@LPE_Project

Legal scholars, students, & practitioners working to expose & transform law's role in the perpetuation of economic, racial, & gender inequality. & @LPEblog

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Joined August 2019
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Everyone from Sam Altman to Abdul El-Sayed have called for treating AI as a public utility. But what would this mean? One the country's leading experts in public utility regulation breaks it down. 👇
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Today, @GaneshSitaraman offers a primer on how to think about public utility regulation and its tools—and how to apply them to different parts of the AI tech stack.
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Ganesh Sitaraman@GaneshSitaraman11h
People sometimes say AI is or should be governed as a public utility. What does that mean? I've spent a lot of time over the last decade studying public utility regulation, historically and across sectors. Here's my primer on how to think about it. vanderbiltpolicyaccelerator.…
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Big news! The @HPE_Project is thrilled to invite applications for two residential fellowships at the @RemarqueNYU for AY 27-28, in our Histories and Futures of Global Governance Initiative. Info and call for applications here: hpeproject.org/hfgg-cfa

HFGG Fellowship Call for Applications — History & Political Economy Project

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Today, @GaneshSitaraman offers a primer on how to think about public utility regulation and its tools—and how to apply them to different parts of the AI tech stack.
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LPE Blog@LPEblogOct 23
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Weekly Roundup: Oct. 23

Omer Ein-Habar on the original sewer socialists, Ioannis Kampourakis on law as a produce force, and Yochai Benkler on the legal transformation of capitalism. Plus, ALPE announces its inaugural Junior…

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LPE Blog@LPEblogOct 23
Weekly Roundup: Omer Ein-Habar on the original sewer socialists, Ioannis Kampourakis on law as a produce force, and Yochai Benkler on the legal transformation of capitalism. Plus, a junior faculty forum, a call for book reviews, democracy's death by consultancy, and more!
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James Brandt@j_e_brandtOct 22
Always a good day when the Blog features rival interpretations of the enclosure of the English commons.
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Today, Yochai Benkler continues our symposium on Katharina Pistor's *The Law of Capitalism and How to Transform it.* To design the right program for capitalism’s legal transformation, he argues, we must begin with the right theory of capitalism.
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LPE Blog@LPEblogOct 22
Today, Yochai Benkler continues our symposium on Katharina Pistor's *The Law of Capitalism and How to Transform it.* To design the right program for capitalism’s legal transformation, he argues, we must begin with the right theory of capitalism.
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LPE Blog@LPEblogOct 20
Today, Ioannis Kampourakis considers what follows, politically, from the idea that law is constitutive of capitalism. What theories of social change does this view make available, where does it locate political agency, and what kinds of political energies might it unleash?
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Samuel Moyn đź”­@samuelmoynOct 20
Excellent lpeproject.org/blog/the-stak…

The Stakes of Law as a Productive Force

What follows, politically, from the idea that law is constitutive of capitalism? What theories of social change does this view make available, where does it locate possibilities for political agency…

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LPE Blog@LPEblogOct 19
Today, Omer Ein-Habar argues that as cities fight to take back control of local utilities, they should dust off the legal playbook of the original “Sewer Socialists.”
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LPE Blog@LPEblogOct 16
The week in review: Katharina Pistor on the Law of Capitalism, and Ntina Tzouvala on capitalism beyond law. Plus, a metric ton of cool new research: the effects of law firm resistance and capitulation, peace in a multipolar world, the history of the roadless rule, and more!
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LPE Blog@LPEblogOct 14
"Norman Vincent Peale, author of *The Power of Positive Thinking,* was, notably, the Trump family’s pastor: Donald Trump’s parents drove into Manhattan every Sunday to worship at Peale’s Church, and Peale officiated Trump’s first wedding." lpeproject.org/blog/big-litt…

Big Little Lies

What the history of multilevel marketing can teach us about our political moment.

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Trust the process.
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LPE Blog@LPEblogOct 14
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What Law Cannot Explain (or Solve) about Capitalism

If capitalism is a legal regime above all else, then legal reform is not only necessary but sufficient in order to achieve democratic self-governance, ecological sustainability, and equality.

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LPE Blog@LPEblogOct 14
Today, Ntina Tzouvala raises some doubts about the idea that capitalism is an irreducibly legal phenomenon.
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James Brandt@j_e_brandtOct 12
LPE Blog@LPEblogOct 12
Today, Katharina Pistor explains how three features of our private law—private legal empowerment, decentralized access to the centralized means of coercion, and legal arbitrage—allow capitalists to circumvent public regulation.
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LPE Blog@LPEblogOct 12
Today, Katharina Pistor explains how three features of our private law—private legal empowerment, decentralized access to the centralized means of coercion, and legal arbitrage—allow capitalists to circumvent public regulation.
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LPE Blog@LPEblogOct 9
Weekly Roundup: James Tierney considers what LPE could want from a method, and Darren Bush, Mark Glick, and Gabriel Lozada search far and wide for “contemporary” law and economics. Plus, as always, upcoming events, new articles, and essays from around the web.
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LPE Blog@LPEblogOct 7
TLDR:
Tim Robinson meme: "You Sure About That?"

ALT Tim Robinson meme: "You Sure About That?"

LPE Blog@LPEblogOct 7
According to a recent defense of law and economics, contemporary practitioners have abandoned the idea that law should maximize economic efficiency. To put this claim to the test, Darren Bush, Mark Glick, and Gabriel Lozada reviewed twelve major law and economics textbooks.
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LPE Blog@LPEblogOct 7
According to a recent defense of law and economics, contemporary practitioners have abandoned the idea that law should maximize economic efficiency. To put this claim to the test, Darren Bush, Mark Glick, and Gabriel Lozada reviewed twelve major law and economics textbooks.
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