Care Extractivism
Nov 29, 2021
Dec 07, 2021
APPEAL Event on Government Religious Hospitals
At this upcoming APPEAL event, Elizabeth Sepper and James D. Nelson will discuss Government Religious Hospitals: American governments are not supposed to own or operate religious institutions. But they do. Across the country, states run hospitals that enforce religious doctrine. The origins of these hospitals lie at the intersection of dramatic transformations in healthcare’s political economy and in…
Dec 10, 2021
APPEAL’s Capitalism Reading Group with Etienne Toussaint
Etienne Toussaint, Assistant Professor, South Carolina School of Law, will discuss his paper, The Spirit of Racial Capitalism in Colonial America. Professor Toussaint teaches contracts, business associations, and courses related to business, political economy, and critical theory. Other areas of expertise include community development and housing law as well as environmental engineering.
Feb 16-18, 2022
ANU Law Conference: Law & Inequality
A major public law conference will be held virtually & at the ANU College of Law in Canberra on 16-18 February 2022. Growing inequality is a defining challenge of our times, domestically and globally. Yet the role of inequality in social, political and economic life is often muted (sometimes, invisible) in much public law scholarship. Notably, public law’s foundational concepts were forged in a social world where the inevitability of inequality was often taken for granted. The stuttering processes of democratisation have rendered that assumption untenable.
Yale Law LPE Student presents Supreme Court Reform After the Commission
Last year, amid growing calls from liberals and the left for Supreme Court reform, then-candidate Joseph Biden committed to establishing “a national commission—a bipartisan commission—of scholars, constitutional scholars, Democrats, Republicans, liberal, conservative, and I will ask them to, over 180 days, [to] come back to me with recommendations as to how to reform the court system because it’s getting out of…
LPE Mentoring “Office Hours”
Please join the LPE Project and The Association for the Promotion of Political Economy & the Law (APPEAL) for our informal LPE “Office Hours.” When: Friday Nov. 12, 2021, 4:00 PM -5:00 PM Eastern Time (UTC-5) via Zoom (link will be provided to accepted registrants) Registration & Deadline: Sign up here by 12:00 PM ET on Wed.…
Care as Labor, Care as Infrastructure
This first event in a year-long co-sponsored series between the LPE Project and the Global Health Justice Partnership on health, social reproduction, and the crisis of care: “Reimagining the Political Economy of Care.” “Care as Labor, Care as Infrastructure” When the Biden Administration included care in its proposals for new infrastructure spending, it triggered a…
Historicizing the Assault on CRT: The Right vs. Public Education
This virtual panel will situate the recent attacks on Critical Race Theory (CRT) within the broader context of U.S. political economic development. The panelists will trace the tumultuous struggle for power over public education from Jim and Jane Crow to sexual education and LGTBQ issues to current debates surrounding CRT. Together, they will cast the…
New 2-year Harvard Law LPE Postdoc
Postdoctoral Fellowship in Law and Political Economy at Harvard Law School, 2022-2023 The Fellowship is a two-year, residential postdoctoral program specifically designed to identify, cultivate, and promote promising scholars early in their careers with a primary interest in law and political economy. The postdoctoral program is open to graduates of JD programs, or equivalent terminal…
Property Rights Against Democracy: Implications of Cedar Point Nursery
In Cedar Point Nursery v. Hassid, the Supreme Court held that a California state regulation requiring agricultural employers to allow union organizers periodic access to their property for the purposes of union recruitment constituted a per se taking under the Fifth Amendment. The case has the potential to dramatically expand constitutional private property rights for…