For the past two decades, the legal construction of money has received increasing attention from scholars of history and (heterodox) economics. Legal scholarship on the international law of money has lagged behind. Yet, it is widely recognized that international monetary dynamics are key to the democracy-curbing effects of neoliberalism as expressed through the ‘Washington Consensus’…
The NYU Law & Political Economy Association (“LPEA”) works to create an intellectual and social forum for students to plug into ongoing discussions about the ways in which problematic economic and political assumptions are often embedded in the law, and conversely, the role that law plays in creating and maintaining unjust hierarchies of class, race,…
Please join APPEAL for the next session of their reading group on the law and political economy of capitalism. All are welcome, and participants need not attend each session, though we do ask participants to read the materials in advance. We also encourage participants to join APPEAL by signing up as a member, www.politicaleconomylaw.org. This session will…
This panel will consider the law-and-macroeconomics of rebuilding the U.S. economy and repairing the nation’s social and political fabric after the global public health and economic shock from COVID-19. The emerging literature at the intersection of law and macroeconomics has tended to focus on crisis response and near-term countercyclical interventions to moderate the effects of…
The Law and Political Economy Society (www.lpesoc.org) at Berkeley is a student-run organization dedicated to fostering interest and discussion in LPE, offering a community through which students and practitioners can build creative thinking, dissent, and systemic critique into their study and practice. Come join the Law and Political Economy Society at Berkeley Law on THURSDAY,…
How do we connect during a pandemic to share our thoughts on last week’s attempted coup? Current events have reached a fever pitch. While quarantined, many of us are unable to experience the chance encounters—such as running into colleagues at the office or meeting a friend—that afford us informal opportunities to share and interface. The insurrection raises…
The Law & Political Economy Project is once again teaming up with The Association for the Promotion of Political Economy & the Law (APPEAL) to bring you LPE Mentoring “Office Hours” Registration & Deadline: Sign up HERE by Monday Jan. 11 at 9:00pm ET. Space is limited. Who: We welcome new & aspiring scholars, graduate and professional students, and others interested…
ClassCrits is pleased to announce this call for papers for its Online Junior Scholar Workshop, to be held virtually via Zoom on Friday, January 22, 2021 from 5 p.m.-6:30 p.m. EST. Junior scholars (i.e., graduate students, aspiring faculty members, or faculty members with less than two years of experience in a full-time position) may submit work-in-progress (WIP)…
The next iteration of APPEAL’s ‘What is Capitalism?’ reading group is meeting December 18 at 3pm ET. All are welcome, and participants need not attend each session, though they do ask participants to read the materials in advance. They also encourage participants to join APPEAL by signing up as a member, www.politicaleconomylaw.org . Professor Jamee Moudud, Sarah Lawrence…
Law and Political Economy Monthly Mentoring “Office Hours” When: December 4, 2020, 4:00-5:00pm ET, 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 in our first of a series of opportunities to…
Join us for the third session of the LPE Project & ACS’s online course introducing students to LPE analysis. This course pairs lectures and short readings (from our own LPE Blog) that illustrate how LPE frameworks can help us examine law’s role in the perpetuation of racial and gender injustice, the devaluation of social and…
ClassCrits is hosting a workshop on Democracy, Social Justice, & the 2020 Election. The workshop will focus on people’s initial reactions to the impact of the election process and its outcome on various aspects of social life: the future of democracy, voting rights, workers’ rights, health, the environment, economic, social and racial justice, international relations, immigration…
Please join the NYU LPE Association this Friday, November 13th from 12:30-2:00pm ET for the final lecture in the NYU Law & Political Economy Association’s Fall 2020 LPE 101 series. They will be joined by Professor Shaun Ossei-Owusu for a conversation about how LPE scholars are thinking through the relationship between criminal law, race, and economic inequality, how we came to be…
This is the first panel in a series of panels that will be adapted from the canceled LPE Conference: Democracy Beyond Neoliberalism (originally scheduled for April 2020). This panel discussion will focus upon the erosion of democratic institutions and the rise of oligarchy that has followed in the wake of unprecedented economic inequality. The panel will…
The “Law & Political Economy: Democracy Beyond Neoliberalism” Conference is part of a deliberate effort to critically transform legal thought. We are coming together in recognition that “the economy” cannot be separated from questions of power, distribution, and democracy. The conference was originally scheduled to meet at Yale Law School in April 2020 (the original conference…
