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The LPE Project @lpeproject.bsky.social · 16h
"In capitalism, social relations of production exert outsized force on all other domains, distorting and warping relations of reproduction, protection, and meaning-making without fully annihilating their internal capacity to structure relations in their distinct domains."
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LPE Blog @lpeblog.bsky.social · 20h
Today, Yochai Benkler concludes our symposium on "Structure and Legitimation in Capitalism," responding to Matthew Dimick, Jed Purdy, and Katharina Pistor. To understand the place of the state in capitalism, he argues, we must take social relations as the basic unit of analysis.
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Taking Social Relations as the Basic Unit of Analysis
In capitalism, social relations of production exert outsized force on all other domains, distorting and warping relations of reproduction, protection, and meaning-making without fully annihilating…
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katharinapistor.bsky.social @katharinapistor.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
My response to Yochai Benkler‘s take on transforming capitalism. Sadly, we cannot count on the state
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LPE Blog @lpeblog.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Today, @katharinapistor.bsky.social argues that any program of transformative change must reckon with the fact that capitalists have largely succeeded in de-legitimizing existing institutions, including the state itself.
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The New Institutional Political Economy of Capitalism
In recent decades, capitalists have largely succeeded in undermining the state's capacity to act, leaving it too weak to carry out social democratic reforms even with a favorable government in place.
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Gautham Rao (pronounced: Knicks in 5) @gauthamrao.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
A good critique of Yochai Benkler's 2025 article "Structure and Legitimation in Capitalism" by Katharina Pistor in @lpeblog.bsky.social: "The theory gives surprisingly short shrift to the state itself." lpeproject.org/blog/the-new...
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The New Institutional Political Economy of Capitalism
In recent decades, capitalists have largely succeeded in undermining the state's capacity to act, leaving it too weak to carry out social democratic reforms even with a favorable government in place.
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LPE Blog @lpeblog.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Hear, hear. As Kate Jackson has argued, it's pretty easy to see recent developments in corporate law as continuous with democratic backsliding:
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A Populist CEO in Corporate Law’s Court?
Recent amendments to Delaware’s corporate code have tilted the playing field toward powerful tech CEOs and private equity representatives. Beneath these reforms lies a deeper political shift — the…
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LPE Blog @lpeblog.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
"Unlike Constitutional law, business law never seemed like any kind of democratic bulwark. After all, many smart people have argued that authoritarians often fruitfully exploit capitalism’s legal codes. Regrettably, we may soon learn to miss Delaware’s small contribution to democracy."
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A Populist CEO in Corporate Law’s Court?
Recent amendments to Delaware’s corporate code have tilted the playing field toward powerful tech CEOs and private equity representatives. Beneath these reforms lies a deeper political shift — the…
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LPE Blog @lpeblog.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
"Across the world, insulin manufacturers have been shifting their production lines to GLP-1s, after entirely discontinuing some insulin products that were widely used and still profitable – just less profitable than GLP-1s."
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Quinn Slobodian @quinnslobodian.com · 28/09/2026
Me and @bentarnoff.com went long (is there any other way to go?) for @thedigradio.bsky.social with our friend @danieldenvir.bsky.social thedig.blubrry.net/podcast/musk...
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LPE Blog @lpeblog.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
For those in New York City and interested in learning more about public pharma, the Health and Political Economy Project will be hosting a panel tonight (Monday, Sept. 28) at the New School on Public Pharma, Public Power: Taking Back Control of the Medicine Supply.
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Public Pharma, Public Power: Taking Back Control of the Medicine Supply - Institute on Race, Power and Political Economy
Access to affordable medicine is a human right. Yet across the United States, drug prices remain out of reach for millions,  with the heaviest burdens falling on Black, Latino, Indigenous, and other c...
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LPE Blog @lpeblog.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Today, Marc Shkurovich explains why every US politician running on single-payer or universal healthcare should also be talking about public pharma.
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The Time for Public Pharma is Now
To make medicines more affordable, policymakers are increasingly turning to price controls and out-of-pocket caps. These measures, while lowering costs, leave decisions about which drugs to…
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Dylan GL @dylangyauchl.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
For @theslingutah.bsky.social, I reviewed new books from @lindsayowens.bsky.social and @isabellamweber.bsky.social, two of my personal econ policy heroes! The two of them are working to recenter human welfare in economics and just maybe save the discipline from itself.
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It’s the Economics, Stupid: A Review of Gouged and Anti-Fascist Economics - The Sling
Weber’s Anti-Fascist Economics and Owens’s Gouged help to flesh out a heterodox way of thinking about economic policy.
