What is Capitalism? Reading & Discussion Group #8
February 26, 2021 Marilyn Power, Professor Emerita of Economics at Sarah Lawrence College, led a discussion on feminist insights into the law and political economy of capitalism.
February 26, 2021 Marilyn Power, Professor Emerita of Economics at Sarah Lawrence College, led a discussion on feminist insights into the law and political economy of capitalism.
March 26, 2021 Dr. Maha Rafi Atal, Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Copenhagen Business School, facilitated a discussion of how the historically changing relationship between the corporation, state and society sheds light on […]
April 23, 2021 Jamee Moudud, Professor of Economics at Sarah Lawrence College, led a discussion of his paper on how racial capitalism was built into the legal and political design of […]
May 21, 2021 Ruth Dukes, Professor of Labour Law at the University of Glasgow, led a discussion of her paper “The Economic Sociology of Labour Law,” Journal of Law and Society, 2019.
June 25, 2021 Kim Christensen, Professor of Economics at Sarah Lawrence College, and Martha McCluskey, Professor Emerita at University at Buffalo Law School, led a discussion of about the property […]
August 20, 2021 Sarah Haan, Professor at the Washington and Lee University School of Law, led a discussion of her article, “Corporate Governance and the Feminization of Capital,” forthcoming in the […]
September 10, 2021 Michael C. Duff, Winston S. Howard Distinguished Professor at University of Wyoming Law, led a discussion of his draft article about workplace injury and illness, worker’s constitutional rights […]
November 5, 2021 Margaret Levenstein, Director of the Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR), and Research Professor at the University of Michigan, discussed her article “Escape from Equilibrium: Thinking […]
November 19, 2021 Daniel J.H. Greenwood, Professor of Law at Hofstra University, led a discussion of his article, “Introduction to the Metaphors of Corporate Law,” 4 Seattle Journal for Social Justice 273 (2005).
March 4, 2022 Faisal Chaudhry, Assistant Professor of Law and History, University of Dayton led a discussion on property as rent centered his recent paper examining mortgage securitization and ideas […]
March 25, 2022 Diana Reddy, doctoral candidate in UC Berkeley's Jurisprudence and Social Policy program, led a discussion of her paper, “The Twenty-First Century Legitimacy of Labor Unions: After the Law […]
November 18, 2022 Carol Heim, Professor Emerita of Economics at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, led a discussion of a chapter from Stuart Banner, How the Indians Lost Their Land: Law […]
January 13, 2023 Amna Akbar, Professor of Law at Ohio State University, led a discussion on her working paper rethinking law’s emancipatory potential in the context of racial capitalism.
February 10, 2023 Jamee Moudud, Professor of Economics at Sarah Lawrence College, led a discussion of Kai Koddenbrock, Ingrid Harvold Kvangraven, and Ndongo Samba Sylla, “Beyond Financialisation: The Longue Durée of Finance and Production in […]
March 3, 2023 Branden Adams, Lecturer in History at University of California Santa Barbara, led a discussion of his work-in-progress, “Coal and Capitalism: From Railroads and Miners’ Unions to Senator Manchin’s Climate […]
May 5, 2023 Reshard Kolabhai, Lecturere at North-West University, South Africa led a discussion of his work-in-progress, “Law in Movement: Constitutional Law, Indigenous Customs, and Capitalism in South Africa.”
June 23, 2023 Sanjay Reddy, Professor of Economics at the New School, led a discussion of his article, “Beyond Property or Beyond Piketty?,”British Journal of Sociology, 72, 1 (January 2021), 8-25.
June 30, 2023 Andrea Leiter, Faculty of Law, University of Amsterdam led a discussion of her book, Making the World Safe for Investment: The Protection of Foreign Property 1922-1959 (Cambridge University Press, 2023).
September 29, 2023 Scott Carter, Professor of Economics at the University of Tulsa, led a discussion of his work on Sraffa.
New School for Social ResearchFeatured Speakers: Kirstin Munro, New School For Social Research; Josh Mason, John Jay College of Criminal Justice Workshop Program Workshop CFP
November 3, 2023 Paige Carmichael, PhD student in Economics at UMass Amherst, led a discussion of disability, work, and capitalism.
December 1, 2023 Jessica A. Shoemaker, Steinhart Foundation Distinguished Professor of Law at Nebraska College of Law, led a discussion of her article, “Re-Placing Property,” University of Chicago Law Review 91 (forthcoming 2024).
March 1, 2024 Ramsi Woodcock, Wyatt, Tarrant & Combs Associate Professor of Law, Secondary Appointment, Gatton College of Business & Economics University of Kentucky, led a discussion on his article, […]
John Jay College, CUNY, New York CityFeatured Speakers: Isabel Estevez & Kate Aronoff Roundtable with: Clara Mattei, An Li, JW Mason, Jamee Moudud Moderated by: Martha McCluskey Co-organizers and sponsors: […]
September 27, 2024 Frank Pasquale, a co-founder and former Board member of APPEAL, is Professor of Law at Cornell Tech and Cornell Law School led the discussion of his recent article The New […]
October 25, 2024 David Ciepley presented his article Democracy and the Corporation: The Long View, Annual Review of Political Science 26:489–517 (2023) with comments by James J. Varellas, UC Berkeley.
December 12, 3pm ET All Members, non-members, past participants and friends of APPEAL are welcome to attend and share ideas and feedback for future activities. For those who are available and […]
March 28, 2025 at 3 pm ET A discussion with Paul Cammack, University of Manchester, featuring his article, Politics and Political Economy of Post-Reproduction Societies. Register here.
Saturday, April 12, 2025 9:00am–5:00pm ET Yale Law School 127 Wall Street, New Haven, CT 06511 At our Spring 2025 workshop, we seek to feature multi-disciplinary and intersectional emerging scholarship […]
Katherine Moos, University of Massachusetts Amherst Economics, will discuss her current book project.
This session will discuss a working paper by Eric Scorsone and Fabrizio Esposito, The Doctrinal Myth of the Efficient Breach in the Overbid Scenario: Unduly Reducing Expected Performance to Expected […]
