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
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.
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…
Many of us came to law school interested in how the law can advance social justice, only to find ourselves disoriented by a 1L curriculum seemingly uninterested (and often hostile) to these questions. We encountered the Coase theorem in torts and Pareto optimality in contracts, but were given no vocabulary to understand the politics underlying…
Dear Readers, We are back online for the academic year, and very excited to introduce our new list of core contributors below! We hope you’ll join us in following their work here at the blog over the next many months. best, The LPE Team
Dear Readers — We are taking a few weeks off to accommodate the end of summer holidays and the scramble toward the new semester. We’ll be back online in mid-September. Thanks, as ever, for reading. Best, The LPE Team.
I recently published two pieces assessing Ohio v. American Express, the Court’s most significant antitrust opinion in a decade. At Vox, I explained how the Court’s 5-4 decision ratified a new and troubling approach to antitrust. In short, the Court created a special rule for what it describes as “two-sided transaction platforms”—a term that encompasses, for example,…
Will Bloom explains his recent piece examining the Supreme Court’s conception of unions and politics.
Dear Readers – We’re taking a short hiatus until early January. Happy Holidays! We’ll see you in the New Year. – Team LPE
