Please join the Yale Program in Law and Political Economy and YLS LPE Student Group for an in-person event September 2 at 12:10pm (RSVP req’d) on the Supreme Court’s misuses of the founding period history with Professor Bill Novak. In June 2022, the US Supreme Court elevated American history to new heights of constitutional significance,…
In the wake of a widespread sense that neo-classical economic models have failed us, we have an opportunity to improve the explanatory and normative dimensions of economics by incorporating insights from other disciplines. For example, consider that incorporating findings from psychology and the behavioral sciences can improve the predictive power of economic models. Or consider that incorporating…
We invite rising second- and third-year law students from New York City law schools to apply to The Action Lab (TAL), the Law and Political Economy (LPE) Project and the Initiative for Community Power’s first ever Summer Academy on Law, Organizing, and Power Building. Amid the escalating and interlocking crises that define our current moment,…
CALL FOR PAPERS & PARTICIPATION ClassCrits XIII Unlocking Inequality: Revisiting the Intersection of Race and Class Co-Sponsored by ClassCrits, Inc., TapRoot Earth, and Thurgood Marshall School of Law October 21-22, 2022 at Thurgood Marshall School of Law, Houston, TX (we anticipate a live conference) Proposals We invite proposals for individual paper presentations and panels that…
A NEW ECONOMIC PARADIGM?: LEADING SCHOLARS AND OFFICIALS DISCUSS FLOURISHING ANTIMONOPOLY RESEARCH AND POLICY OPPORTUNITIES The academics reshaping the antimonopoly field discuss where it’s headed On Tuesday, July 19, Economic Security Project and the Law and Political Economy Project will bring together leading scholars, advocacy groups, and government officials in a virtual discussion: Resourcing a New…
Sustainable and Global Economic Law is holding a Summer School in Amsterdam this summer. Applications due by June 4th (extended from May 31). The Sustainable Global Economic Law (SGEL) summer school provides a unique space for interdisciplinary conversations on global economic law and sustainability, in the context of accelerating climate change, and the persistence of…
EAEPE – YSI – APPEAL SUMMER SCHOOL 4-8 July 2022 “LABOUR AND WELFARE IN THE POST COVID-19 ERA” University Roma Tre, Department of Economics. Via Silvio D’Amico 77, 00145 Rome, Italy Local organisers: Pasquale Tridico and Sebastiano Fadda Contact: summerschool@eaepe.org Submission Deadline: 6 June 2022 The EAEPE – YSI – APPEAL Summer School is open…
How We Win: Local Worker Rights Campaigns Wednesday, June 29 at 8pm ET / 7pm CT / 6pm MT / 5pm PT RSVP here to attend! Join us for the second event in the DSA Fund’s series on How We Win, where we’ll get an inside look at worker rights campaigns in Portland, Maine; New…
The LPE Anti-Monopoly and Regulated Industries (AMRI) Academy is a crash course in challenging corporate power in our political economy. Recent events, including the policy response to the COVID-19 pandemic, have exposed the dangers of the prevailing “neoliberal consensus”—the idea that markets are self-correcting and efficient, that we should analyze society in terms of individual…
Please Join Us! Upcoming Mentoring Session When: Friday April 29, 2022. 4:00 – 5:00pm EDT, (UTC-4) via Zoom (link will be provided to accepted registrants) Registration & Deadline: Sign up here by April 26, 2022. Space is limited. Who: We welcome new & aspiring scholars, graduate and professional students, and others interested in careers in Law…
Topic: Join the U.S. LPE At-Large group as we discuss the realities of homelessness, the crisis in affordable housing, and competing policies for solving both. We will cover Housing First, zoning approaches, and more. Panelists: Deborah K. PadgettProfessor at NYU Silver School of Social Work Rob RobinsonSenior Advisor at Dignity and Rights Samuel SteinHousing Policy…
Call for Papers: Law & Social Movements Accepting Submissions | April 22 – July 22, 2022 ABOUT The Michigan Journal of Law & Society (MJLS) is the nation’s first law-school journal to focus on the intersections of law, history, and the social sciences. MJLS is also the nation’s first law-school journal to incorporate law students,…
Northeastern Law is holding a day-long celebration of Karl Klare, with panels addressing the issues at the heart of Klare’s work: “Transforming Constitutionalism” (on constitutionalism & South Africa, with The Honorable Dennis Davis, Frank Michelman, Jayshree Satpute, & Lucy Williams, with a video presentation by Amaya Paulina Alvez Marín) “Unions & Workers (Solidarity Forever)” (with…
The NYU Law and Political Economy speaker series will be having its LAST event of the semester on an LPE approach to Torts with a live lecture and Q&A with Professor Talha Syed from UC Berkeley next Wednesday, April 6th at 6 PM. Professor Syed’s research focuses on law and political economy, with applications to…
The final event in our “Political Economy of Care” series, hosted jointly with the Global Justice Health Partnership (GHJP). In the US, access to some kinds of healthcare expanded during a period in the 1960s – 2000s when other social welfare programs were being sharply cut. But while spending on healthcare and access to health…
