Please join the LPE Project on Tuesday, April 2nd, at 4:30pm ET (please note time change!) for a talk with Professor Jedidiah Kroncke, on “Territorial Labor and American Empire: A History of Democratic Avoidance and Constitutional Enervation.” Much recent attention has been given to acknowledging the full historical scope of the American empire and its…
The Association for the Promotion of Political Economy and the Law (APPEAL), John Jay College Economics Department, John Jay College Law and Political Economy Society, and the New School for Social Research Economics Department are co-organizing a workshop “Heterodox Economics Meets Law and Political Economy: Power for a Just Transition” taking place on Saturday, March 30th…
The LPE Project and YLS LPE Student Group hosted a lunch talk with Terrell “Rell” Carter, Rachel Lopez, and Kempis “Ghani” Songster, on Participatory Law Scholarship: Reimagining Legal Academia on Tuesday, March 26th. Carter, Lopez, and Songster have authored the groundbreaking articles “Redeeming Justice” and “Regarding the Other Death Penalty,” among other works. Most recently,…
The third session of our 6-part open course/reading group “What To Do About The Courts,” cohosted with the People’s Parity Project, will take place on March 19th at 8pm ET/ 5pm PT. This session will be led by Professor Aziz Rana. TOPIC: The dramatic power of the U.S. judiciary in constitutional life makes it an outlier on the…
Please join LPE NYC on Thursday, March 14 from 12:00-1:00 ET for Unequal Procedure: LPE and Civil Procedure. Helen Hershkoff will lead a conversation featuring Charlton Copeland, Kathryn Sabbeth, and Daniel Wilf-Townsend on inequality in the various domains touched by civil procedure. The panel will focus on how procedure magnifies and creates inequality, with particular…
Please join LPE NYC for Past, Present, & Future of Student Debt Organizing at NYU Law on March 14th at 6:30pm, cohosted with The Debt Collective, The Action Lab, and the Initiative for Community Power. Please register here to attend in person. Nearly 40 million people have student debt in the US. The burdens of…
Please join the LPE Project on Tuesday, March 12 at 4:10-5:10 PM ET for The Law and Political Economy of Civil Procedure. Judith Resnik (Arthur Liman Professor of Law at Yale Law School) will lead a conversation featuring Brooke Coleman, Luke Norris, and Danya Reda on developing an LPE approach to civil procedure. The panel…
On Friday, March 8th, The LPE Project, YLS LPE Student Group, American Constitution Society, Yale Law Democrats, Solomon Center for Health Law & Policy, and Information Society Project joined to host a lunch talk with Federal Trade Commission Chair Lina Khan. Chair Khan, YLS ‘17, discussed key recent initiatives at the FTC and the nature…
Call for Submissions: Students and emerging scholars are invited to present LPE-informed research on topics including but not limited to climate change, the green transition, industrial policy, or the role of democratic institutions and power. Abstracts of 100-350 words with titles can be submitted here by March 8th. The Association for the Promotion of Political Economy and the…
“Race, Space, and Displacement in NYC” is the fourth session of the New School’s LPE Night School. In a conversation facilitated by Tasleemah Tolu Lawal (NYU Center on Race, Inequality, and the Law), Jose Saldana (Release Aging People in Prison) and Shirley Lin (Brooklyn Law School) will discuss how institutions exploit race and racialization as part of a divide-and-conquer strategy against movements in New York.
03/06/2024Lester Pollack Colloquium at NYU Law (Furman Hall)
Explore the Paradox of Protests in Vincent Bevins most recent book, If We Burn: The Mass Protest Decade and the Missing Revolution with the author and Analilia Mejia, Co-Executive Director of the Center for Popular Democracy (CPD). Delve into the outcomes of worldwide protests and the future of activism. Moderated by Peabody-winning journalist, Anjali Kamat.…
The Law and Organizing Academy (LOA) brings law students together on an immersive retreat to build community and learn key frameworks and skills at the intersection of organizing, law, and political economy. Amid the escalating and interlocking crises that define our current moment, progressive law students are seeking ways to practice law that build movement…
On Thursday, February 29th, The LPE Project and YLS LPE Student Group hosted the award-winning journalist and author of The Jakarta Method, Vincent Bevins about his latest book, If We Burn: The Mass Protest Decade and the Missing Revolution. In recent years, more people have participated in protests than at any other point in human…
The LPE Project is proud to be one of many cosponsors of the student-designed and student-run 2024 Rebellious Lawyering Conference. RebLaw will take place Saturday, February 24th, at 8:30 AM – 7:30 PM ET at Yale Law School. For 30 years, RebLaw has brought together practitioners, students, and activists from around the country to discuss…
The Law and Political Economy Project is thrilled to cosponsor the Neoliberalism and Capitalism as Keywords in Contemporary History Conference which will take place at Yale University, February 23-25, 2024. The keynote speakers will be Isabella Weber (Associate Professor of Economics at UMass Amherst, author of How China Escaped Shock Therapy) and David Edgerton (Hans…
