Weekly Roundup – LPE Project

Weekly Roundup: July 11

James Brandt — Fri, 11 Jul 2025 11:00:00 +0000

On Monday, Bijal Shah highlighted an under-appreciated way in which the Supreme Court has enabled the executive branch’s illegal immigration actions: it has abandoned longstanding principles of administrative law. During Trump’s first term, the Court deployed the Administrative Procedure Act to restrain the president’s most egregious actions. This time around, however, the Court has shown little...

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Weekly Roundup: June 27

James Brandt — Fri, 27 Jun 2025 11:00:00 +0000

On Monday, Ilias Alami explained how the role of the state is changing in its relation to capital and society at large, and outlined the political economic transformations that sparked this “new” state capitalism. On Tuesday, Sabeel Rahman examined the reactionary vision of governance emerging under the Trump administration—and offered a progressive alternative focused on dismantling systems of...

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Weekly Roundup: June 20

James Brandt — Fri, 20 Jun 2025 11:00:00 +0000

On Monday, William Boyd continued our symposium on Sandeep Vaheesan’s Democracy in Power. The battle over clean energy isn’t just about how much we build—but who owns it. And, as Boyd lays out, for the past forty years, tax policy has promoted a privatized, financialized model of renewable energy ownership. On Tuesday, Renee Tapp argued that recent attempts to solve the affordable housing crisis...

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Weekly Roundup: June 13

James Brandt — Fri, 13 Jun 2025 11:00:00 +0000

On Monday, Shelley Welton continued our symposium on Sandeep Vaheesan’s Democracy in Power. Welton highlights some important differences between the political economy of rural electrification and that of today’s push for clean electricity – distinctions that can help us be clear-eyed about the political hurdles facing modern public power movements. On Wednesday, Jed Britton-Purdy interviewed...

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Weekly Roundup: June 6

James Brandt — Fri, 06 Jun 2025 11:00:00 +0000

Sandeep Vaheesan and Brett Christophers kick off a symposium on Democracy in Power, while the Blog's editorial staff share some of their favorite housing posts from over the years. Plus, Søren Mau on Citizen Marx, Lev Menand and Benjamin Dinovelli on the Supreme Court's Federal Reserve shenanigans, Benjamin Braun & Cédric Durand on America’s Braudelian Autumn, Lisa Miller on the Dead End of Checks and Balances, and a Just Money workshop with Morgan Ricks on Financial Market Infrastructure.

Weekly Roundup: May 23

James Brandt — Fri, 23 May 2025 11:00:00 +0000

Dan Farbman on abolitionist lessons for the present crisis, along with a round-up of some of the best new LPE and LPE-adjacent scholarship. Plus, a CFP on the law and political economy of contemporary authoritarian rule, Allison Tait revisits Henry Hansmann on endowments, Jed Purdy discusses Ecology and Democracy in a World on Fire, Talha Syed calls for abolishing pharma patents, Sandeep Vaheesan reviews Abundance, Money on the Left offers a fiscal strategy for resisting Trump, Rick Hansen traces the collapse of campaign finance regulation in the US, and Stephanie Richard argues against criminalizing wage theft.

Weekly Roundup: May 16

James Brandt — Fri, 16 May 2025 11:00:00 +0000

Salomé Viljoen on data governance and techno-authoritarians, Kelly Grotke on the foundations of the current crisis in higher ed, and Isaac Kamola on the role of dark money organizations in the campus speech wars. Plus, an incredible CFP for junior work and labor scholars, a special issue of the JLPE on securities law and climate change, Katharina Pistor and David Pozen on Columbia's review of its University Senate, Adam Bonica on why Democrats should reject mega-donor money, Ben Dinovelli on the Federal Reserve's Forgotten Mandate, Nathaniel Donahue on Humphrey’s Executor, Kate Jackson on Lenore Palladino's Good Company, and Fred Block on the possibility of remaking finance for the public good.

Weekly Roundup: May 9

James Brandt — Fri, 09 May 2025 11:00:00 +0000

On Monday, Nicholas Handler made the legal and political case for defending civil servant labor unions. These unions, he explains, play a double role in our democratic life: they serve as a check on presidential abuses of power, while also expanding state capacity and thus enabling presidents to turn campaign promises into reality. On Wednesday, Ava Liu argued that Universal Basic Income proposals...

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Weekly Roundup: May 2

James Brandt — Fri, 02 May 2025 11:00:00 +0000

Ganesh Sitaraman on Antimonopoly and Artificial Intelligence, Ntina Tzouvala on Tariffs and Economic Sabotage, and Noa Ben-Asher on Trans Healthcare Bans and White Nationalism. Plus, a three-part interview series with Aziz Rana, Zohra Ahmed on the right-wing legal campaigns to kill progressive social movements, a spreadsheet of where law firms stand vis-a-vis Trump's attacks on the rule of law, a new collection of essays on Economic Democracy, and a review of Sophia Rosenfeld's new book, The Age of Choice.

Weekly Roundup: Feb 28

James Brandt — Fri, 28 Feb 2025 11:00:00 +0000

Six former members of the Biden Administration on a more progressive future, along with a collection of our most illuminating posts on administrative law and democratic governance. Plus, a call for recently accepted LPE-relevant articles, an upcoming event on Organizing Red States, a lecture by Sanjukta Paul on Economic Coordination and Competition in American Legal Thought, a fellowship at The Brennan Center for Justice, Nathan Tankus on Fort Knox and Buying Bitcoin, David Dayen on amnesty day at the CFPB, and Beau Baumann on why progressives need to start thinking much bigger.