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Project Main Navigation Law and Political Economy Project About Engage Events Learn Blog Search for: LPE project 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. Our work is rooted in the insight that politics and the economy cannot be separated and that both are constructed in essential respects by law. We believe that developments over the last several decades in legal scholarship and policy helped to facilitate rising inequality and precarity, political alienation, the entrenchment of racial hierarchies and intersectional exploitation, and ecological and social catastrophe. We aim to help reverse these trends by supporting scholarly work that maps where we have gone wrong, and that develops ideas and proposals to democratize our political economy and build a more just, equal, and sustainable future. About The LPE Project Read the LPE Blog Our Work Learn A variety of resources designed to help faculty and students learn more about LPE, including syllabi from LPE and LPE-related courses, primers on topics such as neoliberalism and legal realism, as well as videos from a number of events we have held over the last year. Go to Learn Engage Information about the amazing work being done by LPE student groups, as well as guidance on starting a student group on your own campus! A bureau of affiliated professors and practitioners designed to help faculty and students to bring LPE scholars to their campuses! Go to Engage Events A compendium of upcoming (and past) events put on by the LPE Project, LPE student groups, and other organizations in the LPE ecosystem. Go to Events Recent Updates article Can Subsidies Discipline Capital? The Biden Administration’s recent foray into industrial policy relies heavily on voluntary inducements to push firms to invest in renewable energy technology and domestic manufacturing. Some observers argue that this approach, commonly known as "derisking," will yield paltry results: firms will pursue the same priorities they would have absent the legislation, just with a better financial return. Yet subsidies do not only alleviate risk; they also impose a new risk of falling behind competitors, and so mold the landscape of profitability into a disciplinary force itself. article Weekly Roundup: May 10 Jessica Whyte on the history of "economic peace" in Israel/Palestine, and a double dose of David Pozen: on the presidentialization of university governance, and on Aziz Rana’s The Constitutional Bind . Plus, Adam Tooze on endowments and divestment, Jonathan Masur and Eric Posner on the FTC’s noncompete ban, Aziz Rana on left internationalism past and present, Erin Pineda on Jefferson Cowie’s Freedom’s Dominion , Ariel Ron on the Farm Bill, and Quinn Slobodian on the history of tax havens. article Venerating Constitutional Veneration? Aziz Rana’s The Constitutional Bind provides a vital resource for appreciating how the American ideology of constitutional reverence was constructed. Yet insofar as Rana blames such an ideology for thwarting essential democratic reform, we might wonder whether this magisterial work ironically gives its subject too much credit — venerating the very constitutional veneration that it deconstructs. article Seeing the University More Clearly Crisis can be clarifying. Recent events on campuses across the country have forced many of us to look more closely at how our own universities work, including at the decades-long drift toward more powerful university presidents. Reversing this drift, and developing a more democratic model of internal governance, may be a prerequisite not only for rebuilding intellectual community but also for avoiding future campus conflagrations. Search for: Constellation of LPE Links Enter Your Email To Subscribe Please leave this field empty Email * Check your inbox or spam folder to confirm your subscription. About Toward a Manifesto Our Team Learn Learn Videos AMRI Academy LPE 101 Syllabi Primers LPE in the News Blog Submissions Events Conference 2023 Conference 2021 Upcoming Events Past Events Engage Join a Student Group Start a Student Group Speakers Bureau Contact Us Accessibility Statement | Privacy Policy | © The Law and Political...