The Law and Political Economy Project and the People’s Parity Project are teaming up to offer an open course/reading group on the urgent question of what to do about the courts in our current political moment. Every day the judiciary plays an increasingly dominant role in shaping our political lives–from recent elimination of reproductive rights and affirmative action, to…
The first 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 January 30th at 8pm ET/ 5pm PT. This session will be lead by Professor Nikolas Bowie. TOPIC: Over the past few years, the Supreme Court has struck down laws and…
Please Join the LPE Project on Tuesday, January 23rd at 12:10 – 1:10 PM for a lunch talk with sociologist, advocate, and policymaker Nikhil Goyal. Dr. Goyal will be in conversation with Professor Samuel Moyn (Chancellor Kent Professor of Law and History at Yale University) to discuss his latest work, Live to See the Day:…
The Sustainable Global Economic Law (SGEL) center at the University of Amsterdam is holding an interdisciplinary event on December 7th (9am CET/ 8am GMT) to explore how gender and race relate to law and political economy in comparative transnational contexts, centering on European perspectives and legacies. Speakers will address this overarching theme in connection to…
‘Law and Political Economy of Housing’ is the second session of the New School’s LPE Night School. It is a conversation between Brian Highsmith (Harvard Law School) and Robert Robinson (Partners for Dignity and Rights), moderated by Raúl Carrillo (Columbia Law School), on the role of law in creating New York’s epic housing crisis and how it builds or undermines the opportunities…
11/29/2023Hope 216 Lecture Hall (315 Cedar St) + Zoom
The LPE Project, the Global Health Justice Partnership, and the Program for the Humanities in Medicine, met on Wednesday, November 29th at 4:00-5:30 PM ET for the Book Launch of Your Money or Your Life: Debt Collection in American Medicine (Oxford University Press, 2023) with Dr. Luke Messac, an emergency physician and historian, and an…
Please join the LPE Project on Monday, November 20th from 12:10-1:30 pm ET for a virtual event on Power-Building for the Long Haul, featuring Rachel Gilmer (Dream Defenders), Astra Taylor (Debt Collective), and Tara Raghuveer (KC Tenants), and moderated by Professor Daniel HoSang (Yale).
On Friday, November 10th, at 4pm ET the LPE Project held a panel discussion on “Tech and Taxis: Deregulation via Disruption.” How did Uber, Lyft, and other “rideshare” companies take over the taxi industry? And what have been the consequences for workers, customers, and urban infrastructure? Two leading scholars in the field of rideshare and…
On Friday, November 10th, at 12:10 ET the LPE Project held a lunch talk featuring Professor Saule Omarova, the Beth and Marc Goldberg Professor of Law at Cornell Law School. Law students interested in public interest careers—or in practicing in areas other than traditional business and corporate law—often skip courses on banking, securities regulation, or…
Spread the word—it's our first Happy Hour for the broader New Haven community! Join us on the back patio at 116 Crown from 5-7 pm on October 25th, 2023 to mingle with the New Haven-wide LPE community.
Please join the LPE Project on Tuesday, October 24th at 12:10 for a lunch talk with legal scholar, Supreme Court expert, and Charles Alan Wright Chair in Federal Courts, Stephen Vladeck about his latest best-selling book, “The Shadow Docket: How the Supreme Court Uses Stealth Rulings to Amass Power and Undermine the Republic.” In recent…
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 Economics Department at the New School. The gathering will be held October 21st at The New School (6 East 16th Street, New York, NY). If you would like to attend, please register HERE…
The Journal of Law and Political Economy (JLPE) is looking for a part-time person (up to 20 hours per week) to manage the ongoing daily operations of our academic journal. The Journal of Law and Political Economy (JLPE) is an online, open-access, peer-reviewed, multidisciplinary, international journal affiliated with the University of California, Berkeley School of…
Please join The Cornell Law and Political Economy Collective on October 19th at 6pm for an impassioned and thoughtful conversation with Ann Eisenberg and Daniel T. Lichter about living & working in rural America, and the economic, political, and social decisions that will determine our rural futures.
ClassCrits invites participants to submit applications to participate in the 14th Annual ClassCrits conference, “Demanding Justice in the Face of Retrenchment” to be held on February 9-10, 2024, at Southwestern Law School in Los Angeles. The specific theme for our 2024 conference centers on demanding justice in the face of a wide-ranging right-wing populism that has…
