We have it on good authority that, someday, the old world will die and the new world shall emerge. Unfortunately, 2024 was not that year, witnessing instead all manor of morbid phenomena. And what did we do here at the Blog? The same thing we do every year, Pinky: attempt to illuminate the role of law in the creation and maintenance of capitalism, and to brighten the path toward a more just, equal, and sustainable future.
So before the ball drops and we tumble headlong into the darkness of 2025, we thought we’d take a moment to reflect on the light we shed in the year that was. Today, we bring you a big list of everything we published. On Monday, our editorial staff will highlight some of their favorite entries.
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The Law and Political Economy of Higher Ed
The Real Lessons We Should Draw from Claudine Gay’s Resignation
– Amy Kapczynski
The Fracturing of American Higher Education
– Jonathan D. Glater, Adriana N. Hardwicke
Should Higher Education Ratify Privilege or Public Service?
– Marshall Steinbaum
Seeing the University More Clearly
– David Pozen
How Universities Exploit the Tax-Exempt Status of Campus Land
– Davarian L. Baldwin
Securitizing the University
– Maryam Jamshidi
The Colleges are Alright
– Ethan W. Ris
The War on Higher Education Comes for Law Schools
– Angela Harris
Wide World of LPE
The LPE Blog’s Most Anticipated Books of 2024
(Some of) The Best New LPE and LPE-Adjacent Scholarship (Spring 2024)
(Some of) the Best New LPE and LPE-Adjacent Scholarship (Fall 2024)
(Some of) the Best Recent Global LPE and LPE-Adjacent Scholarship
Antitrust
The Limits of Anti-Monopsony Antitrust
– Brian Callaci
Taking Stock of the New Antimonopoly Movement
– John Mark Newman
The FTC Abolishes Non-Compete Clauses
– Jonathan F. Harris & Sandeep Vaheesan
Is Anyone Afraid of Breaking The Price-Fixing Laws Anymore?
– Tara Pincock
Did More Competition Make Meatpacking Fairer?
– Luke Herrine
Business Goes To The Wage Cutter
– Eamon Coburn
Palestine
Imperialism’s Shell Game
– Darryl Li
From the Encampments: Student Reflections on Protests for Palestine
– Columbia Law Students for Palestine, CUNY Law Students Against Genocide, Rita W. Wang, Mehrdad Dariush, Chisato Kimura, Chloe Miller, Rachel Vogel, Alaa Hajyahia, Seetha Tan
Financial War and Economic Peace in Israel-Palestine
– Jessica Whyte
Genocide and Political Economy: Reconstructing the Relationship
– Ntina Tzouvala
Shipments of Death
– Shahd Hammouri
Genocide Trade-offs
– John Reynolds
Seven Perspectives on International Law and Palestinian Liberation
– Rabea Eghbariah, Noura Erakat, Alaa Hajyahia, Darryl Li, Aslı Ü. Bâli, Diala Shamas, Maha Abdallah, & Shahd Hammouri
Decolonizing Sanctions
– Jeena Shah
Labor
The Political Economy of Employment Status Disputes
– Julia Tomassetti
Can Workers Bargain Over Bombs?
– Megan Wachspress
Labor’s Constitutional Vision in the Face of Capital’s Attack
– Kate Andrias
Workers of the Law Reviews, Unite!
– Tal K. Rothstein
The Promise of America’s Forgotten Labor Law
– David Boehm & Lynn Ta
Your Boss is Probably Spying on You: New Data on Workplace Surveillance
– Alexander Hertel-Fernandez
Why Academic Freedom Needs DEI
– The Critical (Legal) Collective
The Constitutional Bind
Toward a New Constitutional Politics
– Aziz Rana
Constitutional Politics and Dilemmas on the Left
– Willy Forbath
On Garrison, Douglass, and American Colonialism
– Maggie Blackhawk
Venerating Constitutional Veneration?
– David Pozen
Housing & Property
The Unavoidable Consequences of Being Human
– Sara Rankin
What Is the Relationship Between Homelessness and the Law?
– Christopher Essert
The American Right to Sleep Under Bridges
– Mila Versteeg, Kevin Cope, Gaurav Mukherjee
Why Has the Rule of Law Become So Fragile?
– Joanna Kusiak
Rent Strikes as a Righteous Form of Resistance
– Shai Karp
All Power To The Tenants
– Greg Baltz
Are Major Housing Regulations Possible in a Post-Chevron World?
– Brandon Weiss & Michael Karam
How Bankruptcy Prioritizes Property Rights Over Public Good
– Alvin Velazquez
Counterrevolution
The Rise of Neoliberal Public Finance
– Melinda Cooper
Turning the Fiscal State on its Head
– Quinn Slobodian
Making Families Great Again
– Allison Tait
The Unlikely Victors
– Mehrsa Baradaran
The Role of Coercion in the Neoliberal Economy
– Zohra Ahmed
Market Governance
Can Subsidies Discipline Capital?
– Jeff Gordon
Why Flying is Miserable and Why It Doesn’t Have to Be
– Ganesh Sitaraman & Matthew Buck
Private Financial Markets Are Eating the World
– Lenore Palladino
The Death of Lake Powell and the Resurrection of the New Deal Order
– Marshall Steinbaum
Have You Heard the Good News About Consumer Protection?
