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…
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…
The second 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 February 20th at 8pm ET/ 5pm PT. This session will be led by Professors Samuel Moyn and William Forbath. TOPIC: Even though structural and disempowering court reforms are often portrayed as new…
”Law and Political Economy of Courts” is the third session of the New School’s LPE Night School. It is a conversation between Peter Martin (Center for Community Alternatives), Tarek Z. Ismail (CUNY School of Law), and Jocelyn Simonson (Brooklyn Law School), moderated by Noah Rosenblum (NYU Law School) on the place of courts in creating…
The LPE Project hosted a one-day conference on Friday, February 2nd, titled “Administering a Democratic Political Economy.” This convening brought together scholars in administrative law, racial and gender equity, and democracy for an in-depth exploration of the evolving landscape of administrative law scholarship and practice. We are at a critical moment where questions of administration,…
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…
