Fall 2022 Gruber Distinguished Lecture in Women’s Rights: Sara Nelson
Oct 17, 2022
YALE LPE: Rewriting the Economy: Race, Gender, and Economy in LPE
Law and Political Economy (or LPE) is a “big tent” — situating oneself and one’s work within the movement can be exciting, but also challenging. Getting started might seem especially difficult for scholars interested in race, gender, and/or other systems of domination, because most legal scholarship treats race, gender, and identity as ancillary or peripheral…
LPE 101: A Law & Political Economy Approach to Torts with Talha Syed
This is the next iteration of our LPE 101 series with Professor Talha Syed (UC Berkeley) discussing an LPE approach to Torts! Tort law deals with two foundational subjects: Rights and Risk. The prevailing modes of analyzing these within tort theory and policy have been as realms of corrective justice (moral philosophy) or social policy…
CFP: Law & Macroeconomics
5th Conference on Law & Macroeconomics hosted by The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania (but the conference will be virtual) The macroeconomic instability of the 2020s continues to fuel economic, social, and political turmoil worldwide and to recast our understanding of law and macroeconomics. The ongoing crisis has opened up new and vitally…
Yale LPE Event: “How We Got Founding History So Wrong: From the Taney Court to the Trump Court” with Bill Novak
Please join the Yale Program in Law and Political Economy and YLS LPE Student Group for an in-person event September 2 at 12:10pm (RSVP req’d) on the Supreme Court’s misuses of the founding period history with Professor Bill Novak. In June 2022, the US Supreme Court elevated American history to new heights of constitutional significance,…
CASBS Event: Creating a New Political Economy Framework
In the wake of a widespread sense that neo-classical economic models have failed us, we have an opportunity to improve the explanatory and normative dimensions of economics by incorporating insights from other disciplines. For example, consider that incorporating findings from psychology and the behavioral sciences can improve the predictive power of economic models. Or consider that incorporating…
Inaugural Summer Academy on Law, Organizing, and Power Building
We invite rising second- and third-year law students from New York City law schools to apply to The Action Lab (TAL), the Law and Political Economy (LPE) Project and the Initiative for Community Power’s first ever Summer Academy on Law, Organizing, and Power Building. Amid the escalating and interlocking crises that define our current moment,…