"and he just…he tweeted it out." @jamesgoodwin.bsky.social

Surveillance Pricing: Exploiting Information Asymmetries For over a century, fixed prices have made markets more transparent. Surveillance pricing threatens to reverse that progress by allowing corporations to secretly tailor prices using personal data.

Today, Patrick Lin explains how surveillance pricing is making it easier for corporations to exploit consumers, how states are starting to push back against these practices, and why those efforts are running into First Amendment challenges.

Please help share the word ( 🔁 ) that the LPE Blog is on the hunt for hot new LPE and LPE-adjacent scholarship!

🚨🚨 Help spread the word (🔄), the Blog is once again on the hunt for the latest LPE and LPE-adjacent scholarship.

Gondor calls for scholarship. Will you answer?

Weekly Roundup: April 17 Ben Kaufman discusses our broken banking bargain, and Vincent Joralemon reflects on the neglected class dimension of addictive platform design. Plus, a call for (your!) hot new LPE scholarship…

The week in review: @kennybauf.bsky.social discusses our broken banking bargain, and Vincent Joralemon reflects on the neglected class dimension of addictive platform design.

Plus, a call for scholarship, upcoming events, and hot new LPE pieces from around the web! 🧵

The Class Politics of the Feed By targeting addictive design features of social media platforms, K.G.M. v. Meta marks a breakthrough in product liability law. Yet the case also reveals a neglected class dimension: the harms of…

Great piece. Remarkable to me how politics have come back around to critiquing corporate invasion of childhood attention, this time with conservatives often joining along. Time to revisit the legacy and the concept of a "National Nanny", methinks.

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"Steve Jobs said his children had not used the iPad, Bill Gates withheld smartphones until age fourteen, and Peter Thiel limits his children’s screen time to an hour an half per week."

Pretty damning that most tech executives (like most affluent people) generally try to protect their own children from the products that made them rich.

I will simply never recover from reading this sentence:

"The products these shady deals produce are startling. In one example, a company was caught pushing online loans at 'up to 189% APR' for people to use to buy puppies."

How Corporations Hijacked Identity Politics Over the past fifty years, corporate advocates have co-opted the language and tactics of modern social movements to graft identity-based attributes onto the corporate entity. These new…

Corporations have weaponized the rhetoric of identity politics to shield themselves. By hijacking liberal ideals of equality and freedom, this piece argues they’ve twisted doctrines to serve profit over public interest.

By @kfrydl.bsky.social in @lpeproject.bsky.social

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Guilty by Solidarity The conviction of Anti-ICE protestors on terrorism charges represents a dangerous new front in the Trump administration's war against the left. Yet it also highlights a longer history: over the past…

You should read everything Zohra Ahmed writes, but also & especially this post abt the criminalization of leftist solidarity by the Trump Admin through the use of material support laws & RICO (laws that are admittedly pernicious in most contexts but esp here)

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Guilt by Solidarity The conviction of Anti-ICE protestors on terrorism charges represents a dangerous new front in the Trump administration's war against the left. Yet it also highlights a longer history: over the past…

Today, @azohra.bsky.social explains how the recent conviction of Anti-ICE protestors represents a dangerous and increasingly common form of guilt by association that is antithetical to collective political action.

Don’t make us tap the sign:

Weekly Roundup: April 3 Ruthy Gourevitch and Jacob Udell on financial distress in the rental market, Alaa Hajyahia and Helen Zhao on the scourge known as the Jones Act, and Kathleen Frydl on how corporations hijacked…

Week in review: @ruthygourevitch.bsky.social and Jacob Udell on financial distress in the rental market, Alaa Hajyahia and Helen Zhao on the scourge known as the Jones Act, and @kfrydl.bsky.social on how corporations hijacked identity politics.

