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She says protestors "crossed a line" when they occupied Hamilton Hall... but she called the police on her students ten days before that happened!
Does she think her students are morons? Why would they listen to her until that she notes her error in escalating the situation?
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For context, when Occupy Harvard occurred in 2011, Drew Faust allowed the encampment to persist for six weeks, at which point the group voluntarily disbanded. The decision to call in the NYPD here should be seen as extreme and unnecessary.
Some very smart thoughts by Dave Pozen on the situation at Columbia
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@sanjuktampaul
"It was a violent act that put our students at risk, as well as putting the protestors at risk."
I appreciate how she still doesn't think of the protestors as her students!
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Sam Moyn, just asking questions:
Today,
@samuelmoyn
kicks off a fresh year at the blog by asking whether LPE needs deeper theoretical foundations than it has so far been willing to articulate.
Look forward to responses from Jed Purdy,
@ntinatzouvala
, and Talha Syed.
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The bar to something being publication-worthy is (rightfully) low because academics are meant to settle disputes through argumentation and analysis, not by pulling pieces and shutting down websites.
It is hard to describe how far off the deep end this has gone at HLR and CLR.
Columbia Law Review Refused to Take Down Article on Palestine, So Its Board of Directors Nuked the Whole Website by
@natashalennard
,
@prem_thakker
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"If I own a can of tomato soup and spill it on a van Gogh painting so that its molecules mingle evenly throughout the painting, do I thereby come to own the painting?" (Nozick, 1973)
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A delightful surprise to receive
@gabrielwinant
’s new book in the mail today. So cool that holding the book under black light reveals its secret title
*Everything Dies, Baby, That’s a Fact: But Maybe Everything That Dies Someday Comes Back*
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Oh wow, this blew up. Here, in their own words, are students from Columbia, CUNY, NYU, and Yale articulating their demands and explaining why they are protesting. I promise you they are much smarter than Shafik seems to think!
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"No doubt, Columbia holds even more in companies facilitating the Israeli settler project, but Columbia has maintained a unique opacity regarding its holdings, with 99.4% of its holdings undisclosed."
-Columbia Law Students for Palestine
Today, students involved with the protests at Columbia, CUNY, Yale, and NYU explain the demands behind the encampments and share their perspectives on what has unfolded over past two weeks.
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"One of the reasons that every billionaire is a policy failure is that at a certain level of wealth, people stop responding even to the good kinds of economic incentives, and it becomes possible to blow $44B to engage in a kind of weird alt-right free speech performance art."
Today, Paul Gowder argues that rather than break up big tech, we should subject it to public control instead.
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Delighted to receive this important (and beautiful) book in the mail today. It’s always a wise financial decision to invest in first editions of future classics, but with such low interest rates, it would be downright reckless not to buy this book. (Congrats Mira!)
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Not the Antitrust Populist Pro-Labor Man of the People JD Vance???
J.D. Vance’s staff has told lobbyists he won’t advocate for credit card fee legislation he co-sponsored. He has “backed off a little bit of his misguided support for that,”
@RepAndyBarr
told me. Story w/
@Eleanor_Mueller
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Hi, Everybody!
Biden says ‘medical condition’ could prompt him to drop out ‘if doctors came to me’
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"It is dangerous to treat nation-states like home teams, without acknowledging that these forms are containers, whose function is to hold power over subjects, and that those wielding power from within these structures can do so benevolently, or with unspeakable brutality."
📢NEW FROM ME!
On the TikTok ban, the danger of abandoning defense of speech to extremists, & how the liberal tendency to assume a just state "outside the scope of this paper" leads to confused law/policy that can exacerbate the problems platforms pose.
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@aldatweets
I’m glad they are suddenly finding larger impacts, but this whole methodology still seems like a non-starter, for the reasons given here:
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@spwits
Agreed, but our best available evidence is that the democrats need to *convince* voters of this fact, and Biden has demonstrated he's not up to that task.
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“So should the American people dissent. I dissent.”
— President Biden invokes Justice Sotomayor’s dissenting opinion in Trump’s presidential criminal immunity case
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Reduce medical debt using this One Weird Trick (make hospitals follow the law).
cc
@StrikeDebt
Today,
@LukeMessac
explains how nonprofit hospitals use administrative hurdles to deny financial assistance to patients, and what the IRS could do to mitigate this problem.
