Law and Political Economy Collective

What is Capitalism? Reading & Discussion Group #31
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 Antitrust, co-authored with Michael L. Cederblom and published at 33 U.S.C. Interdisciplinary L.J. 235 (2023).

Law and Political Economy Happy Hour at LSA
2024-06-07 19:01 - 20:01 (Africa/Abidjan)
6 – 8 pm

Mercury Cafe, Denver

Co-sponsored by the LPE Project and the Global LPE Network

Global LPE Network Business Meeting at LSA
12:45 – 1:30 pm

Hyatt Regency Denver

LSA 2024 CRN 55 Program

Heterodox Economics Meets Law and Political Economy: Power for a Just Transition
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:

The Association for the Promotion of Political Economy and the Law (APPEAL)

John Jay College Economics Department, John Jay College Law and Political Economy Society, and the New School for Social Research Economics Department

Workshop Program

What is Capitalism? Reading & Discussion Group #30
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, ” A Progressive Critique of the Law and Political Economy Movement” (rescheduled from January 12, 2023)

ClassCrits XIV: Demanding Justice in the Face of Retrenchment
The 14th Annual ClassCrits conference, held at Southwestern Law School in Los Angeles, featured scholarship on the theme “Demanding Justice in the Face of Retrenchment: Finding Common Ground and Building Coalition Across Borders.”

Conference Materials:

2024_ClassCrits Call for Papers

2024 ClassCrits Program

What is Capitalism? Reading & Discussion Group #29
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).

What is Capitalism? Reading & Discussion Group #28
November 3, 2023
Paige Carmichael, PhD student in Economics at UMass Amherst, led a discussion of disability, work, and capitalism.

Heterodox Economics Meets Law and Political Economy: Institutions and Power
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

What is Capitalism? Reading & Discussion Group #27
September 29, 2023
Scott Carter, Professor of Economics at the University of Tulsa, led a discussion of his work on Sraffa.

What is Capitalism? Reading & Discussion Group #26
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).

What is Capitalism? Reading & Discussion Group #25
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.

What is Capitalism? Reading & Discussion Group #24
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.”

What is Capitalism? Reading & Discussion Group #23
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 Politics.”

What is Capitalism? Reading & Discussion Group #22
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 the Global South,” Cambridge Journal of Economics 46 (2002), 703-733.

What is Capitalism? Reading & Discussion Group #21
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.

What is Capitalism? Reading & Discussion Group #20
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 and Power on the Frontier (Harvard University Press, 2005), with a focus on Chapter 2, “Manhattan for Twenty-Four Dollars,” pp. 49-84.

ClassCrits XIII: Unlocking Race & Class for Just Transitions
The 13th Annual ClassCrits conference, held at Thurgood Marshall School of Law in Houston, TX, featured scholarship on the theme “Unlocking Race & Class For Just Transitions.”

Conference Materials:

2022 Call for Papers

2022 ClassCrits Program

Summer Academy: Law and Money
2022-07-04 - 2022-07-08
2022 Summer Academy
Law and Money: Labor and Inequality in a Time of Covid
Hosted by EAEPE and the University Roma Tre, Department of Economics

What is Capitalism? Reading & Discussion Group #18
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 of Apolitical Economy.”

What is Capitalism? Reading & Discussion Group #17
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 about property.

What is Capitalism? Reading & Discussion Group #16
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).

What is Capitalism? Reading & Discussion Group #15
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 Historically About Firm Responses to Competition,” Enterprise and Society, vol. 13, no. 4 (Dec. 2012), pp. 710-728.

What is Capitalism? Reading & Discussion Group #14
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 to protection, and what this shows about the legal underpinnings of capitalism.

What is Capitalism? Reading & Discussion Group #13
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 Stanford Law Review.

Summer Academy on Law, Money, and Technology
2021-07-26
2021 Summer Academy
Law, Money, and Technology: Toward Democratic Futures
Hosted by University of Manchester

What is Capitalism? Reading & Discussion Group #12
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 rights movement. Readings focused on the U.S. Supreme Court case, Cedar Point Nursery vs. Hassid.

What is Capitalism? Reading & Discussion Group #11
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.

What is Capitalism? Reading & Discussion Group #10
2021-04-23 00:01 - 01:01
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 central banking and taxation in the British Empire.

What is Capitalism? Reading & Discussion Group #9
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 capitalism.
