Health, Movements, and Power-Building
Feb 01, 2022
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.
Keywords: CLS & LPE on ‘Political Economy’ and ‘Indeterminacy’
This event brought together participants in the Critical Legal Studies (CLS) and Law and Political Economy (LPE) movements to discuss their approaches to the concepts of “political economy” and “indeterminacy.” The panelists included Libby Adler, Amy Kapczynski, Duncan Kennedy, Karl Klare, Akbar Rasulov, and Talha Syed, and the panel will be moderated by Aziza Ahmed.…
LPE Mentoring “Office Hours”
Please Join Us! When: January 21, 2021, 4:00-5:00p.m. ET (UTC-4) via zoom (link will be provided to accepted registrants) Who: We welcome new & aspiring scholars, graduate and professional students, and others interested in careers in Law and Political Economy to join us for this opportunity to talk in small groups with faculty about academic interests and…
CFP – Harvard Law Digital Symposium On COVID-19, Work, and Health
Call for Papers Background Last month, in light of the Omicron wave sweeping the U.S. at alarming rates, the CDC changed its guidance on isolation for individuals infected with SARS-CoV-2. Instead of recommending 10 days of isolation, the period was shortened to 5, with no requirement for a negative test to return to the workplace.…
WINIR Event: Law & Political Economy with Amy Kapczynski & Nicholas Mercuro (moderated by Katharina Pistor)
Law & Political Economy (LPE) is hailed as a new analytical project that situates the study of law within a broad political economy tradition, overcoming the perceived shortcomings of the economic analysis of law, in particular its tendency to abstract from power relations and focus on efficiency rather than social justice. The LPE movement began in leading…
University of Amsterdam Event – “Towards a Sustainable Global Economic Law: Shifts, Ruptures and Social Justice
What should ‘sustainable global economic law’ (SGEL) look like in the context of looming ecological catastrophe, wild levels of inequality and wealth concentration, and strong demands for social, racial and gender and environmental justice? Law provides the very infrastructure that sustains capitalism, which is inextricably linked to politically-sanctioned, large-scale destruction of nature, expropriation and the…
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.