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"Being dominated, watched, and controlled are destabilizing conditions even when they are occasional, and all the more so if they are the center of work life."
This fall,
@ZephyrTeachout
warned that algorithmic wage differentiation would soon enter the formal employment sector.
With new reports that fast-food restaurants have started deploying such techniques, it's a good day to revisit her prescient piece.
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Out today: Stephen Rosenberg's *Time For Things: Labor, Leisure, and the Rise of Mass Consumption*
An ambitious, wide-ranging account of why, despite massive productivity gains, Americans today work roughly as much as they did in the 1940s.
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"Uniform pricing – charging the same price to send a stamped letter from NY to Boston as from NY to Anchorage – was based on cross-subsidies. Higher-volume, higher-profit places paid a little more so there was affordable access in the more expensive, lower-volume areas."
Today at the blog,
@MatthewJSBuck
speaks with
@GaneshSitaraman
about the corrosive effects that deregulation had on the airline industry, and what we can learn from earlier traditions of regulation.
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@OrwellWhatever
He won Arizona by 10k, Georgia by 12k, and Wisconsin by 20k. Had those states flipped, he would've lost.
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"Arizona State University leases its land to the highest bidder without even the deceptive cloak of 'educational purposes.' A State Farm Insurance regional headquarters, which is the biggest development in the state, is exempt from property tax because it sits on ASU land."
Today,
@DavarianBaldwin
continues our series on the political economy of higher ed, examining the monetization of tax-exempt campus land.
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What explains partisan realignment?
-For 80 years, less educated voters have preferred predistribution policies.
-In the 70s, Dems abandoned such policies, as educated donors played a larger role in primaries.
-Working class voters leave the party.
Seems compelling!
Today,
@ikuziemko
,
@NLonguetMarx
, and
@snaidunl
argue that the Democratic Party's shift on economic policy - from predistribution to redistribution - played a significant role in their loss of less-educated, working-class voters.
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"Litigation has come to play a substantial role in making regulatory governance function. And cutting off litigation or blunting its effects at the earliest jurisdictional stages is a core anti-regulatory strategy for corporate actors."
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Feel like people are sleeping on how interesting this recent post is:
-Tax cuts increase campaign contributions by the wealthy to *both parties*
-However, increase flows to socially well-connected politicians (lawyers, ivies)
-Kicks off inequality 🌀
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"The decline of unions has reduced their ability to perform key pro-democracy functions... The result has been an open door for far-right parties that threaten to dismantle democracy around the developing world."
Today,
@AdamDean34
explains how, in pursuit of open economies, democracies from Argentina to India engaged in the brutal repression of labor union resistance. In the process, they unleashed dynamics that now threaten the survival of democracy itself.
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@JasonSouthwell
No one is asking anyone to "throw out" the rules. We are asking Biden recognize the reality of the current situation and step down.
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Shoshana Zuboff recommends that you read Frank Pasquale's *New Laws of Robotics* "as if our future depends upon it."
As of today, you can follow her sage advice!
Congrats to
@FrankPasquale
,
@Harvard_Press
, &
@ThomasLeBien
!
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Presses have a very particular idea of how to represent the idea that capitalism is an illusion (h/t
@corinneblalock
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"Antimonopoly leaders are pushing back against a highly funded, well-organized reactionary opposition that spent decades embedding itself into every corner of academia, the think-tank industrial complex, and Washington. Even so, against all odds, they’re making real progress."
Today,
@johnmarknewman
dispels the idea that new-wave antitrust enforcers have a "poor" win-loss record, and argues, more broadly, that they've been making real progress across a number of areas.
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Public schools are the "real powerhouses of the American higher education system, partially because of the political forces that have pushed them to eclipse elite private institutions in size – public R1s enroll 2.5 million undergraduates, while private R1s enroll just 330,000."
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Trying out a new publicity strategy:
A little-known Reagan-era competition rule continues to block innovative policy efforts by local communities--communities such as Cambridge, where HARVARD UNIVERSITY is located.
Like shooting fish in a barrel.
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"The view that corporations were 'creatures of the state' was so dominant that, in 1805, Justice Locke of the NC SC noted that 'it seems difficult to conceive of a corporation established for merely private purposes.'"
@carlyrknight1
on forgotten wisdom.
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"Do politicians do what the rich want? ... It is perhaps odd that this question should be asked at all, given how obvious the answer is: it is equivalent to asking whether the rich really like the big houses that they buy."
