Law & Organizing Academy (2023)

Law & Organizing Academy (2023)

May 23, 2023

Upstate New York

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…

Call for Abstracts: Routledge Handbook of Cooperative Economics & Management

Call for Abstracts: Routledge Handbook of Cooperative Economics & Management

Apr 15, 2023

email submission

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…

Reviving Progressive Constitutional Political Economy at Berkeley Law School

Reviving Progressive Constitutional Political Economy at Berkeley Law School

Apr 14, 2023

Berkeley Law School + Zoom

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…

Harvard LPE Association & Brooklyn LPE Collective – “Decolonizing Money”

Harvard LPE Association & Brooklyn LPE Collective – “Decolonizing Money”

Apr 13, 2023

WCC 3007 / Zoom

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,…

Convening on Law and Power Building

Convening on Law and Power Building

Apr 07, 2023

NYU Law

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…

Symposium on TWAIL & Economic Sanctions

Symposium on TWAIL & Economic Sanctions

Apr 05, 2023

Yale Law School / Zoom

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…

Call for Abstracts: European Association for Evolutionary Political Economy

Call for Abstracts: European Association for Evolutionary Political Economy

Mar 31, 2023

email submission

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…

2023 LPE Conference – “Labor, Social Control, and Counterpower”

2023 LPE Conference – “Labor, Social Control, and Counterpower”

Mar 31, 2023

Harvard Law School + Livestream

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…

CFP: Workshop on LPE in Latin America

CFP: Workshop on LPE in Latin America

Mar 15, 2023

University 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…

CFP: International Law and the Challenge of Populism (2023 Workshop Series)

CFP: International Law and the Challenge of Populism (2023 Workshop Series)

Mar 01, 2023

email expressions of interest

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…