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SUMMARY:The Law and Political Economy of Social Reproduction
DESCRIPTION:This day-long workshop will be held in person at the University of Chicago on Wednesday\, May 21st. \nView the program here. \nRead the call for papers at this link. \n \n 
URL:https://lpecollective.org/event/lpe-social-reproduction/
CATEGORIES:Global LPE Network
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250522T090000
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SUMMARY:Law and Society Association Annual Meeting
DESCRIPTION:View the program for the Law and Political Economy Collaborative Research Network at this link.
URL:https://lpecollective.org/event/law-and-society-association-annual-meeting/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250708T150000
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SUMMARY:LPE Scholar Workshop
DESCRIPTION:Submit an abstract. \nDownload the below call for abstracts as a PDF. \nThis July\, scholars of political economy will gather in Montreal just prior to the Society for the Advancement of Socio-Economics (SASE) annual conference. 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. \nWe welcome faculty\, students\, and emerging scholars interested in presenting their work to submit a 200-500 word abstract with title by Monday\, June 2. Click here to submit an abstract. We are especially interested in soliciting abstracts that breach disciplinary lines involving law\, economics\, politics\, history\, and sociology. Scholars and others who are interested in participating as commentators are also invited to attend by letting us know at appeal@politicaleconomylaw.org. \nWorkshop leaders will include Leanna Katz\, Eric George\, and Martha McCluskey. \nWe encourage proposals and projects at every stage of their development; completed papers are not necessary at the time of the workshop. If you are unsure if your proposal fits the submission guidelines\, please do not hesitate to contact the organizers at appeal@politicaleconomylaw.org. \nThe event will be followed by an opportunity to gather for drinks and dinner together at nearby location to be determined. \nIf you are interested in presenting or attending\, please note that\, while the workshop is free of charge\, we are unfortunately unable to provide support for travel\, lodging\, or dinner.
URL:https://lpecollective.org/event/esww-7825/
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Rome:20250714T090000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Rome:20250718T170000
DTSTAMP:20260430T113755
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SUMMARY:Global Law and Political Economy Summer Academy
DESCRIPTION:July 14 – July 18\, 2025\, Roccella Ionica\, Italy \nView the program. \nApply by 25 April 2025. \nThe Summer School offers an interactive\, non-hierarchical\, and focused mentorship and skill-building experience for students and faculty. It engages critically with the diverse considerations of political-economy-law while fostering democratic dialogue with local cultures. \nThe program spans three days: \n\nDay 1: Roundtable and writing workshop sessions (workshops modelled on IGLP format);\nDay 2: Case study focused on interactive\, problem-based group learning\, a focused master class\, and a cultural excursion exploring local custom and history; and\nDay 3: Lectures from high-profile judges at the intersection of policy\, power and law as well as a career mentorship session.\n\nThe Summer Academy is a collaboration between the INET YSI FLE Working Group\, the Law and Political Economy Collective (LPE-C)\, the Initiative for Global Law and Political Economy at the University of Manchester (iGLPE)\, the European Association for Evolutionary Political Economy (EAEPE)\, and the City of Roccella\, Italy. \nApplication Details: \nWe invite graduate students (Masters or Ph.D. students or within three years of completing Ph.D.) interested in exploring questions of law and political economy to apply. \n\nFunding: Partial travel stipends and shared accommodation provided.\nHow to Apply: Submit a 200-word abstract on a theme related to law and political economy; and CV (including any references) by 25 April 2025.\nAccepted participants will be requested to submit a working paper for the writing workshop between 3000-8000 words no later than 1 June 2025.\n\nFor more information contact: christina@youngscholarsinitiative.org.
URL:https://lpecollective.org/event/global-lpe-summer-academy/
CATEGORIES:APPEAL,Summer Academy
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250730T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250730T113000
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SUMMARY:Legal and Political Foundations of Capitalism: The End of Laissez Faire?