--Branko Milanovic
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Incredible piece, showing how changes in political economy and con law threaten secular government, and how our best chance at reversing these trends is through political economic reforms, rather than con litigation.
🔥from
@lsepper
and James Nelson.
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Don't sleep on this post. Rare combo of:
(1) A serious problem: billions of dollars of debt being imposed on patients who qualify for legally-mandated assistance.
(2) A clear solution: IRS requiring that hospitals screen for eligibility before billing.
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"The consequences of this approach, which has become a pillar of the neoliberal agenda, remain with us today in the form of reduced government capacity, rampant inequality, and an unwavering expectation that small private organizations can and should solve large public problems."
Today,
@clairemdunning
looks back at the emergence of the nonprofit industrial complex, and explains why government grants are a poor vehicle for reinforcing fundamental rights.
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Good stuff here on the assumptions baked into much legal and policy work, including much LPE work.
Today,
@mer__edith
uses the divide over recent TikTok legislation to reflect on a more fundamental question: how should we think about regulating social media platforms at a time of rising illiberalism in the United States?
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The Court has repeatedly held "that there is no constitutional right to minimal subsistence, education, or healthcare. And it has made clear that there’s certainly no constitutional right to housing. Since late 2018, however, this longstanding aversion has started to give way."
Today,
@gaurav_mkjee
,
@VersteegMila
, and
@KevinLynnCope
argue that in granting homeless individuals the right to sleep on public lands, the 9th Circuit has created perhaps the first federal social welfare right in American constitutional history.
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"Tweaking market mechanisms and scrambling for new business models is futile when the market itself is a core part of the problem. Our democracy requires that we disentangle news and information from capitalism—we need a horizon for journalism beyond the market."
Today,
@VWPickard
argues that the old commercial media world is dying, and the new public media world struggles to be born.
To help move things along, he calls for non-reformist reforms that orient journalism beyond the market.
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"Employers are allowed to ignore the inaccessible nature of their programs or activities until an individual with a disability seeks (or begs) for access."
@RuthColker
on the reactive, individualized structure of the ADA 🔥
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Some personal news:
1. I live in New Mexico now!
2. I'm unemployed!
If you know of any interesting job openings (editing, teaching, or otherwise), please let me know.
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A must read post about how our broken system of toxics regulation is allowing petrochemical companies to flood our world with novel entities, whose effects on human health are totally unknown.🧪🤷♂️
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"analyzing the carceral state as a system of labor governance not only deepens our understanding of imprisonment but also revises standard accounts of labor markets."
@NoahZatz
is one of those thinkers that will reorient how you see the world. A must read!
Today,
@NoahZatz
argues that to understand organized labor’s interests in rolling back carceral power, we must see that much ostensibly free labor occurs under the immediate threat of state violence.
The final installment in our series with
@_inquest_
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"There are more than 900 million acres of privately owned farmland in America, but the vast richness of these rural lands remains, by design, almost exclusively—98 percent—owned and controlled by people who are white."
Today,
@EmilyAPrifogle
&
@ShoemakerJess
continue our rural LPE symposium by explaining how property law has historically constructed patterns of racial inequality, and how it continues to play an active role in maintaining racialized rural landscapes.
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Tough to select only a handful from a banner year, but these posts by
@k_redburn
,
@bd_highsmith
,
@thelenkathleen1
,
@lstorrs1
,
@Econ_Marshall
,
@LDHerrine
,
@sandeepvaheesan
,
@nicolesummers_
, &
@SaraJSGreene
, along with our series on inflation & Marta Russell, were my favs for '22🥳
Today, in our final roundup of the year,
@CarolineLParker
&
@j_e_brandt
highlight some of their favorite posts from 2022.
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@ABQJournal
Worth thinking about: how would New Mexicans feel if Representatives from Arizona disenfranchised them?
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For my selections, I decided to hand out a few awards, which I'll also put in the 🧵 below:
Today, our editorial staff - Brett Davidson, Kate Yoon, Matt Buck, and James Brandt - highlight some of their favorite posts from the past year. 🎉🎉
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A good rebuttal to the idea that popular history courses will cure what ails the humanities:
Today,
@Econ_Marshall
identifies the hierarchical social theory that underlies the current hollowing out of public universities.
