Shelley Welton discusses the political hurdles facing modern public power movements, and Jed Britton-Purdy interviews Shitong Qiao about neighborhood democratization in urban China. Plus, a save the date for the inaugural Association of Law and Political Economy conference, the first LPE NYC happy hour of the summer, an upcoming ACS panel on building worker & tenant power, Sam Moyn on the limitations of freedom as independence, and Delaney Nolan on Louisiana’s “creative” system for funding eviction courts.

Sandeep Vaheesan and Brett Christophers kick off a symposium on Democracy in Power, while the Blog’s editorial staff share some of their favorite housing posts from over the years. Plus, Søren Mau on Citizen Marx, Lev Menand and Benjamin Dinovelli on the Supreme Court’s Federal Reserve shenanigans, Benjamin Braun & Cédric Durand on America’s Braudelian Autumn, Lisa Miller on the Dead End of Checks and Balances, and a Just Money workshop with Morgan Ricks on Financial Market Infrastructure.

Dan Farbman on abolitionist lessons for the present crisis, along with a round-up of some of the best new LPE and LPE-adjacent scholarship. Plus, a CFP on the law and political economy of contemporary authoritarian rule, Allison Tait revisits Henry Hansmann on endowments, Jed Purdy discusses Ecology and Democracy in a World on Fire, Talha Syed calls for abolishing pharma patents, Sandeep Vaheesan reviews Abundance, Money on the Left offers a fiscal strategy for resisting Trump, Rick Hansen traces the collapse of campaign finance regulation in the US, and Stephanie Richard argues against criminalizing wage theft.

Salomé Viljoen on data governance and techno-authoritarians, Kelly Grotke on the foundations of the current crisis in higher ed, and Isaac Kamola on the role of dark money organizations in the campus speech wars. Plus, an incredible CFP for junior work and labor scholars, a special issue of the JLPE on securities law and climate change, Katharina Pistor and David Pozen on Columbia’s review of its University Senate, Adam Bonica on why Democrats should reject mega-donor money, Ben Dinovelli on the Federal Reserve’s Forgotten Mandate, Nathaniel Donahue on Humphrey’s Executor, Kate Jackson on Lenore Palladino’s Good Company, and Fred Block on the possibility of remaking finance for the public good.

Nicholas Handler on the importance of federal labor unions and Ava Liu on Universal Basic Income and the politics of automation. Plus, last call for new spring scholarship, an upcoming event with Aziz Rana and Vijayashri Sripati, model legislation aimed at rising veterinary prices, and new pieces by Bernard Harcourt, Alex Hertel-Fernandez, and Alex Gourevitch.

Ganesh Sitaraman on Antimonopoly and Artificial Intelligence, Ntina Tzouvala on Tariffs and Economic Sabotage, and Noa Ben-Asher on Trans Healthcare Bans and White Nationalism. Plus, a three-part interview series with Aziz Rana, Zohra Ahmed on the right-wing legal campaigns to kill progressive social movements, a spreadsheet of where law firms stand vis-a-vis Trump’s attacks on the rule of law, a new collection of essays on Economic Democracy, and a review of Sophia Rosenfeld’s new book, The Age of Choice.

Six former members of the Biden Administration on a more progressive future, along with a collection of our most illuminating posts on administrative law and democratic governance. Plus, a call for recently accepted LPE-relevant articles, an upcoming event on Organizing Red States, a lecture by Sanjukta Paul on Economic Coordination and Competition in American Legal Thought, a fellowship at The Brennan Center for Justice, Nathan Tankus on Fort Knox and Buying Bitcoin, David Dayen on amnesty day at the CFPB, and Beau Baumann on why progressives need to start thinking much bigger.

Jedediah Britton-Purdy on the rule of law and the political economy of the current constitutional crisis, and Martin Sybblis on how offshore financial law promotes post-colonial freedom. Plus, a Save the Date for the Inaugural Law and Political Economy Association Conference, a major policy report calling on states to prohibit surveillance wages and prices, Amy Kapczynski and Gregg Gonsalves on the social life of care, Adam Bonica on how DOGE is targeting left-leaning agencies, a cool job alert at LPE at HLS, Jenny Hunter on how the Supreme Court paved the way for Trump II, and so much more!

Luke Herrine on writing down our dreams during a living nightmare, Allison Tait on the not-so-secret lives of trusts, and Ezra Rosser on how antipoverty advocates can go on the offensive. Plus, an upcoming event with Umut Özsu and Sam Moyn, a new paper by Brian Highsmith, Maya Sen, and Kathy Thelen, a new piece by Marshall Steinbaum about the longstanding Democratic reluctance to declare war on inequality, and an open letter to students of the Third Reconstruction.

Six perspectives on fissures on the right, Jed Kroncke on the rise of anti-democratic super-property, and Ben Sachs on what happens to labor preemption without a functioning labor board. Plus, our favorite pieces on the Treasury payments crisis, Blake Emerson on the systemic constitutional violations under Trump, Samuel Bagenstos on writing about the illegality of it all, JW Mason on writing about policy in the Trump era, a housing rights staff attorney position at TakeRoot Justice, a new issue of the Journal of Law and Political Economy, and a new piece on consent from David Pozen and Daryl Levinson.

Gaurav Mukherjee on America’s first religious charter school, Beth Popp Berman on the relevance of policy-adjacent scholarship in a broken world, and Evan Bernick on the anti-constitutional attack on birthright citizenship. Plus, a lefty law conference at HLS, an(other!) event with Dean Spade, a CfP on offshore finance, and new pieces by Jan-Werner Müller, Laleh Khalili, and Basel Musharbash.

A.J. Bauer on how to oppose Trumpism, Genevieve Lakier on the TikTok Ban and the limits of the First Amendment, and Chrystin Ondersma on a dignity-based approach to debt. Plus, upcoming events with Dean Spade on sticking together and Michael Fakhri on Palestianian Food Sovereignty, CFPs for workshops on social reproduction and the post-neoliberal moment in labor law, a new syllabus on Law after Neoliberalism, a summer academy for scholars of American Political Economy, a new paper on unions and AI governance, and the launch of Common Wealth’s US research & policy program.

Amy Kapczynski on institutional neutrality rules, and Greg Baltz on tenant union organizing in the shadow of law. Plus, a changing of the guard on the LPE editorial board, a CFP on Carceral Political Economy, a lunch talk with Dean Spade, two political-economy focused post-doc positions, Jasmine Harris on conservatorships, Jonathan Harris on the FTC’s non-compete rule, Karen Tani on Digging a Hole, a debate over the YIMBY agenda, Amna Akbar on Mangione and Malm, Beth Popp Berman on antitrust and industrial policy, and the Michigan Journal of Law and Society is looking for interdisciplinary scholarship.

Matthew Lawrence on the political influence of super groups, and Henry Tonks on The Quiet Coup. Plus, Katie Wells and Funda Ustek Spilda on Uber for Nursing, Kate Redburn on 303 Creative, David Stein on economic austerity and intersectional analysis, an interview with Thomas Ferguson on the 2024 US election, and an episode of the inequality podcast about the costs of mass incarceration.

Beau Baumann and James Goodwin on the LPE of Congress, Shai Karp on landlords as petty tyrants, and a listicle of our favorite LPE posts on technology. Plus, Tara Raghuveer and Ruthy Gourevitch on tenant unions, Suzanne Kahn on feminist progressive populism, good news from the trenches of the EPA and FTC, Alvin Velazquez on bankrupt cities and federal disaster spending, and new book symposia at Legal Form and the American Political Economy Blog (inside you there are two wolves).