Reconstructing State Capacity Pre-LSA 2026 Workshop on Law & Political Economy May 27, 2026,University of CaliforniaBerkeley, California Programme Call for Papers We are pleased to announce a one-day workshop on Reconstructing State Capacity, to be held on May 27, 2026, at the University of California, Berkeley. The workshop will take place immediately prior to the […]
Friday, Feb. 20, 2026 at 3 pm ET (UTC-5) / 20:00 GMT What is Capitalism? Reading & Discussion Group Zoe Sherman will present her work in progress, Capital, Trademark, and the Properties of Intellect. The paper is part of a project exploring capitalism and the marketplace of ideas, building on the author’s expertise in connecting economics […]
Friday, Jan. 23, 2026 at 10 am ET (UTC-5) / 15:00 GMT What is Capitalism? Reading & Discussion Group Join Joanna Kusiak for a discussion of her book, Radically Legal: Berlin Constitutes the Future,Cambridge University Press (2024) https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009516914. The book reflects on an activist housing campaign that used constitutional protections for property rights to expropriate urban […]
Discussion with Jessica A. Shoemaker and James Fallows Tierney featuring their co-authored article, Trading Acres (Yale Law Journal 2025-26).
On November 8, 2025 over 90 participants and presenters joined us for the sixth workshop in APPEAL’s student-centered series Heterodox Economics Meets Law and Political Economy, at John Jay College in New York City. Collaboratively organized with student groups and faculty from several schools, the workshop exemplifies LPE Collective’s commitment to creating intellectual spaces that encourage dialogue and community across disciplines.
Discussion with Eric Scorsone and Fabrizio Esposito on The Doctrinal Myth of the Efficient Breach in the Overbid Scenario: Unduly Reducing Expected Performance to Expected Profit.
Join the LPE Collective for a talk from Jamee Moudud on his new book, "Legal and Political Foundations of Capitalism: The End of Laissez Faire?"
Roccella Summer School of International Law & Global Law and Political Economy held in Roccella Jonica (RC), Italy.
Hosted by LPE-C, INET, iGLPE, EAEPE and the City of Roccella, Italy.
In the spirit of fostering community and generating interdisciplinary discussion, the LPE Collective invites scholars to network, share their research, and receive feedback over an afternoon workshop to be held at McGill University’s Faculty of Law.
Attend law and political economy-focused sessions at the Law and Society Association's Annual Meeting.
This day-long workshop will be held in person at the University of Chicago on Wednesday, May 21st.
Discussion with Katherine Moos, University of Massachusetts Amherst Economics & Co-Director, Program on Gender and Care Work, Political Economy Research Institute, on her work titled “Trump’s Care Agenda: the re-regulation of racialized and gendered labor."
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 reflecting on the relationships between politics, law, and economics, and society. We welcome papers both on and beyond the general workshop theme of “Power, Freedom, […]
Discussion with Paul Cammack, University of Manchester, featuring his article, Politics and Political Economy of Post-Reproduction Societies.
Kimberly Kracman presented her article (and related research), Code as Constitution: The Negotiation of a Uniform Accounting Code for U.S. Railway Corporations and the Moral Justification of Stakeholder Claims on Wealth, Critical Perspectives on Accounting (2022).
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.
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
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)
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 […]
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 […]
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.
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. Click here to register.
November 15, 2024 Fernando Loayza Jordán presented his paper, on democracy and taxation, Contesting the Neoliberal Social Contract.
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? […]
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.
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).
6 - 8 pm Mercury Cafe, Denver Co-sponsored by the LPE Project and the Global LPE Network
12:45 - 1:30 pm Hyatt Regency Denver LSA 2024 CRN 55 Program
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 […]
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)
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
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).
November 3, 2023 Paige Carmichael, PhD student in Economics at UMass Amherst, led a discussion of disability, work, and capitalism.
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
September 29, 2023 Scott Carter, Professor of Economics at the University of Tulsa, led a discussion of his work on Sraffa.
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).
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.
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.”
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.”
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.
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.
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.
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
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
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.”
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.
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).
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.
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.
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.
2021 Summer Academy
Law, Money, and Technology: Toward Democratic Futures
Hosted by University of Manchester
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.
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.
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.
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.
In recent years, interest in racial capitalism has exploded in several disciplines, including history, political theory, and cultural studies. What does “racial capitalism” mean? What is, or should be, the relationship of this framework to Critical Race Theory and settler colonialism theory? What might an understanding of legal doctrines, institutions, and processes add to racial […]
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.
This panel brought together one of the co-editors and several contributors to Presumed Incompetent II: Race, Class, Power and Resistance of Women in Academia (Utah State University Press, 2020). The panel discusses the formidable obstacles that women of color encounter in the academic workplace and the tenacity and creativity that they deploy to overcome these barriers. As […]
January 29, 2021 Dr. Dimitri Van Den Meerssche (PhD EUI, LL.M. NYU), an associate fellow at the Asser Institute and a postdoctoral research fellow at Edinburgh Law School, led a discussion of Julie E. Cohen, Between Truth and Power: The Legal Constructions of Informational Capitalism (Oxford Univ. Press 2019), chapter 2, “The Biopolitical Public Domain.”
