The SLS Law and Political Economy (LPE) group is part of the larger LPE movement, which is a network of scholars, practitioners, and students advancing a legal paradigm rooted in the reality that politics and economics cannot be separated–and that the law is vital in shaping both. LPE centers questions of political economy to confront…
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…
University of San Francisco LPE is one branch of the larger LPE movement. At USF, we believe in an anticapitalist and revolutionary approach to the law. We aim to inspire law students, faculty, and our community members to think critically about the law and its role in hegemony and therefore create a more conscious and…
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…