Legal scholars, students, & practitioners working to expose & transform law's role in the perpetuation of economic, racial, & gender inequality. &
@LPEblog
A must-read post by
@NoahZatz
on how the conflation of anti-Zionism & antisemitism "relies on pervasive racist & anti-Muslim stereotypes of Palestinians as endemically hateful, violent, deceptive, and hostile to Jews" in violation of civil rights law
The LPE Project is teaming up with ACS to offer an online course to introduce students to the law & political economy framework! The first lecture in the series is with
@akapczynski
on October 8th at 5:30pm ET.
Please spread the word!!
Details 👇👇
the most authors we’ve ever had on the blog for a single post (!!) on the political economic pressures faced by law students & precarious faculty re: pro-Palestinian speech and the need for law schools to mitigate rather than exacerbate these pressures
The LPE Project is delighted to announce that we are teaming up with
@PeoplesParity
to offer an open course/reading group (for EVERYONE not just law students/profs) on one of the most urgent political questions of our time: what to do about the courts.
This Thursday from 12:30 - 1:30 PM ET, the Brooklyn LPE Collective &
@HarvardLPE
student group join forces!!
.
@nssylla
will offer a new perspective on sovereign debt in the Global South...through an MMT lens!
In-person @ Harvard, but also on ZOOM!
.
@FlyingWithSara
: I’m so happy I haven’t heard the term “middle class,” since I set foot on campus. The term “working class” generates more solidarity. And one of our most important challenges is defining what “work” is and thus expanding “working class” solidarity.
Super excited to welcome the new LPE Group at Gujarat National Law University which will bring together a community of like-minded students and academics to engage with LPE in a way "informed by their location in the Global South"
It's a historic day!
Please welcome LPE
@JindalLaw
, the 1st LPE GROUP IN INDIA!! ⚖️🇮🇳🌏
"This chapter locates itself at the intersection of caste, class & gender & aspires to ameliorate the challenges faced by people disadvantaged by these institutions."
🚨 RED ALERT! The videos from LPE Project & LPE
@HLS
spring conference, “LPE: Labor, Social Control, and Counterpower,” are now available on our website!!!
You can watch all 13 sessions at your leisure! 🧵
🎺📜 HERE WE GO! In ~4 weeks, from March 31 - April 2, the LPE Project & LPE
@HLS
will host a small conference, “Law and Political Economy: Labor, Social Control, and Counterpower,” at Harvard.
🥁🥁 You can now REGISTER for our Anti-monopoly & Regulated Industries (AMRI) Summer Academy -- a crash course in political economy, public utility, and the legal & institutional tools that can be leveraged against the problems of 21st-century capitalism!
🚨🚨 LPE at Harvard is hiring an Executive Director!
Don't miss this amazing opportunity to help shape this quickly growing movement, while working with an incredible group of LPE scholars and students!
It's that time of year again, the time where we add fantastic new LPE-related syllabi to our website!
Two new must-check-out additions:
@yuvrajjoshi
's Law & Inequality syllabus and
@Luke_P_Norris
's LPE Seminar
The question we get asked more than almost any other is what is the relationship between LPE and earlier/other critical legal movements including CLS, CRT, & feminist/queer legal theory ❓❓
Join us Thurs at 12pm ET to hear an all-🌟 panel answer it!
The LPE Project is delighted to cosponsor this conference on Neoliberalism and Capitalism. Abstracts due by Oct 24, you absolutely will not want to miss this one!! 👀👀👀👀
Excited to share this CFP for a conference on Neoliberalism and Capitalism organized along with
@troup_charlie
and
@samuelmoyn
, with keynotes from
@IsabellaMWeber
and
@DEHEdgerton
When: 23-25 February 2024
Where: New Haven
Deadline to apply: 24 October 2023
✊ MIC CHECK!🎙️ If you're a rising 2L or 3L in NYC, you can now apply for our 1st ever Summer Academy on Law, Organizing, & Power Building w/
@ActionLabNY
&
@nyulaw
Initiative for Community Power.
