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Nov 20, 2024

The Bangladesh Student Movement and the Promise of Movement Lawyering

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…

Location: Brooklyn Law School, Subotnick (11th floor)
Poster reading "The Bangladesh Student Movement and the Promise of Movement Lawyering" on red text against a grey background.
CUNY LPE: Building Power to Fund a People’s CUNY

CUNY LPE: Building Power to Fund a People’s CUNY

11/12/2024 Auditorium CUNY School of Law
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…
Democracy in Power with Sandeep Vaheesan

Democracy in Power with Sandeep Vaheesan

10/16/2024 SLB Room 121 + Zoom
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…
Lawyering in Social Movements with Marbré Stahly-Butts

Lawyering in Social Movements with Marbré Stahly-Butts

10/02/2024 Yale Law School (SLB Rm 129)
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…
Labor Law & the Carceral State

Labor Law & the Carceral State

09/26/2024 Zoom
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 Constitutional Bind with Aziz Rana 

The Constitutional Bind with Aziz Rana 

09/18/2024 Baker 116
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…
LPE at Berkeley: WHAT IS ANTITRUST AND WHY DOES IT MATTER? WITH TALHA SYED

LPE at Berkeley: WHAT IS ANTITRUST AND WHY DOES IT MATTER? WITH TALHA SYED

09/12/2024 Berkeley Law Room 110 + Zoom
The Antitrust Law and Economics Association and the LPE Society at Berkeley on Thursday, September 12th at 12:50-2pm PST held a talk with Professor Talha Syed which discussed: What is antitrust law? How can we use the tools of LPE to think about the field? No prior experience in antitrust is required! Professor Syed began…