DESCRIPTION:Jamee Moudud’s new book\, Legal and Political Foundations of Capitalism: The End of Laissez Faire? draws on the Original Institutional Economics and American Legal Realist traditions to propose a theory of institutional political economy. Focusing on property\, money and credit\, constitutional law\, and corporations\, this book argues that laissez-faire has never existed and that “state intervention versus de-regulation” and “market failures versus free markets” are false dichotomies. Moudud’s book proposes the need to engage with legal-economic theory and history to understand what institutions are\, what economic regulation means\, how law is intrinsically connected to the economy\, and how power relations are distributed within capitalism. \nJoin the author and commentators Anna Chadwick and John Haskell for a Zoom discussion of this recent book on July 30\, 2025 at 10 am eastern. \nSpeakers \nJamee K. Moudud (PhD) is a Professor of Economics at Sarah Lawrence College\, Bronxville\, New York. He is Co-Founder and Board Member of the Law and Political Economy Collective (LPE-C)\, on the Steering Committee of the Association for the Promotion of Political Economy and Law (APPEAL)\, and is also on the Editorial Board and a Co-Founder of the Journal of Law and Political Economy. \nAnna Chadwick is a Senior Lecturer at the University of Glasgow School of Law. Anna’s monograph\, Law and the Political Economy of Hunger\, was published by Oxford University Press in 2019. \nJohn Haskell is a Professor/Chair at University of Manchester Law School and a Faculty Member at Harvard Law School Institute for Global Law and Policy. At Manchester\, he is Director of Manchester Law and Technology Initiative and Lead at Initiative for Global Law and Political Economy. 
URL:https://lpecollective.org/event/legal-and-political-foundations-of-capitalism-the-end-of-laissez-faire/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250905T120000
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SUMMARY:What is Capitalism? Reading & Discussion Group
DESCRIPTION: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 Profit. \nRegister here. \nIn a contractual relationship\, does the Promisor own the Promisee’s performance? If so\, up to what extent? These questions are at the heart of contract law and contract law scholarship. The economic approach to law has long proposed a way to answer these questions\, the so-called efficient breach. What do we owe when we break an existing contract to take advantage of a better deal? The authors argue that prominent economic analysis of breach of contract misunderstands the legal\, moral\, and practical aspects of contractual obligations and entitlements. \nThis session adds to our series of sessions over the last few years examining the legal complexities of basic economic concepts. The idea of voluntary market transactions for mutual gain is central to the logics of capitalism. Closer attention to how contract law and institutions shape transactions can clarify underlying assumptions and conflicts about who deserves what and why. \nEric Scorsone is Executive Director\, Weldon Cooper Center for Public Service and Associate Professor of Public Policy by Courtesy\, University of Virginia. He co-hosts the Legal-Economic Nexus Podcast with Sarah Klammer. \nFabrizio Esposito is Associate Professor of Private Law\, NOVA School of Law and the Research & Development Centre in Law and Society in Lisbon\, Portugal. \nWe’ll begin with a 10 minute introduction by the author\, followed by extended conversation with participants.
URL:https://lpecollective.org/event/what-is-capitalism-reading-discussion-group-34/
CATEGORIES:APPEAL,What is Capitalism?
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251108T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251108T170000
DTSTAMP:20260430T113755
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SUMMARY:Workshop: Heterodox Economics Meets Law and Political Economy: Reclaiming Democracy
