Tech and Taxis: Deregulation via Disruption

Tech and Taxis: Deregulation via Disruption

Nov 10, 2023

Zoom

On Friday, November 10th, at 4pm ET the LPE Project held a panel discussion on “Tech and Taxis: Deregulation via Disruption.” How did Uber, Lyft, and other “rideshare” companies take over the taxi industry? And what have been the consequences for workers, customers, and urban infrastructure? Two leading scholars in the field of rideshare and…

Why Public Interest Students Should Study Banking & Financial Regulation with Saule Omarova

Why Public Interest Students Should Study Banking & Financial Regulation with Saule Omarova

Nov 10, 2023

Yale Law School (Rm 122) + Zoom

On Friday, November 10th, at 12:10 ET the LPE Project held a lunch talk featuring Professor Saule Omarova, the Beth and Marc Goldberg Professor of Law at Cornell Law School. Law students interested in public interest careers—or in practicing in areas other than traditional business and corporate law—often skip courses on banking, securities regulation, or…

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LPE in New Haven – Happy Hour Oct 25th

Oct 25, 2023

116 Crown

Spread the word—it's our first Happy Hour for the broader New Haven community! Join us on the back patio at 116 Crown from 5-7 pm on October 25th, 2023 to mingle with the New Haven-wide LPE community.

The Shadow Docket with Steve Vladeck, Samuel Moyn, and Judith Resnik

The Shadow Docket with Steve Vladeck, Samuel Moyn, and Judith Resnik

Oct 24, 2023

Yale Law School (Rm 127) + Zoom

Please join the LPE Project on Tuesday, October 24th at 12:10 for a lunch talk with legal scholar, Supreme Court expert, and Charles Alan Wright Chair in Federal Courts, Stephen Vladeck about his latest best-selling book, “The Shadow Docket: How the Supreme Court Uses Stealth Rulings to Amass Power and Undermine the Republic.”  In recent…

CFP: Neoliberalism and Capitalism as Keywords in Contemporary History

CFP: Neoliberalism and Capitalism as Keywords in Contemporary History

Oct 24, 2023

Yale University

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…

Heterodox Economics Meets LPE Conference

Heterodox Economics Meets LPE Conference

Oct 21, 2023

The New School

The Association for the Promotion of Political Economy and the Law (APPEAL), John Jay College Economics Department, John Jay College Law and Political Economy Society, and the Economics Department at the New School. The gathering will be held October 21st at The New School (6 East 16th Street, New York, NY). If you would like to attend, please register HERE…

JLPE IS HIRING!

JLPE IS HIRING!

Oct 20, 2023

Journal of Law and Political Economy

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…

Cornell LPE: Legal Issues + Rural Futures

Cornell LPE: Legal Issues + Rural Futures

Oct 19, 2023

Zoom

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.

CFP: ClassCrits Conference at Southwestern Law School

CFP: ClassCrits Conference at Southwestern Law School

Oct 15, 2023

Southwestern Law School, Los Angeles

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…

LPE NYC: The New School’s LPE Night School

LPE NYC: The New School’s LPE Night School

Oct 05, 2023

The New School for Social Research

‘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…

Coöperism: Toward a Theory and Praxis of Cooperation with Bernard Harcourt

Coöperism: Toward a Theory and Praxis of Cooperation with Bernard Harcourt

Sep 26, 2023

Yale Law School (Rm 129) + Zoom

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…