A million dollars in public higher education funds to put $34,000 in Christopher Rufo's pocket & initially enroll one (1) Iowa student. That's the conservative ecosystem in a nutshell

An image of the TOC of a journal issue on law and capitalism.

cool new journal issue alert! second installment from the law and capitalism conference at Duke. I have a piece in it - can't wait to read the others. lcp.law.duke.edu

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as an outsider looking in, what this looks like to me is unscrupulous partisans leveraging norms of academic collegiality to do hack work, and then getting the vapors when people point out, correctly, that theirs is hack work

So exited to read this!

At this point, shouldn't law reviews ask everyone submitting to describe how they've used AI in the writing of articles? With some kind of oath, and some kind of consequences that can induce disclosure? Are some already doing this - and do we think this person disclosed?

OK, I've seen enough.

I suggest that anyone interested in the sharp comments I've had about some of the anti-LPE movement pieces in the UChicago LR to simply read and compare the pieces by LPE scholars to those of their critics. It's astonishing.

Go here: lawreview.uchicago.edu/print-archiv...

Organizing for Power: Social Movements & Municipal Governance How do grassroots movements make policy change? And how do they hold elected officials accountable? This panel, the third in our ongoing LPE Night School series, turns to the relationship between…

For those in NYC, don’t miss the upcoming LPE Night School event. Organizing for Power: Social Movements & Municipal Governance will take place at the CUNY School of Law, on Wednesday, March 25, at 6p.

The Cost of Price: Why and How to Get Beyond Intellectual Property Internalism - UCLA Law Review The field of intellectual property (IP) law today is focused, as the name itself advertises, on one particular institutional approach to scientific and cultural production: IP. When legal scholars exp...

www.uclalawreview.org/the-cost-of-...

Good lord. About a million years ago I wrote a piece about how profit motives were directly driving privacy invasion and tracking, bc the holy grail for business was personal info to allow them to price discriminate.

Education International condemns military strikes on Iran and attacks on schools Education International (EI) unequivocally condemns the recent United States and Israeli military strikes on Iran, including the bombings that struck two schools — the Shajare Tayyiba elementary schoo...

It shouldn’t be controversial to say that the US should not be bombing schools and killing school children & their teachers. . www.ei-ie.org/en/item/3215...

America’s Threat to the World Peter Beinart speaks with Aslı Bâli about whether the war on Iran represents rupture or continuity in the history of US imperialism.

Highly recommended conversation between @peterbeinart.bsky.social and Yale Law professor Aslı Ü. Bâli for @jewishcurrents.bsky.social. Professor Bâli is incredibly sharp, nuanced and insightful

jewishcurrents.org/americas-thr...

OPINION: I asked a former Trump official to justify this war

So the case for Congress is, once we have gone to war, if they don’t like it, they can remove the money? Congress does not have a constitutional role in the declaration of war. Congress has a role in cutting off funds for wars, which it has threatened to do. And the president doesn’t have to get permission. But yes, you can debate, you can decide. That’s his choice in how he wants to do it. I mean, here I will quote the Constitution: “The Congress shall have power to declare war, grant letters of marque and reprisal, and make rules concerning captures on land and water.”

Behold the intellectual might of the conservative legal movement

THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO THE LAW SCHOOL The University of Chicago Law Review PRINT Essay - Volume 93.2 The Law and Political Economy Movement's Crime Agenda Hurts Black People Jonathan Klick

Is the UChicago law review just publishing op-eds now? What agenda

“The Unwillingness to Call This Illegal Is a Terrible Mistake”

Five Questions to Oona A. Hathaway

Read it in English here:

verfassungsblog.de/the-unwillin...

And in German here:

verfassungsblog.de/die-weigerun...

I have heard this story before and it never ceases to shock me.

One thing Trump has done is imbue one of his core beliefs into government practice: frivolous legal actions are powerful.

Threaten to sue someone. Actually sue them! He did this a lot as a businessman. Now DOJ does it. Does not matter if they lose - the legal hassles imposed are the punishment.

In response to our academic freedom campaign, Yale has created a new committee to address the issue. Yale AAUP welcomes the administration’s recognition that academic freedom is the lifeblood of the university, but faculty need action, not just statements.

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“Protecting #AcademicFreedom requires clear, enforceable protections and procedures, including processes through which alleged infringements on academic freedom can be adjudicated by faculty peers.” #ProtectHigherEd
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AAUP Yale

More on our campaign for real academic freedom for all faculty here! aaupyale.org

In response to our YaleAAUP campaign to get codified academic freedom protections - which shockingly we do not have - Yale has created a committee to make a "statement." A sign that we are making progress. But nowhere close to where we need to be. More here --> yaledailynews.com/articles/pro...

this is a must read 🔥🔥

The People’s College

for a symposium on our free speech crisis, wrote a thing. knightcolumbia.org/blog/the-peo...

Happy to have this out - give it a read and let me know what you think

And in case any law reviews are looking for a great article, “Lewis Powell, Neoliberalism, and the Privatization of Public Law" is looking for a home

a photo of Justice Powell from his time on the Supreme Court

Depending on who you ask, Lewis Powell Jr. is either: an ideological mastermind of the Right who led the corporate counter-revolution OR the Supreme Court’s quintessential “swing justice" upholding liberal positions in some of the Court’s most high-profile cases (from affirmative action to abortion)

if the ssrn link not working, here it is at the UCLR: lawreview.uchicago.edu/print-archiv...

Also some thoughts here on LPE and "method." Basically, I don't think we can do without either critical theory or social science - but LPE now leans toward the former and to more qualitative work bc that's how you build new paradigms. Welcome your thoughts!

This reparative work has two prominent strands. One aims at "power-building" - trying to counteract historical exclusion to enable more organized power, e.g. for tenants and workers. The second seeks to bring private power under more public authority, e.g. introducing public options.