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The LPE Project @LPE_Project

Legal scholars, students, & practitioners working to expose & transform law's role in the perpetuation of economic, racial, & gender inequality. & @LPEblog

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The LPE Project@LPE_Project
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If you are migrating to the other place, find us at @lpeproject.bsky.social !
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Jun 13
With Elon Musk becoming the world's first trillionaire, it's a good time to revisit Quinn Slobodian and Ben Tarnoff's deep dive on the Muskism-Fordism comparison.
LPE Blog@LPEblog
Apr 22
Today, Quinn Slobodian and Ben Tarnoff offer a deep dive into the political economy of "Muskism."
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Jun 12
Week in review: Evan Behrle on income inequality, @FrankPasquale on Magnifica Humanitas, and Wanshu Cong on the informal governance of global capitalism. Plus, the best of LPE from around the web.
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"international lawyers, who tend to focus on formal, legalised processes and institutions, will often fail to perceive the evolution of the global capitalist system and its legal order."
LPE Blog@LPEblog
Jun 10
Today, Wanshu Cong explains how significant parts of the global economy have long been governed through informal, political arrangements.
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"US AI policy today is both blunt in its aspirations and self-contradictory in its methods."
Current US energy policy is confoundingly counterproductive, reflecting bare animus against renewables. Like a latter-day Don Quixote tilting at windmills, the President has attacked wind power and blithely lied or BS’d about its prevalence in China. His Secretary of Energy recently humiliated himself before Congress by exhibiting blatant ignorance about (or struthious refusal to recognize) basic battery technology. You can’t seriously claim to aspire to “global dominance” in AI, when the technology requires massive increases in energy use, your main rival is increasing its power capacity massively, and you’re trying to shut down or hamstring renewables. AI industrial policy is little better. The technology economics well-described by Daron Acemoglu, Kyle Chan, TP Huang, Mariana Mazzucato, Jordan Schneider, Jeff Ding, and Dan Wang, among others, is largely absent. The White House answers to policy question about AI tend toward blunt deregulation and boosterism, while AI’s productive a

ALT Current US energy policy is confoundingly counterproductive, reflecting bare animus against renewables. Like a latter-day Don Quixote tilting at windmills, the President has attacked wind power and blithely lied or BS’d about its prevalence in China. His Secretary of Energy recently humiliated himself before Congress by exhibiting blatant ignorance about (or struthious refusal to recognize) basic battery technology. You can’t seriously claim to aspire to “global dominance” in AI, when the technology requires massive increases in energy use, your main rival is increasing its power capacity massively, and you’re trying to shut down or hamstring renewables. AI industrial policy is little better. The technology economics well-described by Daron Acemoglu, Kyle Chan, TP Huang, Mariana Mazzucato, Jordan Schneider, Jeff Ding, and Dan Wang, among others, is largely absent. The White House answers to policy question about AI tend toward blunt deregulation and boosterism, while AI’s productive a

LPE Blog@LPEblog
Jun 9
Today, @FrankPasquale contrasts Magnifica Humanitas, a vision of AI in service of peace and human flourishing, with an American administration governing AI by memes, chaos, and willful self-destruction.
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Jun 8
Today, Evan Behrle examines one of the oldest arguments for income inequality: that workers should be paid the value of their productive contribution. What this argument misses, he argues, is that the size of any worker’s contribution depends on what other workers do.
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Tired: it's not possible to "earn" a billion dollars through accumulated capital. Wired: it's not possible for a product manager at Apple to "earn" thirty times the pay of someone mining lithium for batteries in Zimbabwe.
LPE Blog@LPEblog
Jun 8
Today, Evan Behrle examines one of the oldest arguments for income inequality: that workers should be paid the value of their productive contribution. What this argument misses, he argues, is that the size of any worker’s contribution depends on what other workers do.
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James Brandt@j_e_brandt
Jun 8
"No lithium means no batteries, and so no electronic devices, and so no value to the labor of Apple product managers. But lithium miners are not paid in a way that reflects this necessity, because what is necessary is their collective labor, and they are paid one by one."
LPE Blog@LPEblog
Jun 8
Today, Evan Behrle examines one of the oldest arguments for income inequality: that workers should be paid the value of their productive contribution. What this argument misses, he argues, is that the size of any worker’s contribution depends on what other workers do.
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lpe nyc@lpe_nyc
Jun 8
My mayor muslim My bagels jewish My LPE core KNICKS IN FOUR Join us on Wednesday for our first LPE happy hour of the summer at DSK 5-8pm!
lpe nyc@lpe_nyc
Jun 5
We are having our first LPE NYC Summer Happy Hour on Wednesday before the Knicks game at DSK in Brooklyn 5-8pm! You don't need to have been to an LPE event before or have a background in law, just an interest in talking about ideas & fighting for a better future for our city!
LPENYC Summer Happy Hour, June 10, 5-8pm at DSK in Brooklyn (710 Fulton) a note at the bottom that says the bar will be showing the game after the happy hour (Go Knicks!)

ALT LPENYC Summer Happy Hour, June 10, 5-8pm at DSK in Brooklyn (710 Fulton) a note at the bottom that says the bar will be showing the game after the happy hour (Go Knicks!)
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We are having our first LPE NYC Summer Happy Hour on Wednesday before the Knicks game at DSK in Brooklyn 5-8pm! You don't need to have been to an LPE event before or have a background in law, just an interest in talking about ideas & fighting for a better future for our city!
LPENYC Summer Happy Hour, June 10, 5-8pm at DSK in Brooklyn (710 Fulton) a note at the bottom that says the bar will be showing the game after the happy hour (Go Knicks!)

