Alexander Hertel-Fernandez on workplace surveillance, Luke Herrine on midcentury meatpacking competition, Eamonn Coburn on abusive labor practices as unfair competition, Alex Gourevitch and Christopher Muller on race, labor exploitation, and incarceration, and the Critical Legal Collective on DEI Statements. Plus, Harvard LPE is looking for a new director, a Yale ISP fellowship opportunity, two upcoming climate events, new books from Sandeep Vaheesan and Lenore Palladino, election takes from Nathan Tankus, Perry Bacon Jr, Quinn Slobodian, Wendy Brown, and our friends at Dissent, and more!

Tara Pincock on meager price-fixing enforcement, Andrea Cann Chandrasekher on consumer redlining, and Alvin Velazquez on bankruptcy proceedings in Puerto Rico. Plus, the History & Political Economy joins the ranks of the blog army, a new paper on the labor consequences of insurer mergers, Lenore Palladino and Harrison Karlewicz on the myth that shareholders are investors, Joanna Schwartz on police accountability under Trump II, and Niko Bowie on faculty organizing.

Amy Kapczynski & Luke Herrine with some light election reading, Keith Orejel on the economic foundations of our modern urban-rural political divide, and Jacob Hamburger on how democrats should respond to the “migrant crisis.” Plus, Karen Tani’s new HLR Foreword, Jeffrey N. Gordon on the impending crypto financial crisis, a student note on the political economy of arbitration law, an interview with Isabella Weber on Biden and inflation, and more!

Eight experts on Palestinian liberation and international law, Luke Herrine on the little-noticed revolution in Consumer Protection, Alex Gourevitch on the anti-democratic power of the entrepreneurial elite, and Brandon Weiss and Michael Karam on the prospects for major housing regulations in a post-Chevron world. Plus, a call for legal volunteers around the election, a fellowship with the Information Society Project, and a boatload of new pieces from: Gregory Brazeal, Diana Reddy, Sandeep Vaheesan, Raúl Carrillo, Sarah Milov, Adam Tooze, and Jade Craig.

Zohra Ahmed on the role that criminal fines and fees play in financing the state, Miguel Ruiz on the role of law and social movements in the fight against Spain’s chronic housing crisis, and Matthew Glover and Joshua Ingram on fascism from an Afrikan perspective. Plus, a call for (your!) recently accepted LPE scholarship, an internship with the Movement Law Lab, a workshop on the LPE of Social Reproduction, new articles by Nicole Summers and Alyssa Battistoni, an analysis of Trump’s likely judicial appointments, and a look at the new lobbying industry spawned by economic sanctions.

The LPE Blog goes global: the editors share some of our favorite recent global LPE and LPE-adjacent scholarship, Meena Jagannath and Felipe Mesel kick off a series on movement lawyering in times of rising authoritarianism, and Lamine Benghazi analyzes Tunisia’s failed democratic transition. Plus, a fellowship in carceral studies, a symposium on Aziz Rana’s The Constitutional Bind, Fragile Juggernaut on the South, Ivan Kilgore on prison officials thwarting prison reform, Sharon Block and Ben Sachs on state-level labor policy divergence, and a cool new rule from the FTC that will make canceling subscriptions much easier.

Greg Baltz on Abolish Rent, Chaumtoli Huq on the student uprising in Bangladesh, and Etienne Toussaint on Afrofuturist legal critique. Plus, an upcoming event on Sandeep Vaheesan’s Democracy in Power, an interview with Brian Highsmith on company towns old and new, a bombshell in Colorado’s Kroger-Albertsons merger trial, a new online reading group on Labor & Colonialism in Palestine, an investigation into how Uber and Lyft circumvent NYC’s minimum wage law, and two timely pieces on the crypto industry’s undue influence on our elections.

Jeena Shah on BDS and neoimperial sanctions, Marshall Steinbaum on the legacy of Lake Powell, and another trip down into the LPE Vault. Plus, several cool job opportunities at the Vanderbilt Policy Accelerator, Asli Bali and Aziz Rana on the history of leftwing internationalism, Gabriel Winant on class analysis, Simon Torracinta on Swedish Social Democracy, and Laleh Khalili on the Corporeal Life of Seafaring.

Mehrsa Baradaran on neoliberalism’s unlikely victors, Angela Harris on the assault on academic freedom, and David Boehm and Lynn Ta on the forgotten promise of the Norris-LaGuardia Act. Plus, an upcoming event with Sandeep Vaheesan, a CFP on Neoliberalism and the Capitalists, and new pieces by Amy Kapczynski, JW Mason, Matthew Dimick, Yochai Benkler, Eva Nanopoulos, Talha Syed, and Evenlyn Douek and Genevieve Lakier.

Allison Tait on trust law and family fortunes, Kate Redburn on Trad Dad Populism, and Sandeep Dhaliwal on the manufactured crisis of “retail theft.” Plus, an upcoming event on Labor Law & the Carceral State, a new Balkinization series on (gasp) Marxism, an upcoming NYC Happy Hour, a new article by David Pozen and Nikhil Menezes, and an extra special episode of 60 minutes: don’t touch that dial.

Quinn Slobodian on Melinda Cooper’s Counterrevolution, Shaina Potts on the concept of Judicial Territory, and Christopher Ali on the looming threat of Private Equity to affordable broadband. Plus, a new LPE book series, a new issue of the JLPE, a new book by Lenore Palladino, upcoming events on The Constitutional Bind, public pharma in CT, and whether capitalism is defensible, as well as new pieces by Henry Farrell, Jed Britton-Purdy, Sandeep Vaheesan and Brian Callaci, and Wendy Brown.

Melinda Cooper on the rise of neoliberal finance, Darren Bush, Mark Glick, and Gabriel Lozada on the blight that Law & Economics has visited upon our society, and a new series highlighting some of our favorite posts from the archive. Plus, upcoming events with Talha Syed on antitrust and Aziz Rana on The Constitutional Bind, as well as new pieces by Sam Bagg, Sam Moyn, Lenore Palladino, Madison Condon, David Stein, Dan Berger, and more!

Shahd Hammouri on the state duty not to facilitate the transit of weapons to Israel, Helen Hershkoff, Luke Norris, and Judith Resnik on LPE & Civil Procedure, and Kathryn Sabbeth on the one-sided concern for efficiency in eviction court. Plus, an upcoming student info session with Amy Kapczynski and Corinne Blalock on everything you always wanted to know about LPE (but were too afraid to ask). And, as always, the best of LPE from around the web, including new pieces by Veena Dubal, Sandeep Vaheesan, Jake Grumbach, Lev Menand & Morgan Ricks, and Victor Pickard!

J. Benton Heath on boycotts and sanctions, Moira Birss on the home insurance crisis, Ivana Isailović on the political economy of abortion law in the EU, Elizabeth Sepper and Lindsay Wiley on religious liberty threats to the ACA, and Lenore Palladino on the rise of private financial markets. Plus, an upcoming LPE info session for students with Amy Kapczynski and Corinne Blalock, as well as the best LPE writings from around the web.

Tal Rothstein on collective organizing at the law reviews, and Scott Cummings on the role of lawyers in democratic backsliding. Plus, a new open-access book on radically legal politics, a piece on the history of racist plunder through local tax codes, and a forum on dethroning fossil capital.