This week Henry Brooks interviewed Aziz Rana on the tenth anniversary of his book, The Two Faces of American Freedom. Stay tuned next week for our YEAR in Review roundup.
At the Blog We finished up our series on the law and political economy of animal agriculture with Lee Miller’s essay on the connections between climate justice and justice for animals. Since we didn’t have a roundup last week you may have missed Caroline Parker’s introduction to the series, Viveca Morris’s case for breaking up…
At the Blog Madison Gray (3L at Penn Law and part of the LPE student network!) published two posts on organized houseless folks winning a big victory in Philadelphia by refusing to budge from encampments they set up to support each other. Her first post recounts the struggle, drawing from the words of organizers themselves.…
We’re back from election week!
A very spooky weekly roundup!
We begin our series celebrating JLPE!
In which the launch of the Journal of Law and Political Economy is announced!
A roundup of this week’s posts…and more
Some exciting developments in LPE land amidst the widening gyre! A new Deputy Director, a new LPE101 Course…
This week at the blog… …we began a symposium on the deep problems with the criminal legal system. On Monday, Tariq El-Gabalawy introduced the symposium. On Tuesday, Marcelo López and Alejandra Gutiérrez discussed the intergenerational impacts of incarceration on their own families and communities and how that has guided their thinking through law school and…
A crowded and motley week at the blog!
This week at The Blog we hosted the first three posts of a symposium on Stephanie Kelton’s The Deficit Myth…
The blog is back! We’ll do our best to keep you as grounded as we possibly can for what is sure to be an increasingly strange and alienating fall.
This week at the blog…
Noah Zatz analyzed the ways in which the CARES Act does and (mostly) does not support care work. He argues that the prioritization of supporting the formal employment market makes the support for care work maddeningly indirect and even perverse, especially as the pressure builds for returning kids to school.
The Blog (well, really, Isabel Echarte) interviewed law students from around the country about their involvement in the uprisings after George Floyd’s killing.
Krystle Okafor makes the case for rent cancellation.
