Next month, the Supreme Court will decide whether it is constitutional for cities to punish unsheltered people for sleeping outside, even when the city fails to provide any safe alternative. Yet, no matter how the court rules, homeless people will still face significant threats from cities.
Julieta Lobato on Milei’s labor governance, Evan Bernick on the role of the Constitution in freedom struggles, and Jonathan Glater & Adriana Hardwicke on the fracturing of higher education. Plus, the next session in our Courts open course, a call for recently accepted LPE-relevant articles, pieces on the destruction of the Covid social safety net, the future of health care reform, and the politics of inequality, and, finally, Joe Biden is putting America back to work: job openings at the LPE Blog, the Vanderbilt Policy Accelerator, and the American Economic Liberties Project.
The most important work of legal scholarship in some time, Jocelyn Simonson’s Radical Acts of Justice raises, but does not develop, two major sets of questions. The first concerns the role of the Constitution in freedom struggles; the second, the legitimate role (if any) of violence in transformative left politics in the United States.
Zephyr Teachout discusses the democratic stakes of NetChoice, and Jocelyn Simonson kicks off a symposium on her recent book, Radical Acts of Justice. Plus, a lunch talk with Lina Khan (today!), two events on LPE & Civil Procedure, an event on student debt organizing, new books from Sandeep Vaheesan and Lenore Palladino, articles on Chevron, housing policy, What To Do About the Courts, and the contradictions of the WSJ Editorial Board, and two upcoming summer schools for early career researchers.
At times, the possibility of aligning our formal systems of justice with our normative aspirations appears almost inconceivable. Yet we can locate some faith in justice and democracy by looking to the concrete acts of collective care taking place all around us. In this post, Jocelyn Simonson kicks off a symposium on her recent book, Radical Acts of Justice: How Ordinary People Are Dismantling Mass Incarceration.
A ruling that tech companies don’t have to comply with neutral regulations would not just block two sloppy laws, it would put a block on politics itself. This is a moment for the Court to stand back and allow democracy to work its clumsy, painful magic.
The third session of our 6-part open course/reading group “What To Do About The Courts,” cohosted with the People’s Parity Project, will take place on March 19th at 8pm ET/ 5pm PT. This session will be led by Professor Aziz Rana. TOPIC: The dramatic power of the U.S. judiciary in constitutional life makes it an outlier on the…
Please join LPE NYC on Thursday, March 14 from 12:00-1:00 ET for Unequal Procedure: LPE and Civil Procedure. Helen Hershkoff will lead a conversation featuring Charlton Copeland, Kathryn Sabbeth, and Daniel Wilf-Townsend on inequality in the various domains touched by civil procedure. The panel will focus on how procedure magnifies and creates inequality, with particular…
This morning, the Supreme Court will hear arguments in the most anticipated cases of the year for the future of regulating tech platforms. While much of the debate will focus on whether the platforms are best analogized to publishers, there is another important argument that the Supreme Court will confront: whether platforms are “common carriers.”
Please join the LPE Project on Tuesday, March 12 at 4:10-5:10 PM ET for The Law and Political Economy of Civil Procedure. Judith Resnik (Arthur Liman Professor of Law at Yale Law School) will lead a conversation featuring Brooke Coleman, Luke Norris, and Danya Reda on developing an LPE approach to civil procedure. The panel…
The Labor and the Law Workshop, co-hosted by the Center for Political Economy at Columbia University, seeks contributions from junior researchers (PhD students and post-doctoral fellows) that address the labor movement’s relationship to the law. Both contemporary and historical approaches to the topic as well as qualitative and quantitative contributions are welcome. We are interested…
The second session of our 6-part open course/reading group “What To Do About The Courts,” cohosted with the People’s Parity Project, will take place on February 20th at 8pm ET/ 5pm PT. This session will be led by Professors Samuel Moyn and William Forbath. TOPIC: Even though structural and disempowering court reforms are often portrayed as new…
Jed Kroncke on territorial labor in the American Empire, and Megan Wachspress on how workers can divest their labor from war. Plus, the second session of our Courts reading group, a conference on neoliberalism, a cool new job building out the LPE-cinematic universe, and two new pieces on that old chestnut, the State.
In their statement calling for a ceasefire between Israel and Palestine, the UAW International Executive Board raised a tantalizing possibility: What if UAW workers were to divest their labor from the construction of weaponry? Under current labor law, how might workers make their complicity in the military-industrial complex a mandatory subject of bargaining?
Reports of the FTC’s “poor” win-loss record have been greatly exaggerated. But how should we understand antitrust agencies’ progress so far?