DESCRIPTION:Register by October 30 at: https://bit.ly/LPE11825 \nHETERODOX ECONOMICS MEETS LAW AND POLITICAL ECONOMY: \nRECLAIMING DEMOCRACY \nJohn Jay College\, 524 W 59th St New York\, NY 10019 United States \nSaturday\, November 8\, 2025 \n9:00am – 5:00 pm ET \nPresentations by  \nZephyr Teachout \nProfessor of Law\, Fordham Law School \n& \nKimberly Kracman \nAssociate Research Scholar\, Princeton University \nRoundtable with \nMichelle Holder\nProfessor of Economics\, John Jay College & Senior Fellow\, Roosevelt Institute \nJessica Forden\nDoctoral Student in Economics\, The New School \nReshard Kolabhai  \nDoctoral Student\, Yale Law School  \nJonah Wolf \nDoctoral Student in Economics\, UMass Amherst \nModerated by \nJamee K. Moudud\nProfessor of Economics\, Sarah Lawrence College \nPaper Talks\nEmerging Scholars\n*** \nCo-organizers and sponsors: \nThe Association for the Promotion of Political Economy and the Law (APPEAL)\, a program of the LPE Collective; John Jay College Economics Department; John Jay College Law and Political Economy Society; and UMass Amherst LPE Group \nRegister by October 30 at: https://bit.ly/LPE11825
URL:https://lpecollective.org/event/heterodox-economics-meets-law-and-political-economy-reclaiming-democracy/
CATEGORIES:APPEAL,Heterodox Economics Meets LPE
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251121T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251121T160000
DTSTAMP:20260430T113755
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SUMMARY:What is Capitalism? Reading & Discussion Group with Jessica A. Shoemaker and James Fallows Tierney
DESCRIPTION:REGISTER HERE \nWhat is Capitalism? Reading & Discussion Group \nDiscussion with Jessica A. Shoemaker and James Fallows Tierney featuring their co-authored article\, Trading Acres (forthcoming in Yale Law Journal 2025-26). \nExcerpt from the co-authors’ abstract: \nFarmland’s conversion into an asset class threatens rural livelihoods\, agriculture and food system resilience\, economic and spatial justice\, and—in our final estimation—democracy itself. \n… [H]istorically\, investor-owned farmland was seen as a deep and politically motivating threat to rural life. In this Article\, we argue that Wall Street’s arrival at rural America’s gate is not merely a market trend but rather the product of deep social choices governing the accumulation of investor wealth: property\, corporate\, and securities law. We explore the ways in which these deep structures of our legal system—from the primacy of market logics to a range of biases that skew our spatial\, temporal\, and social relations— constitute the conditions for this profound transformation in the way farmland\, as a basic and essential rural resource\, is being integrated into the modern capital economy. \nJessica A. Shoemaker is Steinhart Foundation Distinguished Professor of Law\, University of Nebraska College of Law. \nJames Fallows Tierney is Associate Professor of Law and Associate Dean for Academic Affairs\, Chicago-Kent College of Law. \nA draft of the article is available on SSRN here. \nREGISTER HERE
URL:https://lpecollective.org/event/what-is-capitalism-reading-discussion-group-with-jessica-a-shoemaker-and-james-fallows-tierney/
CATEGORIES:APPEAL,What is Capitalism?
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260123T100000
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SUMMARY:What is Capitalism? Reading & Discussion Group with Joanna Kusiak
DESCRIPTION:Friday\, Jan. 23\, 2026 at 10 am ET (UTC-5) / 15:00 GMT \nWhat is Capitalism? Reading & Discussion Group \nJoin 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 apartments owned by corporate speculators. Professor Kusiak is a Junior Research Fellow at King’s College\, University of Cambridge. \nTo register\, scroll down on this page and click the green “Register Now” button.
URL:https://lpecollective.org/event/what-is-capitalism-joanna-kusiak/
CATEGORIES:APPEAL,What is Capitalism?
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260220T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260220T163000
DTSTAMP:20260430T113755
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SUMMARY:What is Capitalism? Reading & Discussion Group with Zoe Sherman
DESCRIPTION:Friday\, Feb. 20\, 2026 at 3 pm ET (UTC-5) / 20:00 GMT \n\nWhat is Capitalism? Reading & Discussion Group \nZoe 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 and culture. REGISTER HERE to receive the zoom link and the reading. \nZoe Sherman is a political economist and economic historian. She holds a Ph.D. from UMass-Amherst\, was a professor of economics at Merrimack College for 10 years\, and has been a member of the Dollars & Sense collective since 2014. She is the author of Modern Advertising and the Market for Audience Attention: The US Advertising Industry’s Turn-or-the-Twentieth Century Transition (Routledge 2020). Her recent writing for Dollars & Sense is available here.
URL:https://lpecollective.org/event/what-is-capitalism-zoe-sherman/
CATEGORIES:APPEAL,What is Capitalism?
