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…
Please join the Harvard LPE Association for a lecture and Q&A with Robert C. Hockett, Edward Cornell Professor of Law. The Harvard LPE Association will meet at WCC 2012, and on Zoom from 12:30 – 1:30 pm ET on Monday, February 27th. Lunch will be provided! The Harvard LPE Association will share a Zoom link…
CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS: JOURNAL OF LAW AND POLITICAL ECONOMY The Journal of Law and Political Economy invites submissions from scholars in law, the social sciences, and the humanities whose research seeks to expose mechanisms of structural inequality and promote economic, political, and social justice. WHO WE ARE JLPE is an online, peer-reviewed journal hosted by…
“Power over Life and Death: Feminism, Abolition, and the State“ Lauren Berlant 3CT Graduate Student Conference April 21-22, 2023 / University of Chicago Keynote Discussion: Sarah Haley and Sophie Lewis NEW Deadline for paper submissions: Friday, February 17, 2023 Two major events in the last few years have drawn renewed attention to ongoing crises in…
Please join us for the launch of LPE NYC on Thursday, February 16th, at NYU Law School (Greenberg Lounge)! Over the past several decades, developments in legal scholarship, pedagogy, and policy have helped facilitate rising inequality and precarity, political alienation, the entrenchment of social hierarchies, and ecological catastrophe. The Law and Political Economy (or “LPE”)…
The Law and Political Economy Society at UC Berkeley is excited to co-host Prof. Talha Syed of Berkeley Law for a conversation on how to understand Intellectual Property and its doctrine in the larger scheme of Innovation, Knowledge, and Cultural Policy, from a law and political economy perspective. Prof Syed is a renowned scholar in…
Please join the Harvard LPE Association and the Modern Money Network (MMN) for an introduction to MMT with Hannah Judson, the Executive Director of MMN. We will meet at Wasserstein Hall Room 3007, and on Zoom from 12:30 – 1:30 pm ET. The Harvard LPE Association will host an optional post-event discussion to leave room…
Please join the LPE Project and the Yale Global Health Justice Partnership (GHJP) on Thursday, Jan. 26, at 12:10pm! Physician, sociologist, and postdoctoral fellow Victor Roy (Yale School of Medicine) will be discussing his recently published book with University of California Press! Capitalizing a Cure takes readers into the struggle over a medical breakthrough to…
Please join Benjamin Isitt and Ravi Malhotra to celebrate the the launch of their co-edited book, Class Warrior: The Selected Works of E. T. Kingsley (with a foreword by Bryan D. Palmer) “We hear much in these days of the right to live. At this very moment the great working class of the world do…
Please join the LPE Project and APPEAL for our next informal mentoring session! When: Friday January 20, 2023 at 4:15 – 5:15pm EST, (UTC-5) via Zoom (link will be provided to accepted registrants) Registration & Deadline: SIGN UP HERE by Wednesday, Jan. 18 at 12PM ET. Space is limited! Who: We welcome law students and graduate students interested in law…
