LPE 101: Constitutional Law

LPE 101 — Con Law: The Constitution of American Colonialism

Join the NYU Law & Political Economy Association for a lunch talk to discuss the constitution of American colonialism with Maggie Blackhawk, Professor of Law at NYU Law and member of the Fond du Lac Band of Lake Superior Ojibwe. Prof. Blackhawk’s scholarship shows us that America’s colonization project is not an artifact of an ignominious past; it’s alive and kicking, and it’s a fundamental part of our legal system’s design. Reckoning with the history—and present—of American colonialism helps complete the picture of how our legal system functions and provides crucial insights to inform our fights for collective liberation. 

LPE 101 is a series of events that foreground critical perspectives challenging the traditional law school curriculum. What’s the LPE Project? It’s a movement within legal academia which asserts that politics and the economy cannot be separated and that both are constructed by the law. This is scholarship against inequality, precarity, racial hierarchy, intersectional oppression, political alienation, ecological collapse, and social catastrophe.