To kick off a series on @lpeblog.bsky.social exploring the perverse use of antidiscrimination law by the Trump admin, I wrote about the radical interpretation the admin has adopted of Title VI and what it means for TItle VI's past & future. lpeproject.org/blog/title-v...

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.

Today - 15th - is the day to submit ALPE conference proposals!!

"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!

"Harvard can't use race as a factor in admissions, but ICE can use race as a factor in detentions" is a retrenchment essentially to a pre-Civil War understanding of the Constitution. It's vanishingly few steps removed from "Latinos have no rights which the white man is bound to respect."

great set of folks coming to YLS this fall

Ten days left to submit proposals for the inaugural ALPE conference in Richmond. Come join us for this exciting launch! lpeproject.org/blog/cfp-ina...

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

literally cannot make this shit up.

We also received a new addition to the Law of Calvinball

Havard & AAUP beat back the Trump Admin's efforts to freeze funds at the district court level. When we fight we (have a much better chance of) win(ing) Go @veenadubal.bsky.social!

The conclusion reached by Judge Burroughs:

Been great to hear the buzz of conversations as people are planning their papers and panels for the ALPE conference - submissions are now open!! Spread the word.

Lots out there on the Abundance debate - here’s a bit from me, based on new work with colleagues on barriers to public pharma. We need political will and vision, yes - but also the will to confront private power. lpeproject.org/blog/what-st...

Couldn't be more excited about this CFP - and the new organization it will help launch. Check it out, and get together w/ your pals to think up the panels, roundtables, and papers you might want to present!

I'm submitting a roundtable to bring together economists who will be there -- lmk offline if you're interested in collaborating b/c while I adore my legal scholar comrades, we LPE economists need to strengthen our own collective capacity & community we're the E in LPE & we need to up our game

CALL FOR PAPERS! 🪩🎉🎊🪩🎉🎊🪩🎉🎊 It's out and full of information. Check it out! Get in touch with questions! lawandpoliticaleconomy.org

Friends - important update on the new LPE Association conference! Moved to Feb 5-7, which will give us all a little more time to plan. Get those paper and panel ideas going, friends, and see you in Richmond!

yes. they literally blame higher education for a social order that doesn’t give unquestioned deference to people like themselves

New paper: "Antisemitism, Anti-Zionism, and Title VI: A Guide for the Perplexed" — with @hellmandeborah.bsky.social. Forthcoming in Harv L Rev Forum (ssrn.com/abstract=5271044) This is one of the first systematic analyses of the wave of Title VI claims over campus antisemitism. A quick summary 🧵:

With summer just around the corner, are you looking to indulge in some juicy, page-turning scholarship? Today, the Blog highlights some of the hottest new forthcoming LPE and LPE-adjacent articles. 🔥🔥

Obvs, but they are talking about girls and dolls instead of, like, consumers and cars to make it seem silly & weak to be concerned about higher prices, previously a major plank of Trump’s campaign. Sexism is so handy!

Senior UNRWA emergency officer on the genocidal conditions imposed on Gaza rn: “The situation now is so beyond imagination, so beyond words at this point, because people are being starved, basically… children are now starving. People are surviving on one meal a day. People are without medicine.”

Far too people on campuses understand the financial model of public health schools. Even after tenure, fac salaries are often heavily grant dependent.

Small colleges have taken the lead -- but they are now joined by 6 of 8 Ivies: Cornell, Penn, Princeton, Yale, Brown, and -- yes -- Harvard. And, finally, by a handful of big publics: U. of Washington, Wisconsin, Rutgers, SUNY Buffalo and Stony Brook, UC Riverside, UVa, UMD.

Can confirm that my NSF grant "How False Beliefs Form & How to Correct Them" was cancelled today because it is "not in alignment with current NSF priorities" Shocking that understanding how people are misled by false information is now a forbidden topic. Our work will continue but at a smaller scale

900 of us signed this letter to the leadership at Yale. yaledailynews.com/blog/2025/04...

Constituents to Chuck Grassley: "Are you bringing back that guy from El Salvador?" Senior Citizen: “If I get an order to pay a ticket to pay $1200 and I just say ‘no’, does that stand up? Because he just got an order from the Supreme Court and he just said ‘screw it’” “I’M PISSED!”

🚨🚨 Just out - a letter from almost 900 Yale profs to our leaders, urging them to stand with us to defend the values of higher ed - and to resist and legally challenge any unlawful demands: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F.... Please share!

Old enough to remember when 30 campus speaker disinvitation attempts were a grave threat to free speech

this is Mohsen Mahdawi, the green card holder who was just arrested by ICE for rendition at his citizenship interview

Embarrassed to say I did not join AAUP until this year. But if you are a faculty and staff member, they are representing your interests.

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“Andrew Crespo, a law professor at Harvard & general counsel of the AAUP-Harvard Faculty Chapter, said the admin’s policies are a pretext to chill universities & their faculties from engaging in speech, teaching & research that don’t align w/ Trump’s views.” www.nytimes.com/2025/04/12/u...

BREAKING: Last night, the Harvard faculty chapter of the AAUP and the national AAUP filed a lawsuit & TRO to block the Trump administration from illegally demanding that we keep quiet and change how we teach and research at the point of a financial gun. actionnetwork.org/user_files/u...

Boston folks! Today at 12 Noon @ Cambridge Common, Harvard Square: Harvard AAUP is standing up against attacks on academic freedom & democracy. Join Us! #AcademicSky

As pro-Palestine students & faculty around the country are increasingly being tarred with accusations of terrorism, universities must protect their community members, as well as their missions, by refusing to operate on the basis of fear lpeproject.org/blog/free-sp...

Great piece in @lpeblog.bsky.social by @marissaesque.bsky.social on racism behind the administration's attack on federal workers. "Federal government jobs have long been responsible for the creation and maintenance of the Black American middle class." Check it out! lpeproject.org/blog/racial-...

Not having a functional FTC—the two Dem members have been locked out of the building—is already costing us all. The FTC has suspended its case against PBMs (for jacking up insulin prices) because "there are currently no sitting Commissioners able to participate in this matter."

The Office for Civil Rights has requested the names & nat'lities of students & faculty..involved in alleged Title VI violations. Today, the AAUP wrote to college & universities to clarify that they are under NO LEGAL COMPULSION to comply. Doing so enables deportations. www.aaup.org/news/institu...

this is a nice and important insight.

Just filed in Massachusetts... www.aclu.org/documents/ap...

How can universities mobilize extraordinary resources to protect their mission in a time of attack? Rich universities have big endowments, and a lot of attn has been focused there, as in this widely read NYT piece: www.nytimes.com/2025/03/25/o....

🚨 Former commissioner Robert Califf: "The FDA as we've known it is finished." www.statnews.com/2025/04/01/h...

The Trump administration conceded in a court filing Monday that it mistakenly deported a Maryland father to El Salvador “because of an administrative error” and argued it could not return him because he’s now in Salvadoran custody.

Harvard doesn't represent us. "We are united in denouncing, without equivocation, anyone who invokes our name – and cynical claims of antisemitism – to harass, expel, arrest, or deport members of our campus communities." -3000+ Jewish higher ed workers & students docs.google.com/document/d/e...

“Are we at the point where universities across the country must have presidents who are agreeable to President Trump or else risk calamitous cuts to their federal funding?” Brilliant on the 10th Columbia demand - by Dave Pozen: balkin.blogspot.com/2025/03/the-...