Today, @genevievelakier.bsky.social explains how Title VI, perhaps the crowning achievement of the Civil Rights Movement, has become one of the most powerful forces against desegregation.

Much like how the 14th Amendment has been bastardized by Republicans on the Supreme Court for a century & a half.

"neither the courts nor the bad faith of the Trump administrators are entirely to blame, although both have played a role. Instead, the transformation of Title VI reflects a deeper problem with how the federal civil rights regime has come to operate."

My book w/@profsorelle.bsky.social will be out in January! These ideas have brewed since I interned at Queens Legal Services 20 years ago. The book is for anyone who cares about people, justice, power & democracy. Much more to share more in the coming months! press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...

Today, @genevievelakier.bsky.social explains how Title VI, perhaps the crowning achievement of the Civil Rights Movement, has become one of the most powerful forces against desegregation.

Week in Review: @gabrielwinant.bsky.social on Marxism and Antitrust, Andrew Bilodeau on labor unions for incarcerated workers, and a collection of some of favorite posts on LPE & Criminal Law. Plus, the best of LPE from around the web in the 🧵👇

Excited to announce an upcoming event w @nyuengelberg.org! My first back at @nyulaw.bsky.social! "Fixing a Broken System: The Path to Public Pharma in New York" 5:30-7 pm Thur Sep. 25, 2025 @ NYU Co-hosted w T1International & @racepowerpolicy.org! Zoom & IRL, free & open to all! Join us!

Genevieve Lakier is who everyone should be reading on the risks of government jawboning in the Jimmy Kimmel case. @genevievelakier.bsky.social

📢 NOMOS 2025 Annual Conference: Capitalism and Socialism Panels on value & money 🗓 Sept 26, 12–6:45 PM EST | Hybrid: Harvard Safra Center + Zoom justmoney.org/2025-annual-...

Week in Review: @gabrielwinant.bsky.social on Marxism and Antitrust, Andrew Bilodeau on labor unions for incarcerated workers, and a collection of some of favorite posts on LPE & Criminal Law. Plus, the best of LPE from around the web in the 🧵👇

Today, we reach into the vault and highlight some of our favorite posts on the entanglements between criminal law, political economy, and social inequality. Featuring Angela Harris, Noah Zatz, Jocelyn Simonson, Joanna Schwartz, Zohra Ahmed, Dorothy Roberts, Andrew Crespo, and Amna Akbar, and more!

So many immediate horrors right now, but I appreciated the invitation from @donmoyn.bsky.social to reflect on the future and how social scientists could help with the eventual federal government rebuilding. As @sbagen.bsky.social has argued persuasively, we need to start now with that effort! 1/

An incredible resource to share with students, as well as a great entry point for those new to LPE. Earlier entries in the series cover some of our favorite posts on antitrust, admin law, housing, tech: lpeproject.org/symposia/fro...

Today, we reach into the vault and highlight some of our favorite posts on the entanglements between criminal law, political economy, and social inequality. Featuring Angela Harris, Noah Zatz, Jocelyn Simonson, Joanna Schwartz, Zohra Ahmed, Dorothy Roberts, Andrew Crespo, and Amna Akbar, and more!

Love these newsletter style posts from @lpeblog.bsky.social @lpeproject.bsky.social, this one highlighting posts about the intersection of criminal law with political economy, e.g. carceral state lpeproject.org/blog/from-th...

"In the era of Trump, censorship... very likely will target the economic infrastructure of speech rather than speech itself. But this does not make it any less a threat to the democratic values that the First Amendment is supposed to protect." A good day to revisit @genevievelakier.bsky.social!

"Instead of demanding, as unions have in the past, that their workplaces stop bringing in incarcerated workers, they can demand that incarcerated workers be brought up to similar wage and benefit structures."

Today, Andrew Bilodeau argues that traditional labor unions can and should bring incarcerated workers into the fold by including them in their organizing drives at fast food restaurants, factories, and other workplaces.

Congrats to our editorial board members Aziz Rana and Luke Herrine on being named 2025 Freedom Scholars 🥳🥳

I wrote about how economic democracy is necessary for political democracy feels very fraught right now but in this moment of structural transformation, we need structural solutions & to build political will towards them

"The contrasting positive vision... is the diminishment of the power of capital over our flourishing, a diminishment which takes the form of the insulation of human life from markets, not its more successful integration into them." Don't miss Gabe Winant on Marxism and Antitrust!

Today, @gabrielwinant.bsky.social breaks down the core theoretical divides between Marxism and antitrust—and considers how, despite these differences, the two traditions might inform one another in a constructive give and take.

PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE submit a comment to help save PSLF and not let the Trump admistration impose an ideological litmus test YOU HAVE TWO DAYS!!!

Helpful provocation from Gabe Winant, who still hasn't migrated from X. Nice of him to write it out like this. I don't think it all hangs together. Might have to respond lpeproject.org/blog/marxism...

Good reflections here on the different assumptions that characterize Marxism and (at least much of) the modern Antitrust movement.

