The Law & Political Economy Project is once again teaming up with The Association for the Promotion of Political Economy & the Law (APPEAL) to bring you LPE “Office Hours” When: April 16, 2021, 5:00-6:00p.m. Eastern Daylight Time (UTC-4) via Zoom (link will be provided to accepted registrants) Registration & Deadline: Sign up here by Sunday…
A roundtable discussion on the intersection of LGBTQIA issues, law, and political economy praxis. Organized by ClassCrits and cosponsored by the University of Kansas School of Law. 20 scholars and activists. 4 hours. 4 questions. 1 collective conversation about queerness and class. Please join ClassCrits for a roundtable discussion about the intersection of LGBTQIA issues,…
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The LPE Project is teaming up with the American Constitution Society (ACS) to offer an online course introducing students to LPE analysis. This course will pair lectures and short readings that illustrate how LPE frameworks can help us examine law’s role in the perpetuation of racial and gender injustice, the devaluation of social and ecological…
This panel will explore the connections between economic inequality, global environmental degradation (including but not limited to climate change), and racial discrimination (in all its varied forms). In doing so, the group will showcase expertise across different geographies and landscapes, with some panelists focusing on Indigenous Nations and rural spaces in the U.S. and others engaged with urban environmental…
JCRED Symposium Panel | WebEx, April 7, 2021, 9:45am-11:00am Please RSVP to the virtual event here, you will receive an email with login information before the event. As a legal journal dedicated to social, racial, and economic justice, the forthcoming symposium issue of the Journal of Civil Rights & Economic Development (JCRED) will explore the…
The Institute for Global Law and Policy at Harvard Law School is pleased to announce the 2021 Global Scholars Academy organized in collaboration with The Graduate Institute, Geneva and generously supported by The Open Society University Network. The Academy, to be held in Geneva, Switzerland from August 16 – 20, 2021, is an intensive combination…
The LPE Project is teaming up with the American Constitution Society (ACS) to offer an online course introducing students to LPE analysis. This course will pair lectures and short readings that illustrate how LPE frameworks can help us examine law’s role in the perpetuation of racial and gender injustice, the devaluation of social and ecological…
Call for Papers for a Symposium on “Migrant farmworkers: resisting and organizing before, during and after Coronavirus.” To be submitted for review to Journal of Agrarian Change Guest Editors: Tomaso Ferrando, Talia Esnard, Vasanthi Venkatesh and Vladimir Bogoeski Rationale: Declared “essential” in many countries, migrant farm workers have been one of the most vulnerable worker…
This panel brings together leading experts on the digital platform economy and related antitrust issues to discuss contending perspectives on the digital platform economy and weigh in on current debates in the US and Europe about how to regulate the dominant big tech firms. Panelists: Martin Kenney (Community and Regional Development, UC Davis) Dan Rubinfeld…
On Monday March 29th from 12:45-2:00 the NYU Law and Political Economy Association will be hosting Professor K-Sue Park (Georgetown Law) for a talk, “Conquest and Slavery in the Property Law Course.” This talk will be the fifth in this year’s LPE 101 series. Professor Park will be speaking on how histories of colonization and enslavement should reframe our…
Please join APPEAL for the next session of their reading group on the law and political economy of capitalism. All are welcome, and participants need not attend each session, though we do ask participants to read the materials in advance. We also encourage participants to join APPEAL by signing up as a member, www.politicaleconomylaw.org. This session will…