That's a wrap on TCAF day one! We're open tomorrow 10 AM-5 PM at the Mattamy Athletic Centre. Get original comics, prints, and zines before they're gone!

Got mine (and This Place is a Prison) yesterday! It was nice to meet you! Toronto folks, check out TCAF if you can. It’s free and so inspiring to see so many artists making amazing things and putting it all out there. 🤩

I am reminded about how myself and a colleague from York tried to make the case for Ontario libraries to make open access hosting services more social (like SSRN) but alas, we were successful convincing others with our white paper yorkspace.library.yorku.ca/items/ec49cd...

📣 New article by Kevin Byrne Keller showing how the World Bank didn’t just shape a US‑led neoliberal order, but also helped support China’s state-owned enterprises and the rise of state capitalism. A fresh look at global economic legal history ! justmoney.org/world-bank-o...

We really do need a non-profit version of SSRN.

Railroads - destroyed the peaceful English countryside, brought a plague of settlers to the plains of North America, enchained and colonized global south, and led to (near?) global financial collapse after 1873 and 1893. The world might have been better off without them. Maybe there are lessons?

It brings me no pleasure to report that SSRN is, apparently, on the brink of enshittification.

A must-read thread for anyone interested in doing legal-historical work. History is an actual field with actual methods! You don't need a PhD in history, but you do need some training. Without that, you're just doing law-office history. (And yes I mean that as an insult.)

I have come to the view that law professors who wish to do historical research as part of their scholarship would, generally, benefit from formal methods training. That means taking classes with trained historians. At a minimum, they should adhere to the standards of the discipline laid out below.

Anyone have an opinion on the Zen Browser?

We need more conferences organized around small talking points or discussions instead of papers. No one has time to read all those papers!

The @usask.ca College of Law is hiring a two-year limited term Assistant Professor whose research and teaching interests are in law and technology, and intellectual property law. usask.csod.com/ux/ats/caree...

I'm going to submit a two-volume book proposal to a university press. It's an interdisciplinary humanities project. Any advice for the 2 volume pitch? Do's and don'ts? What should I know going into this? Is this hubris? Are some justifications better than others? Discuss.

📣 Is there a way out of an economy built on debt? Webinar organized by the the "International Movement for Monetary Reform" with Michael Kumhof (former Bank of England, IMF & Stanford ) on May 28, 12:30–2pm ET Registration and more information here : justmoney.org?p=13134&prev...

The week in review: @ksabeelrahman.bsky.social on legislative primacy; Amna Akba, @joesoss.bsky.social, and @joshpage.bsky.social on criminal-legal predation; and Justin Deystone on critical theory and capitalism. Plus, some jobs, CfPs, and new articles in the 🧵👇

Historian friends: what are you using these days to manage sources & notes and make sure you know where everything is when it's time to write? DevonThink? Something else? I'm gearing up for a sabbatical and want to refresh my approach!

This is a phenomenal review of Sven Beckert's disappointing recent book: "When capitalism is no longer the polemical term that understands the system as having a beginning and an end, it ceases to serve as a term of historical consciousness." www.thenation.com/article/soci...

Former Toronto homicide cop goes public with allegations of antisemitism, racism within force. Here’s what he says needs to change

This was a fantastic episode! 👇 (Even though I'm sick to death of talking about stablecoins and AI. It's well worth a listen.)

FWIW, I don’t think the major problem in my field, or related ones, is that people need to move faster & produce more. I read a lot of papers as part of the job, and I’m increasingly convinced we’d benefit from fewer papers and better ones, not more mediocre work produced ever more “efficiently.”

By gutting the Voting Rights Act, the Supreme Court is killing the Second Reconstruction. The first Reconstruction shows how Congress should respond. Me and Daphna Renan in the NYT on the tools we have to save democracy from a hostile Court.