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260527T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260527T170000
DTSTAMP:20260430T113755
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SUMMARY:Pre-LSA 2026 Workshop on Law & Political Economy: Reconstructing State Capacity
DESCRIPTION:This day-long workshop will be held in person at the University of California\, Berkeley on Wednesday\, May 27th.  \nDownload the call for papers at this link. \nSubmit a paper through this link. \nCall for Papers \nPre-LSA 2026 Workshop on Law & Political Economy \nReconstructing State Capacity \nMay 27\, 2026 \nBerkeley\, California \nDeadline for paper abstracts: February 10\, 2026 \nWe 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 Law and Society Association’s 2026 Annual Meeting in San Francisco (May 28–31\, 2026) and is organized by the LSA Law and Political Economy Collaborative Research Network (CRN 55)\, the LPE Collective\, and the Global LPE Network in collaboration with the Berkeley Economy and Society Initiative. \nWorkshop Theme \nIn recent years\, questions of state capacity have returned to the center of sociolegal and political economy scholarship. Across diverse contexts\, the functions of the state have become increasingly contested and reworked. Governing capacity is expanded and intensified in some domains\, while deliberately curtailed\, dismantled\, or redirected in others\, often in ways that reflect shifting political coalitions\, economic interests\, and struggles over authority. Yet “state capacity” is frequently invoked as if it were a fixed or technical attribute\, something states either possess or lack\, rather than a politically contingent and historically produced achievement that must be continuously assembled and sustained. \nThis workshop starts from the premise that state capacity is shaped and contested through multiple\, intersecting processes in which law plays a central mediating role. Legal rules\, institutions\, and vocabularies organize administrative power\, structure enforcement\, and reallocate authority across public and private actors. Through these processes\, law legitimates coercion\, withdrawal\, or redistribution. At the same time\, law is also a site through which state capacity is hollowed out\, fragmented\, selectively redeployed or strategically reconfigured to manage competing demands and institutional contradictions– often in ways that intensify inequality\, shift risks onto households and communities\, and entrench new forms of dependence and control. \nWe invite papers that examine state capacity as a relational phenomenon situated within law and political economy and produced through ongoing struggles among states\, markets\, and societies. Such struggles unfold across legal fields\, spatial scales\, and historical moments\, generating uneven and often contradictory forms of governing capacity. Rather than treating the state as a unitary or coherent actor\, the workshop encourages analyses that foreground the legal techniques\, organizational practices\, and social conflicts through which governing capacity is assembled\, undermined\, and reconfigured. We also welcome analyses of how states navigate and operationalize internal tensions—between market and plan\, formal law and informal authority\, domestic sovereignty and transnational integration—as productive dimensions of governance rather than failures of coherence. \nTopics of Interest \nWe welcome papers on a wide range of topics related to law\, political economy\, and state capacity\, including but not limited to: \n\nLegal foundations and transformations of state capacity in different political economies\nIndustrial policy\, regulation\, and the legal infrastructures of economic governance\nPrivatization\, outsourcing\, and the deconstruction or redistribution of public authority\nState capacity\, corporate power\, and mechanisms of regulatory capture\nLaw\, coercion\, and repression as instruments or dimensions of governing capacity\nState capacity and social provision\, welfare\, and redistribution\nCitizenship\, migration control\, and border governance\nCrisis governance\, emergency powers\, and forms of legal exceptionalism\nComparative\, transnational\, and postcolonial perspectives on state capacity and its variation across time and space\nNon-Western modalities of state capacity\, including hybrid forms that combine market governance with political monopoly\, and the strategic appropriation of Western legal knowledge\nTensions between state capacity and regime legitimacy\, including how states manage contradictions between economic governance and political authority\n\nSubmission Guidelines \nWe invite scholars to submit abstracts of no more than 300 words by February 10\, 2025. Final papers should be between 3\,000 and 4\,000 words and will be precirculated among participants. Full drafts are due in early May. Submissions to the workshop will not count towards the LSA Annual Meeting presentation limits. Workshop participants do not need to register for the LSA Annual Meeting to attend this workshop. Abstracts should be submitted via the following link: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeq1z6S11cORvy5dS0FNamXeq6OJJ3NXsdZGGf9FU-MFmreYw/viewform \nWe also welcome hearing from scholars interested in attending\, facilitating\, or otherwise supporting the workshop. There is no cost for participating in the workshop. \nWorkshop Format \nThe workshop will consist of thematic sessions organized around pre-circulated papers. Each paper will receive dedicated discussion from assigned discussants and participants\, with an emphasis on collective engagement rather than formal presentation. The format is designed to foster sustained\, interdisciplinary conversation across sociolegal studies\, political economy\, economic sociology\, and related fields. For questions\, please contact the workshop organizers. \nWe look forward to receiving your submissions and to an engaged discussion in Berkeley!
URL:https://lpecollective.org/event/pre-lsa-2026-workshop-on-law-political-economy-reconstructing-state-capacity/
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