The Law and Political Economy (LPE) Project seeks to hire an Academic Fellow to play both a scholarly and organizational role. The LPE Project brings together a network of scholars, practitioners, and students working to develop innovative intellectual, pedagogical, and political interventions to advance the study of political economy and law. The Project also supports…
11/17/2022Yale Law School, Sterling Law Building Room 122
Please join the Yale Program in Law and Political Economy and YLS LPE Student Group for an in-person event November 17 at 12:10pm (RSVP req’d) with Professor Zohra Ahmed (University of Georgia School of Law). Professor Ahmed will be discussing a work in progress, titled “The Price of Consent: Law and Political Economy in the…
Please join the Yale Program in Law and Political Economy and YLS LPE Student Group for an in-person event November 3 at 12:10pm (RSVP req’d) with Professor Saule Omarova. Professor Omarova will offer an introduction to the “Law and Political Economy of Central Banking,” with a focus on the U.S. Federal Reserve system. The talk…
Join the Berkeley Law & Political Economy Society for a presentation from Professor Talha Syed on his working paper titled "Legal Realism and CLS from an LPE Perspective"
Please join the LPE Project and APPEAL for our next informal mentoring session! When: Friday October 28, 2022. 4:00 – 5:00pm EDT, (UTC-4) via Zoom (link will be provided to accepted registrants) Registration & Deadline: Please sign up here by Tuesday, October 25 at 12PM ET. Space is limited! Who: We welcome law students and graduate…
10/25/2022Zoom / Museum of Black Civilizations, Dakar, Senegal
“Facing the socio-ecological crisis: Delinking and the question of Global Reparations” This is the second conference hosted by the African Economic and Monetary Sovereignty Initiative, a group of scholar-activists from Africa, Europe, and the U.S. who have begun tackling the question of economic and political self-determination on the African continent with a focus on the…
10/18/2022Zoom (link to be provided) and Yale Law School (SLB 127)
What is the future of worker power in the US? On the one hand, the last several decades have been characterized by declining labor power and legal retrenchment. Private sector union membership is at an all-time low, and the Supreme Court recently dealt a major blow to public sector unions. “Right to work” laws, and…
10/17/2022Yale Law School - Sterling Law Building - Room 129 (Livestream link to follow)
The Fall 2022 Gruber Distinguished Lecture will be held in person on October 17, 2022 at 4:30 PM with Sara Nelson. The faculty host will be Yale Law Professor Amy Kapczynski, Faculty Director of the LPE Project. Sara Nelson has served as the International President of the Association of Flight Attendants-CWA, AFL-CIO since 2014, and…
How does the doctrine we learn in law school actually shape the cities and neighborhoods we live in? And how do power and social relationships fit into the picture? Join the Harvard Law and Political Economy Association as we address these questions starting at square one with the 1L curriculum. Prof. Yochai Benkler will use specific doctrines…
Join us for what promises to be a fantastic conversation between Professor Sanjukta Paul (University of Michigan Law School) and Tim Wu, White House Special Assistant to the President, co-hosted with the Economic Security Project. The event will be moderated by Edward Ongweso Jr. (Motherboard). With unprecedented alignment across government to tackle concentrated private power,…
Please join LPE Loyola for a double header featuring talks by interdisciplinary political philosopher Dr. Nimi Wariboko (Walter G. Muelder Professor of Social Ethics at Boston University) and MMT policy expert Rohan Grey (Assistant Professor of Law, Willamette University). Dr. Nimi Wariboko — “The Inevitability of Injustice in Modern Capitalist Economies: How to Think it, Resist…
10/06/2022Yale Law School - Sterling Law Building Room 122
Please join the Yale Program in Law and Political Economy and YLS LPE Student Group for an in-person event October 6 at 12:10pm (RSVP req’d) with Professor Guy-Uriel Charles (Harvard Law School). Professor Charles will be discussing a work in progress, titled “Identity Crisis: Race (and Class) in the Twilight of the Civil Rights Consensus.”…
Law and Political Economy (or LPE) is a “big tent” — situating oneself and one’s work within the movement can be exciting, but also challenging. Getting started might seem especially difficult for scholars interested in race, gender, and/or other systems of domination, because most legal scholarship treats race, gender, and identity as ancillary or peripheral…
This is the next iteration of our LPE 101 series with Professor Talha Syed (UC Berkeley) discussing an LPE approach to Torts! Tort law deals with two foundational subjects: Rights and Risk. The prevailing modes of analyzing these within tort theory and policy have been as realms of corrective justice (moral philosophy) or social policy…
5th Conference on Law & Macroeconomics hosted by The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania (but the conference will be virtual) The macroeconomic instability of the 2020s continues to fuel economic, social, and political turmoil worldwide and to recast our understanding of law and macroeconomics. The ongoing crisis has opened up new and vitally…
