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

We’re hiring! Posts on class in the military, on Indian market governance and state legitimacy! Events galore!

At the Blog Shirley Lin kicked off the week with a summary of her argument that the EEOC has undermined the collective commitment to disability accommodations in the workplace by making the accommodation a matter of individual bargaining between highly unequal actors. Then Robert Post argued, in response to Genevieve Lakier and Nelson Tebbe’s earlier…

The Democracy Beyond Neoliberalism conference takes its first blogged form!

At the blog: data governance, information fiduciaries, and countervailing power. In LPE Land: OSLJ’s workers’ rights symposium, 2 LPE 101 sessions, the conference continues, and more!