8/16/ - 8/18
Deadline: 6/28
#Housing
#Decarceration
📢Thrilled to announce we're holding a 2nd Anti-Monopoly & Regulated Industries Summer Academy!
It will be a 7-week crash course in political economy, anti-monopoly, public utility, & regulated industries.
Details & registration early next week!
Over the last few months, as part of the
#LPEConference
, we brought together a brilliant group of emerging scholars & established LPE scholars for a series of closed-door workshops
👀👀 these urgent topics & the young scholars who are working on them!
🚨🚨🚨 JOB ALERT!
The Journal of Law and Political Economy is hiring a managing editor! Don't miss this opportunity to work with an incredible group of interdisciplinary LPE scholars.
Registration is open for "Heterodox Economics Meets LPE: Power for a Just Transition"--a conference at John Jay March 30th co-organized by
@APPEALResearch
,
@johnjay_lpe
,
@JJayEcon
, & New School's econ dept.
A truly incredible line-up of speakers!!
Please join the NYU Law & Political Economy Association one week from today (Sept 29) for the first talk in their fantastic LPE 101 series "Intro to LPE: Economic Power, Equity, and the Law" with the LPE Project's own
@ksabeelrahman
!!
.
@TheJLPE
is calling for submissions! JLPE publishes ~12,000 word *peer-reviewed* articles on a range of topics relevant to LPE. The Journal also publishes book reviews!
JLPE will accept submissions at any time!
🚨🚨 Attn students & emerging scholars
John Jay's LPE student group & APPEAL are teaming up for a 1-day conference "Heterodox Economics Meets Law & Political Economy: Institutions & Power" with the incredible
@kmunro_econ
& JW Mason.
Abstracts due Oct 2
Join us for a can't-miss lunch talk w/
@STOmarova
of
@CornellLaw
on Nov 10 at 12:10 ET! Interested in public interest law but skipping banking & finance courses? Learn why understanding financial law is crucial for law students committed to social justice!
Join us April 1 at 4pm for the next 🧨session of our LPE 101 Course (co-sponsored by
@acslaw
), "Law of the Platform Economy: Antitrust, Labor, & Contracts" with
@sanjuktampaul
💻⚖️✊👊
Details & registration 👇
📢 Harvard LPE is seeking postdoctoral fellows (2023-2025)!! 📢
"Fellows are expected to devote their full time to scholarly activities...& to contribute to the intellectual life of the LPE Program @ HLS..."
$75k per year.
The dream.
Are you a law student, professor, lawyer, organizer, or policy person interested in LPE and live in DC?? We are gathering for our first DC Happy Hour on Tuesday, July 11th from 5:30-7:30pm at Wunder Garten!
You won't want to miss it !! 🕶️🍻✊
🚨New 🔥 LPE Resource Alert: We just posted a LPE of Money Reading Group Syllabus created by two YLS students
@michaelsjoel
& David Herman in our syllabus bank 🚨
A great resource for both student groups and faculty interested in the LPE of 💵!
We're excited to announce yet another fall event! On 10/28, 12:15 - 1:30 PM ET,
@DrMamaEsq
@nikhil_palsingh
@dianareddy
& Aziz Rana will situate the recent attacks on CRT within a broader strategy to privatize & control public education. Register ASAP!⚖️🏫
The administrative state is central to meeting challenges including climate change, the care crisis, & the implementation of a more egalitarian political economy, & it's under attack by the courts.
Join us Feb 2 at YLS or on zoom!
📢 📆 There's still time to register! Secure your spot for our Nov 29th, 4 PM ET Book Launch 📚 'Your Money or Your Life: Debt Collection in American Medicine' with
@LukeMessac
,
@lindseymuniak
, &
@gregggonsalves
. Calling those committed to healthcare justice!
📢📚Please Join us on Nov 29th, 4 PM ET for the Book Launch of 'Your Money or Your Life: Debt Collection in American Medicine' w/
@LukeMessac
in conversation w/
@lindseymuniak
&
@gregggonsalves
. A must-attend for anyone passionate about healthcare justice!
John Oliver may be able to tell you why the Supreme Court is awful, but he's not gonna tell you what to do about it.
