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Law & Political Economy: Democracy Beyond Neoliberalism

Thursday – April 2, 2020 (Emerging Scholars Day)

Session 1

Economic Rights (Raúl Carrillo, Zachary Manfredi, Jeff Gordon)

Environmentalism (Ted Hamilton, Alyssa Battistoni, Ama Ruth Francis)

The Corporate Form (Ioannis Kampourakis, Bharath Palle, Jay Varellas)

Technology (Roel Dobbe, Sanjay Jolly, Dan Traficonte)

Session 2

Trade & Labor (Pascal McDougall, Das Sannoy, Diana Reddy)

Reimagining Subject & Social Reproduction (Ivana Isailovic, Chloe Sariego, Laura Ramirez)

Democratic Control of the Economy (Nicholas Mulder, Megan Morris, Joshua Macey)

Planning & Power-Building (Joel Michaels, Ofra Bloch, Anna Reosti)

Embedded Liberalism (Benjamin Alemparte, Nafay Choudhury, Nikolas Guggenberger)

Session 3

Making Democracy Real (Samuel Bagg, Samantha Godwin, Domenic Powell)

Local Governance (Brian Highsmith, Angel Gabriel Cabrera Silva, Sixtine D’Ydewalle)

Private Law (Nate Ela, Conor Dwyer Reynolds, Sarah Winsberg)

Commitments of LPE (William Callison, Gregory Brazeal, Aleksander Stojanovik)

Power & Procedure (Danny Wilf-Townsend, Alexander Arnold, Eric George)

Friday – April 3, 2020

Session 1

The State and Market as Agrarian Institutions (Matthew Canfield, Amy Cohen, Michael Fakhri, Nadia Lambek, Nathan Rosenberg)

Constructions of Corporate Power (William Moon, Paul Gutierrez, Liza Vertinsky, Aaron Dhir)

Distribution, Democracy, and the New International Economy Part 1 (Chantal Thomas, Bhupinder Chimni, Dennis Davis, Dan Danielsen, David Trubek)

Remediating Environmental Inequality (Sarah Krakoff, Shalanda Baker, Maxine Burkett, Ann Eisenberg, Sharmila Murthy, Michalyn Steele)

Political Economy of Inequality, Democracy, and Oligarchy (Steven A Ramirez, Atiba Ellis, André Dougals Pond Cummings, Emma Coleman Jordan, Gerald Torres)

Session 2

Transforming Private Control Over Political Production (Jamee Moudud, Ezra Rosser, John Cioffi, Timothy Kuhner, Jedediah Kroncke)

Distribution, Democracy, and the New International Economy Part 2 (Alvaro Santos, Toni Marzel, Mohammad Hamdy, Sonia Rolland, David Trubek)

Critiquing Carcerality (Deborah Weissman, Hannah Bloch-Webha, Benjamin Levin)

Technology, Labor, & Democratization of the Economy (Kali Murray, Frank Pasquale, Juliet Schor/Dubal)

Critical Theory & Legal Reform: Past and Future (Duncan Kennedy, Aziza Ahmed, Akbar Rasulov, Libby Adler)

Session 3

Moral Economy after Consumer Sovereignty (Luke Herrine, Kate Redburn, Sanjukta Paul, Marshall Steinbaum, Sandeep Vaheesan)

Social Movements and the Relation to the Political (Willy Forbath, John Whitlow, Connie Razza/Brian Kettenring)

The International Law of Money (Rohan Grey, Nathan Tankus, John Haskell, Karina Patricio Ferreira Lima)

Courts and Capitalism (Lynn Adelman, Joseph Fishkin, Kathryn Sabbeth, Katie Young)

Constructing and Challenging Capitalism in International Law (Margot Salomon, David Schneiderman, Christine Schobel-Patel)

Racial Capitalism (Daria Roithmayr, Mehrsa Baradaran, Veena Dubal, Angela Harris)

Plenary: Radical Legal Imaginaries with Nancy Fraser, Dorothy Roberts, and K. Sabeel Rahman

Saturday – April 4, 2020

 Session 1

Political Economy, Political Technology: Legal, Economic and Computational Systems of Social Ordering (Jason Jackson, Jake Goldenfein, Ben Green, Salome Viljoen)

Transforming the Political Economy for the Vulnerable Subject (Martha McCluskey, Lua Kamal Yuille, Ronit Kedar, Hila Keren)

The Political Economy of Social & Economic Rights Law and Movements in the Global South (Karl Klare, Lucy Williams, Penny Andrews, Dennis Davis, Sukti Dhital)

The Legal Constitution of Work and Labor Markets (Brishen Rogers, Kerry Rittich, Guy Mundlak, Judy Fudge, Ruth Dukes)

LPE, Inclusion, & Public Law (Samuel Bagenstos, Reva Siegel, Deborah Dinner, Amanda Shanor, Swethaa Ballakrishnen)

Power, Money, Markets (Roy Kreitner, Talha Syed, Paula Ahumada, Suresh Naidu, Lina Khan)

Session 2

The Political Economy of Motherhood: How Race, Poverty, & (Non-)Equal Rights Shape Society (Julie Suk, Wendy Bach, Cynthia Godsoe, Jessica Dixon Weaver)

Legal History of LPE (Noah Rosenblum, Kate Redburn, Niko Bowie, Bill Novak, Stephanie McCurry)

Defining the Demos (Jennifer Gordon, Ryan Mitchell, Michelle Wilde Anderson, Priya Gupta)

LPE & Macroeconomics (Saule Omarova, Bob Hockett, Lev Menand, Erik Gelpern, Adam Feibelman)

Movement Law: Legal Scholarship for the Democratic Resurgence (Amna Akbar, Jocelyn Simonson, Sameer Ashar, Kate Andrias, Gerald Torres, Angelica Chazaro)

Session 3

Producing Subjects: Rethinking Productivity, Subjectivity, and Value (Susan Dianne Brophy, Honor Brabazon, Anatasia Tataryn)

Revival and Renewal of Marxist Approaches (Ntina Tzouvala, Robert Knox, Tor Krever, Mai Taha, Nate Holdren)

Repurposing the Tools & Methods of Capitalism (Zach Liscow, Jon Michaels, Julia Mahoney)

Reconceptualizing Economic Inclusion (Emma Coleman-Jordan, Abhay Aneja, Angelica Chazaro, Mehrsa Baradaran)

LPE Project Panel (Amy Kapczynski, David Grewal, Jedidiah Purdy, Sabeel Rahman, and respondents)

Plenary: Democracy & Power with Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor, Wendy Brown, and Samuel Moyn