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ClassCrits IV: Criminalization of Economic Inequality

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 […]

ClassCrits IX: The New Corporatocracy and Election 2016

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 […]

ClassCrits X: Mobilizing for Resistance, Solidarity & Justice

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 […]

ClassCrits XII: Facing Our Challenges

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 & […]

What is Capitalism? Reading & Discussion Group #1

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) […]

What is Capitalism? Reading & Discussion Group #2

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. 

Pandemic Inequality

A panel discussion on the social-capital disruptions caused by the COVID-19 pandemic and its impact in exacerbating inequality.  Moderators Presentations

What is Capitalism? Reading & Discussion Group #3

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 […]

What is Capitalism? Reading & Discussion Group #4

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 […]

What is Capitalism? Reading & Discussion Group #5

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, […]

What is Capitalism? Reading & Discussion Group #6

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.

What is Capitalism? Reading & Discussion Group #7

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. […]

Presumed Incompetent

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 […]

What is Capitalism? Reading & Discussion Group #8

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.

Racial 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 […]

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 […]

What is Capitalism? Reading & Discussion Group #10

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 […]

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 #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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 #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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 #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 […]

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 […]

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 #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 #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 #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 #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, […]

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 […]

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

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. […]

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. […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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  

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: […]

What is Capitalism? Reading & Discussion Group

February 28, 2025 at 3 pm ET A discussion with Kimberly Kracman on her article, Code as Constitution: The Negotiation of a Uniform Accounting Code for U.S. Railway Corporations and […]

Summer Academy: Law and Money: From Past to Future

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: […]

Summer Academy on Law, Money and Technology

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: […]

What is Capitalism? Reading & Discussion Group

March 28, 2025 at 3 pm ET A discussion with Paul Cammack, University of Manchester, featuring his article, Politics and Political Economy of Post-Reproduction Societies. Register here.

Global Law and Political Economy Summer Academy

The 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.

ClassCrits XV

The 15th Annual ClassCrits conference, to be held at Mitchell Hamline School of Law in St. Paul, Minnesota.