Transforming a Broken System – LPE Project https://lpeproject.org The Law and Political Economy Project Tue, 27 Sep 2022 23:24:13 +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 Transforming a Broken System – LPE Project https://lpeproject.org 32 32 The Academy and the (Undoing of) the Carceral State https://lpeproject.org/blog/the-academy-and-the-undoing-of-the-carceral-state/ Wed, 14 Oct 2020 11:00:00 +0000 https://lpeproject.org/?p=4666 This post is part of our ongoing Transforming a Broken System Symposium. Click here to read all posts in our series, including the introductory post. Protests this spring and summer presented activists with a doubly cruel irony: demonstrators risked their lives to save their lives. Political protests are no lovefest and often come with grave risks to life and liberty.

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]]> Imperfect Progressive Reforms: Situating the Problem of Gender Violence https://lpeproject.org/blog/imperfect-progressive-reforms-situating-the-problem-of-gender-violence/ Wed, 30 Sep 2020 11:00:00 +0000 https://lpeproject.org/?p=4617 This post is part of our ongoing Transforming a Broken System Symposium. Click here to read all posts in our series, including the introductory post. In The Death Penalty: Vol. 1, Jacque Derrida attributes the origins of penal law to commercial law: “it is the law of commerce, debt, the market, the exchange between things, bodies and monetary signs, with their general equivalent and their surplus...

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]]> Establishing a Right to Replacement Counsel https://lpeproject.org/blog/establishing-a-right-to-replacement-counsel/ Tue, 29 Sep 2020 11:00:00 +0000 https://lpeproject.org/?p=4612 This post is part of our ongoing Transforming a Broken System Symposium. Click here to read all posts in our series, including the introductory post. What do you do if your court-appointed lawyer is not representing you effectively? I think about this question often. My job at the Texas Fair Defense Project is to improve access to and quality of public defense in Texas. Because we believe that you...

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]]> Greensboro to Kenosha: the Failure to Root Out Racism, Toxicity, and Fraternalism in Law Enforcement https://lpeproject.org/blog/greensboro-to-kenosha-the-failure-to-root-out-racism-toxicity-and-fraternalism-in-law-enforcement/ Thu, 24 Sep 2020 11:00:00 +0000 https://lpeproject.org/?p=4598 This post is part of our Transforming a Broken System Symposium. Click here to read all posts in our series, including the introductory post. On November 3, 1979 members of the Communist Workers Party (CWP) of Greensboro North Carolina planned a “Death to the Klan” rally. In full view of news crews, members of the Ku Klux Klan and American Nazi Party opened fire on the protestors.

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]]> The Intergenerational Impact of Carceral Punishment https://lpeproject.org/blog/the-intergenerational-impact-of-carceral-punishment/ Tue, 22 Sep 2020 11:00:00 +0000 https://lpeproject.org/?p=4585 This interview with Marcela Lopez and Alejandra Gutierrez is part of our ongoing Transforming a Broken System Symposium. Click here to read all posts in our series, including the introductory post. LPE Blog: Can you explain a little about your experience and your relationship with carceral punishment? ML: I am formerly incarcerated, and system impacted. I distinguish the two because of my personal...

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]]> Transforming a Broken System: A Symposium on Criminal (In)Justice in America https://lpeproject.org/blog/transforming-a-broken-system-a-symposium-on-criminal-injustice-in-america/ Mon, 21 Sep 2020 16:00:00 +0000 https://lpeproject.org/?p=4581 This is the introductory piece to our symposium on transforming America’s Criminal Legal System, click here to read all posts in the series. Almost every criminal law textbook starts with a discussion of the foundational assumptions that undergird our criminal legal system. You learn that the difference between a crime and a civil wrong is the expressed hatred, fear, or contempt of the community.

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