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The Law and Political Economy (LPE) Project brings together a network of scholars, practitioners, and students working to develop innovative intellectual, pedagogical, and political interventions to advance the study of political economy and law. Scholars in their network work to understand the relationship between market supremacy and racial, gender, and economic injustice. The Law and..
LPE Project
2d ago
On Monday, Sara Rankin explained what is at stake at the Supreme Court next month in City of Grants Pass v. Johnson. Over the past five years, the Ninth Circuit has held that cities cannot punish or sanction conduct that is an unavoidable consequence of being homeless — including through ordinances that outlaw sleeping or camping in public, if the city fails to provide any safe alternative.
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LPE Project
2d ago
Next month, the Supreme Court will hear arguments in City of Grants Pass v. Johnson, a case that concerns whether it is constitutional for cities to punish unsheltered people for sleeping outside, even when the city fails to provide any safe alternative. In this brief post, I hope to clarify what is at stake in this case, by discussing the groundwork laid by earlier decisions. I also hope to...
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2d ago
On Monday, Julieta Lobato analyzed Javier Milei’s labor policies over his first three months in office. In the formal labor market, she argues, his approach has resembled an intensification of the initial neoliberal wave of the 1980-1990s, while in the informal labor market, his government has sought to atomize social conflict by weakening the power of intermediate worker organizations.
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LPE Project
1w ago
This post is part of a series on the LPE of Higher Education. *** The cultural controversies swirling around college and university campuses are often viewed through the lens of national politics — as part of a broader battle against “woke” ideas, a partisan realignment by education, or a generational shift. This focus, however, makes it is easy to miss one effect of diverging paths currently...
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1w ago
Three months have passed since Javier Milei assumed power in Argentina, yet his administration has already ushered in a period of profound social upheaval, with poverty rates skyrocketing to nearly 60%. Milei’s frenetic style, staunch adherence to orthodox libertarianism, and use of direct violence in his political rhetoric and aesthetics (epitomized by the chainsaw imaginary) make his sudden...
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2w ago
On Monday, Zephyr Teachout offered a postmortem on last week’s oral arguments at the Supreme Court regarding the government regulation of social media. As she observes, the four-and-a-half-hour legal argument revealed that the two NetChoice cases did not comprise one question, but rather a vast universe of questions. Given this, the Court should refrain from deciding so many critical issues in the...
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2w ago
This post introduces a symposium on Radical Acts of Justice: How Ordinary People Are Dismantling Mass Incarceration. *** In recent years, it has become commonplace among those critical of criminalization to refuse the term “criminal justice system” and refer instead to a “criminal legal system.” This terminological substitution reflects a growing belief that our formal systems of prosecution and...
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LPE Project
3w ago
On Monday, Ganesh Sitaraman and Morgan Ricks argued that tech platforms are the new common carriers: not only do they tend toward monopoly or oligopoly, but they have become increasingly essential to modern life. As such, following centuries of common law, these platforms should be governed by special rules, including an equal access mandate to “serve all comers” impartially...
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LPE Project
3w ago
The Thirteenth and Fourteenth Amendments overturned Dred Scott and granted citizenship to formerly enslaved persons born or naturalized in the United States. But what did this status entail? Prior to abolition, there did not exist a stable, uniform conception of citizenship and its rights, privileges, and immunities across the nation. Instead, the meaning of citizenship varied widely—not just...
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3w ago
Early investigations into the rise of neoliberalism tended to emphasize the right-wing, libertarian variant, enshrined philosophically in the Mont Pelerin Society, legally in law-and-economics, and politically by conservatives like Reagan and Thatcher. Recently, however, historians and sociologists have turned their attention to the neoliberal turn within center-left parties. For example...
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