Legal scholars, students, & practitioners working to expose & transform law's role in the perpetuation of economic, racial, & gender inequality. &
@LPEblog
A must-read post by
@NoahZatz
on how the conflation of anti-Zionism & antisemitism "relies on pervasive racist & anti-Muslim stereotypes of Palestinians as endemically hateful, violent, deceptive, and hostile to Jews" in violation of civil rights law
The LPE Project is teaming up with ACS to offer an online course to introduce students to the law & political economy framework! The first lecture in the series is with
@akapczynski
on October 8th at 5:30pm ET.
Please spread the word!!
Details 👇👇
the most authors we’ve ever had on the blog for a single post (!!) on the political economic pressures faced by law students & precarious faculty re: pro-Palestinian speech and the need for law schools to mitigate rather than exacerbate these pressures
The LPE Project is delighted to announce that we are teaming up with
@PeoplesParity
to offer an open course/reading group (for EVERYONE not just law students/profs) on one of the most urgent political questions of our time: what to do about the courts.
This Thursday from 12:30 - 1:30 PM ET, the Brooklyn LPE Collective &
@HarvardLPE
student group join forces!!
.
@nssylla
will offer a new perspective on sovereign debt in the Global South...through an MMT lens!
In-person @ Harvard, but also on ZOOM!
.
@FlyingWithSara
: I’m so happy I haven’t heard the term “middle class,” since I set foot on campus. The term “working class” generates more solidarity. And one of our most important challenges is defining what “work” is and thus expanding “working class” solidarity.
📢📢 EVENT ALERT 📢📢
Mark your calendars for June 26th! Don't miss this important conversation with Prof. Ali Kadri and
@maxajl
on “The Accumulation of Waste: A Political Economy of Genocide and Imperialism,” moderated by
@Helyeh_Doutaghi
. Register now:
Super excited to welcome the new LPE Group at Gujarat National Law University which will bring together a community of like-minded students and academics to engage with LPE in a way "informed by their location in the Global South"
🚨 RED ALERT! The videos from LPE Project & LPE
@HLS
spring conference, “LPE: Labor, Social Control, and Counterpower,” are now available on our website!!!
You can watch all 13 sessions at your leisure! 🧵
It's a historic day!
Please welcome LPE
@JindalLaw
, the 1st LPE GROUP IN INDIA!! ⚖️🇮🇳🌏
"This chapter locates itself at the intersection of caste, class & gender & aspires to ameliorate the challenges faced by people disadvantaged by these institutions."
🎺📜 HERE WE GO! In ~4 weeks, from March 31 - April 2, the LPE Project & LPE
@HLS
will host a small conference, “Law and Political Economy: Labor, Social Control, and Counterpower,” at Harvard.
🥁🥁 You can now REGISTER for our Anti-monopoly & Regulated Industries (AMRI) Summer Academy -- a crash course in political economy, public utility, and the legal & institutional tools that can be leveraged against the problems of 21st-century capitalism!
🚨🚨 LPE at Harvard is hiring an Executive Director!
Don't miss this amazing opportunity to help shape this quickly growing movement, while working with an incredible group of LPE scholars and students!
A MUST READ by the LPE Project’s own brilliant
@ksabeelrahman
on reclaiming a vision of administrative state capable of getting us to an equitable, inclusive, and sustainable economy in the wake of the Supreme Court’s unprecedented power grab!
It's that time of year again, the time where we add fantastic new LPE-related syllabi to our website!
Two new must-check-out additions:
@yuvrajjoshi
's Law & Inequality syllabus and
@Luke_P_Norris
's LPE Seminar
The LPE Project is delighted to cosponsor this conference on Neoliberalism and Capitalism. Abstracts due by Oct 24, you absolutely will not want to miss this one!! 👀👀👀👀
Excited to share this CFP for a conference on Neoliberalism and Capitalism organized along with
@troup_charlie
and
@samuelmoyn
, with keynotes from
@IsabellaMWeber
and
@DEHEdgerton
When: 23-25 February 2024
Where: New Haven
Deadline to apply: 24 October 2023
The question we get asked more than almost any other is what is the relationship between LPE and earlier/other critical legal movements including CLS, CRT, & feminist/queer legal theory ❓❓
Join us Thurs at 12pm ET to hear an all-🌟 panel answer it!
