LPE@HLS is pleased to announce two exciting opportunities for postdoctoral fellowships beginning in summer 2024! Applications for both fellowships are due September 1, 2023. First, the Academic Fellowship in Law and Political Economy is a two-year, residential postdoctoral program specifically designed to identify, cultivate, and promote promising scholars early in their careers with a primary interest in law and…
***Deadline Extension: As our Executive Director has recently been out of the office, we are extending the final deadline for applications to Wednesday, July 5, 2023.*** The Law and Political Economy (LPE) Project seeks to hire a Deputy Director. The LPE Project brings together a network of scholars, practitioners, and students working to develop innovative…
06/15/2023Harvard Law School, The New Institute, Hamburg Institute for Social Research, and Zoom
Just Money is delighted to announce Money as a Democratic Medium 2.0. The Conference will be held at two sites in order to maximize participation while minimizing carbon impacts: Cambridge, MA (Harvard Law School, June 15-17, 2023) and Hamburg, Germany (the Hamburg Institute for Social Research and The New Institute, June 15-16, 2023). The Conference is…
We invite rising second- and third-year law students from New York City law schools to apply to a Law & Organizing Academy to be held this May in upstate New York. The Law and Political Economy (LPE) Project, The Action Lab (TAL), and the Initiative for Community Power’s hosted the inaugural summer academy last year. This year, we will…
THE ROUTLEDGE HANDBOOK of COOPERATIVE ECONOMICS & MANAGEMENTCall for Abstracts Edited by Jerome Warren, Jamin Hübner, Lucio Biggerio Kemi Ogunyemi, Sara Vicari The editors of the forthcoming Routledge Handbook of Cooperative Economics & Management cordially invite interested scholars to contribute to this important, timely, and transdisciplinary reference work. The Handbook will provide 3,500-7,000 word essays…
The American Constitution Society in conjunction with the Hewlett Foundation and the Law and Political Economy Project is hosting a conference on Friday, April 14th. For most of our history, when Americans argued and fought about how to organize our political economy—the role of government, the extent and reach of redistribution, the tension between democracy…
Decolonizing Money with Dr. Ndongo Samba SyllaCo-sponsored by the Brooklyn LPE Collective and LPE@HLS Global South countries are facing many great risks. How should the Global North help those countries, especially when it comes to foreign debt? Dr. Ndongo Samba Sylla, Senegalese development economist and co-author of Africa’s Last Colonial Currency: The CFA Franc Story,…
The Action Lab (TAL), the Law and Political Economy Project, LPE NYC, and the Initiative for Community Power are excited to announce our upcoming Convening on Law and Power Building, to be held at NYU Law School on April 7th from noon to 6:00. For decades, lawyers invested in progressive social change have grappled with how to effectively deploy their skills and…
The Yale Journal of International Law, along with the Law & Political Economy Project and Blog, is hosting a Symposium on Third World approaches to international law (TWAIL) and economic sanctions. As part of the Symposium, there are a number of virtual and hybrid events on Wednesday, April 5. During the first year of the Russo-Ukrainian war, the United…
The LPE Project and LPE@HLS are excited to announce our upcoming conference, entitled Law and Political Economy: Labor, Social Control, and Counterpower, which will take place from March 31 to April 2, 2023, at Harvard Law School! Although we would love to host a larger event (such as the in-person conference the LPE Project initially…
The European Association for Evolutionary Political Economy (EAEPE) is inaugurating a new Political Economy and Law research stream at its 35th Annual Conference ”Power and Empowerment in Times of Multiple Crises” at Leeds (UK) from 13-15 September. Submissions are due 31st March, and we especially welcome early career researchers and scholars working at the intersections of political economy and law in comparative/global, historical and theoretical contexts. Abstracts may…
Please join us in person on Wednesday, March 29th, from 12:30 – 2:00 PM ET for a conversation about the meaning, origins, and future directions of racial capitalism with Lua Kamál Yuille and Anansi Wilson. This event is co-sponsored by the Law and Political Economy (LPE) Association at Harvard, Harvard Black Law Students Association (BLSA),…
03/15/2023University of São Paulo, Faculty of Law & Fundação Getulio Vargas, School of Law
Call for Papers: Workshop on Law & Political Economy in Latin America 24 and 25 July 2023 – São Paulo, Brazil The School of Law of Fundacao Getulio Vargas (FGV, Brazil), the Faculty of Law of the University of São Paulo (USP, Brazil), and the Law & Society Association’s Collaborative Research Network on Law and…
International Law and the Challenge of Populism: 2023 Workshop Series Overview Boris Johnson is gone (for now), but the fall-out of Brexit and populist discourse on immigration remain central to British politics, and extreme right-wing parties have taken power in Italy and Sweden. Donald Trump is no longer president, but MAGA remains a potent force…
