Democracy Beyond Neoliberalism Conference
Ongoing Event
Mar 04, 2021
Conference Panel: Social Movements and the Relation to the Political
As legal scholars and social scientists have begun to center questions of law and political economy, powerbuilding community organizations have also grappled with how to take action to structurally challenge the neoliberal present. This panel will feature reflections about the ways that social movements facilitate democratic engagement (including constitutional interpretation), as well as new forms…
Mar 04, 2021
LPE Society: Intro to LPE w/ David Grewal
The Law and Political Economy Society (www.lpesoc.org) at Berkeley is a student-run organization dedicated to fostering interest and discussion in LPE, offering a community through which students and practitioners can build creative thinking, dissent, and systemic critique into their study and practice. The LPE Soc is very excited to host Introduction to Law and Political…
Mar 12, 2021
Conference Panel: Moral Economy after Consumer Sovereignty
This panel will examine the values or normative principles that govern legitimate and illegitimate conduct in economic life, particularly as those values are embodied in law. Although it purports to be opposed to the application of moral principles to the marketplace, neoliberalism has a distinctive moral economy that revolves—at least discursively—around the concept of consumer…
Conference Panel: Power, Money & Markets
This panel will discuss the complex links between the legal dynamics of money and markets, and their role in economic development and geopolitics. Critical theories of money stress that its legal construction can make or break social transformation. But how elastic is the law of money, especially in ‘peripheral’ financial markets? How does the valuation…
APPEAL’S “WHAT IS CAPITALISM?” READING GROUP
The next session of APPEAL’s What Is Capitalism? Reading Group will explore feminist insights into the law and political economy of capitalism. All are welcome, and participants need not attend each session, though they do ask participants to read the materials in advance. They also encourage participants to join APPEAL by signing up as a member, www.politicaleconomylaw.org.…
Conference Panel: Globalization After Neoliberalism – Disruption, Distribution, & Democracy in the World Economic Order
Inequity-fueled populism, along with financial crises and a pandemic, have disrupted the neoliberal economic order. Its’ legal pillars and institutions are challenged and there are calls to reform both trade and investment law. As the globalization constructed in the 1990s unravels, we must look for new approaches to the world economy. While some think that…
Conference Panel: Racial Capitalism
This panel brings together work in progress from a new generation of legal scholars who explore the link between law and racial capitalism. From a range of vantage points, these scholars investigate and document the central role that race and racism play in constructing the foundation of our modern capitalist economy. Instead of locating racism outside…
ClassCrits Event: Presumed Incompetence
This panel hosted by ClassCrits brings together one of the co-editors and several contributors to Presumed Incompetent II: Race, Class, Power and Resistance of Women in Academia (Utah State University Press, 2020). The panel will discuss the formidable obstacles that women of color encounter in the academic workplace and the tenacity and creativity that they deploy to…
Conference Plenary: Radical Legal Imaginaries
This plenary asks a question at the heart of the larger ambition for the conference: How can we build a left vision that gives shape to aspirations for a more radical democracy? Will this vision take the shape of socialism, economic democracy, abolition, or something else? And how might we begin thinking about the role…