At the Blog We published the first part of our symposium on Hanoch Dagan’s forthcoming A Liberal Theory of Property. Jed Britton-Purdy and David Grewal kicked things off with an analysis of the relationship of private property to economies of scale, putting Dagan in conversation with classical liberal political economists the Marxian critique thereof. Then…

Don’t miss the event announcements!

No new posts, but prepare for the new year by checking out what we did last year! And a new video on the Race and Property in Historical Perspective Series

This week Henry Brooks interviewed Aziz Rana on the tenth anniversary of his book, The Two Faces of American Freedom. Stay tuned next week for our YEAR in Review roundup.

At the Blog Madison Gray (3L at Penn Law and part of the LPE student network!) published two posts on organized houseless folks winning a big victory in Philadelphia by refusing to budge from encampments they set up to support each other. Her first post recounts the struggle, drawing from the words of organizers themselves.…

We’re back from election week!

A very spooky weekly roundup!

We begin our series celebrating JLPE!

In which the launch of the Journal of Law and Political Economy is announced!

A roundup of this week’s posts…and more

Some exciting developments in LPE land amidst the widening gyre! A new Deputy Director, a new LPE101 Course…

This week at the blog… …we began a symposium on the deep problems with the criminal legal system. On Monday, Tariq El-Gabalawy introduced the symposium. On Tuesday, Marcelo López and Alejandra Gutiérrez discussed the intergenerational impacts of incarceration on their own families and communities and how that has guided their thinking through law school and…

A crowded and motley week at the blog!