The University of Michigan Law School invites junior scholars to attend the 9th Annual Junior Scholars Conference, which will take place in person on April 21-22, 2023 in Ann Arbor, Michigan. The conference provides junior scholars with a platform to present and discuss their work with peers, and to receive detailed feedback from senior members…
Georgetown University Law Center, Stanford Law School, UCLA School of Law, the University of Pennsylvania, and the University of Southern California Center for Law, History, and Culture invite submissions for the 22nd meeting of the Law and Humanities Interdisciplinary Workshop for Junior Scholars, to be held at Georgetown Law Center, Washington, DC, on May 24-25,…
The Law and Political Economy (LPE) Project seeks to hire an Academic Fellow to play both a scholarly and organizational role. The LPE Project brings together a network of scholars, practitioners, and students working to develop innovative intellectual, pedagogical, and political interventions to advance the study of political economy and law. The Project also supports…
The American Constitution Society in conjunction with the Hewlett Foundation and the Law and Political Economy Project is hosting a conference on Friday, November 18th. 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…
Please join the Yale Program in Law and Political Economy and YLS LPE Student Group for an in-person event November 17 at 12:10pm (RSVP req’d) with Professor Zohra Ahmed (University of Georgia School of Law). Professor Ahmed will be discussing a work in progress, titled “The Price of Consent: Law and Political Economy in the…
Please join the Yale Program in Law and Political Economy and YLS LPE Student Group for an in-person event November 3 at 12:10pm (RSVP req’d) with Professor Saule Omarova. Professor Omarova will offer an introduction to the “Law and Political Economy of Central Banking,” with a focus on the U.S. Federal Reserve system. The talk…
Join the Berkeley Law & Political Economy Society for a presentation from Professor Talha Syed on his working paper titled "Legal Realism and CLS from an LPE Perspective"
Please join the LPE Project and APPEAL for our next informal mentoring session! When: Friday October 28, 2022. 4:00 – 5:00pm EDT, (UTC-4) via Zoom (link will be provided to accepted registrants) Registration & Deadline: Please sign up here by Tuesday, October 25 at 12PM ET. Space is limited! Who: We welcome law students and graduate…
“Facing the socio-ecological crisis: Delinking and the question of Global Reparations” This is the second conference hosted by the African Economic and Monetary Sovereignty Initiative, a group of scholar-activists from Africa, Europe, and the U.S. who have begun tackling the question of economic and political self-determination on the African continent with a focus on the…
What is the future of worker power in the US? On the one hand, the last several decades have been characterized by declining labor power and legal retrenchment. Private sector union membership is at an all-time low, and the Supreme Court recently dealt a major blow to public sector unions. “Right to work” laws, and…
How does the doctrine we learn in law school actually shape the cities and neighborhoods we live in? And how do power and social relationships fit into the picture? Join the Harvard Law and Political Economy Association as we address these questions starting at square one with the 1L curriculum. Prof. Yochai Benkler will use specific doctrines…
The Fall 2022 Gruber Distinguished Lecture will be held in person on October 17, 2022 at 4:30 PM with Sara Nelson. The faculty host will be Yale Law Professor Amy Kapczynski, Faculty Director of the LPE Project. Sara Nelson has served as the International President of the Association of Flight Attendants-CWA, AFL-CIO since 2014, and…