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…
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…
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…
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 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…
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…
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…
09/05/2024NYU 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…
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…
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…
07/01/2024University 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…
On Wednesday, June 26th, the LPE Project held a virtual event featuring Professor Ali Kadri (Sun Yat-sen University) in conversation with Dr. Max Ajl (University of Ghent) on “The Accumulation of Waste: A Political Economy of Genocide and Imperialism.” The conversation was moderated by Dr. Helyeh Doutaghi (Yale Law School). War is often understood through…
The final session of our 6-part open course/reading group “What To Do About The Courts,” cohosted with the People’s Parity Project, took place on June 25th at 8pm ET/ 5pm PT, led by Astra Taylor and Sabeel Rahman. TOPIC: The courts have been a galvanizing issue on the Right in recent decades, but not so…
The fifth session of our 6-part open course/reading group “What To Do About The Courts,” cohosted with the People’s Parity Project, took place on May 28th at 8pm ET/ 5pm PT, led by Professor Ryan Doerfler. TOPIC: Several reforms have been proposed to restructure, reform, and/or disempower the courts, each with different stakes and addressing different problems with the…
The Labor and the Law Workshop, co-hosted by the Center for Political Economy at Columbia University, seeks contributions from junior researchers (PhD students and post-doctoral fellows) that address the labor movement’s relationship to the law. Both contemporary and historical approaches to the topic as well as qualitative and quantitative contributions are welcome. We are interested…
