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Weekly Roundup: December 17, 2021

By LPE Editors

Angela Harris, Caroline Parker, David Doorey, Saúl Sarabia, and Michael Z. Dean kicked off a new series on Just Transitions! Plus, an amazing HLR note.

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A Just Transition from Mass Incarceration: The Case of Abolishing Youth Incarceration in Los Angeles

By Saúl Sarabia, Michael Z. Dean

A just transition for probation officers will never appeal to everyone. Nevertheless, it provides a potentially powerful framework for people who have experienced the dehumanizing mental and physical toll of working in the carceral state.

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The Contested Boundaries of Just Transitions Law

By David J. Doorey

During the past decade the concept of a “just transition” has expanded far beyond its roots in the labor movement’s concern for protecting displaced fossil fuel workers. Should we welcome this expansion of the concept? Or will this generic use of ‘just transition’ undermine its usefulness as a framing device to guide policy and. . .

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Building the New: Just Transitions & LPE

By Angela P. Harris, Caroline Parker

Just Transition calls us to center questions of justice and distribution in the fight for an ecologically sustainable future. This call resonates deeply with the core concerns of LPE.

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Weekly Roundup: December 10, 2021

By LPE Editors

LaToya Baldwin Clark and Diana Reddy identify the recent backlash to critical race theory as part of broader conservative attacks on education as a public good. Plus, we need your help gathering intel about critical approaches to legal pedagogy.

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The Long History of Anti-CRT Politics

By Aziz Rana

Recent attacks on CRT often claim that the US, since its founding, has been committed to principles of liberty and equality. This strategic use of American universalism, along with an explicit focus on public education, has a long history in rightwing politics: for the better part of a century, it has been perhaps the dominant way of articulating white. . .

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Anti-CRT and a “Free Market” in Racial Education

By Diana Reddy

Recent attacks on CRT must be understood as part of a long-term battle to privatize education. For economic conservatives, a “free market” has the capacity to satisfy all “tastes” in racial education.

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Educational “Ownership” and the Backlash to CRT

By LaToya Baldwin Clark

When public education is seen as a property entitlement, there is an inevitable contestation over who controls this valuable resource and to what end.

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Weekly Roundup: December 3, 2021

By LPE Editors

The week in review: a renewed policy program for media democracy, the long history of anti-CRT politics, and a swan song for municipal debt. Plus, a cool job.

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Metaphors, Analogies, and the Politics of Understanding

By Destin Jenkins

Muscles and arteries. Hammers and parasites. Addictions and complexes. Destin Jenkins concludes our Bonds of Inequality symposium by reflecting on the political implications of the metaphors we use to describe municipal debt.

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Towards a Media Democracy Agenda: The Lessons of C. Edwin Baker

By Sanjay Jolly, Victor Pickard

Powerful monopolies have captured our core communication infrastructures, subjected them to the unbridled pursuit of advertising revenues, and generated profound social harms. Media democracy, as a political and intellectual project, seeks to provide solid theoretical foundations from which to understand and respond to this worsening crisis.

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Towards a Law and Political Economy Approach to the Global War on Terror

By Zohra Ahmed

To ensure support for its Global War on Terror, the United States has exploited the Pakistani government’s reliance on foreign credit to guarantee cooperation in US counterinsurgency operations. In leveraging its role as a lender to provide Pakistan with short-term financial relief, the United States has deepened Pakistan’s economic dependency, undermined. . .

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How Governments (and Others) Should Present Complicated Information

By Darien Shanske

Voters respond differently to policy options depending on how they are presented. Determining what constitutes ethical presentation demands an an exercise in prudence.

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Weekly Roundup: November 19, 2021

By LPE Editors

Worker representation on corporate boards, a transnational turn for LPE, and the power of franchisors. Plus, a fellowship announcement from HKU.

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What Do Franchisees Do? Vertical Restraints as Workplace Fissuring and Labor Discipline Devices

By Brian Callaci

Current trademark and antitrust law allows franchisor firms to obtain the low-wage, deskilled labor they desire, without incurring the risks and duties of an employer.

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