Please join LPE NYC for the first session in our series on what it really means to make NYC affordable, October 15, 6-8pm at New York Communities for Change (470 Vanderbilt Ave. Brooklyn, NY) This first session will look at a topic on every New Yorker’s mind when it comes to affording to live in…
Ever wonder why CUNY is no longer free? Confused why the subway fare keeps rising while service declines? Join LPE NYC on October 23 at 6:30pm for a conversation between Professors Gregory Louis and Mason Williams, moderated by Christy Thornton, as we try to answer these questions and more by charting the history of the…
The LPE Project is thrilled to be co-sponsoring, “Carceral Political Economy in the Era of Late Mass Incarceration” at the New School for Social Research, March 21-22, with The Robert L. Heilbroner Center for Capitalism Studies. What is the political economy of “late” mass incarceration? How has the globally unparalleled US system of mass imprisonment remained…
The next session of the LPE Night School “Race, Space, and Displacement in NYC” will take place March 17 at 6:15pm at the New School. In a conversation facilitated by Tasleemah Tolu Lawal (NYU Center on Race, Inequality, and the Law), Alejo Rodriguez (Columbia Law/ BATTLE) and Shirley Lin (Brooklyn Law School) will discuss how institutions exploit race and immigration status as part of a divide-and-conquer…
Over the past few years, debates in labour law scholarship have increasingly focused on labour policy and governance under what are often described as ‘right-wing populist’, ‘illiberal’ or ‘authoritarian’ regimes, thereby aligning with a broader trend in social sciences and humanities. These studies often presuppose a clear departure from a previous neoliberal phase. However, coming…
The LPE Project hosted a lunch talk on Thursday, February 20th, from 12:10–1:30 pm ET, featuring Umut Özsu, Professor of Law and Legal Studies at Carleton University, to discuss his latest book, Completing Humanity: The International Law of Decolonization, 1960–82 (Cambridge University Press, 2023). He was in conversation with Professor Samuel Moyn (Yale University). In…
02/15/2025Middle Eastern Technical University, Ankara, Türkiye
The 2025 Annual IIPPE Conference – “Immigration: Crisis of the World Capitalist System, Crisis for the World Capitalist System” Date: September 17 – 20, 2025Venue: Middle Eastern Technical University, Ankara, Türkiye Call for Papers Political Economy and Law Working Group Immigration is at the forefront of capitalist policies both to encourage certain types of immigration…