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NYC Policy Forum @nycpolicyforum.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
We're pleased to share that @ambakak.bsky.social co-ED of @ainowinstitute.bsky.social will join @hellodcwp.bsky.social Commissioner @saalevine.bsky.social to discuss local AI governance with writer @edwardongwesojr.com next week. RSVP at governing-ai-for-nyc-workers-and-consumers.eventbrite.com
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Governing AI for Workers and Consumers: NYC's Public Approach
Dive into what NYC can do to advance affordability for working families during the rise of AI and corporate consolidation.
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Death Panel @deathpanel.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
In our latest, we speak with Nate Holdren @nhold.bsky.social about how the concept of “gerontocracy” points us away from structural conditions while at the same time reinforcing dominant ideas about disposability www.patreon.com/deathpanelpo...
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On “Gerontocracy,” Part 2: Age and Capitalist Disposability w/ Nate Holdren (09/28/26) | The Death Panel
Beatrice speaks with Nate Holdren about how the concept of “gerontocracy” points us away from structural conditions while at the same time r
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sanjukta paul @sanjukta.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Wrote a paper.
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LPE Blog @lpeblog.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
The week that was: Jed Purdy discusses law’s role in capitalism, while @meganwachspress.bsky.social explores how the data center boom risks privatizing the power grid. Plus, the hottest podcast episodes, essays, and law review articles from around the web.
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Weekly Roundup: Sept. 25
Jed Purdy discusses law’s role in capitalism, while Megan Wachspress explores how the data center boom risks privatizing the power grid. Plus, Beatrice Adler-Bolton and Gabe Winant on gerontocracy…
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Niko Bowie @nikobowie.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
I think I managed not to sound too starstruck being on @fivefourpod.bsky.social with @daphnarenan.bsky.social
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De-Supremify the Supreme Court with Niko Bowie and Daphna Renan
Podcast Episode · 5-4 · September 25 · 43m
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LPE Blog @lpeblog.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
You might enjoy this piece... "Most world leaders seem to recognize that the Board serves primarily as a venue through which to purchase influence over Trump, most directly within his preferred sector of real estate and through his preferred intermediaries of Kushner and Witkoff."
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The Shakedown
The overt gangsterfication of US foreign policy, formalized through the so-called "Board of Peace," marks the culmination of a dangerous transformation in the nature of American hegemony.
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LPE Blog @lpeblog.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Deadline extended to 10/5: the UNESCO Chair on Health, Race, and Human Rights invites scholars, legal practitioners, judges, policymakers, public health professionals, and civil society organisations to submit abstracts for the inaugural UNESCO Global Congress on Health, Race and Human Rights.
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Global Congress — UNESCO Chair on Health, Race and Human Rights
An international convening on law, equity, and global health.
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LPE Blog @lpeblog.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
@gracabi.bsky.social has a new article examining the prevalence of status-based legal distinctions and whether these distinctions should be regulated, abolished, or reclaimed.
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Status as a Source of Law
<p><i>In our legal make-believe, we describe the world as made of contractual private ordering and state regulation, a flat, individual, and market-based vision
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LPE Blog @lpeblog.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
@desireelc.bsky.social has a new article looking at how threats to automate workers affect their organizing efforts today.
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Before Automation
In recent years, a novel but undervalued governance instrument has emerged that threatens the very foundations of American labor law: managerial power over the
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LPE Blog @lpeblog.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
At Pivot Press, Benjamin P. Davis interviews Jed Purdy about his forthcoming book on Raymond Williams.
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Purdy — Pivot Press
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LPE Blog @lpeblog.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
In the @bostonreview.bsky.social, Noura Erakat discusses the Board of Peace as a template for a new world order.
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Exit and Exception
The Board of Peace’s model for governing Palestine reflects designs for a new world order.
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LPE Blog @lpeblog.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
On his substack, Corey Robin reflects on the outsized moral burdens that our society places on individual choice.
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On Nikole Hannah-Jones
What the left can offer to a sick society
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LPE Blog @lpeblog.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
In Democracy, Ron Knox explains how Americans learned (and forgot) that monopolies fuel fascism.
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How Monopoly Fascism Rose Again
A generation of Americans learned from Nazi Germany that monopolies fuel fascism. It's time we relearned that lesson.
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LPE Blog @lpeblog.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
On the hit podcast @strictscrutiny.bsky.social, Leah Litman, Lina Khan, and Lev Menand discuss ways to limit how much SCOTUS can mess with federal agencies.
