LPE 101: Criminal Law

LPE101 is a series of events aimed at challenging the narratives of traditional legal education through the lens of the Law and Political Economy Project. What's LPE? In short, it's a movement in legal academia centered around the understanding 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.

During our third event on Tuesday, November 1st at 5:30pm we'll have Professor Jocelyn Simonson of Brooklyn Law School giving a lecture on how political economy can and should influence our understanding of Criminal Law. A former public defender, Professor Simonson writes and teaches about criminal law, criminal procedure, evidence, and social change. Her scholarship explores ways in which the public participates in the criminal process and in the institutions of local governance that control policing and punishment. The lecture will be followed by a Q&A with attendees.