Transnational LPE – LPE Project https://lpeproject.org The Law and Political Economy Project Fri, 27 Jun 2025 14:39:53 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.1 https://lpeproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/cropped-LPE_Favicon_512px_BlackBG-450x450.png Transnational LPE – LPE Project https://lpeproject.org 32 32 State Capitalist Mutations Under Trump 2.0 https://lpeproject.org/blog/state-capitalist-mutations-under-trump-2-0/ Mon, 23 Jun 2025 11:00:00 +0000 https://lpeproject.org/?p=11655 Global capitalism is undergoing turbulent mutations, including the seemingly unstoppable rise of Big Tech and the aggressive reengineering of globalization to intensifying geopolitical rivalries. The supercharged business and political news cycle is moving at an ever more dizzying pace. In this context, many of us are seeking intellectual resources to help us understand the specificity and...

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]]> The Authoritarian Commons: An Interview with Shitong Qiao https://lpeproject.org/blog/the-authoritarian-commons-an-interview-with-shitong-qiao/ Wed, 11 Jun 2025 11:00:00 +0000 https://lpeproject.org/?p=11644 In China, civic life tends to unfold beneath the watchful eye of a state wary of independent organization. And yet, in cities like Shanghai and Beijing, one of the most vibrant arenas for democratic participation—complete with elections, protests, and the occasional legal showdown—has emerged not from traditional dissident circles, but from homeowners’ associations. In his new book...

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]]> On Tariffs and the Ends of International Economic Law https://lpeproject.org/blog/on-tariffs-and-the-ends-of-international-economic-law/ Tue, 29 Apr 2025 11:00:00 +0000 https://lpeproject.org/?p=11541 These days, I often find myself thinking about Thornstein Veblen, capitalism’s most astute non-Marxist critic. A progenitor of institutional economics, Veblen is best known for his scathing critique of bourgeois conspicuous consumption: the habit of the newly-enriched capitalist classes to publicly display the goods and services purchased through their ever-expanding discretionary income as a way...

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]]> Fossil Capital’s Regulatory Havens in the Carribean https://lpeproject.org/blog/fossil-capitals-regulatory-havens-in-the-carribean/ Mon, 21 Apr 2025 11:00:00 +0000 https://lpeproject.org/?p=11521 Offshore jurisdictions—commonly known as tax havens—play a central role in sustaining the fossil fuel industry through legal, financial, and regulatory frameworks. Over 68% of fossil fuel financing by the world’s 60 largest banks flows through secrecy jurisdictions. These jurisdictions serve as critical nodes in the global economy, shielding corporations from accountability from environmental and...

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]]> A Call To Defend Free Speech From Weaponized Allegations of Terrorism Ties https://lpeproject.org/blog/free-speech-weaponized-allegations/ Thu, 10 Apr 2025 10:00:00 +0000 https://lpeproject.org/?p=11501 Today, the Trump Administration is engaged in a broad assault on campus life, with repression of speech in defense of Palestinian rights as the tip of the spear. This includes arresting, detaining, and threatening with deportation members of university communities for speech the government opposes. In this climate, many institutions of higher education are trying to keep their heads down, or worse...

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]]> Statement on Recent Events https://lpeproject.org/blog/statement-on-recent-events/ Thu, 13 Mar 2025 20:23:46 +0000 https://lpeproject.org/?p=11412 This is a perilous moment for our democracy and country. We are in the midst of an authoritarian assault on institutions central to free speech and self-governance, from universities to media to the bar–leading nearly 1000 law professors to name this a moment of constitutional crisis and one university president to compare our times to that of Joseph McCarthy. We are profoundly concerned about the...

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]]> Offshore Financial Law as Freedom-Promoting? https://lpeproject.org/blog/offshore-financial-law-as-freedom-promoting/ Thu, 20 Feb 2025 11:00:00 +0000 https://lpeproject.org/?p=11322 This post concludes a mini-series on the invisibilized power of trusts in modern financial capitalism. Read the rests of the posts here. *** In mainstream American discourse, offshore financial centers are generally conceived of as sources of scandal. For example, the Panama Papers, the Pandora Papers, and the Paradise Papers revealed companies and wealthy individuals concealing their assets and...

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]]> The Anti-Democratic Rise of Super-Property https://lpeproject.org/blog/the-anti-democratic-rise-of-super-property/ Wed, 05 Feb 2025 11:00:00 +0000 https://lpeproject.org/?p=11271 This post kicks off a mini-series on the invisibilized power of trusts in modern financial capitalism. *** This past month, an internationally consequential battle for corporate control over Rupert Murdoch’s media empire was resolved by what might seem an unlikely decision-maker — a Nevada probate commissioner. Even more surprisingly, the process lacked any of the usual markers of transparency...

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]]> Popular Lawyers Resisting the Right-Wing Agenda in Argentina https://lpeproject.org/blog/popular-lawyers-resisting-the-right-wing-agenda-in-argentina/ Thu, 07 Nov 2024 11:00:00 +0000 https://lpeproject.org/?p=10881 This post is part of a symposium on movement lawyering in times of rising authoritarianism, run in collaboration with the Global Network of Movement Lawyers and Movement Law Lab). (Available also in Espanol and Português). ** ** ** Since Javier Milei came to power in December 2023, his government has combined what is now a familiar repertoire for extreme right-wing governments of the “anarcho...

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]]> Seven Perspectives on International Law and Palestinian Liberation https://lpeproject.org/blog/seven-perspectives-on-international-law-and-palestinian-liberation/ Mon, 28 Oct 2024 11:00:00 +0000 https://lpeproject.org/?p=10908 This post is part of a symposium on movement lawyering in times of rising authoritarianism, run in collaboration with the Global Network of Movement Lawyers and Movement Law Lab). (Available also in Espanol and Português). ** ** ** In Culture and Imperialism, Edward Said posited that the remedy to a culture that preserves and advances imperialism is through the contrapuntal contributions of the...

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