We can’t just return to the status quo ante. Paradoxically, we’ll need a federal government with both more power and less.

American democracy is in trouble—but not only for the reasons we think. Beyond polarization, money in politics, or the distortions of electoral democ­racy lies a quieter, more dangerous failure:...

2027 Annual ALPE Meeting June 9-10, 2027, Boston, MA We are thrilled to announce the Call for Proposals for the Association of Law and Political Economy’s 2027 annual meeting. We will meet in Boston, ...

In a moment of institutional unraveling and authoritarian threat, legal scholars and law review editors should resist the "Part IV" reflex and make space for bolder analyses, longer horizons…

Introduction As legal scholars, we have tremendous freedom to choose what we study and how we study it, to engage with the relationship between how law is and what legal arrangements might help move u...

Earlier this year, the artificial intelligence (AI) company Anthropic, developer of the large language model Claude, published a document it calls “Claude’s Constitution,” described by the company as ...

Coined by a German economist in 1926, Fordism came to describe the dominant political-economic order of the mid-twentieth century. Could "Muskism" play a similar role in the twenty-first?

The foundations of the administrative state are being reshaped, both by the continuing transformations of administrative law doctrine by the courts and by the ambitions for restructuring the executive...

Call for Papers: Inaugural Association of Law and Political Economy (ALPE) Conference

The foundations of the administrative state are being reshaped, both by the continuing transformations of administrative law doctrine by the courts and by the a

Marguerite Casey Foundation named K. Sabeel Rahman, JD among the 2024 Freedom Scholars advancing racial and economic justice.

The Supreme Court’s recent administrative law decisions represent a fundamental shift in both political and economic power. In response, we must not settle for simply restoring the status quo ante.

In this week's Roosevelt Rundown: Building, Dismantling, and Reimagining the State, The Exploitative Business of Bank Fees, New Webinar: Black Perspectives on Tax Reform, and What We're Reading.

The Law and Political Economy Project and the People's Parity Project are teaming up to offer an open course/reading group on the urgent question of what to do about the courts in our current…

Biden’s industrial policy program promises a massive shift from decades of neoliberal orthodoxy. Can it deliver inclusive gains in time?

The Biden administration has taken some bold steps to bolster the civil service after Trump’s attempt to transform it into an instrument of authoritarianism.

Can a state prohibit gay people from adopting children or stop immigrants from purchasing property?

Only by reckoning with how deep manufactured insecurity runs will it become possible to envision something different.

The lawsuit against Target signals a new tactic for America First Legal, a legal group headed by former Trump adviser Stephen Miller.