SAQ week – LPE Project

On Being Essentially Dispossessed

James Brandt — Thu, 03 Nov 2022 11:00:00 +0000

This post is part of SAQ week, celebrating a special issue of the Southern Atlantic Quarterly on Law and the Critique of Capitalism. *** “Are you okay? Can I send you money?” I texted Hope. I finally heard from her a few minutes before midnight. “I’m safe now. He drunk himself to sleep. I got back in. I’ll be safe tonight.” I responded, “You have to get out of there. I’m sending you money.

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Amy Kapczynski and Wendy Brown on Democracy

James Brandt — Tue, 01 Nov 2022 11:00:00 +0000

This post is part of SAQ week, celebrating a special issue of the Southern Atlantic Quarterly on Law and the Critique of Capitalism. In the following excerpt, which is drawn from a longer conversation about neoliberalism, racial capitalism, and much else, Amy Kapczynski and Wendy Brown discuss the value of democracy, the role of the courts, and strategies for democratizing our political economy.

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International Law and (the Critique of) Political Economy

James Brandt — Mon, 31 Oct 2022 11:00:00 +0000

International law has a thriving critical scene, arguably bigger and more institutionally established than any other field. Yet political economy has been an unstable point of focus for critical international lawyers, in part because the justifications of the status quo in the international domain never coalesced into anything akin to a ‘21st-century synthesis.’ This picture of fragmentation and instability helps explain why Marxism provides a useful set of intellectual tools for approaching law, in particular, and social formations in general.