What’s good in LPElandia? This week on the blog, we featured Allison Tait’s take on teaching Trusts and Estates from an LPE perspective. An interview with political scientist Alex Gourevitch on the history of labor republicanism in the United States over at The Dig. Gabe Winant wrote on the political valence of being in the “professional-managerial class”…

Happy Friday! This week, the public continued to grapple with the revelation that Facebook disclosed more than 50 million users’ account information to the right-wing political consultancy Cambridge Analytica. LPE contributor Frank Pasquale has previously described how we should understand the big internet platforms as exercising a form of “functional sovereignty,” a description seemed as…

The week’s posts and the best of what we’ve been reading, for your weekend pleasure. This week at LPE Blog, reformisms were on the chopping block. We started with the second installment of Sabeel Rahman’s series on structural equality and law, where he argued that structural problems like inequality will not be solved by “meliorist…