I really appreciated this essay for engaging core issues regarding how to think about the economy and the (burning) world and our place in it. Even if you don't care about antitrust *or* marxism, i recommend it.

Today, @gabrielwinant.bsky.social breaks down the core theoretical divides between Marxism and antitrust—and considers how, despite these differences, the two traditions might inform one another in a constructive give and take.

All aboard 🚂! Today's the LAST DAY⏳ to submit a proposal 📄 to the first-ever ALPE conference.

Great piece by @adamtooze.bsky.social in today’s @nytimes.com on the deeper questions related to Fed independence. Come for his history of the Fed as a deradicalizing force, stay for his endorsement of @levmenand.bsky.social’s proposal for a triennial review. Gift link below.

The week in review: @jonathanfharris.bsky.social on how states are rewriting the rules on worker mobility, @katejackson.bsky.social on the rise of populism in corporate governance, and a last call for ALPE proposals! Plus, the best of LPE from around the web in the 🧵👇

The week in review: @jonathanfharris.bsky.social on how states are rewriting the rules on worker mobility, @katejackson.bsky.social on the rise of populism in corporate governance, and a last call for ALPE proposals! Plus, the best of LPE from around the web in the 🧵👇

And now sharing a draft of my Frankel Lecture: COVID and the Great Retrenchment. Not a happy story. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

Today at the Blog, it's last call 🚨🚨 Submissions for the first-ever Association of Law & Political Economy Conference are due Monday, Sept. 15 ⏰ Don’t miss your chance to be part of this landmark event. For updates, make sure to follow: @a-lpe.bsky.social lpeproject.org/blog/cfp-rem...

Today in corporate backsliding in favor of the oligarchs, c/o Anne Lipton Shedding shareholders of their pesky right to sue collectively www.businesslawprofessors.com/2025/09/liti...

Don't let the embarrassment that is Ezra Klein's op-ed distract you from the embarrassment you will feel if you forget to submit your ALPE proposal by Monday 😳

Today at the Blog, it's last call 🚨🚨 Submissions for the first-ever Association of Law & Political Economy Conference are due Monday, Sept. 15 ⏰ Don’t miss your chance to be part of this landmark event. For updates, make sure to follow: @a-lpe.bsky.social lpeproject.org/blog/cfp-rem...

Here’s my new @LPEBlog.bsky.social post about Friday’s FTC decision to stop defending its rule banning non-competes. I also highlight how red & blue states are stepping in to defend worker mobility with new legislation & existing consumer & antitrust laws: lpeproject.org/blog/after-t...

One puzzle I’m working through is how authoritarian political movements impact civil society orgs. We’re getting more familiar with what authoritarianism will do to them when in power. It’s a top-down theory of change. But does the underlying political & social movement have an independent impact?

"Corporate law, although always far from perfect, was supposed to ensure that the titans of industry acted lawfully and in the best interests of not only the stockholders, but their companies. Now, it seems, Delaware has opted for backsliding." Don't miss this great new post by Kate Jackson!

NEW from me @newrepublic.com: If progressives don’t seize this moment to define a democratic, public-minded state capitalism, they will find themselves living in one designed by the Trump administration. newrepublic.com/article/2000...

"Corporate law, although always far from perfect, was supposed to ensure that the titans of industry acted lawfully and in the best interests of not only the stockholders, but their companies. Now, it seems, Delaware has opted for backsliding." Don't miss this great new post by Kate Jackson!

@katejackson.bsky.social wrote a great paper that this LPE Post draws from. What really blew me away was how the descriptive accounts of authoritarian regimes tracked CEO behavior intuitively. This is really insightful stuff, and I'm thankful that Kate is doing this.

Very interesting post on the emerging politics of corporate law from @katejackson.bsky.social. But why “populism”? These aren’t agrarian antimonopolists. The classical term is “demagoguery”, no? lpeproject.org/blog/a-popul...

"Unlike Constitutional law, business law never seemed like any kind of democratic bulwark... Regrettably, we may soon learn to miss Delaware’s small contribution to the rule of law and democracy."

Today, @katejackson.bsky.social argues the same populist disease that has wreaked havoc on democratic institutions across the world has taken hold in a new domain: corporate governance. Musk’s companies, seen from this perspective, are an exaggerated microcosm for American democratic decay.

LPE folks!! This is THE WEEK to get those panel / paper / roundtable proposals for the big Feb ALPE conference finalized. Proposals due Monday, Sept 15. CFP here: lawandpoliticaleconomy.org?page_id=63

Today, @jonathanfharris.bsky.social explains how the FTC just abandoned its non-compete ban — leaving millions trapped in jobs they can’t escape. Fortunately, state policymakers are setting up. From Wyoming to Colorado, a new wave of laws is rewriting the rules on worker freedom.

Ten days! Submit! Tell your friends to submit! My panel is coming together--and you won't want to miss it!

Don't let the national embarrassment that is Brett Kavanaugh and the Supreme Court distract you from the national embarrassment that is Andrew Ferguson and the FTC.