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Sticking Together in Tough Times with Dean Spade 

01/30/2025 Yale Law School, Room SLB 122 + Zoom
Please join the LPE Project on Thursday, January 30th, from 12:10 to 1:30 PM ET, for a lunch talk with Dean Spade titled Sticking Together in Tough Times. Dean Spade is a Professor at Seattle University School of Law, where he teaches courses in Administrative Law, Poverty Law, Gender and Law, Policing and Imprisonment, Professional…

Palestinian Food Sovereignty and Starvation with Michael Fakhri 

01/30/2025 Yale Law School (SLB Rm 127) + Zoom
We warmly invite you to join a conversation with Professor Michael Fakhri, the UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food, on Palestinian food sovereignty and starvation. This event will take place on Thursday, January 30, from 6:10 to 7:30 PM ET. Professor Claudia Flores (Yale Law School) will moderate the discussion. Dinner will be…

NYU LPE: LPE 101 — Con Law: The Constitution of American Colonialism with Maggie Blackhawk

01/27/2025 Vanderbilt Hall, Room 218 (& on zoom)
Join the NYU Law & Political Economy Association, along with LALSA and Center CIRCL, for a lunch talk to discuss the constitution of American colonialism with Maggie Blackhawk, Professor of Law at NYU Law and member of the Fond du Lac Band of Lake Superior Ojibwe. Prof. Blackhawk’s scholarship shows us that America’s colonization project is not an…
Poster reading

The Bangladesh Student Movement and the Promise of Movement Lawyering

11/20/2024 Brooklyn Law School, Subotnick (11th floor)
Join the Brooklyn Law and Political Economy Collective for a timely discussion about the Bangaldesh student movement and the promises of movement lawyering. Professor Jocelyn Simonson (Brooklyn Law) and Professor Chaumtoli Huq (CUNY Law) will be in conversation around The Bangladesh Student Movement that Transformed a Nation, from the LPE Blog. The event will be held…

CUNY LPE: Building Power to Fund a People’s CUNY

11/12/2024 Auditorium CUNY School of Law
Please join CUNY Law’s LPE Collective as we speak to a panel featuring Assemblymember and mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani and members of the REPAIR NY coalition who are organizing to achieve a fully funded People’s CUNY by taxing Columbia and NYU’s billion-dollar property empires.   This event will take place on Tuesday, November 12, from 6pm…

Democracy in Power with Sandeep Vaheesan

10/16/2024 SLB Room 121 + Zoom
The LPE Project hosted a lunch talk with Sandeep Vaheesan, the legal director at the Open Markets Institute, on October 16th. The discussion focused on his forthcoming book (December 2024)  Democracy in Power: A History of Electrification in the United States (The University of Chicago Press).  Democracy in Power explores how private financial interests controlled…

Lawyering in Social Movements with Marbré Stahly-Butts

10/02/2024 Yale Law School (SLB Rm 129)
Please join the YLS NLG Chapter, YLS LPE Group, YBLSA, the LPE Project, and DefSoc on Wednesday, October 2nd at 12:10pm ET for a lunch talk with Marbré Stahly-Butts, abolitionist organizer and professor of law at CUNY, to discuss her work as co-founder and former Executive Director of Law for Black Lives. This event will…

Labor Law & the Carceral State

09/26/2024 Zoom
Join the LPE Project and the AFL-CIO Union Lawyers Alliance on September 26 at 4PM ET for a discussion about the possibilities and limitations of applying existing labor law frameworks to work performed by incarcerated people. Incarcerated workers are some of the most vulnerable to violence and exploitation, yet their struggles have historically been omitted…

The Constitutional Bind with Aziz Rana 

09/18/2024 Baker 116
The LPE Project hosted a lunch talk with Professor Aziz Rana, the J. Donald Monan, S.J., University Professor of Law and Government at Boston College Law School, on Wednesday, September 18th, to discuss his latest book, The Constitutional Bind (The University of Chicago Press, 2024). The Constitutional Bind investigates the history of the American Constitution…

LPE at Berkeley: WHAT IS ANTITRUST AND WHY DOES IT MATTER? WITH TALHA SYED

09/12/2024 Berkeley Law Room 110 + Zoom
The Antitrust Law and Economics Association and the LPE Society at Berkeley on Thursday, September 12th at 12:50-2pm PST held a talk with Professor Talha Syed which discussed: What is antitrust law? How can we use the tools of LPE to think about the field? No prior experience in antitrust is required! Professor Syed began…

Call for Proposals: LPE Book Series

09/12/2024 Cambridge University Press
We are thrilled to announce the launch of a new book series dedicated to Law & Political Economy (LPE) scholarship by Cambridge University Press, and we are already inviting book proposals! The series, fittingly titled Law & Political Economy, will provide a platform for this dynamic and emergent wave of scholarship and will constitute a…

Dismantling Racial Capitalism Series: A Conversation with Ruth Wilson Gilmore, Laura Y. Liu, & Angeles Solis

09/05/2024 NYU Law School Greenberg Lounge 40 Washington Square South, NY
On Thursday, September 5 at 6:00 PM we kicked off the school year with our “Dismantling Racial Capitalism” series featuring Ruth Wilson Gilmore, a renowned scholar and activist whose work has profoundly influenced debates on prison abolition, racial justice, and geography. We were excited to welcome Ruthie for an engaging conversation with Laura Y. Liu from The New…

LPE Student Information Session 

07/23/2024 Zoom
Please join the LPE Project on July 23rd at 12:10 PM ET for an online information session for students about the Law and Political Economy Project.  If you want to learn about the LPE movement and find out how to get involved, this session is for you! We’ll give an introduction to LPE and explore…

CFP: 2024 Cornell Work Law Junior Scholar Workshop

07/15/2024 Ithaca, New York
Cornell ILR School invites submissions for the Work Law Junior Scholar Workshop to be held in Ithaca, New York, on November 8-9, 2024.  Participants will receive feedback on their scholarship from one of the leading scholar discussants (Matt Bodie, Veena Dubal, Hiba Hafiz, Kerry Rittich, and Noah Zatz), comments from fellow junior scholars, and advice about career development and journal…

CFP: Dollar Hegemony, State Sovereignty and International Order: an International Workshop

07/01/2024 University of New South Wales (Sydney, Australia)
During the past decade, it has become obvious that economic interconnectedness did not bring forth frictionless international relations as many liberal theorists had predicted. To the contrary, the fact that economic integration has been profoundly uneven has enabled the weaponisation of asymmetrical economic relations for the achievement of geopolitical and/or economic goals (Whyte 2022; Farrell…