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LPE Field Guide: A Brief Reading List

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As we promised in our post on Monday, below is a list of recommended readings—mostly, but not entirely, from the blog—that helped orient us to the critical and constructive moves of LPE. Our choices are highly partial and subjective, and there is a vast literature on the Blog and elsewhere that can help to orient…

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Weekly Roundup

Weekly Roundup: July 30, 2021

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At the Blog We hosted the second and final part of our symposium on Courts and Capitalism, which is part of the Democracy Beyond Neoliberalism conference: Joey Fishkin wrote about the long history of the Supreme Court’s opposition to democracy, drawing on his forthcoming book The Anti-Oligarchy Constitution. Judge Lynn Adelman wrote about judges’ role…. . .
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Labor Bargaining and the “Common Good”

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In recent years, unions have experimented with a strategy of “bargaining for the common good”. But, as we have seen with teachers unions and school opening in the pandemic, unions and the general public do not always agree on what the “public good” is. What follows?
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On Judging Cases in the Context of Crisis

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I thank the Law and Political Economy Project for inviting me to participate in this blog symposium on capitalism and the courts. I begin by stating the obvious: that we live in a capitalist economic system and a political system that aspires to being democratic. There is clearly considerable tension between these systems. Most capitalists…

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Weekly Roundup

Weekly Roundup: July 23, 2021

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At the Blog We started a symposium on Courts and Capitalism, carried over from the Democracy Beyond Neoliberalism conference. Kathryn Sabbeth initiated the proceedings with a detailed meditation on the many points at which our system of litigation privileges the development of rich people’s law and underdevelops poor people’s law. Matthew Dimick. . .