BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Law and Political Economy Collective - ECPv6.15.12//NONSGML v1.0//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH X-WR-CALNAME:Law and Political Economy Collective X-ORIGINAL-URL:https://lpecollective.org X-WR-CALDESC:Events for Law and Political Economy Collective REFRESH-INTERVAL;VALUE=DURATION:PT1H X-Robots-Tag:noindex X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/New_York BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20240310T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20241103T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20250309T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20251102T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20260308T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20261101T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20270314T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20271107T060000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250905T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250905T130000 DTSTAMP:20260725T193553 CREATED:20250827T183216Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260122T181619Z UID:1798-1757073600-1757077200@lpecollective.org 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? END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251108T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251108T170000 DTSTAMP:20260725T193553 CREATED:20251022T173508Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260122T195107Z UID:1841-1762592400-1762621200@lpecollective.org 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 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251121T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251121T160000 DTSTAMP:20260725T193553 CREATED:20251112T214440Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260122T181509Z UID:1852-1763737200-1763740800@lpecollective.org 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? END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260123T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260123T113000 DTSTAMP:20260725T193553 CREATED:20260114T190054Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260122T162603Z UID:1871-1769162400-1769167800@lpecollective.org 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? END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260220T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260220T163000 DTSTAMP:20260725T193553 CREATED:20260109T220619Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260122T162610Z UID:1883-1771599600-1771605000@lpecollective.org 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? END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260527T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260527T170000 DTSTAMP:20260725T193553 CREATED:20260130T214531Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260624T161727Z UID:1934-1779872400-1779901200@lpecollective.org SUMMARY:Pre-LSA 2026 Workshop on Law & Political Economy: Reconstructing State Capacity DESCRIPTION:Reconstructing State Capacity\nPre-LSA 2026 Workshop on Law & Political Economy\nMay 27\, 2026\,University of CaliforniaBerkeley\, California \n \n Programme\n \n \n Call for Papers\n \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. \n \n  \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\nAbout the Global Law and Political Economy Series \nThe Global Law and Political Economy Workshop is an annual one-day event bringing together LPE scholars from around the world to explore central themes at the intersection of law\, political economy\, and social change. Held the day before the LSA Annual Meeting\, the workshop creates a dedicated space for sustained discussion and exchange. Each year\, the workshop is organized around a thematic focus that reflects pressing questions in the field. Past editions have examined the law and political economy of social reproduction (Chicago\, 2025) and this year’s workshop is focused on the topic of the reconstruction of state capacity (Berkeley\, 2026). The 2027 workshop will be held in connection with the LSA Annual Meeting in Hong Kong — look out for the call for papers later this year. \nThe workshop combines plenary sessions with smaller breakout groups\, allowing for both wide-ranging debate and close engagement with individual papers. It has become a key gathering point for the global LPE community — a place to develop new ideas\, forge connections across disciplines and regions\, and advance the collective intellectual project of the network. \nOrganizing Committee\n\n\nMaj Grasten – University of Copenhagen Business School \n\nDaniela Campos Ugaz – Emory University\nJay Varellas – UC Berkeley\nHenrique Castro – University of Konstanz\n\nLeanna Katz – McGill University  \n\nM. Francis Cao – Goethe University Frankfurt\n\nCo-organizers and Sponsors\n\n\nLaw and Political Economy Collective \n\nUC Berkeley School of Law URL:https://lpecollective.org/event/pre-lsa-2026-workshop-on-law-political-economy-reconstructing-state-capacity/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260528 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260601 DTSTAMP:20260725T193553 CREATED:20260522T152654Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260623T160809Z UID:2206-1779926400-1780271999@lpecollective.org SUMMARY:CRN 55 Law and Political Economy DESCRIPTION:CRN 55\nLaw and Political Economy \nMay 28-31\, 2026\,San Francisco\, California \n \n Programme\n \nThe Law and Political Economy CRN is a forum for legal scholars\, social scientists\,and others working at the intersection of law and political economy. It promotes interdisciplinary scholarship that brings political economy perspectives into legal and sociolegal research\, and invites scholars from across sociology\,political science\, anthropology\, geography\, history\, literature\, gender studies\, business studies\, and heterodox economics to engage more deeply with legal rules\, institutions\, and processes. By centering political economy\, the CRN explores how power and sociolegal structures shape behavior\, governance\,and institutional development. It supports work that foregrounds justice\, fairness\, identity\, and sustainability\, and welcomes scholarship that is comparative\, historical\, and transnational\, as well as attentive to local legal systems and processes. \n \nOrganizing Committee\n\n\nMaj Grasten – University of Copenhagen Business School \n\nDaniela Campos Ugaz – Emory University\nJay Varellas – UC Berkeley\nHenrique Castro – University of Konstanz\n\nLeanna Katz – McGill University  \n\nM. Francis Cao – Goethe University Frankfurt\n\nCo-organizers and Sponsors\n\n\nLaw and Political Economy Collective \n\nLaw and Society Association URL:https://lpecollective.org/event/crn-55-law-and-political-economy/ CATEGORIES:LPE Collective END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR