Syllabi – LPE Project

Law After Neoliberalism

James Brandt — Thu, 23 Jan 2025 20:21:19 +0000

This is an interdisciplinary course that examines the impact of neoliberalism on legal thought and practice. Neoliberalism refers to a body of ideas regarding the relationship between capitalism and democracy. Neoliberal theory holds that in a capitalist democracy markets rather than the state should serve as the preferred medium for resolving problems of political economy. Some of its proponents...

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Law, Social Movements, and Social Change

Corinne Blalock — Wed, 23 Oct 2024 18:43:41 +0000

This course explores the dynamic relationship between social movements and law, examining how movements for social change both shape and are shaped by law, policy, and deeper socio-legal transformations. Through the lens of critical legal theories, we also will interrogate the complex role of lawyers and legal advocates within social movements. Topics of focus include transformative movements for...

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Law and the Global Political Economy (Reading Group)

james — Wed, 24 Jan 2024 19:51:43 +0000

The global economic order is in flux. The Covid-19 pandemic, Russia’s war in Ukraine, rising tensions between the United States and China, and a more assertive and independent Global South have challenged long-held assumptions of global governance. Economic theories focusing on free trade and the power of independent markets have also come under criticism for deepening inequalities (race, wealth...

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Law & Inequality

Corinne Blalock — Wed, 23 Aug 2023 13:27:25 +0000

This course explores the relationship between law and inequality. Our questions include: What role might law play in reinforcing and redressing different forms of inequality, including along lines of race, indigeneity, class, gender, sexuality, and disability? When is legal reform emancipatory and when does it maintain structural inequality? How might political and social movements seek to...

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Law & Political Economy

Corinne Blalock — Tue, 22 Aug 2023 17:10:12 +0000

At the turn of the twentieth century, a host of legal scholars developed innovative analyses of the relationship between law, democracy, and the economy. These scholars of political economy refuted laissez-faire ideas by showing that the state, with law as its instrument, necessarily constructed the rules of the marketplace. They also showed how forms of power, constraint, and coercion worked in...

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Race, Place, & the Law (seminar)

Raul Carrillo — Sat, 25 Feb 2023 20:56:19 +0000

This seminar explores the institutional stakes of geography for economic opportunity and democratic representation, focusing on racial separation and subjugation in the United States. The first part of the course consider how law and policy help determine where people reside; the remainder explores how and why “place” matters. Many of our readings—which draw from public policy reports...

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The Law of Care Work

Raul Carrillo — Tue, 06 Dec 2022 17:55:00 +0000

This course studies the law’s governance of care work. The care economy supplies basic needs for individuals and provides the human infrastructure for society. Care work often happens outside the traditional workplace and/or the formal labor market. Beyond the market, the family and the state also play essential roles in providing and paying for care. As a result, care work—paid, unpaid...

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Law & Political Economy

Corinne Blalock — Tue, 27 Sep 2022 19:10:00 +0000

Much of legal scholarship and practice in recent decades has held politics and economics apart, abstracting away from or actively denying their interdependence. Law schools and legal scholarship are organized along an implicit divide between “public” and “private” fields of law which is defined in significant part by the role that economics is thought to play in these respective fields.

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Law and Political Economy

Corinne Blalock — Thu, 01 Sep 2022 14:05:27 +0000

This seminar introduces students to the field of “Law and Political Economy” (LPE) and explores current topics in LPE scholarship. LPE scholars are a diverse group whose work cuts across subject areas and methodologies. Nevertheless, LPE scholars tend to hold that “the economy” and “politics” are deeply interdependent—and yet that much legal doctrine, legal scholarship, and legal discourse denies...

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1L Law & Political Economy Reading Group (2022)

Corinne Blalock — Thu, 25 Aug 2022 00:59:36 +0000

This 1L reading group is designed to introduce students to a range of work in law and political economy. The reading group meets occasionally over the course of the year. As taught at NYU Law, it enrolls 12 first-year law students, and meets 4-6 times. There are no written assignments and the class is ungraded. After the first session, a different student takes responsibility for presenting an...

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