MAY 28–31, 2026
SAN FRANCISCO
The Law and Political Economy CRN is a forum for legal scholars, social scientists,and others working at the intersection of law and political economy. It promotes interdisciplinary scholarship that brings political economy perspectives into legal and sociolegal research, and invites scholars from across sociology,political science, anthropology, geography, history, literature, gender studies, business studies, and heterodox economics to engage more deeply with legal rules, institutions, and processes.
MAY 27, 2026
UC BERKELEY SCHOOL OF LAW
In recent years, questions of state capacity have returned to the center of sociolegal and political economy scholarship. Across diverse contexts, the functions of the state have become increasingly contested and reworked. On the one hand, governing capacity have been expanded and intensified in some domains, while deliberately curtailed, dismantled, or redirected in others. These shifts often reflect realignments in political coalitions, economic interests, and broader struggles over authority.
MAY 7-8, 2026
ONATI INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR THE SOCIOLOGY OF LAW
Legal realism, institutionalism and Democratic experimentalism. In this workshop we intend to explore research agendas that can inform sociolegal studies. Sociolegal studies reject formalistic and conservative ideas about law. It is an approach that is thus heterodox in the sense that it opposes a mainstream theoretical and ideological consensus that has ultimately sustained and reproduced capitalism. Based on the assumption that sociolegal studies can benefit from their cross-fertilization, the…
May 22–25th, 2025
Hyatt Regency, Chicago
