Ryan Martínez Mitchell on China’s developing sanctions regime, Yochai Benkler on the role of law in capitalism, and Elettra Bietti on how not to regulate big tech. Plus, upcoming events with Saule Omarova, Marshall Steinbaum, Veena Dubal, Luke Herrine, Hendrik Theine, Tamara Nopper, Eve Zelickson, and Raúl Carrillo; an interview with Amy Kapcynski and Chris Morten; new pieces from Amna Akbar, Zoë Yunker, James Rowe, and Jessica Dempsey; and a CFP for junior scholars on re-imagining the public-private divide.

Matthew Dimick defends the concept of capitalism, and the LPE Blog highlights the hottest forthcoming LPE and LPE-adjacent articles. Plus, the at-large student group rises from the ashes, a book talk on American debt relief at HLS, Sandeep Vaheesan and Brian Callaci on the labor movement as a resource for antitrust, Lenore Palladino shares her economic and policy data dashboard, and Ilyana Kuziemko, Nicolas Longuet Marx & Suresh Naidu show that the democrats’ betrayal of predistribution policies helps explain partisan realignment by education.

Talha Syed on the poverty of theory in CLS, Douglas Kysar on climate change and the neoliberal imagination, and Bernard Harcourt on the relationship between legal theory and radical political practice. Plus, an open letter from legal scholars urging an immediate cease-fire in Gaza, an event next week with Stephen Vladeck about the shadow docket, and last call to submit your recently accepted LPE papers.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.