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We Need To Talk About Jurisdiction Stripping
In the fourth installment of our Hot Supreme Court Reform September series, Leah sits down with former FTC Chair Lina Khan and Lev Menand, both of Columbia Law School, to talk through ways to limit ho...
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LPE Blog @lpeblog.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
On the hit podcast @deathpanel.bsky.social, Beatrice Adler-Bolton talks with Gabe Winant about the idea of “gerontocracy” and whether age should be understood to act as a mediator of class.
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On "Gerontocracy" w/ Gabriel Winant (09/21/26) | The Death Panel
Beatrice speaks with Gabriel Winant about the idea popular in some circles that we live in a “gerontocracy” and whether and how age could be
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LPE Blog @lpeblog.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
The week that was: Jed Purdy discusses law’s role in capitalism, while @meganwachspress.bsky.social explores how the data center boom risks privatizing the power grid. Plus, the hottest podcast episodes, essays, and law review articles from around the web.
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Weekly Roundup: Sept. 25
Jed Purdy discusses law’s role in capitalism, while Megan Wachspress explores how the data center boom risks privatizing the power grid. Plus, Beatrice Adler-Bolton and Gabe Winant on gerontocracy…
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Strict Scrutiny Podcast @strictscrutiny.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
NEW! Lev Menand & Lina Khan join HOT SCOTUS REFORM SEPTEMBER to discuss jurisdiction stripping & other reforms to protect statutes or agency regulations from the Court - especially those tackling economic issues. crooked.com/podcast/we-n...
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Taylor Chan: Pshh In This Economy
Alt: Taylor Chan: Pshh In This Economy
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Megan Wachspress @meganwachspress.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
For @lpeblog.bsky.social I wrote about why "bring your own power" is a false solution to the problem of datacenter energy demand and why municipalization (public ownership and control) of regional transmission organizations is necessary to protect ratepayers and accelerate decarbonization.
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The Neoliberal Grid is in Crisis
To protect customers from rising electricity prices, public officials are urging data center developers to supply their own power. But this approach risks privatizing the power grid…
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Sylvia Chi 齊思涵 @sylviachi.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
'“Bring your own power” thus risks facilitating a privatization of the grid... hyperscalers can leverage their access to astronomical amounts of capital to build a parallel set of resources and then force governments to accommodate it.'
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James Brandt @jamesbrandt.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
"it is a tell that an invitation to tech companies to bring their own power cedes our own." An insightful post about how tech companies are exploiting a public resource at the expense of the global climate and electric customers.
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LPE Blog @lpeblog.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Many people are saying.
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LPE Blog @lpeblog.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
To protect customers from rising electricity prices, public officials are urging data center developers to supply their own power. Yet as @meganwachspress.bsky.social argues, this approach risks privatizing our shared electrical infrastructure.
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The Neoliberal Grid is in Crisis
To protect customers from rising electricity prices, public officials are urging data center developers to supply their own power. But this approach risks privatizing the power grid…
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LPE Blog @lpeblog.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
How much autonomy does politics have from the prevailing economic order? And what role does culture play in shaping politics? Today, Jed Purdy reflects on law’s potential role in advancing democratic efforts to shape the terms of common life.
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Politics, Culture, and Capitalism
How much autonomy does politics have from the prevailing economic order? And what role does culture play in shaping politics? Answers to these questions will help determine law’s potential role in…
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LPE Blog @lpeblog.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
How much autonomy does politics have from the prevailing economic order? And what role does culture play in shaping politics? Today, Jed Purdy reflects on law’s potential role in advancing democratic efforts to shape the terms of common life.
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Politics, Culture, and Capitalism
How much autonomy does politics have from the prevailing economic order? And what role does culture play in shaping politics? Answers to these questions will help determine law’s potential role in…
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Death Panel @deathpanel.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
In our latest, we speak with Gabriel Winant @gabrielwinant.bsky.social about the idea popular in some circles that we live in a “gerontocracy” and whether and how age could be understood to act as a mediator of class www.patreon.com/deathpanelpo...
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On "Gerontocracy" w/ Gabriel Winant (09/21/26) | The Death Panel
Beatrice speaks with Gabriel Winant about the idea popular in some circles that we live in a “gerontocracy” and whether and how age could be
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NYC Policy Forum @nycpolicyforum.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
How can NYC protect New Yorkers as AI reshapes the economy? Reserve your seat for our talk with @hellodcwp.bsky.social, Commissioner @saalevine.bsky.social, and writer @edwardongwesojr.com Sept. 30 3:30–5 PM Co-sponsored by the CUNY Law Burns Program, @cplusc.bsky.social, @rooseveltinstitute.org
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Governing AI for Workers and Consumers: NYC's Public Approach
Dive into what NYC can do to advance affordability for working families during the rise of AI and corporate consolidation.