#BREAKING: Raptors beat Cavs 112-110 in OT to force a Game 7

Name your top 15 TV shows ever, gut instincts only Impulse only, no thoughts just vibes: Mythbusters (truly) Star Trek Voyager Derry Girls Somebody Somewhere Top Chef Bake Off X-Files Star Trek Original Series Star Trek TNG Twin Peaks (until Lynch left) Firefly Jeopardy Taskmaster

As @ltanenbaum.bsky.social says: Someone is always doing the work. the-haters-guide-to-international-politics.ghost.io/the-chinese-...

The week in review: a spring scouting report on some of the hottest new LPE articles, and Andrew Miller on how personalized markets undermine solidarity. Plus, new books, events, and articles from Shaun Ossei-Owusu, Aziz Rana, Kate Andrias, Alexander Hertel-Fernandez, and more! 🧵

OK, I hate grading - like really truly hate it. But I just read one student paper about banking and payments for people incarcerated in federal prisons and another about the Council Bill System under the British Raj, and I AM LEARNING THINGS TODAY!

Very true. And this isn't entirely unique to the US. Law Profs the world over really do think of themselves as at the centre of their social-political universe, when we're really much more of a footnote.

Sometimes I feel like left critique of the US legal academy does the same thing that's both maddening & substantively destructive about the thing it's criticizing: believing that the American legal academy is at the center of the universe. Friends, it is not. We are just actually not that important.

Okay, #lawprof frens. A question for all of y’all: What are the characteristics of successful entry level job talks?

Do any of you who teach Business Associations have actual partnership agreements you use as models? @camdenhutchison.bsky.social @danrohde.bsky.social @carolmliao.bsky.social

Honored to be included in this roundup among so many scholars I admire. So excited to see all of this great work forthcoming, how will we all find the time to read it all?!

💯 agreed.

Not only that but... um...

OK, so this is not a sovereign wealth fund, it's just a variation on the failed Canada Infrastructure Bank model where public money 'de-risks' private capital in order to 'catalyze' investment - www.youtube.com/watch?v=oRYa...

Some great stuff in here that I'd missed!

Today, a spring scouting report on some of the hottest new LPE and LPE-adjacent articles. Congrats to all the authors on such wonderful placements 🎉

📣Scholarship on public banking. This paper introduces a new dataset (1,355 banks across 195 countries, 1401–2020) to challenge assumptions about public banking. Far from relics or recent innovations, public banks are a persistent feature of governance across time. justmoney.org/old-novel-id...

One of the things that makes grading so hard is that the worst papers always take the most time to read.

As Socrates said, "All my haters become my waiters when I sit down at the table of success."

Are you a student interested in LPE? This your chance to join the movement: the Association of Law and Political Economy is now open to student members. Students will elect their own representative to the Board in the upcoming election, so please help spread the word.

Second this

I am 43 and I own this jacket. @samuelmoyn.bsky.social

Join us next Friday at 12:30pm at the Remarque Institute (@remarquenyu.bsky.social)! SEYLA BENHABIB ON AT THE MARGINS OF THE MODERN STATE: CRITICAL THEORY AND LAW as.nyu.edu/research-cen...

Robert Skidelsky has died. @davidgraeber once wrote in NYRB that Skidelsky’s Money and Government was one of the most important books to come out of Britain in years 1/

Most annoying type of Wordle! Wordle 1,768 5/6* 🟨🟨⬜⬜🟨 🟩⬜🟩🟩🟩 🟩⬜🟩🟩🟩 🟩⬜🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

Look what just arrived!! Advance proofs of a real book!! One that actual bookstores are preordering!!! wwnorton.com/books/978132...

This Wednesday! 👇

wait till they figure out how much faster the airplane, a machine invented by Orville and Wilbur Wright in 1903, can traverse the same distance

The week in review: @kennybauf.bsky.social discusses our broken banking bargain, and Vincent Joralemon reflects on the neglected class dimension of addictive platform design. Plus, a call for scholarship, upcoming events, and hot new LPE pieces from around the web! 🧵

Did you or a scholar whose work you love have an article accepted this academic year? If so, let us know! Later this month, we’ll highlight some of the hottest LPE and LPE-adjacent work from the past two cycles. Send nominations to [email protected]. Self-noms highly encouraged!