Plus, LPE nuggets from around the web 🧵👇

Some interesting historical nuggets in here for the LPE Congress crowd. 👀👀

How Corporations Hijacked Identity Politics Over the past fifty years, corporate advocates have co-opted the language and tactics of modern social movements to graft identity-based attributes onto the corporate entity. These new…

Today, @kfrydl.bsky.social explains how, over the past fifty years, corporate advocates have co-opted the language and tactics of modern social movements to graft identity-based attributes onto the corporate entity.

A Century of Colonial Tariffs Waived overnight in response to a crisis for capital but maintained in the face of protest from former and current territories, the Jones Act has a colonial logic that is impossible to ignore.

Today, Alaa Hajyahia and Helen Zhao trace the Jones Act’s colonial origins, describe its ongoing economic harms, and explain how this law, reviled by both the right and the left, has survived for over 100 years.

Good Analysis for Bad Times, an LPE Blog special.

"the crisis is slow-moving and hard to document, as landlords who bet enormously on their buildings squeeze every corner of their balance sheet to meet the rates of profit they promised to their sophisticated investors, maintaining the bubble on the backs of easily-ignored tenants."

Great piece!

Landlord Distress Isn’t Our Fault, But It Is Our Problem Unable to realize enough profit from their portfolios to repay their investors, landlords are turning the screws on tenants in the form of rising rents and declining conditions.

Today, @ruthygourevitch.bsky.social and Jacob Udell explain why landlords nationwide are scrambling to repay their investors, and why confronting this growing financial distress is the first step toward solving our national housing nightmare.

Oil crisis is a fitting moment to share that my paper with Doni Bloomfield, The Law and Economics of Resilience, is now live: wustllawreview.org/2026/03/25/t...

Weekly Roundup: March 27 Sam Moyn and Jamelle Bouie on legislative supremacy, Mariano Féliz on how Argentina's debt sustainability, Ntina Tzvouala on dollar hegemony (x2), Ivana Isailović on the LPE of Social Reproduction in…

The week in review: Sam Moyn and Jamelle Bouie respond to Beau Baumann's call for legislative supremacy, Mariano Féliz on Argentina’s debt sustainability, Ntina Tzvouala on dollar hegemony (x2), plus more!

This was my reaction as well. The legal and political claims involved here are more tightly bound than in most cases, given the history at issue. I thought Evan captured this dynamic well in his post on ye olde LPE Blog last year:
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The Conflict Between Sustainable Debt and Sustainable Life in Argentina In Argentina's recent debt renegotiations with the IMF, the overriding goal has been to ensure the government can meet all future payment obligations. Yet the conditions imposed to achieve this aim…

Today, Mariano Féliz argues that Argentina’s recent debt negotiations have imposed a devastating cost on the country—intensifying labor exploitation and inflicting environmental harm. The result is a deepening crisis where debt sustainability threatens the very sustainability of life itself.

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…

If you’re in New York tomorrow, do come to this remarkable event, the next in our ongoing @lpenyc.bsky.social night school series: how can social movements shape municipal governance, chaired by @cuny.edu law’s own Prof. Marbré Stahly-Butts.

RSVP below!

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…

Please come out to CUNY Law tomorrow night for the last session of the LPE NYC night school this year! We have an incredible line-up of speakers who are actively working to think through how social movements influence and support the agenda of the Mamdani Admin!!

lpeproject.org/events/socia...

"The re-emergence of progressive attitudes in American law schools in the last decade has been nothing short of spectacular. But how many, I wonder, are foul weather friends of the campaign against juristocracy, only aligned with these goals during an era of reactionary courts?"

"The re-emergence of progressive attitudes in American law schools in the last decade has been nothing short of spectacular. But how many, I wonder, are foul weather friends of the campaign against juristocracy, only aligned with these goals during an era of reactionary courts?"

"I fear that a lot of liberals and even some parts of the left in law schools still seem to be at the stage of their relation to juristocratic temptation that, as in St. Augustine’s earlier twelve-step program for sin, says: 'save me from it, just not yet.'"