What we need instead, he argues, are homogeneous institutions with heterogeneous student bodies.
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The rule is "the result of more than 26,000 public comments.... more than 25,000 of these comments supported the ban, and many described how non-compete clauses had kept them stuck in abusive jobs or prevented them from pursuing better opportunities."
Today,
@sandeepvaheesan
and
@LawProfJHarris
explain why the FTC's comprehensive ban on non-compete clauses promises to be so effective, and discuss the coming legal challenges it will face.
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"in recent decades the financial assets of ordinary people have been bundled into retirement funds that are considered 'sophisticated investors' under the law — so nearly everyone, wealthy or not, is now exposed to these less well-regulated private markets."
Today,
@lenorepalladino
explains how the explosive growth of private financial markets – which have eclipsed public markets – has undermined the protections afforded by existing securities laws and introduced new systemic risks into our financial system.
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Finalist:
Frederick Jackson Turner Award
Winner:
David Montgomery Award
Theodore Saloutos Book Award
Betty & Alfred McClung Lee Book Award
Frances Richardson Keller-Sierra Prize
Américo Paredes Prize
An important book, out today in paperback:
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“Once a large utility-scale solar project is built, the marginal cost of producing electricity from that project is essentially zero… But the private entities that own these projects obviously have no intention of ever charging prices that reflect marginal cost.”
Today, William Boyd discusses why the IRA all but guarantees that large financial institutions and private developers will capture the benefits of abundant low-cost renewable electricity.
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"Labor organizers need thirty percent of the workers at a given job site to sign union cards in order to trigger a union election.... By contrast, a mere three percent of criminal defendants in a given courthouse could bring their local penal system to its knees."
Today,
@AndrewMCrespo
considers an idea that seems farfetched yet perfectly feasible: by banding together and refusing to plea guilty, criminal defendants could bring our court system to a grinding halt.
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"We can offer the competing formulations of CLS, of liberalism, of Marxism, each to a certain extent self-consistent and fiercely fortified at its boundaries. But when we put them into play, unless we have minds of especially dogmatic power, the world overruns them."
Today, in response to
@samuelmoyn
, Jed Purdy argues that because our social world overruns any given theoretical perspective, we should adopt a practice pluralism -- if not on the individual level, then at least on the collective plane.
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Terrific concluding paragraphs about what LPE can take from CLS's critique of indeterminacy.
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"As the Columbia administration’s actions over the past six months became increasingly contentious, and increasingly detached from ideals of academic freedom, the autocratic character of our governance model came to the fore."
Today, we share David Pozen's recent thoughts about the increasing power of university presidents, and the need to develop a more democratic model of internal governance.
A must-read to understand what is unfolding on campuses across the country.
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Couldn't be more grateful to have worked with Angela, Sanjukta, Ann, and Caroline, or more excited to work with Veena, Karen, Aziz, and Kate!
Big changes at the Blog today.
On the Editorial Board, Angela Harris and Sanjukta Paul's watch has ended 😭. And we welcome aboard
@kmtani
,
@veenadubal
, and Aziz Rana 🥳
On staff, Ann Sarnak and
@CarolineLParker
have graduated; Kate Yoon joins the team!
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Just arrived: Daniel Carpenter’s *Democracy by Petition.*
A transformative look at the rise of democracy in North America, which makes evident the role played by those who were excluded from formal politics. Many luminaries (and me) are calling it a “must read.”
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A rare higher ed piece that actually discusses the colleges in America that educate most students.
Eat your heart out NYT.
Today, Jonathan Glater and Adriana Hardwicke argue that, as a result of curriculum wars and disparities in funding, higher education is becoming increasingly fractured along state-lines.
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Delighted to receive a copy of Niko Kolodny’s new book in the mail today.
It doesn’t need my hype (check the blurbs), but I’ve read few works of political philosophy that match its depth of analysis and the breadth of coverage. A real gem.
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@_TimBarker
“He tapped into populist insights, cutting through left- and right-wing echo chambers and putting hard questions to corporate executives and members of the political establishment.”
A description that is both vacuous and entirely detached from reality.
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A star is born.
Zany, Cute, Interesting. Stella took the subtitle from Sianne Ngai's book, Our Aesthetic Categories, quite literally for her photo op.
She tells us she's really looking forward to Sianne Ngai's next book, Theory of the Gimmick, forthcoming in June.
