At Miami, we were particularly interested in adding LPE and critical legal theory courses to the curricular offerings at our school. Miami Law provides some institutional support for public interest—such as a center that connects students with pro bono opportunities, provides public interest scholarships and summer stipends, and oversees a student-run board to manage on-campus…
The Boston College Law and Political Economy Group is a newly formed student organization committed to cultivating intellectual and ethical engagement with issues of inequality, democratic governance, and social inclusion. Bringing a critical lens to legal pedagogy, scholarship, and practice, BC LPE hopes to bring together all interested community members to strengthen the school’s curricular…
The Columbia Law and Political Economy Society is the Law School’s student-led chapter of the national Law and Political Economy Project (LPE Project), dedicated to bringing together a network of scholars, practitioners, and students to develop innovative intellectual, pedagogical, and political interventions to advance the study and practice of the law. We are an intellectual and…
The Cornell Law and Political Economy Collective was founded in 2019. Since then, the Collective has focused on progressive educational projects, including forming an internal reading group at Cornell, and fostering members’ independent writing. The Collective is advised by Professor Aziz Rana and Robert Hockett. For further information, please contact Conor Bednarski at [email protected]
The Harvard Law School Political Economy Association is a student organization run by JD, LL.M. and SJD students at Harvard Law School. The organization allies with the work of the broader law & political economy movement to deepen engagement with questions of social inequality and political economy at Harvard Law School. The Harvard group first…
Law & Political Economy at Georgetown (LPEG) is a community of Georgetown Law students and faculty exploring how the law shapes and is shaped by systems of political and economic power. As the primary nexus for law and political economy at Georgetown, LPEG exists to serve students and faculty interested in engaging with LPE scholarship…
NYU law students are increasingly realizing that economic justice is inextricable from the broader justice we seek and that such justice is unattainable unless we first come to terms with the ways in which the law shapes and, in turn, is shaped by systems of political and economic power. Yet, while many members of the…
In response to a growing global research community, the Oxford Law & Political Economy Discussion Group seeks to establish a platform for LPE issues of relevance to the academic community at the University of Oxford. The Group seeks to encourage discussion across legal disciplines, exploring critical legal perspectives within a legal realist framework to analyse developments in legal scholarship…
Law Students for a Democratic Society (LSDS) is a group of students at Penn Law that seeks to advance a program of critical inquiry and political dissent centered around questions of law and political economy in the face of the legal system’s entrenchment of racism, economic exploitation, and militarism. LSDS strives to cultivate humanistic, politically conscious, radical…
Law students, even at Berkeley Law, do not often see themselves as the eventual inheritors of power. We believe that law students must appreciate the ways in which the profession they are about to enter structures society and contributes to substantive inequality. The Law and Political Economy Society (LPE Soc) at Berkeley offers a community…
The University of Victoria Law and Political Economy Society (UVic LPE), founded in Fall 2021, is the first LPE student group in Canada. We believe that the LPE Project’s critical diagnosis of contemporary legal thought is not confined to the American experience but exposes a common set of fundamental theoretical and practical problems shared by…
The LPE student group at Yale Law School is part of a growing movement in law to expose how legal rules concentrate economic and political power among dominant social groups. We reject the divide between private and public law, and the idea of a natural, self-regulating, neutral market. Instead, we seek to center questions of…