The Collective
The Law and Political Economy Collective (LPE-C) brings together thinkers dedicated to developing a better understanding of the way that law shapes relations of power. We believe that law plays a constitutive function in the way that markets work, and that a better understanding of law’s role in upholding the present distribution of wealth and state power is crucial to a more just, sustainable future.
The Collective reflects over 15 years of member-driven institution building, uniting three key hubs of interdisciplinary research: ClassCrits, APPEAL, and the Global Law and Political Economy Network, along with the peer-reviewed Journal of Law and Political Economy.
Organizations
The Journal of Law and Political Economy is a peer-reviewed journal that seeks to promote multi- and interdisciplinary analyses of the mutually constitutive interactions among law, society, institutions, and politics.
Founded in 2007, ClassCrits is a membership-based organization that fosters discussion among scholars and activists on issues related to class and the intersection of class with race, gender, sexuality, and other forms of structural inequality.
ClassCrits holds an annual conference with the goals of advancing critical legal analysis and addressing economic class in multiple intersecting forms of subordination.
Since 2013, the Association for Promotion of Political Economy & Law (APPEAL) has organized workshops and conferences exploring the ideology and structure of law, economy, money, and power. APPEAL’s events especially seek to foster discussion with heterodox economists and policy experts.
The Global Law and Political Economy Network
The Global Law and Political Economy Network (CRN 55) provides a forum for conversations between legal scholars, social scientists and others at the intersection of law and a variety of contemporary approaches to political economy from across the social sciences and humanities.
The Network focuses on encouraging the incorporation of a broader range of approaches to political economy into legal and sociolegal scholarship, while also facilitating a deeper engagement with legal rules, institutions and processes by scholars from other disciplines.