11/20/2024Brooklyn Law School, Subotnick (11th floor)
Join the Brooklyn Law and Political Economy Collective for a timely discussion about the Bangaldesh student movement and the promises of movement lawyering. Professor Jocelyn Simonson (Brooklyn Law) and Professor Chaumtoli Huq (CUNY Law) will be in conversation around The Bangladesh Student Movement that Transformed a Nation, from the LPE Blog. The event will be held…
Please join CUNY Law’s LPE Collective as we speak to a panel featuring Assemblymember and mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani and members of the REPAIR NY coalition who are organizing to achieve a fully funded People’s CUNY by taxing Columbia and NYU’s billion-dollar property empires. This event will take place on Tuesday, November 12, from 6pm…
The LPE Project hosted a lunch talk with Sandeep Vaheesan, the legal director at the Open Markets Institute, on October 16th. The discussion focused on his forthcoming book (December 2024) Democracy in Power: A History of Electrification in the United States (The University of Chicago Press). Democracy in Power explores how private financial interests controlled…
Please join the YLS NLG Chapter, YLS LPE Group, YBLSA, the LPE Project, and DefSoc on Wednesday, October 2nd at 12:10pm ET for a lunch talk with Marbré Stahly-Butts, abolitionist organizer and professor of law at CUNY, to discuss her work as co-founder and former Executive Director of Law for Black Lives. This event will…
Join the LPE Project and the AFL-CIO Union Lawyers Alliance on September 26 at 4PM ET for a discussion about the possibilities and limitations of applying existing labor law frameworks to work performed by incarcerated people. Incarcerated workers are some of the most vulnerable to violence and exploitation, yet their struggles have historically been omitted…
The LPE Project hosted a lunch talk with Professor Aziz Rana, the J. Donald Monan, S.J., University Professor of Law and Government at Boston College Law School, on Wednesday, September 18th, to discuss his latest book, The Constitutional Bind (The University of Chicago Press, 2024). The Constitutional Bind investigates the history of the American Constitution…