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IIRC, in Capital in the 21st C, Piketty shows that universities with large endowments (HYP) outperform places like Grinnell, which he suggests is due to HYP having access to off-book investments.
Has anyone done a 10-year follow-up on the specific universities he compares?
Great reporting here but for all the talk about divestment and transparency, I would hope someone simply asked the Harvard Corporation reps why the Harvard endowment gets a 2.9% rate of return
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Overheard at Harvard: "I just thought I was gonna have more time to finally ask her out." Student love in a time of Corona.
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"One problem is that [agencies] just don’t have the data to quantify all the benefits. In fact, when I took a look at the EPA’s major rulemakings over a 13-year period... it turned out that the agency left significant categories of benefits unquantified 80 percent of the time."😱
"If you can’t calculate net benefits... you can’t find your way to the nirvana of net benefits maximization"
Amy Sinden concludes our symposium on cost-benefit analysis by explaining how it systematically ignores the benefits of environmental regulation.
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For it being the busiest part of the term, LPE folks are really cranking stuff out at max capacity...
The Week in Review:
@ProfJDNelson
,
@lsepper
, &
@k_redburn
examine Groff v. DeJoy, while Tommaso Bardelli, Zach Gillespie, and Thuy Linh Tu explain the harms of an austerity-driven approach to criminal justice reform.
Plus, more LPE goods in the 🧵👇
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I’m always saying this!
LPE Blog is hosting some of the most fascinating public research out there right now. A must follow.
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"as students organize around the demands of pay and credit, they may come to see themselves as part of a community of workers whose labor is valuable, whose time and efforts matter, and whose dignity at work depends on the collective."
Today,
@TaliaRothstein
explains why the students who run the law reviews should organize - and how doing so could transform the landscape of legal publication.
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"The ISDS system provides the international scaffolding for corporate power and its abuses, allowing investors to threaten, extort, and extract billions of dollars from governments in the developing world for any regulation that might impinge on their profit margins."
Today,
@davidrkadler
&
@jmahumadaf
explain how a US-based, VC-backed company is suing the Honduran Government for shutting down its private, libertarian city-state -- the most recent example of an abusive Investor-State Dispute Settlement system.
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"Throughout the past three centuries, law... sought not only to structure asymmetric power in social relations of production along dimensions of class, gender, and race, but also to legitimate its institutional resolution: to cause the majority to acquiesce in these resolutions."
Today,
@YochaiBenkler
offers a thumbnail sketch of the role law plays in structuring and legitimating social relations in capitalism.
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"with the decline of unions as intermediaries, [labor] lawyers are less likely to have the capacity or means to engage in long-term dialogical relationships with their clients. It is as if corporate lawyers could only have relationships with individual shareholders."
Today,
@sameer_ashar
argues that to identify and challenge the conditions facing workers in the low-wage economy, lawyers and law students must develop a shared social analysis with their movement partners.
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"Since 1950, global chemical production has increased 50-fold... There are now an estimated 350,000 chemicals and chemical mixtures on the global market. Only a handful have been properly tested and only for health endpoints that we know to look for."
Today, William Boyd explains how formal, quantitative approaches to risk in environmental regulation have been unable to generate even the most basic safety information - leaving us awash in a world full of toxic chemicals.
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The Court’s concern was not “to equalize the field between the defense and prosecution or between poor and rich defendants. Rather, its concern was to afford defendants the chance to customize the terms of their representation.”
@zohraraheem
🔥🔥
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Have I finished reading the books I ordered last summer? No. Will this stop me from ordering more books? Also no.
The Summer Sale has begun! Worldwide and sitewide (some exclusions apply) our hardcover and paperback books are 50% off with code PUP21. Shop now through July 21st and stock up!
#PUPSummerSale
#PrincetonUPress
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"Yet in executing one of the biggest financial frauds in American history, SBF deployed this putatively decentralized tech to not just build outward from U.S. space and power but inward, capturing U.S. political institutions with astounding ease and speed."
Today,
@RaulACarrillo
argues that the rise and fall of Sam Bankman-Fried is best understood as a story about the outmoded nature of our financial regulatory system, and a sign that we're ill-prepared for what's coming.
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An eye-opening post by
@nicolesummers_
about how landlords are expanding their control over tenants through settlements that result in "civil probation."
