Over the past few years, debates in labour law scholarship have increasingly focused on labour policy and governance under what are often described as ‘right-wing populist’, ‘illiberal’ or ‘authoritarian’ regimes, thereby aligning with a broader trend in social sciences and humanities. These studies often presuppose a clear departure from a previous neoliberal phase. However, coming…
Please join the LPE Project on Thursday, February 20th, at 12:10-1:30 pm ET for a lunch talk with Umut Özsu, Professor of Law and Legal Studies at Carleton University, to discuss his latest book Completing Humanity: The International Law of Decolonization, 1960–82 (Cambridge University Press, 2023). He will be in conversation with Professor Samuel Moyn (Yale…
02/15/2025Middle Eastern Technical University, Ankara, Türkiye
The 2025 Annual IIPPE Conference – “Immigration: Crisis of the World Capitalist System, Crisis for the World Capitalist System” Date: September 17 – 20, 2025Venue: Middle Eastern Technical University, Ankara, Türkiye Call for Papers Political Economy and Law Working Group Immigration is at the forefront of capitalist policies both to encourage certain types of immigration…
On February 13th, LPE NYC is thrilled to be teaming up with The Action Lab, The Initiative for Community Power, The Center on Race, Inequality, and the Law, and NYU Gallatin for the next event in our a Dismantling Racial Capitalism Series, a Conversation with Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor & Steve Williams. Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor writes and speaks…
The LPE Project is thrilled to be co-sponsoring, “Carceral Political Economy in the Era of Late Mass Incarceration” at the New School for Social Research, March 21-22, with The Robert L. Heilbroner Center for Capitalism Studies. What is the political economy of “late” mass incarceration? How has the globally unparalleled US system of mass imprisonment…
The Systemic Justice Project’s 2025 conference (Jan 31 – Feb 2) will bring together justice-oriented law students, lawyers, organizers, and scholars and will focus on the future of justice-oriented lawyering in the face of mounting systemic challenges and rising authoritarianism. The LPE Project is thrilled to be cosponsoring the conference alongside the People’s Parity Project.…
Please join the LPE Project on Thursday, January 30th, from 12:10 to 1:30 PM ET, for a lunch talk with Dean Spade titled Sticking Together in Tough Times. Dean Spade is a Professor at Seattle University School of Law, where he teaches courses in Administrative Law, Poverty Law, Gender and Law, Policing and Imprisonment, Professional…