But you're in luck because we're teaming up with
@PeoplesParity
& an incredible group of faculty to do exactly that!
Join us TOMORROW!!
📢 IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT! We're hiring a full-time Deputy Director! 📢
The Deputy Director will work closely w/ the ED & Faculty Co-Directors to run the Project & grow the movement!
Apps due June 15. The Deputy will preferably start on July 15 or Aug 1!
We’re thrilled to announce the incredible line-up of advocates & leaders for this event!! 👀👀
@DavidAKesslerMD
, Chief Science Officer for White House Covid Response
@_HassanF
, Health Justice Initiative
@jbkrell
, Prep4All
@zainrizvi
, Public Citizen
🎺📜 BIG, BIG news... 🥁
We're hiring an Academic Fellow!! 🎺✊
The fellow will split time 50/50 btwn programming & their own research. The fellow will receive an appointment as a Research Scholar
@YaleLawSch
.
Job starts 7/1/23! Apps due by 2/15/23!
🚨 New resource up on the LPE Project's website! 🚨
Check out Columbia Law's
@alexis_hoag
's "Movement Lawyering: A Social Justice Critique" Syllabus highlighting the different avenues & theories lawyers can use to conceptualize and achieve social change!
On 10/22,
@akapczynski
@nikobowie
&
@veenadubal
will discuss the recent Cedar Point decision, which stands to dramatically expand constitutional private property rights at the expense of workers, civil rights, & the environment. Co-host:
@APPEALResearch
🥁 LAW STUDENTS! We enthusiastically invite anyone interested in starting an LPE group at their school to join us on Friday, 9/10, at 4 PM ET! We'll offer a quick intro to LPE and share tools & resources.
Pls sign up by Fri. 9/3 @ 5 PM ET!
⚖️💡⚙️⚒️✊
You might have noticed a new piece of the LPE Project called the Law & Organizing Initiative popping up recently … As we approach the end of the year, a 🧵 about who we are and what we do! 1/
🔥 from
@RaulACarrillo
on SBF and how “our financial regulatory system stuck in older ways of thinking, is increasingly incapable of preventing illicit finance in the platform economy”
📢 Exciting Conference Alert!
Join us for our one-day conference on "Administering a Democratic Political Economy." with leading scholars in admin law.
🗓️: Friday, Feb 2nd, 10AM - 5:15 PM ET
📍: Yale Law School & Online
🌟 Save your spot now!
Don't forget to register for the LPE Project's (un)conference plenary on Radical Legal Imaginaries with
@orangebegum
,
@DorothyERoberts
, and Aziz Rana!
February 18th at 5:15pm ET!
Welcome new followers! We think about the law a little differently over here. The law plays a role in the perpetuation of economic, racial, & gender inequality -- & we’re exposing it. For an intro to the LPE approach, check out our 101 video series!
If you're reading this thread, please follow
@LPE_Project
&
@LPEBlog
. We're working with thinkers all over the world to rethink law & fight this sort of unaccountable power.
You can subscribe to the blog at bottom, here:
The
@LPE_Project
is thrilled to continue our LPE 101 Series with the incomparable Talha Syed on the LPE approach to Torts. This event is hybrid, so register today as you do NOT want to miss this one!
Registration & details 👇👇
Scholars & students of all ages! Please join us next Thursday, April 1 @ 4pm EDT for the next episode of our LPE 101 Course (co-sponsored by
@acslaw
), "Law of the Platform Economy: Antitrust, Labor, & Contracts" with
@sanjuktampaul
!!
📢 Attention NEW YORKERS!📢
Please save the date for the official launch of...
🍾🌉🤩 ***LPE NYC*** 🤩🌉🍾
A new *citywide* network of students, profs, lawyers, organizers, & other people fighting for a better future!
2/16 - 6PM @ NYU. See you there!
🎺📜 The LPE Project & LPE
@HLS
are excited to announce our upcoming conference!
"LPE: Labor, Social Control, & Counterpower"
March 31 to April 2, 2023 @ Harvard Law!
