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…
‘Law and Political Economy of Social Change‘ is the inaugural session of the New School’s LPE Night School. It is a conversation between Amy Kapczynski (Yale Law School) and Corinne Blalock (Law and Economy Project), moderated by Sandipto Dasgupta (NSSR) on law’s relationship to social change, and how law structures our political and economic lives. The Night School…
On Tuesday, September 26 at 12:10pm, the LPE Project held a lunch talk with critical theorist, legal scholar, and lawyer Bernard Harcourt. In conversation with Corinne Blalock, Harcourt discussed his recently published book, Cooperation: A Political, Economic, and Social Theory (Columbia University Press). At a moment of multiple crises, Cooperation highlights the urgency of cooperation…
The Critical Legal Collective‘s Inaugural Conference will take place at Duke University School of Law on November 10-12, 2023 (applications for participation must be submitted by Sept 15, 2023, form at bottom of page). Organizing for Democracy and Liberation: The Right to Learn, The Right to Teach, the Right to Thrive In 2020, the murder of George…
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…
