Introducing vulnerability theory, Martha McCluskey on the mythical ideal of the autonomous subject, and Brian Highsmith on the curse of fiscal federalism.
A brief field guide to LPE, reactions to the eviction moratorium decision, and a CFP for an upcoming conference on Law & Macroeconomics.
At the Blog We hosted the second and final part of our symposium on Courts and Capitalism, which is part of the Democracy Beyond Neoliberalism conference: Joey Fishkin wrote about the long history of the Supreme Court’s opposition to democracy, drawing on his forthcoming book The Anti-Oligarchy Constitution. Judge Lynn Adelman wrote about judges’ role…
At the Blog We started a symposium on Courts and Capitalism, carried over from the Democracy Beyond Neoliberalism conference. Kathryn Sabbeth initiated the proceedings with a detailed meditation on the many points at which our system of litigation privileges the development of rich people’s law and underdevelops poor people’s law. Matthew Dimick turned the conversation…
On Monday, Christopher Ali argued that the history of rural electrification has more radical things to teach us about expanding access to rural broadband than is commonly assumed. On Tuesday, Erika Wilson compared the reproduction of school segregation–and “white island districts” in particular–to monopolization of an essential facility, drawing out several policy implications. On Thursday,…
Neoliberalism in France, the EU, and international investment law. Settler colonialism in Palestine. And a CFP for LPE scholars from a new journal!
At the Blog Angela Harris, Amy Kapczynski, and Noah Zatz argued that LPE analyses are incomplete without tracking the way law shapes what counts as “the economy” and what is not. We began a symposium on Antoine Vauchez and Pierre France’s book The Neoliberal Republic on the emergence of French neoliberalism. Vauchez himself kickstarted the…
Law and settler colonialism in Palestine and rounding out the Political Economy, Political Technology symposium.
The Conference is revived! And the LPE Essay Prize Winners are announced!
Democratic institutions as power-builders, market governance as inherently collective, and antimonopoly in farm policy. Plus, the Global Health Justice Partnership is looking for fellows.
This week at the blog, we hosted a symposium on Max Eichner’s book, The Free Market Family.
Post-Marxian critical political economy and a new framework for private power over speech…
Farmers vs. farmworkers, Chilean Constitution, and Remaking Appalachia…
EU’s Green Deal, ending vaccine apartheid, & AMRI 2.0!
A symposium on “Political Economy, Political Technology”, a session on LPE and Public Law, and our ME in the New Republic