You can visit our websites for details & registration:
Interested in the relationship btwn CLS and LPE? Come hear this all-⭐️line-up discuss how the concepts of “political economy” and “indeterminacy” function within the movements (in a series that pays homage to Raymond Williams’s Keywords)
Register today!!
We are thrilled to report that
@sanjuktampaul
's "Law of the Platform: Antitrust, Labor, & Contracts," her wonderful contribution to our LPE 101 course with
@acslaw
is now posted on our website!
🥳🎉🪅
We apologize for the delay in letting everyone know the plan for the LPE Conference. We were so excited about the conference that it was hard to accept that there was no way to simply translate it as we had conceived it to an online format.
UPDATE: We have added exciting new syllabi to the site:
@YochaiBenkler
’s Technology & Inequality,
@EzraRosser
’s Law & Poverty,
@eileen_boris
’s Feminist Theory: Marxism & Feminism, and
@ksuenamu
’s rethinking of property law through the lens of Land, Dispossession, & Displacement!!
The new website has a variety of resources designed to help faculty and students learn more about LPE, including SYLLABI from LPE and LPE-related courses, as well as primers/reading lists on topics such as neoliberalism and legal realism. 5/11
WEDNESDAY - we're pulling together so many
#LPE
threads it'll make your head spin! Join us for "The Political Economy of Motherhood: How Race, Poverty, & (Non-) Equal Rights Shape Society" ft.
@cynthia_godsoe
@ProfJDWeaver
@JulieCSuk
& Wendy Bach
@UTKLaw
!
📣📣Are you teaching law students to organize? Send us your syllabus!
We want to hear from anyone who is teaching law students principles of organizing or movement building, no matter the tradition!!
🚨🚨Exciting and timely addition to our syllabus bank: Law and the Global Political Economy (Reading Group), organized by brilliant SJD students (Akshat Agarwal & Xiaolu Fan at YLS! 📖🌍
Check it out!!
🚀 Want to launch an LPE group at your law school? We've built a toolkit (LPE in a Box)! 🛠️📦
Are you at a school without a critical mass of LPE-inclined students? We're creating an "at-large" group! 📡
Please visit our site for more info!
We can't wait for "Abolition Across Criminal Justice, Immigration, & National Security"
@UFLaw
on Friday, April 1!
ft. activists, scholars, & practitioners
Amna Akbar (
@orangebegum
) to keynote!
*AHEM*
Please join us for our next event on Friday @ 2PM ET!
CLS & LPE on ‘Political Economy’ & ‘Indeterminacy’
ft.
@libby_adler
,
@AzizaAhmed
,
@akapczynski
, Karl Klare, Akbar Rasulov, Talha Syed, & Duncan Kennedy
This is a popular event - register now!
📢 If you're preparing for the fall law-related academic job market, please join us on Tuesday, August 3rd, for our mentoring session w/ Amy Cohen,
@CharlotteGarden
,
@sameer_ashar
! 📢
Reg. deadline is next Friday, 7/30, but we have limited space! 🖱️📨
Continuing our fall programming...
...this Friday, 12:30 - 1:45 PM ET,
@veenadubal
@nikobowie
&
@akapczynski
will discuss the Court's ruling in Cedar Point Nursery, focusing on implications for labor, IP, & democracy.
Please register ASAP! 👨⚖️🍓✊
We know many people who couldn't make it to the Keywords panel today were excited to watch the video (and many who came were likely inclined to go back and wrap their heads around the immense # of ideas), so it's already up on our site!
A 🔥 post 20+ LPE Professors on the political economic pressures faced by law students & precarious faculty re: pro-Palestinian speech and why law schools must be honest about the problem and actively work to protect their students and staff
🧨 This summer we welcomed an energetic & inspiring group of 38 law students to our second annual "Law & Organizing Academy,” co-hosted by the LPE Project,
@ActionLabNY
, & NYU Initiative for Community Power (
@RaceNYU
)!
👇🧵
"If we call for 'democratizing the economy' while accepting the standard account of what 'the economy' is, we risk depoliticizing essential structures of economic ordering—& sustaining relations of domination." -
@akapczynski
, Angela P. Harris &
@NoahZatz
Jan 28: join us for a fantastic panel on Law & Macroeconomics featuring a 🌟 line-up!
