Abolition Across Criminal Justice, Immigration, and National Security explores the interconnections between abolitionist movements in the criminal justice, immigration, and national security spaces. The conference’s goal is to contribute to the growing public conversation on abolition by exploring the importance of taking an intersectional approach to the abolitionist project and underscoring the close relationship that…
March 31, 2022 12:50-2:00 PM PTPlease join the LPE Society at Berkeley, Frank Pasquale (Brooklyn Law School), and Jamee Moudud (Sarah Lawrence College) for a critical discussion of inflation from an LPE perspective. What is it and why does it matter? Zoom:
The NYU Law and Political Economy 101 Speaker Series will be having its second event of the semester on an LPE approach to Civil Procedure with a live lecture and Q&A with Professor Luke Norris of Richmond University this Thursday, March 24th at 6pm! Professor Norris teaches on civil procedure, labor and employment law, and constitutional law focusing…
Please Join Us! Law and Political Economy “Office Hours” Upcoming Mentoring Session Co-sponsored by LPE Project and APPEAL When: Friday March 4, 2022. 4:00 – 5:00pm ET, (UTC-5) via zoom (link will be provided to accepted registrants) Registration & Deadline: Sign up HERE by March 1, 2022. Space is limited. Who: We welcome new & aspiring scholars, graduate and professional…
The fourth event in our “Political Economy of Care” series, hosted jointly with the Global Justice Health Partnership (GHJP). Decades of austerity and market-based solutions have delivered us a rapaciously profit-driven health care system and weak systems for community and public health, as well as social welfare and labor and community power. 27.5 million people…
A major public law conference will be held virtually & at the ANU College of Law in Canberra on 16-18 February 2022.
Growing inequality is a defining challenge of our times, domestically and globally. Yet the role of inequality in social, political and economic life is often muted (sometimes, invisible) in much public law scholarship. Notably, public law’s foundational concepts were forged in a social world where the inevitability of inequality was often taken for granted. The stuttering processes of democratisation have rendered that assumption untenable.
Monday, February 14th, 2022, 12:50-2:00 PM, Room 115 Join LPE and Daniel Epstein (UChicago Political Science) for a discussion of his paper recently published in The Journal of Law & Political Economy. The article analyzes American penal law, ideology, and culture through the lens of Marxist theories of commodification and commodity fetishism, and concludes by arguing that commodified justice can perhaps be…
Healthcare is an extraordinary complex bureaucracy, and in the US enormous authority is given to healthcare providers and professionals. What does that mean for community mobilization around health? Can health serve as a site of organizing and social justice work? Are there particular ways of organizing around health that do – and don’t – build…
This event brought together participants in the Critical Legal Studies (CLS) and Law and Political Economy (LPE) movements to discuss their approaches to the concepts of “political economy” and “indeterminacy.” The panelists included Libby Adler, Amy Kapczynski, Duncan Kennedy, Karl Klare, Akbar Rasulov, and Talha Syed, and the panel will be moderated by Aziza Ahmed.…
Please Join Us! When: January 21, 2022, 4:00-5:00p.m. ET (UTC-4) via zoom (link will be provided to accepted registrants) Who: We welcome new & aspiring scholars, graduate and professional students, and others interested in careers in Law and Political Economy to join us for this opportunity to talk in small groups with faculty about academic interests and…
Call for Papers Background Last month, in light of the Omicron wave sweeping the U.S. at alarming rates, the CDC changed its guidance on isolation for individuals infected with SARS-CoV-2. Instead of recommending 10 days of isolation, the period was shortened to 5, with no requirement for a negative test to return to the workplace.…
Law & Political Economy (LPE) is hailed as a new analytical project that situates the study of law within a broad political economy tradition, overcoming the perceived shortcomings of the economic analysis of law, in particular its tendency to abstract from power relations and focus on efficiency rather than social justice. The LPE movement began in leading…
What should ‘sustainable global economic law’ (SGEL) look like in the context of looming ecological catastrophe, wild levels of inequality and wealth concentration, and strong demands for social, racial and gender and environmental justice? Law provides the very infrastructure that sustains capitalism, which is inextricably linked to politically-sanctioned, large-scale destruction of nature, expropriation and the…
Etienne Toussaint, Assistant Professor, South Carolina School of Law, will discuss his paper, The Spirit of Racial Capitalism in Colonial America. Professor Toussaint teaches contracts, business associations, and courses related to business, political economy, and critical theory. Other areas of expertise include community development and housing law as well as environmental engineering.
At this upcoming APPEAL event, Elizabeth Sepper and James D. Nelson will discuss Government Religious Hospitals: American governments are not supposed to own or operate religious institutions. But they do. Across the country, states run hospitals that enforce religious doctrine. The origins of these hospitals lie at the intersection of dramatic transformations in healthcare’s political economy and in…