December 18, 2020 Jamee Moudud, Professor of Economics at Sarah Lawrence College, led a discussion of two short readings on W.E.B. Dubois’s important contributions to institutional economics and political economy.
November 20, 2020 Carol E. Heim, Professor Emerita of Economics at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, led a discussion of Jonathan Levy, "Accounting for Profit and the History of Capital," Critical Historical Studies, Vol. 1, No. 2 (Fall 2014), 171-214 and Carol E. Heim, "Capitalism," in Dictionary of American History, 3rd ed., vol. 2, Cabeza to Demography, ed. Stanley I. Kutler […]
October 23, 2020 Eric Scorsone, Director, and Sarah S. Klammer, Academic Specialist, both of the MSUE Center for Local Government Finance and Policy at Michigan State University, led a discussion about the work of John Commons, an early twentieth-century expert in law and economics from an institutionalist perspective.
September 25, 2020 Eric Scorsone, Director of the MSUE Center for Local Government Finance and Policy at Michigan State University, led a discussion of Keynesian theory and policy centered around three readings: Joan Robinson, "What has become of the Keynesian Revolution?," Challenge (Jan./Feb. 1974), Warren Samuels, "In Praise of Joan Robinson: Economics as Social Control," Society (Jan./Feb. 1989), and Warren Samuels, "Some Fundamentals of the Economic Role […]
A panel discussion on the social-capital disruptions caused by the COVID-19 pandemic and its impact in exacerbating inequality. Moderators Presentations
August 27, 2020 Discussion focused on two short essays by economist Joan Robinson, “Latter-Day Capitalism,” New Left Review, July/August 1962, and “The Final End of Laissez-Faire,” New Left Review, July/August 1964.
July 31, 2020 Jamee Moudud, Professor of Economics at Sarah Lawrence College (with research assistance from Nikos Efstratudakis), led a discussion of Robert L. Heilbroner, The Nature and Logic of Capitalism (1985) (excerpts) and Robert L. Hale, “Coercion and Distribution in a Supposedly Non-Coercive State,” Political Science Quarterly 38 (1923), 470-94.
2020 Summer Academy
Law, Money, and Technology: Transforming Political Economy
Hosted by University of Manchester
The 12th Annual ClassCrits conference, held at Western New England University School of Law in Springfield, MA featured scholarship on the theme “Facing Our Challenges: Rescuing Democracy, Ensuring Wellbeing & Exorcizing the Politics of Fear (Or: How To Be Free).” Conference Materials: 2019 Call for Papers 2019 ClassCrits Program
2019 Summer Academy
Law and Money: From Past to Future
Hosted by University of Manchester
The 11th Annual ClassCrits conference, held at West Virginia University College of Law in Morgantown, WV, featured scholarship on the theme “Rising Together for Economic Hope, Power & Justice.” Conference Materials: 2018 Call for Papers 2018 ClassCrits Program
The 10th Annual ClassCrits conference, held at Tulane University School of Law in New Orleans, LA, featured scholarship on the theme “Mobilizing for Resistance, Solidarity & Justice.” Conference Materials: 2017 Call for Papers 2017 ClassCrits Program
The 9th 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)
The 8th Annual ClassCrits conference, held at the University of Tennessee Law, Knoxville, TN featured scholarship on the theme “Challenging the Structures of Inequality.” Conference Materials: 2015 CFP 2015 ClassCrits Program Related Materials: 2016 Southwestern Law Review symposium (vol. 45, no. 4)
The 7th Annual ClassCrits conference, held at the University of California, Davis School of Law in Davis, CA featured scholarship on the theme “Poverty, Precarity and Work: Struggle and Solidarity in an Era of Permanent Crisis.” Conference Materials 2014 CFP Related Materials: 2015 Southwestern Law Review symposium (vol. 44, no. 4)
The 6th Annual ClassCrits conference, held at Southwestern Law School in Los Angeles, CA featured scholarship on the theme "Stuck in Forward: Debt, Austerity and the Possibilities of the Political". Conference Materials 2013 ClassCrits Program
The 5th Annual ClassCrits conference, held at University of Wisconsin Law School in Madison, WI featured scholarship on the theme "From Madison to Zuccotti Park: Confronting Class and Reclaiming the American Dream". Conference Materials 2012 CFP 2012 ClassCrits Program
The 4th Annual ClassCrits conference, held at the American University Washington College of Law in Washington D.C which featured scholarship on the theme "American University Washington College of Law". Conference Materials 2011 ClassCrits Program
The 3rd Annual ClassCrits conference, held at the SUNY Buffalo, Baldy Center for Law & Social Policy in Buffalo, NY which featured scholarship on the theme "Rethinking Economics and Law after the Great Recession". Conference Materials 2010 CFP2010 ClassCrits Program
The 1st and 2nd Annual ClassCrits conference, held at the SUNY Buffalo, Baldy Center for Law & Social Policy in Buffalo, NY which featured scholarship on the theme "Toward a Critical Analysis of Economic Inequality". Conference Materials 2007 ClassCrits Program 2008 Buffalo Law Review special issue (vol. 56, no. 4)
