LPE is thrilled to welcome JustMoney.org into the LPE ecosystem, and to share this message from the Just Money team: The website aims to provide a platform for exploration of money and credit as matters of design.  We  approach them and their larger architecture as legal institutions that are crucial dimensions of governance in modern societies. JustMoney.org will serve a…

Join LPE at the Law & Society Conference in 2020 as we expand the Law and Political Economy CRN (55)! There are only two and half days left to apply to the Law and Society Association (LSA) Conference, which will be held in Denver, Colorado, May 28 – May 30, 2020. All paper, panel, and session…

Just a reminder that paper and panel proposals for the LPE Project’s Conference, “Law and Political Economy: Democracy After Neoliberalism” (April 3-4, 2020, at Yale Law School) are due one week from today, September 15. You can find the call for papers here.  One clarification: Panel proposals should include a description of the panel as…

Thanks to all of our wonderful readers for helping LPE Blog grow so much this year! We’re taking a break for the month of August to bring you more of that LPE content you crave in September. Next year will be a big one for the LPE world, with launch of the Journal of Law…

Call for Papers: “Law and Political Economy: Democracy After Neoliberalism” Over the past several years, a growing group of legal scholars have begun to center questions of “law and political economy” as part of a deliberate effort to enable a critical transformation in legal thought. Joined by the insight that the “the economy” cannot be…

Friends – This year LPE has its own Collaborative Research Network at the Law and Society Conference, happening *right now* in Washington D.C. If you’re here for the conference, come check out the panels and say hello at the social events! Meet the folks behind the APPEAL, the Journal of Law and Political Economy, LPE…

Save the date: We are excited to announce that the inaugural conference of the recently launched Law and Political Economy Project will take place April 3rd and 4th of 2020 at Yale Law School. We hope you will be able to join us to share and expand the exciting scholarship being done within the larger…

Over at the American Prospect, I’ve offered ten theses on the relationship between political economy and foreign policy.

A collaboration of law faculty across several law schools announces a new initiative, the Law and Political Economy (LPE) Project. The Project will bring together a network of legal scholars, practitioners, and students developing innovative methods to challenge the dominance of market fundamentalism within legal scholarship and practice today. It is currently centered at Yale Law…

Reminder to law student readers: RebLaw 2019 will take place at Yale Law School on February 15 and 16. Law students who want to be part of building a left answer to the Federalist Society should be there. On Saturday, February 16 from 3:45-5:15, join LPE law student organizers for a workshop on launching an LPE…

LPEBlog will be on break until the New Year. We will be back in 2019 with new and exciting content! Wishing you all a happy and restorative holiday season, The LPEBlog Team

We are thrilled to announce our search for the inaugural Executive Director of the Law and Political Economy Project. Details below, and please share widely. Download the announcement here. We also welcome applications for the part-time blog editor position, posted here. The Law and Political Economy (LPE) project at Yale Law School seeks a full-time…

Good news, LPE readers:  We are looking for a part-time blog coordinator, to help us continue and expand the work of the blog.  Details below, and please share widely. Download the announcement here. A grant-funded initiative housed at Yale Law School and affiliated with Demos and Columbia Law School (and others to come) seeks a…