📢Thrilled to announce we're holding a 2nd Anti-Monopoly & Regulated Industries Summer Academy!
It will be a 7-week crash course in political economy, anti-monopoly, public utility, & regulated industries.
Details & registration early next week!
✊ MIC CHECK!🎙️ If you're a rising 2L or 3L in NYC, you can now apply for our 1st ever Summer Academy on Law, Organizing, & Power Building w/
@ActionLabNY
&
@nyulaw
Initiative for Community Power.
8/16/ - 8/18
Deadline: 6/28
#Housing
#Decarceration
Over the last few months, as part of the
#LPEConference
, we brought together a brilliant group of emerging scholars & established LPE scholars for a series of closed-door workshops
👀👀 these urgent topics & the young scholars who are working on them!
🚨🚨🚨 JOB ALERT!
The Journal of Law and Political Economy is hiring a managing editor! Don't miss this opportunity to work with an incredible group of interdisciplinary LPE scholars.
.
@TheJLPE
is calling for submissions! JLPE publishes ~12,000 word *peer-reviewed* articles on a range of topics relevant to LPE. The Journal also publishes book reviews!
JLPE will accept submissions at any time!
🚨🚨 Attn students & emerging scholars
John Jay's LPE student group & APPEAL are teaming up for a 1-day conference "Heterodox Economics Meets Law & Political Economy: Institutions & Power" with the incredible
@kmunro_econ
& JW Mason.
Abstracts due Oct 2
Registration is open for "Heterodox Economics Meets LPE: Power for a Just Transition"--a conference at John Jay March 30th co-organized by
@APPEALResearch
,
@johnjay_lpe
,
@JJayEcon
, & New School's econ dept.
A truly incredible line-up of speakers!!
Please join the NYU Law & Political Economy Association one week from today (Sept 29) for the first talk in their fantastic LPE 101 series "Intro to LPE: Economic Power, Equity, and the Law" with the LPE Project's own
@ksabeelrahman
!!
Join us for a can't-miss lunch talk w/
@STOmarova
of
@CornellLaw
on Nov 10 at 12:10 ET! Interested in public interest law but skipping banking & finance courses? Learn why understanding financial law is crucial for law students committed to social justice!
Join us April 1 at 4pm for the next 🧨session of our LPE 101 Course (co-sponsored by
@acslaw
), "Law of the Platform Economy: Antitrust, Labor, & Contracts" with
@sanjuktampaul
💻⚖️✊👊
Details & registration 👇
📢 Harvard LPE is seeking postdoctoral fellows (2023-2025)!! 📢
"Fellows are expected to devote their full time to scholarly activities...& to contribute to the intellectual life of the LPE Program @ HLS..."
$75k per year.
The dream.
Are you a law student, professor, lawyer, organizer, or policy person interested in LPE and live in DC?? We are gathering for our first DC Happy Hour on Tuesday, July 11th from 5:30-7:30pm at Wunder Garten!
You won't want to miss it !! 🕶️🍻✊
🚨New 🔥 LPE Resource Alert: We just posted a LPE of Money Reading Group Syllabus created by two YLS students
@michaelsjoel
& David Herman in our syllabus bank 🚨
A great resource for both student groups and faculty interested in the LPE of 💵!
We're excited to announce yet another fall event! On 10/28, 12:15 - 1:30 PM ET,
@DrMamaEsq
@nikhil_palsingh
@dianareddy
& Aziz Rana will situate the recent attacks on CRT within a broader strategy to privatize & control public education. Register ASAP!⚖️🏫
📢 Join us on July 23rd at 12:10 PM ET for an info session about the LPE Project with our very own
@akapczynski
and
@corinneblalock
! Open to law and grad students interested in LPE, we'll cover the movement, how to get involved, & more.
📢 📆 There's still time to register! Secure your spot for our Nov 29th, 4 PM ET Book Launch 📚 'Your Money or Your Life: Debt Collection in American Medicine' with
@LukeMessac
,
@lindseymuniak
, &
@gregggonsalves
. Calling those committed to healthcare justice!