– Luke Herrine
Reclaiming the Progressive Potential of Local Procurement
– Scott Cummings & Madeline Janis
Taking Media Out of the Market
– Victor Pickard
Global LPE
Territorial Labor and the Political Economy of American Empire
– Jedidiah Kroncke
The Necropolitics of Milei’s Labor Governance
– Julieta Lobato
Recovering the Left-Wing Free Trade Tradition
– Marc-William Palen
Why a Decade of Revolts Didn’t Bring the Revolution
– Vincent Bevins & Kate Yoon
Meddling with International Relations
– J. Benton Heath
Transnational Law as a Battle of Position
– Shaina Potts
The Bangladesh Student Movement that Transformed a Nation
– Chaumtoli Huq & Chloe Miller
Politics of Neoliberalism
The Political Effects of Neoliberalism
– Ilyana Kuziemko, Nicolas Longuet Marx, Suresh Naidu
The Vicious Spiral of Political and Economic Inequality
– Valentino Larcinese & Alberto Parmigiani
The Political Economy of the Urban-Rural Divide
– Keith Orejel
What We’re Reading About the Election
– Amy Kapczynski & Luke Herrine
The Whole Equation: Can “Neoliberalism” Explain Everything?
– Henry Tonks
Legal & Political Theory
The Political Economy of Trad Dad Populism
– Kate Redburn
The Machiavellis of the Market: Entrepreneurs Against Democracy
– Alex Gourevitch
After Chevron: Political Economy and the Future of the Administrative State
– K. Sabeel Rahman
The Great Bounty of Law and Economics
– Darren Bush, Mark Glick, Gabriel A. Lozada
Octavia Butler and Afrofuturist Legal Critique
– Etienne C. Toussaint
What Does LPE Have to Say About Congress?
– Beau J. Baumann & James Goodwin
On Fascism: An Afrikan Perspective
– Matthew Glover & Joshua Ingram
Presidents Are Strong, But Super-Groups Can Be Stronger
– Matthew B. Lawrence
Can Personal Debt Mobilize Voters?
– Chloe Thurston & Emily Zackin
When Lawyers Attack the Rule of Law
– Scott Cummings
Technology
What Centuries of Common Law Teach Us About Regulating Social Media
– Morgan Ricks & Ganesh Sitaraman
A Netchoice Win Would Be a Loss for Democracy
– Zephyr Teachout
Six Reactions to the Proposed TikTok Ban
– Ganesh Sitaraman, Sanjay Jolly, Zephyr Teachout, Nikolas Guggenberger, Anupam Chander, Elettra Bietti
Social Media, Authoritarianism, and the World As It Is
– Meredith Whittaker
The Frightening Financialization of Broadband
– Christopher Ali
Racial Capitalism
The U.S.-Mexico Border as a Crisis of Social Reproduction
– Daniel I. Morales
Abolitionism as a Question of Citizenship
– Etienne C. Toussaint
Plantation Capitalism’s Legacy Produced the Maui Wildfires
– Uʻilani Tanigawa Lum & Kaulu Luʻuwai
How Should Democrats Respond to the “Migrant Crisis”?
– Jacob Hamburger
The Bad News About the “Good” Target: Consumer Redlining in Black Neighborhoods
– Andrea Cann Chandrasekher
Radical Acts of Justice
“The Fuel for Everything”: Acts of Care as Sources of Hope
– Jocelyn Simonson
Radical Constitutionalism and a Critique of Nonviolence
– Evan D. Bernick
Popular Justice Reborn
– Elizabeth Dale
A Crisis of Purpose in Public Defense
– Premal Dharia
Criminal Law Reform
Between Slavery and Incarceration: an Interview with Christopher Muller
– Alex Gourevitch
A Hidden Source of Labor Extraction in Prisons
– Grace Li
Carceral Surveillance and the Dangers of “Better-than-Incarceration” Reasoning
– James Kilgore, Emmett Sanders, and Kate Weisburd
The Chamber of Commerce’s Moral Panic
– Sandeep Dhaliwal
Private Insurance, Public Power
Introduction
– Kate Yoon
Insurance Risk and Democratic Police Reform
– Anthony O’Rourke, Guyora Binder, Rick Su
The Re-Risking State: The Limits of Property Insurance in Florida
– Zac Taylor
Facing the Quasi-Sovereignty of Insurers
– Sarena Martinez
The Puzzling Persistence of Gender Discrimination in Insurance
– Greta Krippner
The Insurance Industry Is Not the Victim
– Moira Birss
The Religious Liberty Threat to American-Style Social Insurance
– Elizabeth Sepper & Lindsay F. Wiley
Health
How Nonprofit Hospitals Deny Financial Assistance to Patients
– Luke Messac
How Environmental Law Created a World Awash in Toxic Chemicals
– William Boyd
The Political Economy of Abortion Law in the EU
– Ivana Isailović
The LPE of Civil Procedure
Procedure, Inequality, and Access
– Helen Hershkoff, Luke Norris, Judith Resnik
Who Says Evictions Should Be Efficient?
– Kathryn Sabbeth
The Judiciary, Self-Governance, and the Rule of Law
– Brooke Coleman
Movement Lawyering in Times of Rising Authoritarianism
Introduction
– Meena Jagannath & Felipe Mesel
Tunisia: A Case Study in Democratic Backsliding
– Lamine Benghazi
Enough! The Spanish Fight to Limit Housing Speculation
– Miguel Ruiz
Seven Perspectives on International Law and Palestinian Liberation
– Rabea Eghbariah, Noura Erakat, Alaa Hajyahia, Darryl Li, Aslı Ü. Bâli, Diala Shamas, Maha Abdallah, & Shahd Hammouri
Popular Lawyers Resisting the Right-Wing Agenda in Argentina
– Diego Morales, Florencia Ini, & Catalina Seinhart
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