal |
