ClassCrits is hosting a workshop on Democracy, Social Justice, & the 2020 Election. The workshop will focus on people’s initial reactions to the impact of the election process and its outcome on various aspects of social life: the future of democracy, voting rights, workers’ rights, health, the environment, economic, social and racial justice, international relations, immigration…
Please join the NYU LPE Association this Friday, November 13th from 12:30-2:00pm ET for the final lecture in the NYU Law & Political Economy Association’s Fall 2020 LPE 101 series. They will be joined by Professor Shaun Ossei-Owusu for a conversation about how LPE scholars are thinking through the relationship between criminal law, race, and economic inequality, how we came to be…
This is the first panel in a series of panels that will be adapted from the canceled LPE Conference: Democracy Beyond Neoliberalism (originally scheduled for April 2020). This panel discussion will focus upon the erosion of democratic institutions and the rise of oligarchy that has followed in the wake of unprecedented economic inequality. The panel will…
The “Law & Political Economy: Democracy Beyond Neoliberalism” Conference is part of a deliberate effort to critically transform legal thought. We are coming together in recognition that “the economy” cannot be separated from questions of power, distribution, and democracy. The conference was originally scheduled to meet at Yale Law School in April 2020 (the original conference…
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. Come join LPE Soc this Thursday, October 29th at 5:35 pm PT as we hang out, get…
Please join us for the next session of the APPEAL reading group to explore the law and political economy of capitalism. All are welcome, and participants need not attend each session, though we do ask participants to read the materials in advance. We also encourage participants to join APPEAL by signing up as a member, www.politicaleconomylaw.org . For…
Please join the NYU LPE Association this Friday, October 23rd from 12:30-2:00pm for “Public Health Law: An LPE Approach” with Professor Frank Pasquale. It will be a discussion on lawyering in a time of global health crisis and how LPE scholars are grappling with deeply embedded structural biases that skew the political playing field in favor of status-quo cost cutting at the…
The LPE Project is teaming up with the American Constitution Society (ACS) to offer an online course introducing students to LPE analysis. This course will pair lectures and short readings (from our own LPE Blog) that illustrate how LPE frameworks can help us examine law’s role in the perpetuation of racial and gender injustice, the…
A roundtable discussion featuring members of the Editorial Board of the new peer-reviewed journal, the Journal of Law and Political Economy, and short presentations by some of the authors appearing in Volume 1, Issue 1. This roundtable discussion will introduce the newest addition to the Law and Political Economy ecosystem—the Journal of Law and Political Economy. A…
The NYU Law & Political Economy Association (“LPEA”) works to create an intellectual and social forum for students to plug into ongoing discussions about the ways in which problematic economic and political assumptions are often embedded in the law, and conversely, the role that law plays in creating and maintaining unjust hierarchies of class, race,…
Organized by the Knight First Amendment Institute and co-sponsored by the Law and Political Economy Project, this symposium will focus on three areas that are both central to democratic governance and directly affected by advancing technologies and ever-increasing data collection: 1) public opinion formation and access to information; 2) the formation and exercise of public power; and 3) the political economy of data.
The LPE Project is delighted to co-sponsor APPEAL‘s Emerging Scholars Happy Hour & Mentoring Sessions. We welcome students, postdocs, and other emerging scholars interested in law and political economy to join an informal online gathering to explore career interests and strategies. Senior scholars are also invited to join us to share their insights and advice. Rather than…
The LPE Project is teaming up with the American Constitution Society (ACS) to offer an online course introducing students to LPE analysis. This course will pair lectures and short readings (from our own LPE Blog) that illustrate how LPE frameworks can help us examine law’s role in the perpetuation of racial and gender injustice, the…
Intro to Law & Political Economy I with Amy Kapczynski We live in an age of rising inequality, deep racialized and gendered injustice, hollowed out democracy, and climate catastrophe. Is legal thought today adequate to these challenges – and if not, how must it change? Many come into law school eager to learn how the…
As a journal dedicated to social, racial, and economic justice, the Journal of Civil Rights & Economic Development (JCRED) is soliciting articles for Racial Capitalism, an Elaboration in Legal Scholarship, our forthcoming symposium issue. This issue will explore the legal dimensions of our capitalist political economy and its systemically racist nature.
