LPE Orientation & Socialist Happy Hour

NYU Law and Political Economy Association is pleased to host Law and Political Economy (LPE) Orientation, an introduction to LPE Project and its aims to bring together a network of scholars, practitioners, and students working to develop innovative intellectual, pedagogical, and political interventions to advance the study of political economy and law. The orientation will discuss how LPE operates as a school of thought as well as an organizing project.

LPE approaches illuminate the role of law and legal discourse in the creation and maintenance of capitalism and in mediating tensions between capitalist order and democratic self-rule. Scholars in our network work to understand the relationship between market supremacy and racial, gender, and economic injustice; to articulate the relationship between capitalism and devaluation of social and ecological reproduction; and to explore the distinctive ways that law gives shape to and legitimates neoliberal capitalism, ranging from dynamics of financialization to the relation between the carceral state and capitalism. We also seek to offer concrete legal reforms designed to move beyond neoliberalism and toward a genuinely responsive, egalitarian democracy, with critical attention to the need for power and movement-building as part of any such transformation.

We also dunk on Law and Economics. If any of this interests you, please come through. We will also convene at Malt House afterwards, were you can meet likeminded students and LPE board members!