📢📚Please Join us on Nov 29th, 4 PM ET for the Book Launch of 'Your Money or Your Life: Debt Collection in American Medicine' w/
@LukeMessac
in conversation w/
@lindseymuniak
&
@gregggonsalves
. A must-attend for anyone passionate about healthcare justice!
The administrative state is central to meeting challenges including climate change, the care crisis, & the implementation of a more egalitarian political economy, & it's under attack by the courts.
Join us Feb 2 at YLS or on zoom!
John Oliver may be able to tell you why the Supreme Court is awful, but he's not gonna tell you what to do about it.
But you're in luck because we're teaming up with
@PeoplesParity
& an incredible group of faculty to do exactly that!
Join us TOMORROW!!
📢 IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT! We're hiring a full-time Deputy Director! 📢
The Deputy Director will work closely w/ the ED & Faculty Co-Directors to run the Project & grow the movement!
Apps due June 15. The Deputy will preferably start on July 15 or Aug 1!
We’re thrilled to announce the incredible line-up of advocates & leaders for this event!! 👀👀
@DavidAKesslerMD
, Chief Science Officer for White House Covid Response
@_HassanF
, Health Justice Initiative
@jbkrell
, Prep4All
@zainrizvi
, Public Citizen
On 10/22,
@akapczynski
@nikobowie
&
@veenadubal
will discuss the recent Cedar Point decision, which stands to dramatically expand constitutional private property rights at the expense of workers, civil rights, & the environment. Co-host:
@APPEALResearch
🚨 New resource up on the LPE Project's website! 🚨
Check out Columbia Law's
@alexis_hoag
's "Movement Lawyering: A Social Justice Critique" Syllabus highlighting the different avenues & theories lawyers can use to conceptualize and achieve social change!
🎺📜 BIG, BIG news... 🥁
We're hiring an Academic Fellow!! 🎺✊
The fellow will split time 50/50 btwn programming & their own research. The fellow will receive an appointment as a Research Scholar
@YaleLawSch
.
Job starts 7/1/23! Apps due by 2/15/23!
🥁 LAW STUDENTS! We enthusiastically invite anyone interested in starting an LPE group at their school to join us on Friday, 9/10, at 4 PM ET! We'll offer a quick intro to LPE and share tools & resources.
Pls sign up by Fri. 9/3 @ 5 PM ET!
⚖️💡⚙️⚒️✊
📢 Exciting Conference Alert!
Join us for our one-day conference on "Administering a Democratic Political Economy." with leading scholars in admin law.
🗓️: Friday, Feb 2nd, 10AM - 5:15 PM ET
📍: Yale Law School & Online
🌟 Save your spot now!
Don't forget to register for the LPE Project's (un)conference plenary on Radical Legal Imaginaries with
@orangebegum
,
@DorothyERoberts
, and Aziz Rana!
February 18th at 5:15pm ET!
🔥 from
@RaulACarrillo
on SBF and how “our financial regulatory system stuck in older ways of thinking, is increasingly incapable of preventing illicit finance in the platform economy”
You might have noticed a new piece of the LPE Project called the Law & Organizing Initiative popping up recently … As we approach the end of the year, a 🧵 about who we are and what we do! 1/
The
@LPE_Project
is thrilled to continue our LPE 101 Series with the incomparable Talha Syed on the LPE approach to Torts. This event is hybrid, so register today as you do NOT want to miss this one!
Registration & details 👇👇
Welcome new followers! We think about the law a little differently over here. The law plays a role in the perpetuation of economic, racial, & gender inequality -- & we’re exposing it. For an intro to the LPE approach, check out our 101 video series!
If you're reading this thread, please follow
@LPE_Project
&
@LPEBlog
. We're working with thinkers all over the world to rethink law & fight this sort of unaccountable power.
You can subscribe to the blog at bottom, here:
🎺📜 The LPE Project & LPE
@HLS
are excited to announce our upcoming conference!
"LPE: Labor, Social Control, & Counterpower"
March 31 to April 2, 2023 @ Harvard Law!
