Law and Political Economy Collective

What is Capitalism? Reading & Discussion Group
January 24, 2025 at 3 pm ET
Professor Akbar Rasulov, University of Glasgow Law, will lead a discussion of Duncan Kennedy’s classic article, The Role of Law in Economic Thought: Essays on the Fetishism of Commodities, 34 American University Law Review 939 (1985).
Register here.

Critical/Political Economy Happy Hour at AALS
4:30 – 6:30 pm

Novela, 662 Mission Street, San Francisco

Co-sponsored by the Critical Legal Collective, the LPE Collective, the LPE Project, and the Race and Private Law Section

ClassCrits VIII: The New Corporatocracy and Election 2016
The 8th Annual ClassCrits conference, held at Loyola University Chicago School of Law, Chicago, IL featured scholarship on the theme “The New Corporatocracy and Election 2016.”

Conference Materials:

2016 Call for Papers

2017 Western New England Law Review symposium (vol. 39, no. 4)

APPEAL Annual Meeting
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 interested, we encourage you to also attend the online discussion with Naomi Cahn, June Carbone, and Nancy Levit of their new book Fair Shake: Women and the Fight to Build a Just Economy just prior to the meeting at 2 pm.

ClassCrits Annual Meeting
December 12, 3pm ET
All Members, non-members, past participants and friends of ClassCrits are welcome to attend and share ideas and feedback for future activities.
For those who are available and interested, we encourage you to also attend the online discussion with Naomi Cahn, June Carbone, and Nancy Levit of their new book Fair Shake: Women and the Fight to Build a Just Economy just prior to the meeting at 2 pm.

Fair Shake Book Talk
December 12, 2024
2 pm ET
Zoom
Naomi Cahn, June Carbone, and Nancy Levit will discuss their new book, Fair Shake: Women and the Fight to Build a Just Economy.
Click here to register.

What is Capitalism? Reading & Discussion Group
December 6, 2024 at 3 pm ET
A discussion with Diana Reddy on her forthcoming article, Transaction Benefits at Work: Regulating the Future of Work for the Future of Society.
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What is Capitalism? Reading & Discussion Group #33
November 15, 2024
Fernando Loayza Jordán presented his paper, on democracy and taxation, Contesting the Neoliberal Social Contract.

Queering the Right-Wing Constitution? Trans Litigation and "Parents' Rights"
2024-10-30 17:00 - 18:00 (America/Halifax)
This fall, the Supreme Court will hear oral argument in United States v. Skrmetti, a case that challenges Tennessee’s ban on gender-affirming care for transgender people under 18. At the same time, anti-LGBTQIA+ legislation is proliferating across the country, with over 500 bills currently under consideration.
In a judiciary system deeply influenced by a right-wing worldview, how should constitutional scholars and advocates approach litigating for trans rights? How do we understand trans rights, not just within the frame of identity and equality, but also within the frame of political economy, freedom, and human flourishing? This panel seeks to address these questions.
Moderator: Kyle Velte, Associate Dean for Faculty, Professor, and Karelitz Chair in Evidence Law, University of Kansas School of Law
Panelists:
Meredith Taylor Brown, Assistant Attorney General – Civil Rights Bureau, Office of the New York State Attorney General
Mary Anne Case, Arnold I. Shure Professor of Law, the University of Chicago Law School

Hila Keren, Paul E. Treusch Professor of Law, Southwestern Law School
Commentator: Craig Konnoth, Martha Lubin Karsh and Bruce A. Karsh Bicentennial Professor of Law, University of Virginia School of Law

What is Capitalism? Reading & Discussion Group #32
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.

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.”