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LPE Blog @lpeblog.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
At the Rent Roll, @ruthygourevitch.bsky.social and Jacob Udell interview Sam Stein about his new book, A Right to Housing?
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A Right to Housing?
An interview with Sam Stein
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LPE Blog @lpeblog.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
In the @bostonreview.bsky.social, JS Tan and Clarissa Redwine discuss the rise and fall of tech worker power.
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The Rise and Fall of Tech Worker Power
Crushing our union drive at Twitter opened the floodgates for Silicon Valley’s assault on labor.
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LPE Blog @lpeblog.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
For those in NYC, the Health and Political Economy Project invites you to an upcoming event (Monday, Sept. 28) on Public Pharma, Public Power: Taking Back Control of the Medicine Supply.
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Public Pharma, Public Power: Taking Back Control of the Medicine Supply
Access to affordable medicine is a human right. Yet across the United States, drug prices remain out of reach for millions,  with the heaviest burdens falling on Black, Latino, Indigenous, and other c...
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LPE Blog @lpeblog.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
ICYMI: Balkinization recently concluded a symposium on the the Global Political Economy of Artificial Intelligence.
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Balkinization: Balkinization Symposium on The Global Political Economy of Artificial Intelligence-- Collected Posts
A group blog on constitutional law, theory, and politics
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LPE Blog @lpeblog.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
In Law and Critique, @ntinatzouvala.bsky.social and Jessica Whyte have a new paper on the transition from dollar hegemony to dollar dominance.
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From Dollar Hegemony to Dollar Dominance - Law and Critique
This article describes and diagnoses a major shift in the modalities, uses and legal forms of the international role of the US dollar. Drawing from the work of Ranajit Guha, we argue that the balance ...
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LPE Blog @lpeblog.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Also hitting the shelves this week: @athenais.bsky.social's new book, *The House That Family Money Built: How Inequality Governs Debt and Wealth Management.*
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The House That Family Money Built by Allison Tait - Paper
Scholarship is a powerful tool for changing how people think, plan, and govern. By giving voice to bright minds and bold ideas, we seek to foster understanding and drive progressive change.
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LPE Blog @lpeblog.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Out now: @nikobowie.bsky.social and @daphnarenan.bsky.social’s *Supremacy: How Rule by the Court Replaced Government by the People.* wwnorton.com/books/978132... And don’t miss an upcoming event (virtual + in person) on the book at the Center for Law and the Economy (Thursday, Sept. 24).
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"Supremacy: How Rule by the Court Replaced Government by the People"
Join leading constitutional law scholar and Harvard Law Professor Daphna Renan for a discussion of her new book, "Supremacy: How Rule by the Court Replaced Government by the People," co-written wit
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LPE Blog @lpeblog.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
The week that was: Yochai Benkler on law's role within capitalism, Matt Dimick on capital and law as social forms, and Matthew Lawrence on admin law after transsubstantivity. Plus, two hot new books 🔥📚, a public pharma event 🧪, and pieces on housing 🏠, tech workers 👩‍💻, and dollar hegemony 💵 🌎.
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Weekly Roundup: Sept. 18
Yochai Benkler on the dynamics of capitalism and law's role within it, Matthew Dimick on capital and law as social forms, and Matthew Lawrence on administrative law after transsubstantivity. Plus…
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LPE Blog @lpeblog.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
With h/t to recent work by @narosenblum.bsky.social, Lev Menand, @ganeshsitaraman.bsky.social, and Sanne Knudsen.
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LPE Blog @lpeblog.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
What should administrative law look like after the critique of transsubstantivity? How can it be make sensitive to context without sacrificing important cross-cutting procedural values? Today, @mblawrence.bsky.social shares insights from his recent work on institutional design and drug scheduling.
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Doing Applied Administrative Law
Administrative law is often described as “transsubstantive”: in understanding, evaluating, and articulating the rules governing federal agency action across public health, environmental regulation…
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James Goodwin @jamesgoodwin.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
I'm depressed and angry today, but at least I get to read the shit out of this later lpeproject.org/blog/doing-a...
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Doing Applied Administrative Law
Administrative law is often described as “transsubstantive”: in understanding, evaluating, and articulating the rules governing federal agency action across public health, environmental regulation…
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