Jed Purdy discusses law’s role in capitalism, while Megan Wachspress explores how the data center boom risks privatizing the power grid. Plus, Beatrice Adler-Bolton and Gabe Winant on gerontocracy, Lev Menand and Lina Khan on jurisdiction stripping, Ron Knox on forgotten lessons about monopolies and fascism, Jed Purdy on Raymond Williams, Noura Erakat on the Board on Peace, Corey Robin on the moral burdens of individual choice, Desirée LeClercq on labor organizing and the threat of automation, and Gali Racabi on status as a source of law.

Yochai Benkler on the dynamics of capitalism and law’s role within it, Matthew Dimick on capital and law as social forms, and Matthew Lawrence on administrative law after transsubstantivity. Plus, new books by Nikolas Bowie, Daphna Renan, and Allison Tait, a symposium on the global political economy of artificial intelligence, an upcoming event on public pharma, and new pieces on the right to housing, the rise and fall of tech workers, and the transition from dollars hegemony to dollar dominance.

Sameer Ashar on the potential transformation of the U.S. immigration system, Luke Herrine on the history of multilevel marketing and right-wing movement building, and a CFP for the second annual ALPE conference. Plus, a collaborative research project for law students interested in the transition from capitalism to socialism, a new book by Sabeel Rahman, two new academic job listings focused on political economy, a discussion with Astra Taylor, David Wallace-Wells, Madison Condon, and Moira Birss on insurance and climate catastrophe, a recent Roosevelt Institute report on durable climate policy, and new items from Sandeep Vaheesan, Claire Kelloway, Veena Dubal, Gabriel Winant, Alex Press, & Alvin Velazquez.

Madison Condon and Luke Herrine on the economics that Law & Economics ignores, Jeremy Bearer-Friend and Sarah Polcz on why we should tax AI equity, Matt Bodie on the persistence of shareholder primacy, and Diana Reddy on theorizing discrimination for the bad jobs economy. Plus, two PhD scholarships available at UNSW Law, a set of new papers from the empowering democracy initiative, and Allison Tait on the necrotecture of mass incarceration and luxury apartments.

Fifteen of our favorite films on law and political economy, Jeff Gordon proposes an anti-entrenchment industrial policy, M. Sandhu makes the case against legislative primacy, Aslı Bâli revisits The Constitutional Bind during the interregnum, and R.H. Lossin looks back at early-20th-century criminal syndicalism laws. Plus, a CFP for the Conference of Australian Progressive Legal Studies, a two-year post-doc on rethinking the anti-corruption toolkit, Diana Reddy on employment as a social institution, Luke Herrine on progressive financial empowerment programs, Lev Menand on the Court’s Federal Reserve carveout, and Beau Baumann with even more LPE cinema.

Amy Kapczynski on LPE and social science, Sam Moyn on the class reductionist response to Gerontocracy, and Rakeen Mabud on why the affordability frame needs a power analysis. Plus, a bevy of new essays, papers, and events, covering the history of the consumer price index, left critiques of the constitution, the international right to strike, worker control over AI governance, administrative law pluralism, the economic function of rent stabilization, and more!

Evan Behrle on income inequality, Frank Pasquale on Magnifica Humanitas, and Wanshu Cong on the informal governance of global capitalism. Plus, a new report by Sanjay Jolly on advancing a constitutional regime for labor rights, Melinda Cooper offers a typology of factions of asset-based capitalism, Elliot Lewis and Zach Lewis explain how to democratize the United States, Ilias Alami & Thea Riofrancos examine the core features and fault lines of Trumpian State Capitalism, and the Roosevelt Institute lays out the Good Life Agenda: a vision of what our society could look like if all of us had access to the building blocks of economic security and prosperity.

Richard Joyce assesses Mark Carney’s speech at Davos, while Sarah Schindler and Kellen Zale discuss the abundance agenda’s anti-tenancy blindspot. Plus, Tanzil Chowdhury on legislative supremacy in Great Britain, Aslı Bâli on the emerging world order, Sandeep Vaheesan and Claire Kelloway on the consolidation of the US food system, some straight facts about millionaire tax migration in New York, and the inaugural issue of Phenomenal World.

Ntina Tzouvala and Zohra Ahmed on international law under Trump 2.0, Dylan Saba on the ganster-fication of US foreign policy, and Matthew Scherer on the dangers of an AI bubble. Plus, the first-ever ALPE elections, Nikolas Bowie’s congressional testimony on court packing, David Pozen and Daniel Hemel on the puzzling absence of university democracy, and Tressie McMillan Cottom on the revolt against the girl bosses.

Sabeel Rahman on legislative supremacy, Joe Soss and Joshua Page on criminal-legal predation, and Justin Deystone on the return of critical legal theory. Plus, new jobs with Rutgers’ Housing Justice Clinic and NYU’s federal Indian Law Clinic, a CFP for junior work law scholars (broadly construed), a report on the nordic-US childcare gap, and Steve Vladek on how Congress used to bully the Court.

Our spring scouting report on some of the hottest new LPE and LPE-adjacent articles, and Andrew Miller on how personalized markets undermine solidarity. Plus, a new book from Shaun Ossei-Owusu, an upcoming event with Aziz Rana, Kate Andrias and Alexander Hertel-Fernandez on unions and abundance, Jordan Cozby on Federalism’s Labor-Law Exception, and Brian Shearer on the overinflated costs of property insurance.

Patrick Lin on surveillance pricing, and Quinn Slobodian and Ben Tarnoff on the political economy of Elon Musk. Plus, last call for hot new scholarship, an opportunity for students to join ALPE, the University of Chicago launches a law and political economy minor, an interview with Stuart Schrader on the history of police unions, a report on how gig nursing platforms are deregulating healthcare, and a vision for how cities can fight back against Trump’s tax on remittances.

Ben Kaufman discusses our broken banking bargain, and Vincent Joralemon reflects on the neglected class dimension of addictive platform design. Plus, a call for (your!) hot new LPE scholarship, an upcoming event on the law, politics, and economy of apocalypse, Christine Desan on the constitutional conflict over the power to make money, a new strategic agenda to address the climate and affordability crises, and a celebration of tax day with your favorite mayor, Nobel laureate, and rabble rousing economist.

Ruthy Gourevitch and Jacob Udell on financial distress in the rental market, Alaa Hajyahia and Helen Zhao on the scourge known as the Jones Act, and Kathleen Frydl on how corporations hijacked identity politics. Plus, Lina Khan and Lev Menand’s new center for law and the economy, Niko Bowie and Daphna Renan’s new book on judicial supremacy, a hot new issue of Law & Contemporary Problems on law and capitalism, a cool new Fordham Law Symposium on antitrust law and oligarchy, Kate Jackson’s review of Lenore Palladino’s Good Company, and a report by Rakeen Mabud and Melanie Brusseler on the authoritarian coalition’s power grab.

Sam Moyn and Jamelle Bouie on legislative supremacy, Mariano Féliz on Argentina’s debt sustainability, Ntina Tzvouala on dollar hegemony (x2), Ivana Isailović on the LPE of Social Reproduction in the EU, Mohini Mookim and Veryl Pow on prefigurative lawyering, Adam Hanieh on the economic significance of the Strait of Hormuz, and JW Mason on his forthcoming book.