You can visit our websites for details & registration:
Scholars & students of all ages! Please join us next Thursday, April 1 @ 4pm EDT for the next episode of our LPE 101 Course (co-sponsored by
@acslaw
), "Law of the Platform Economy: Antitrust, Labor, & Contracts" with
@sanjuktampaul
!!
📢 Attention NEW YORKERS!📢
Please save the date for the official launch of...
🍾🌉🤩 ***LPE NYC*** 🤩🌉🍾
A new *citywide* network of students, profs, lawyers, organizers, & other people fighting for a better future!
2/16 - 6PM @ NYU. See you there!
HUGE thanks to
@sandeepvaheesan
and everyone who joined us in person and online for a fantastic talk on his forthcoming book, Democracy in Power, with
@UChicagoPress
! If you missed it, the recording will be up on our website soon. Stay tuned!
We are thrilled to report that
@sanjuktampaul
's "Law of the Platform: Antitrust, Labor, & Contracts," her wonderful contribution to our LPE 101 course with
@acslaw
is now posted on our website!
🥳🎉🪅
Interested in the relationship btwn CLS and LPE? Come hear this all-⭐️line-up discuss how the concepts of “political economy” and “indeterminacy” function within the movements (in a series that pays homage to Raymond Williams’s Keywords)
Register today!!
We apologize for the delay in letting everyone know the plan for the LPE Conference. We were so excited about the conference that it was hard to accept that there was no way to simply translate it as we had conceived it to an online format.
WEDNESDAY - we're pulling together so many
#LPE
threads it'll make your head spin! Join us for "The Political Economy of Motherhood: How Race, Poverty, & (Non-) Equal Rights Shape Society" ft.
@cynthia_godsoe
@ProfJDWeaver
@JulieCSuk
& Wendy Bach
@UTKLaw
!
UPDATE: We have added exciting new syllabi to the site:
@YochaiBenkler
’s Technology & Inequality,
@EzraRosser
’s Law & Poverty,
@eileen_boris
’s Feminist Theory: Marxism & Feminism, and
@ksuenamu
’s rethinking of property law through the lens of Land, Dispossession, & Displacement!!
The new website has a variety of resources designed to help faculty and students learn more about LPE, including SYLLABI from LPE and LPE-related courses, as well as primers/reading lists on topics such as neoliberalism and legal realism. 5/11
📣📣Are you teaching law students to organize? Send us your syllabus!
We want to hear from anyone who is teaching law students principles of organizing or movement building, no matter the tradition!!
🚨🚨Exciting and timely addition to our syllabus bank: Law and the Global Political Economy (Reading Group), organized by brilliant SJD students (Akshat Agarwal & Xiaolu Fan at YLS! 📖🌍
Check it out!!
🚨 Don’t miss this upcoming lunch talk with
@sandeepvaheesan
! We have limited in-person spots available, and they’re filling up quickly! You can still register to join us, either in person or online.
Please join the LPE Project on Wednesday, October 16th at 12:10pm ET for a lunch talk with
@sandeepvaheesan
to discuss his forthcoming book (December 2024) Democracy in Power: A History of Electrification in the United States.
🚀 Want to launch an LPE group at your law school? We've built a toolkit (LPE in a Box)! 🛠️📦
Are you at a school without a critical mass of LPE-inclined students? We're creating an "at-large" group! 📡
Please visit our site for more info!
We can't wait for "Abolition Across Criminal Justice, Immigration, & National Security"
@UFLaw
on Friday, April 1!
ft. activists, scholars, & practitioners
Amna Akbar (
@orangebegum
) to keynote!
Please join the LPE Project on Wednesday, October 16th at 12:10pm ET for a lunch talk with
@sandeepvaheesan
to discuss his forthcoming book (December 2024) Democracy in Power: A History of Electrification in the United States.
*AHEM*
Please join us for our next event on Friday @ 2PM ET!
CLS & LPE on ‘Political Economy’ & ‘Indeterminacy’
ft.
@libby_adler
,
@AzizaAhmed
,
@akapczynski
, Karl Klare, Akbar Rasulov, Talha Syed, & Duncan Kennedy
This is a popular event - register now!
