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Remembering Lani Guinier
Gerald Torres reflects on the ideas that animated the life of Lani Guinier.
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Lessons for Legal Mobilization
What role do lawyers play in advancing progressive social change? Examining the recent history of labor activism in Los Angeles, Scott Cummings distills some lessons for legal mobilization in contemporary social movements.
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Indeterminacy & Political Economy: A Keywords Teaser
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Talha Syed
Birds of a feather. Ships passing in the night. Sister species. How should we understand the relationship between LPE and the critical legal traditions?
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The Paradox of Property in the American Rule of Law
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Paul Gowder
In the United States, the rule of law has always had property rights as its lodestar, with private property serving as the central legal interest that requires protection. Attending to our history reveals the dangers and paradoxical nature of this property-first conception of the rule of law.
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Codetermination: The Missing Alternative in Corporate Governance
If we are to correct the deep-rooted power imbalances within our economic institutions, we need to go to the source — the governance of corporations — and adopt more equitable arrangements. Luckily, there is a solution hiding in plain sight.
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The Dawn of Antitrust: An Egalitarian Interpretation of the Sherman Act
The conventional interpretation of American antitrust law has neglected its democratic and egalitarian origins. As the Sherman Act’s legislative history makes evident, its primary target was the concentration of economic power, rather than coordination among workers, farmers, and other smaller producers.
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New Year, New Amendments
The LPE Blog asks Amy Kapczynski, Aziz Rana, and Robert Tsai how we might fix the Constitution.
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The Long History of Anti-CRT Politics
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Aziz Rana
Recent attacks on CRT often claim that the US, since its founding, has been committed to principles of liberty and equality. This strategic use of American universalism, along with an explicit focus on public education, has a long history in rightwing politics: for the better part of a century, it has been perhaps the dominant way of articulating white resistance to racial reform.
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Anti-CRT and a “Free Market” in Racial Education
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Diana Reddy
Recent attacks on CRT must be understood as part of a long-term battle to privatize education. For economic conservatives, a “free market” has the capacity to satisfy all “tastes” in racial education.
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Educational “Ownership” and the Backlash to CRT
When public education is seen as a property entitlement, there is an inevitable contestation over who controls this valuable resource and to what end.
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Towards a Media Democracy Agenda: The Lessons of C. Edwin Baker
Powerful monopolies have captured our core communication infrastructures, subjected them to the unbridled pursuit of advertising revenues, and generated profound social harms. Media democracy, as a political and intellectual project, seeks to provide solid theoretical foundations from which to understand and respond to this worsening crisis.
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Towards a Law and Political Economy Approach to the Global War on Terror
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Zohra Ahmed
To ensure support for its Global War on Terror, the United States has exploited the Pakistani government’s reliance on foreign credit to guarantee cooperation in US counterinsurgency operations. In leveraging its role as a lender to provide Pakistan with short-term financial relief, the United States has deepened Pakistan’s economic dependency, undermined the nation’s chance for a more equal domestic political and economic arrangement, and consolidated the power of its domestic military elite.
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What Do Franchisees Do? Vertical Restraints as Workplace Fissuring and Labor Discipline Devices
Current trademark and antitrust law allows franchisor firms to obtain the low-wage, deskilled labor they desire, without incurring the risks and duties of an employer.
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Economic Law: Anatomy and Crisis
LPE challenges the purportedly self-explanatory relationship between law and “the economy.” This framework is especially productive when turned transnationally.
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Economic Democracy at Work
Workers should have enough representation on corporate boards to influence major decision making. Questions of institutional design should not stand in the way of this common sense reform.