With papers from
@STOmarova
,
@LevMenand
, & Adam Feibelman, and a panel discussion of themes, methodologies, community-building w/
@AGelpern
& Erik Gerding.
Details 👉
Next up after the plenary is a panel on Racial Capitalism, with a group of ground-breaking scholars, including
@MehrsaBaradaran
,
@veenadubal
,
@ksuenamu
,
@droithmayr
, Athena Mutua, and Angela Harris!
Feb 22nd at 2pm ET
The LPE Project is teaming up with
@knightcolumbia
for a 2-day symposium on Data and Democracy Oct 15-16. Details and registration link below. Join us!
📣 Friends of LPE in DC! We are gathering for our first DC Happy Hour on Tuesday, July 11th from 5:30-7:30pm at Wunder Garten!
Law students, professors, practitioners, and non-lawyers all welcome!!
Join us Feb 29 for a lunch talk w/ award-winning journalist & author Vincent Bevins on "If We Burn." Despite unprecedented protest participation, justice remains elusive. Explore the paradox of protest outcomes w/ insights from
@Vinncent
's latest book!📚✊
DREAM JOB ALERT! 🚨🦄🌈 (now w correct link): Next year there will be new 2-year Harvard LPE postdoc!
Don’t miss this opportunity to work with a truly a brilliant group of LPE faculty (& 75k/yr to focus on yr own work 😲)
APPS DUE DEC 10th!!
Details 👇
Thank you to everyone who joined our lunch talk with
@STOmarova
today! Great to see so many interested in bridging the gap between financial regulation and social justice!
Join us for a can't-miss lunch talk w/
@STOmarova
of
@CornellLaw
on Nov 10 at 12:10 ET! Interested in public interest law but skipping banking & finance courses? Learn why understanding financial law is crucial for law students committed to social justice!
A BIG thanks for the packed house at "Administering a Democratic Political Economy" conference on Friday as we engaged with significant questions about governance & equitable administrative state. Thank you to our exceptional speakers & we are excited for possibilities ahead🌟
Are you a recent or soon-to-be JD or PhD grad excited about LPE & community or labor organizing? You’re in luck! We’ve opened applications for our next Law & Organizing Fellow 🔥
🔗
📢📚Please Join us on Nov 29th, 4 PM ET for the Book Launch of 'Your Money or Your Life: Debt Collection in American Medicine' w/
@LukeMessac
in conversation w/
@lindseymuniak
&
@gregggonsalves
. A must-attend for anyone passionate about healthcare justice!
If you missed our fantastic inaugural session of "What to Do About the Courts" (cohosted w
@PeoplesParity
) last month, don't make the same mistake twice!
Feb 20th on the history of court reform efforts (it's not just FDR!) with
@samuelmoyn
&
@WForbath
!!
Happy Friday, LPE Fans!!! 👋
We’ve now uploaded all the vids from the spring conference, “LPE: Labor, Social Control, & Counterpower,” to a brand new webpage!
Open each of the 13 panel tiles to learn more! The webpage offers the best way to engage! :)
📢 We are ecstatic to welcome the first undergraduate LPE student group: the LPE Society at Sarah Lawrence College! Please give them a follow at
@slclpe
!
Missed the fantastic Book Launch 📚 'Your Money or Your Life: Debt Collection in American Medicine'? Catch up now! Watch the brilliant conversation on medical debt and social justice with
@LukeMessac
&
@lindseymuniak
, moderated by
@gregggonsalves
.
Join us Thursday for the next session of our LPE 101 course w/ Angela Harris, using climate change as an example to illustrate the problems with viewing “the economy” as pre-political & with how law schools divide their curriculums
Details/Registration 👇
"What does the Fed’s decision [to raise rates] mean in a racialized political economy?"
"Ignorance of the past & existing racial hierarchy under the guise of forward looking 'race-neutrality' is basically...color-blind racism."
-
@DarrickHamilton
📝