A 🔥 post 20+ LPE Professors on the political economic pressures faced by law students & precarious faculty re: pro-Palestinian speech and why law schools must be honest about the problem and actively work to protect their students and staff
Continuing our fall programming...
...this Friday, 12:30 - 1:45 PM ET,
@veenadubal
@nikobowie
&
@akapczynski
will discuss the Court's ruling in Cedar Point Nursery, focusing on implications for labor, IP, & democracy.
Please register ASAP! 👨⚖️🍓✊
📢 If you're preparing for the fall law-related academic job market, please join us on Tuesday, August 3rd, for our mentoring session w/ Amy Cohen,
@CharlotteGarden
,
@sameer_ashar
! 📢
Reg. deadline is next Friday, 7/30, but we have limited space! 🖱️📨
We know many people who couldn't make it to the Keywords panel today were excited to watch the video (and many who came were likely inclined to go back and wrap their heads around the immense # of ideas), so it's already up on our site!
You asked, we answered 🙌 "The Accumulation of Waste: A Political Economy of Genocide and Imperialism" with Ali Kadri and
@maxajl
is now live! Whether you missed it or just want to rewatch (because it’s that good!), check it out here:
📣 Friends of LPE in DC! We are gathering for our first DC Happy Hour on Tuesday, July 11th from 5:30-7:30pm at Wunder Garten!
Law students, professors, practitioners, and non-lawyers all welcome!!
"If we call for 'democratizing the economy' while accepting the standard account of what 'the economy' is, we risk depoliticizing essential structures of economic ordering���& sustaining relations of domination." -
@akapczynski
, Angela P. Harris &
@NoahZatz
Next up after the plenary is a panel on Racial Capitalism, with a group of ground-breaking scholars, including
@MehrsaBaradaran
,
@veenadubal
,
@ksuenamu
,
@droithmayr
, Athena Mutua, and Angela Harris!
Feb 22nd at 2pm ET
Jan 28: join us for a fantastic panel on Law & Macroeconomics featuring a 🌟 line-up!
With papers from
@STOmarova
,
@LevMenand
, & Adam Feibelman, and a panel discussion of themes, methodologies, community-building w/
@AGelpern
& Erik Gerding.
Details 👉
🧨 This summer we welcomed an energetic & inspiring group of 38 law students to our second annual "Law & Organizing Academy,” co-hosted by the LPE Project,
@ActionLabNY
, & NYU Initiative for Community Power (
@RaceNYU
)!
👇🧵
Join us Feb 29 for a lunch talk w/ award-winning journalist & author Vincent Bevins on "If We Burn." Despite unprecedented protest participation, justice remains elusive. Explore the paradox of protest outcomes w/ insights from
@Vinncent
's latest book!📚✊
The LPE Project is teaming up with
@knightcolumbia
for a 2-day symposium on Data and Democracy Oct 15-16. Details and registration link below. Join us!
Join us next Tuesday at 8pm ET for the LAST session of our What To Do About the Courts session --
@astradisastra
will be in conversation with
@ksabeelrahman
about how we might build momentum on the left around disempowering the courts! Certain to be 🔥🔥!
DREAM JOB ALERT! 🚨🦄🌈 (now w correct link): Next year there will be new 2-year Harvard LPE postdoc!
Don’t miss this opportunity to work with a truly a brilliant group of LPE faculty (& 75k/yr to focus on yr own work 😲)
APPS DUE DEC 10th!!
Details 👇
Missed the fantastic Book Launch 📚 'Your Money or Your Life: Debt Collection in American Medicine'? Catch up now! Watch the brilliant conversation on medical debt and social justice with
@LukeMessac
&
@lindseymuniak
, moderated by
@gregggonsalves
.
If you missed our fantastic inaugural session of "What to Do About the Courts" (cohosted w
@PeoplesParity
) last month, don't make the same mistake twice!
Feb 20th on the history of court reform efforts (it's not just FDR!) with
@samuelmoyn
&
@WForbath
!!
📢📚Please Join us on Nov 29th, 4 PM ET for the Book Launch of 'Your Money or Your Life: Debt Collection in American Medicine' w/
@LukeMessac
in conversation w/
@lindseymuniak
&
@gregggonsalves
. A must-attend for anyone passionate about healthcare justice!