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…
The fourth 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 April 16 at 8pm ET/ 5pm PT, be led by Professors Ganesh Sitaraman and Amy Kapczynski. TOPIC: Several reforms have been proposed to restructure, reform, and/or disempower the courts, each with different stakes and addressing…
The YLS Law and Political Economy (LPE) Student Group and Professors Aslı Ü. Bâli, Ntina Tzouvala, and Tendayi Achiume will be co-hosting a panel series entitled “Money, Empire, and the Law” taking place on Saturday, April 13th at the Yale Law School. This series will take place following the “TWAIL, Geopolitical Competition, and Non-Western Imperialisms” conference which will take…
Please join Professors Aslı Ü. Bâli, Ntina Tzouvala, and Tendayi Achiume for a two-day conference entitled “TWAIL, Geopolitical Competition and the Rise of Non-Western Imperialisms” scheduled for Thursday, April 11, and Friday, April 12, at Yale Law School. This will be followed by a student-led segment of the conference, “Money, Empire and the Law,” on Saturday, April…
The Law and Political Economy Blog is looking to hire two student editors to join our staff starting in June 2024, with the expectation of working some amount over the summer (though the Blog goes on hiatus in August) and continuing in the position for 2024-2025 academic year. The work involves collaboratively coming up with ideas for posts,…
“Law and Marxism” is the fourth session of The New School’s LPE Night School. It will be a conversation between Rafael Khachaturian and Igor Shoikhedbrod. What does Marxism have to teach us about law? Does law always reflect the interests of the ruling class, and if so, why does it take on a universal, general…
