Martha McCluskey on tax policy and climate change, Han Lu and Bernard Callegari on fighting back against the exploitation of formerly incarcerated workers, and Andrew Ross and Aiyuba Thomas on the past, present, and future of the prisoners’ rights movement in Alabama. Plus, a new issue of the JLPE, a call for abstracts on courts and politics, a virtual book salon on the political economy of finance, and new articles by Kate Redburn, Liz Sepper, and James Nelson.

Joel Michaels on risk-weighting, Rebecca McLennan on the nineteenth-century roots of carceral labor, and Stephen Wilson, Minali Aggarwal, Jacqueline Groccia, and Lydia Villarong on why incarcerated people work. Plus, the hottest job in LPE Land is up for grabs, Saule Omarova and Ilmi Granoff discuss green banking, and Jed Britton-Purdy argues that the courts should be more political.

Luke Herrine on the deep continuities of regulatory reform, Erin Hatton on the carceral state as a system of labor governance, and Ivan Kilgore on why incarcerated people should resist identifying as “workers.” Plus, Karen Tani on Thinking Like Guido Calabresi, Amna Akbar on the campaign against Cop City, a fun fact about the Supreme Court, and an interview with Benjamin Braun.

Sabeel Rahman on the Biden Administration’s overhaul of the regulatory review process, Yanbai Andrea Wang on the role of civil procedure in U.S.-China Relations, and Alex Wang on the benefits of empathy in comparative legal analysis. Plus, interviews with Julie Suk on her new book and Gabriel Winant on class composition in the 21st century, new essays by Molly Coleman, Aaron Benanav, and Tim Barker, and a student note that endeavors to analyze US election law through an LPE lens.

Wanshu Cong on China’s recent efforts to pursue “foreign-related rule of law,” Eli Friedman on U.S. efforts to address labor exploitation in China, and Xiaoqian Hu on different ways of seeing, knowing, and analyzing China. Plus, an interview with Sabeel Rahman, a talk by Sanjukta Paul, and an upcoming event with the Sustainable Global Economic Law research project.

Andrew Crespo considers the power of plea strikes and defendant unions, Jed Kroncke kicks off a symposium on China, and Vincent Wong discusses the place of racial capitalism in China’s northwestern frontier. Plus, an interview with Amy Kapczynski, a new paper by Sanjukta Paul, a new issue of PRRAC on tenant power and social housing, events with Karen Tani on disability rights and Kathryn Sabbeth, Frederick Wherry, and Daniel Wilf-Townsend on the civil justice system, and a cool new job at the FTC!

Week in review: James Nelson, Liz Sepper, and Kate Redburn examine Groff v. DeJoy, while Tommaso Bardelli, Zach Gillespie, and Thuy Linh Tu explain the harms of an austerity-driven approach to criminal justice reform. Plus, Aziz Rana on Ntina Tzouvala’s recent book, Sandeep Vaheesan on non-competes, Saule Omarova on FedAccounts, Veena Dubal on variable pay, and upcoming events about Progressive Constitutional Political Economy, LPE and Legal Theory, and LPE and the Culture Wars.

César F. Rosado Marzán on whether wage boards can work in America, a sneak peek at the some of the most exciting forthcoming LPE and LPE-adjacent articles, and interviews with Duncan Kennedy and Jorts the Cat. Plus, the case against the new libertarian elitists, and a look at the distorting power of macroeconomic policy models.

Judah Schept on the carceral conjuncture in Central Appalachia, Nicholas Stump on rural resistance to fossil capital, and Christine Desan, Lev Menand, Raúl Carrillo, Rohan Grey, Dan Rohde, and Hilary Allen on the Silicon Valley Bank debacle. Plus, new articles by Sanjukta Paul and Marshall Steinbaum, more on SVB from Saule Omarova, and a hot new law and public health job at HLS.

Darryl Li on the weaponization of terrorism torts, Emily Prifogle and Jessica Shoemaker on racial disparities in rural America, and Christopher Ali on the erasure of rural communities by the FCC. Plus, we’re asking you (yes you) to tell us about the hottest new LPE law review articles. In exchange, as always, we’ve gathered the best LPE-content from around the web, including all the must-read pieces on SVB.

Ann Eisenberg kicks off a symposium on the LPE of Rural America, Ganesh Sitaraman, Morgan Ricks, and Christopher Serkin discuss regulation’s role in geographic inequality, and Elizabeth Sepper and James Nelson examine the political economy behind the rise of public yet religious hospitals. Plus, two (count’em two) new LPE-related fellowships, as well as new pieces by Hiba Hafiz, Premal Dharia, and Beatrice Adler-Bolton & Artie Vierkant.

Jonathan Harris on consumer law as work law, Alyssa Battistoni & Matthew Robinson on Reconsidering Reparations, an upcoming LPE Conference(!!), a call for submissions from the JLPE, and new pieces from Sandeep Vaheesan, Dan Rohde, and others.

Charmaine Chua, Desiree Fields, & David Stein denounce the University of California’s investment in Blackstone, Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò kicks off a symposium on his recent book Reconsidering Reparations, and Daniel Aldana Cohen reflects on the book’s focus on historical time. Plus, the best new LPE-related conferences, events, post-docs, papers, and reading groups from around the web.

Reed Shaw, Matthew Bodie, and Alvin Velazquez wrap up our symposium on Worker Surveillance & Collective Resistance by looking at the different ways that surveillance is undermining employment and labor law protections, and what we might do to challenge these invasive technologies. Plus, LPE-related fellowships, CFPs, and new pieces by Daniel Walters, Amy Zanoni, and Sharon Block and Benjamin Sachs.