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Weekly Roundup: October 13, 2023

Week in review: Amanda Parsons and Salomé Viljoen analyze the disconnect between social data and the law, while Luke Herrine offers law students a guided tour through the many meanings of efficiency. Plus, the first New Haven LPE Happy Hour, Rob Hunter responds to Sam Moyn, Sanjay Jolly discusses C. Edwin Baker, and Claire Kelloway and Maureen Tkacik debunk Kroger and Albertson’s proposed “spin off” solution.

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Weekly Roundup: October 6, 2023

Sandeep Dhaliwal on the Eighth Amendment as a right to credit, Sanjukta Paul on the virtues of mid-level theorizing, and Sandeep Vaheesan and Andy Fitch on the treatise that has misled antitrust scholars for decades. Plus, two cool jobs, a CFP for ClassCrits, Amy Kapczynski, Reshma Ramachandran, and Christopher Morten on how not to do industrial policy, Kim Phillips-Fein on the depredations of private equity, and a new study about how America loves evicting children. Cool cool.

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Weekly Roundup: September 29, 2023

Asher Morse on how labor agreements could Trump-proof federal agencies, Talia Rothstein on what the creation of law clinics left behind, and Veena Dubal and Renan Kalil on the push to export exploitative US labor laws to Brazil. Plus, a call (by us) for the best new LPE work, two amazing jobs for 3Ls or recent grads, a video of our event with Bernard Harcourt, an event series on full employment, Erik Baker on what strikes are for, Emily Prifogle on teaching Law in Rural America, and Erik Peinert and Morgan Harper on the high price of asthma inhalers caused by blatant patent manipulation.

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Weekly Roundup: September 22, 2023

Paul Gowder on democratizing big tech, Ntina Tzouvala on legal theory in the lowercase, and Yiran Zhang on the disciplinary bureaucracy of our home care system. Plus, LPE night school, a new paper by Sanjukta Paul, Ganesh Sitaraman on airline deregulation, a must-read symposium at Bill of Health, Jessica Whyte reviews Quinn Slobodian, and a forum on Solidarity.

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Weekly Roundup: September 15, 2023

Dan Berger reflects on the long history of using RICO to criminalize resistance movements, Jed Purdy defends theoretical pluralism, and Brishen Rogers analyzes the NLRB’s Cemex case through the lens of contemporary legal theory. Plus, Lenore Palladino on labor’s green capital, Lev Menand and Morgan Ricks on the public utility roots of American banking, Zohra Ahmed and Jocelyn Simonson on the recent charges against the Stop Cop City activists, an upcoming event with Bernard Harcourt, and two more CFPs to keep you busy.

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Weekly Roundup: September 8, 2023

Samuel Moyn theorizes about the need for theory, Greg Baltz and Shakeer Rahman question whether tenant unions should look to labor law for inspiration, and Maryam Jamshidi explains how terrorism torts could challenge Israeli settler violence. Plus, Veena Dubal on Glacier Northwest, Tim Barker on The Rise and Fall of the Neoliberal Order, Sandeep Vaheesan and Brian Callaci on protecting workers from employer power, and CFPs for three conferences you won’t want to miss.

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Weekly Roundup: July 27, 2023

Shanta Trivedi, Jane Spinak, Tina Lee, and Kelley Fong conclude our symposium on Torn Apart and Prosecuting Poverty. Plus, David Dayen on the importance of power-building for successful industrial policy and Megan Stack on how Starbucks is wantonly violating labor law.

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Weekly Roundup: July 21, 2023

Dorothy Roberts, Wendy Bach, Amna Akbar, & Nancy Polikoff reflect on Torn Apart and Prosecuting Poverty. Plus, Noah Rosenblum on Trump’s plan for the federal bureaucracy, the FTC answers our telemarketing prayers, a special issue on Antitrust in the Age of Concentrated Power, and the JLPE seeks a copy editor.

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Weekly Roundup: July 14, 2023

Seven heavy hitters on student debt cancellation, Brian Highsmith on the plight of local governance in Jackson, Mississippi, and Samuel Bagg on two fallacies of democratic design. Plus, LPE happy hour in NYC, two new gigs at the Harvard LPE Program, conferences on Climate Change and American Political Economy, Katrina Forrester’s Quentin Skinner Lecture, and Francesca Procaccini and Nikolas Guggenberger explain who’s to blame for the Supreme Court’s recent power grab.

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Weekly Roundup: July 7, 2023

Sameer Ashar on prefigurative lawyering, Chase Foster and Kathleen Thelen on Brandeis in Brussels, and Hendro Sangkoyo on resource raiding in Indonesia. Plus, the first-ever DC LPE happy hour, a call to join the progressive talent pipeline, a new piece by Amna Akbar on non-reformist reforms, and Jonathan Levy’s reflections on Adam Smith in Hyde Park.

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Weekly Roundup: June 30, 2023

Ntina Tzouvala on the ongoing Afghan central bank saga, Eva Nanopoulos on the contradictions of “peaceful” sanctions, and Aslı Bâli on the parasitic relationship between sanctions and economic asymmetry. Plus, last call to apply to the coolest job in the universe, videos from Money as a Democratic Medium 2.0, the Dig tackles AI, David Dayen on projection at the FTC, Brian Callaci channels AO Hirschman on non-competes, and Brian Highsmith reviews David Schleicher’s In a Bad State.

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Weekly Roundup: June 23, 2023

Aslı Ü. Bâli and Ntina Tzouvala kick off a new symposium on economic sanctions and TWAIL, Jessica Whyte explains why international law is incapable of seeing the harm caused by economic coercion, and Maryam Jamshidi argues that sanctions have empowered a new class of colonizers. Plus, Sandeep Vaheesan on the scourge of pay-for-delay by pharmaceutical companies, a symposium on the dawn of the “productivist era,” Darryl Li on ethnographic lawyering, a report on the effects of the student loan repayment pause, and a virtual roundtable on the Geopolitics of Industrial Policy.

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Weekly Roundup: June 16, 2023

Savannah Cox, John Hogan Morris, Zac J. Taylor on the networked climate authority of credit rating agencies, Madison Condon on how mainstream economic climate models underestimate the damage from climate change, and Duncan Kennedy, Karl Klare, and Michael Turk on how to empower tenant organizing. Plus, the first LPE NYC event, an extension to apply to the coolest job in the universe, videos from our recent conference, and an interview with Sabeel Rahman about how to protect the administrative state.

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Weekly Roundup: June 9, 2023

Larry Lohmann on the misguided logic of carbon offsets, William Boyd on the privatized model of renewable energy development, and Shelley Welton on the atomized approach to net-zero. Plus, Luke Herrine at the nexus of antitrust and consumer protection, Jenny Hunter on Glacier Northwest, Zachary Carter on Isabella “Don’t Call it a Comeback” Weber, and a roundtable on Jamie Martin’s The Meddlers.

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Weekly Roundup: June 2, 2023

Claire Dunning on the origins of the non-profit industrial complex, Lisa Knox, Hamid Yazdan Panah, and Serafin Andrade Lopez on organizing workers in California’s immigrant detention centers, and Noah Zatz on the pathways to solidarity between organized labor and the fight against mass incarceration. Plus, an LPE 101 event at LSA, Simon Torracinta on Basic Income, and the hottest new symposium on Modernizing Regulatory Review.