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Weekly Roundup: September 13

Quinn Slobodian on Melinda Cooper’s Counterrevolution, Shaina Potts on the concept of Judicial Territory, and Christopher Ali on the looming threat of Private Equity to affordable broadband. Plus, a new LPE book series, a new issue of the JLPE, a new book by Lenore Palladino, upcoming events on The Constitutional Bind, public pharma in CT, and whether capitalism is defensible, as well as new pieces by Henry Farrell, Jed Britton-Purdy, Sandeep Vaheesan and Brian Callaci, and Wendy Brown.

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Weekly Roundup: September 6

Melinda Cooper on the rise of neoliberal finance, Darren Bush, Mark Glick, and Gabriel Lozada on the blight that Law & Economics has visited upon our society, and a new series highlighting some of our favorite posts from the archive. Plus, upcoming events with Talha Syed on antitrust and Aziz Rana on The Constitutional Bind, as well as new pieces by Sam Bagg, Sam Moyn, Lenore Palladino, Madison Condon, David Stein, Dan Berger, and more!

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Weekly Roundup: July 19

Shahd Hammouri on the state duty not to facilitate the transit of weapons to Israel, Helen Hershkoff, Luke Norris, and Judith Resnik on LPE & Civil Procedure, and Kathryn Sabbeth on the one-sided concern for efficiency in eviction court. Plus, an upcoming student info session with Amy Kapczynski and Corinne Blalock on everything you always wanted to know about LPE (but were too afraid to ask). And, as always, the best of LPE from around the web, including new pieces by Veena Dubal, Sandeep Vaheesan, Jake Grumbach, Lev Menand & Morgan Ricks, and Victor Pickard!

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Weekly Roundup: July 12

J. Benton Heath on boycotts and sanctions, Moira Birss on the home insurance crisis, Ivana Isailović on the political economy of abortion law in the EU, Elizabeth Sepper and Lindsay Wiley on religious liberty threats to the ACA, and Lenore Palladino on the rise of private financial markets. Plus, an upcoming LPE info session for students with Amy Kapczynski and Corinne Blalock, as well as the best LPE writings from around the web.

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Weekly Roundup: June 21

Tal Rothstein on collective organizing at the law reviews, and Scott Cummings on the role of lawyers in democratic backsliding. Plus, upcoming LPE events on mobilizing against the courts and the political economy of genocide, a new open-access book on radically legal politics, a piece on the history of racist plunder through local tax codes, and a forum on dethroning fossil capital.

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Weekly Roundup: June 14

Ethan Ris on why you should ignore the Ivy League, Greta Krippner on the puzzling persistence of gender discrimination in insurance markets, and Grace Li on the role of associative life in prisons. Plus, the final session in our series on What To Do About the Courts, a cool job at the Roosevelt Institute, a new series on Twail and economic sanctions, a hot new piece on presidential administration, and a rebuttal to the idea that abandoning the consumer welfare standard means abandoning consumers.

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Weekly Roundup: June 7

Maryam Jamshidi on the securitization of the university, and Sarena Martinez on the quasi-sovereign power of insurers. Plus, a handful of must-attend LSA panels and events (including our happy hour!), a new report by Sabeel Rahman on State Capacity, Tim Wu and Lev Menand on the FTC’s non-compete ban, the first LPE NYC happy hour of the summer, an upcoming event on the Political Economy of Genocide and Imperialism, and more!

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Weekly Roundup: May 31

William Boyd on our broken system of toxics regulation, and Zac Taylor on the limits of property insurance in Florida. Plus, a new paper by Sanjukta Paul on labor law and the firm, an interview with Mehrsa Baradaran about her new book, a policy report by Suzanne Kahn on investing in the care economy, and a review of Aziz Rana’s The Constitutional Bind by Sohum Pal.

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Weekly Roundup: May 24

Kate Andrias on labor’s constitutional vision, Kate Yoon on the LPE of insurance, and Anthony O’Rourke, Guyora Binder, and Rick Su on municipal insurers as an obstacle to democratic control over policing. Plus, the next session of What To Do About Those Pesky Courts with Ryan Doerfler, Aslı Bâli talks international law and Israel-Palestine, Karen Tani & Craig Konnoth discuss medicalizing civil rights, David Pozen’s (free!) new book on the history of constitutional challenges to drug laws, Simon Torracinta reviews Visions of Inequality, and Adam Tooze looks at Netanyahu’s surreal vision of Gaza 2035.

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Weekly Roundup: May 17

Jeff Gordon clarifies the debate over derisking, while Davarian Baldwin examines how universities monetize their tax-exempt status. Plus, an upcoming session of our hit series What To Do About the Courts (with Ryan Doerfler), a new issue of the JLPE, Adam Gaffney on supply-side healthcare, Josh Eidelson on prison labor in Alabama, and Tim Barker on what the shortage of 155mm shells can tell us about the future of American capitalism.

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Weekly Roundup: May 10

Jessica Whyte on the history of “economic peace” in Israel/Palestine, and a double dose of David Pozen: on the presidentialization of university governance, and on Aziz Rana’s The Constitutional Bind. Plus, Adam Tooze on endowments and divestment, Jonathan Masur and Eric Posner on the FTC’s noncompete ban, Aziz Rana on left internationalism past and present, Erin Pineda on Jefferson Cowie’s Freedom’s Dominion, Ariel Ron on the Farm Bill, and Quinn Slobodian on the history of tax havens.

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Weekly Roundup: May 3, 2024

Darryl Li on the political economy of artillery shells, and Student reflections from the encampments at Columbia, CUNY, NYU and Yale. Plus, a CfP on dollar hegemony, a collection of critical legal work on Gaza, two open letters from law faculty, and new pieces by Adam Tooze on the political economy of Columbia University, David Stein & Ira Regmi on the civil rights struggle for full employment, Aziz Rana on why the constitution won’t save us from Trump, and several YLS students on efforts by universities to smother pro-Palestinian activism.

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Weekly Roundup: April 26

Maggie Blackhawk on The Constitutional Bind, Vincent Bevins on a decade of failed protests, and Sandeep Vaheesan and Jonathan Harris on the FTC’s final rule banning non-compete clauses. Plus, new pieces from around the web by Gabriel Winant, Laleh Khalili, Cynthia Estlund & Alan Bogg, Meena Jagannath & Nikki Thanos, Michael Fakhri & Alex de Waal, and JW Mason.

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Weekly Roundup: April 18

Aziz Rana and Willy Forbath kick off a symposium on the The Constitutional Bind, and Uʻilani Tanigawa Lum and Kaulu Luʻuwai discuss the disastrous effects of plantation capitalism in Maui. Plus, a cool job with the Health and Political Economy Project, a CFP for junior work law scholars, and several new LPE-relevant papers, interviews, and articles from around the internet.

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Weekly Roundup: April 12

We offer our biannual round-up of forthcoming LPE and LPE-adjacent scholarship, while Premal Dharia concludes our symposium on Radical Acts of Justice. Plus, the fourth session of our Courts series with Amy Kapczynski and Ganesh Sitaraman; a special issue of Law & Contemporary Problems with work by David Grewal, Christine Desan, and others; an online reading group on Brenna Bhandar and Cheryl Harris; and an upcoming event with the FTC’s consumer protection chief, alongside Frank Pasquale and Luke Herrine.