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"We are at the beginning stages of a global-scale energy transition—the kind of transition that comes around only once every few generations... The task before us is to mobilize investment on a massive scale and to find ways to socialize the costs."
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Two friends independently sent me this passage from Christine Smallwood’s recent book. Is this what it means to “feel seen”?
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"In a way, this is the legal version of the increasingly well-accepted idea that homelessness is a housing problem: our system of property, as important as it is, is creating homelessness, and so our system of property is what needs to solve it."
Today, Chris Essert argues that homelessness is best understood as a form of domination, created by our system of property rights. Any state that imposes such a system is obligated to ensure that all of its subjects have homes of their own.
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"many family caregivers turn to state-provided care to get some relief from care duties, yet the system perceives them at best as incidental beneficiaries and at worst fraudulent free-riders"
@Yiran_Zhang_
on how our system fails the 27 million people receiving at home care.
Today,
@Yiran_Zhang_
explains how the bureaucratic system through which the state provides long-term home care imposes significant costs on workers and recipients alike.
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@brian_callaci
Ironically, the event being described as "communist propaganda" in that tweet was a presentation by four (umass amherst) econ phd students...
This strikes me as a rather bad faith description of what took place. Organized by Harvard's LPE student association, the event was a discussion about law and econ that featured four (very smart and nice) ECONOMICS PhD students who are members of
@Center4PopEcon
. 1/7
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Marx is "interested in showing why [capitalism's] impersonal—objective and lawlike—appearance is constantly confused with nature rather than seen as what it truly is, which is social and contingent."
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Tim Scanlon on The Good Place:
"It’s a weird thing to have your book appear as a character on a TV show. It’s sort of like having your child chosen to be in the school play. You’re pleased that they’re there, but worried that something embarrassing is going to happen."
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"the overarching policy question should not be, 'how do we save the home insurance industry from collapsing?' but rather, 'what role should insurance markets play in the broader suite of policies to keep people safely housed?'"
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Insightful postmortem on last week's oral argument:
A broad Netchoice win "would give Meta and Google and Tiktok an extraordinary deregulatory weapon, and chill the creative, public, hard-fought democratic efforts to solve the real-world problems caused by big tech."
Today,
@ZephyrTeachout
argues that a Netchoice ruling that tech companies don’t have to comply with neutral regulations wouldn't just block two sloppy laws, it would put a block on politics itself.
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Fast Car was, uh, about how Reagan’s 1986 Tax Reform Act slashed the highest marginal tax rate from 50 to 28%, setting off a vicious spiral of economic and political inequality.
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"Longtime professional drivers, who tend to have the strongest safety records, are more often compelled to 'hang up their keys' because of the distrust and loss of dignity in their occupation evinced by surveillance."
Not great, bob!
Today,
@karen_ec_levy
explains how government-mandated surveillance in the trucking industry laid the groundwork for further employer and commercial surveillance, a sign of the kind of monitoring that may soon come to other industries.
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This is an incredible piece, in both scope and execution, and a real service to anyone (like me) unaware of the arc of Patterson's career. Thanks
@AdomGetachew
!
For Orlando Patterson, the Caribbean archipelago proved to be the exemplary space of modernity, a place of freedom and slavery, of colonialism and liberation, of cultural experiment and creativity.
@AdomGetachew
in
@BooksandtheArts
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"agenda-setting is, itself, a political accomplishment, pulling questions about debt relief out from technocratic and apolitical realms and into a place where democratic accountability may be possible."
Today,
@ChloeThurstonDC
and Emily Zackin explain what America's long history of organizing voters around debt relief can teach us about our present political moment.
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"Understanding abortion as an ‘economic service’ may empower certain individuals, but it also risks entrenching the commodification of health services at a time that fiscal austerity and privatization have reshaped and significantly undermined health care services."
Today,
@IsailovicIvana
argues that EU's current approach to abortion access - regulating it through economic and human rights frameworks - risks privatizing and depoliticizing the issue.
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"The day-to-day work of bail funds, courtwatching groups, and participatory defense hubs may seem small-scale in comparison to the daily grind of the criminal legal system. But small moments of resistance, repeated over and over, swell to something bigger."
Today,
@j_simonson
kicks off a symposium on her recent book, *Radical Acts of Justice: How Ordinary People Are Dismantling Mass Incarceration.*
Look forward to replies from Evan Bernick, Elizabeth Dale, and
@premaldharia
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