The Neoliberal Republic – LPE Project https://lpeproject.org The Law and Political Economy Project Tue, 29 Jun 2021 13:46:21 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.1 https://lpeproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/cropped-LPE_Favicon_512px_BlackBG-450x450.png The Neoliberal Republic – LPE Project https://lpeproject.org 32 32 Public-Washing the Private Interest in International Investment Law https://lpeproject.org/blog/public-washing-the-private-interest-in-international-investment-law/ Tue, 29 Jun 2021 11:00:00 +0000 https://lpeproject.org/?p=5773 This post is part of our symposium on The Neoliberal Republic by Antoine Vauchez and Pierre France. Read all posts here. The Neoliberal Republic offers an insightful portrayal of how neoliberalism has permeated France in the past decades. The book helps us to grasp how the legal universe has been deeply implicated in the power grab by the private sphere. The protagonists of the story are the...

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]]> What Makes the Republic Neoliberal? https://lpeproject.org/blog/neoliberalism-law-and-scholarly-erasures/ Mon, 28 Jun 2021 11:00:00 +0000 https://lpeproject.org/?p=5770 This post is part of our symposium on The Neoliberal Republic by Antoine Vauchez and Pierre France. Read all posts here. Like many other new shiny things, it ended with disappointment. Emmanuel Macron’s victory in 2017 was hailed as the advent of ‘le nouveau monde’ vis-à-vis the old political elites—a glimmer of hope in the face of the global rise of far-right populism. On both sides of the...

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]]> Deconstructing the Public-Private Distinction in “The Neoliberal Republic” https://lpeproject.org/blog/deconstructing-the-public-private-distinction-in-the-neoliberal-republic/ Thu, 24 Jun 2021 11:00:00 +0000 https://lpeproject.org/?p=5754 This post is part of our symposium on The Neoliberal Republic by Antoine Vauchez and Pierre France. Read all posts here. Antoine Vauchez and Pierre France take the reader backstage in The Neoliberal Republic, providing empirically rich insights into how neoliberalism has permeated French state institutions. More specifically, their account focuses on the role of private actors...

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]]> Neoliberalism, Corporate law, and the Reconstruction of the French State https://lpeproject.org/blog/neoliberalism-corporate-law-and-the-reconstruction-of-the-french-state/ Wed, 23 Jun 2021 11:00:00 +0000 https://lpeproject.org/?p=5752 This post is part of our symposium on The Neoliberal Republic by Antoine Vauchez and Pierre France. Read all posts here. Here is a simple story. France, whose economy was largely in state hands, decides to privatize many state-owned enterprises. This move is inspired both by neoliberal theories promoting the superior economic benefits of markets and by pressures from the EU...

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]]> The Neoliberal Republic: Corporate Lawyers, Statecraft, and the Making of Public-Private France https://lpeproject.org/blog/the-neoliberal-republic-corporate-lawyers-statecraft-and-the-making-of-public-private-france/ Tue, 22 Jun 2021 11:00:00 +0000 https://lpeproject.org/?p=5750 This post is part of our symposium on The Neoliberal Republic by Antoine Vauchez and Pierre France. Read all posts here. For most scholars and commentators in France and abroad, the election of Emmanuel Macron as president was met with surprise and dismay. The rapid ascent to the apex of power of a thirty-nine-year-old technocrat who was virtually unknown to the public three years earlier and...

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