ALT LPENYC Summer Happy Hour, June 10, 5-8pm at DSK in Brooklyn (710 Fulton) a note at the bottom that says the bar will be showing the game after the happy hour (Go Knicks!)
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LPE Blog@LPEblog
Jun 5
The week in review: Richard Joyce assesses Mark Carney’s speech at Davos, while Sarah Schindler and Kellen Zale discuss the abundance agenda’s anti-tenancy blindspot. Plus, some hot new LPE pieces from around the interwebs 👀👀 lpeproject.org/blog/weekly-r…

Weekly Roundup: June 5

Richard Joyce assesses Mark Carney's speech at Davos, while Sarah Schindler and Kellen Zale discuss the abundance agenda's anti-tenancy blindspot. Plus, Tanzil Chowdhury on legislative supremacy in…

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"The anti-tenancy doctrine is so pervasive in part because it reflects a fundamental contradiction at the heart of American housing policy: we expect housing to function simultaneously as an investment asset and also to fulfill a basic human need for shelter."
LPE Blog@LPEblog
Jun 3
Today, Sarah Schindler and Kellen Zale argue that as policymakers pursue supply-side reforms to address rising housing costs, they must also confront a legal regime that affords tenants second-class status.
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"The question, then, for Carney, is how to maintain neoliberal capitalism without acting as if the United States could be relied on to anchor an international rules-based order."
LPE Blog@LPEblog
Jun 1
At Davos, Mark Carney called on countries to abandon the fiction of the rules-based order. Yet as Richard Joyce argues, all political systems require acting "as if" their premises are true. The question is which fictions we choose to live by, and which we’re willing to remake.
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James Brandt@j_e_brandt
Jun 1
"The Canadian Prime Minister arrives at Davos. Not quite Nietzsche’s lantern-bearing madman running to the marketplace to announce the death of God, he nonetheless comes to shatter an illusion."
LPE Blog@LPEblog
Jun 1
At Davos, Mark Carney called on countries to abandon the fiction of the rules-based order. Yet as Richard Joyce argues, all political systems require acting "as if" their premises are true. The question is which fictions we choose to live by, and which we’re willing to remake.
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LPE Blog@LPEblog
Jun 1
At Davos, Mark Carney called on countries to abandon the fiction of the rules-based order. Yet as Richard Joyce argues, all political systems require acting "as if" their premises are true. The question is which fictions we choose to live by, and which we’re willing to remake.
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James Brandt@j_e_brandt
May 28
One of the most heinous developments under Trump 2.0.
The case of Cameroon is emblematic. The country, run by a 93-year-old dictator who recently engaged in a widely condemned post-election protest crackdown, was coerced into accepting deportees after the U.S. government withheld a $30 million disbursement to a local U.N. refugee office there. At least 17 deportees—none of whom are Cameroonian—have been removed there on flights in January and February of this year. They are being imprisoned until they agree to return to their home countries, countries where US courts have found they will face persecution or torture.

ALT The case of Cameroon is emblematic. The country, run by a 93-year-old dictator who recently engaged in a widely condemned post-election protest crackdown, was coerced into accepting deportees after the U.S. government withheld a $30 million disbursement to a local U.N. refugee office there. At least 17 deportees—none of whom are Cameroonian—have been removed there on flights in January and February of this year. They are being imprisoned until they agree to return to their home countries, countries where US courts have found they will face persecution or torture.

LPE Blog@LPEblog
May 28
Today, Sarah Sherman-Stokes continues our series on international law under Trump 2.0 by examining the emerging regime of third country deportation. The practice, she argues, is more akin to illegal, “black site” extraordinary rendition than a judicial removal proceeding.
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LPE Blog@LPEblog
May 28
Today, Sarah Sherman-Stokes continues our series on international law under Trump 2.0 by examining the emerging regime of third country deportation. The practice, she argues, is more akin to illegal, “black site” extraordinary rendition than a judicial removal proceeding.
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"It was morning on Easter Sunday when I started to think about nuclear war. 'Open the Fuckin’ Strait, you crazy bastards,' the U.S. president railed on TruthSocial, addressing the Iranian government, 'or you’ll be living in Hell.'"
LPE Blog@LPEblog
May 26
Today, @jbentonheath argues that, on the high seas, we may be witnessing the death of one of the liberal order’s central myths: that sanctions are peaceful alternatives to war.
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LPE Blog@LPEblog
May 26
Today, @jbentonheath argues that, on the high seas, we may be witnessing the death of one of the liberal order’s central myths: that sanctions are peaceful alternatives to war.
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May 22
The week in review: Ntina Tzouvala and Zohra Ahmed on international law under Trump 2.0, @shaabiranks on the gansterfication of US foreign policy, and Matthew Scherer on the AI bubble. Plus: ALPE elections, congressional testimony on court packing, and more!
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LPE Blog@LPEblog
May 21
Today, Matthew Scherer argues that the most pressing AI-driven crisis is the overestimation of AI’s capabilities and impacts, which has produced a historically large speculative AI bubble.
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