Please join the LPE Project on Wednesday, October 16th at 12:10pm ET for a lunch talk with Sandeep Vaheesan, the legal director at the Open Markets Institute, to discuss 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…
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…
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…
We are thrilled to announce the launch of a new book series dedicated to Law & Political Economy (LPE) scholarship by Cambridge University Press, and we are already inviting book proposals! The series, fittingly titled Law & Political Economy, will provide a platform for this dynamic and emergent wave of scholarship and will constitute a…
LPE NYC is delighted to be a co-sponsor in bringing Ruth Wilson Gilmore to NYU on September 5th at 6pm! (update: the panel will start at 6:15pm but there will be a mini-reception before beginning at 5:30pm) We will be kicking off the school year with our “Dismantling Racial Capitalism” series featuring Ruth Wilson Gilmore,…
