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New essay on why Big Tech's turn to the right is about labor politics. Always has been.
Original post: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:qgv4kmruwhaswzsoxikyybkx/post/3lrxq7ccu3k2q
Today, Claire Dunning looks back at the emergence of the nonprofit industrial complex, and explains why government grants are a poor vehicle for reinforcing fundamental rights.
https://lpeproject.org/blog/the-origins-of-the-nonprofit-industrial-complex/
Today, Joel Michaels explains how the "risk-weights" that regulators apply to a bank's balance sheet are not neutral assessments of actuarial risk, but rather policy choices to encourage (or discourage) lending to particular sectors.
An LPE masterclass (by a law student) in what you can learn when you look under the hood of ostensibly neutral financial rules.
https://lpeproject.org/blog/risk-taking-banking-in-the-shadow-of-svb/
Today, fresh off his stint as the Associate Administrator of OIRA, Sabeel Rahman discusses the Biden Administration's long-awaited overhaul of the regulatory review process. Discount rates, income weighting, qualitative impacts, and so much more!
Today, Jed Kroncke kicks off a symposium on China and the Political Economy of the International Legal Order.
Look forward to posts from Vincent Wong, Wanshu Cong, Eli Friedman, Yanbai Andrea Wang, and Alex Wang!
https://lpeproject.org/blog/china-and-the-political-economy-of-the-international-legal-order/
Today, James Nelson, Liz Sepper, and Kate Redburn explain how Groff v. DeJoy, a religious accommodation case currently before the Supreme Court, may force employees to bear the costs of their fellow workers’ religious exercise. The cause thus threatens to pit workers against one another and undermine workplace solidarity.
https://lpeproject.org/blog/how-the-court-is-pitting-workers-against-each-other/
Today, a scouting report on some of the hottest LPE and LPE adjacent articles from the spring submission cycle. Congrats to all the authors on such wonderful placements 🎉🎉
https://lpeproject.org/blog/best-new-lpe-scholarship-spring-2023/
"The decline of unions has reduced their ability to perform key pro-democracy functions... The result has been an open door for far-right parties that threaten to dismantle democracy around the developing world."
Today, Adam Dean explains how, in pursuit of open economies, democracies from Argentina to India engaged in the brutal repression of labor union resistance. In the process, they unleashed dynamics that now threaten the survival of democracy itself.
https://lpeproject.org/blog/how-free-trade-threatens-global-democracy/
"Indeterminacy as a form of collective experience produced over time – what is the value of restating the CLS theory of indeterminacy in this particular way? The answer, I believe, is this: it helps make clear what progressively motivated lawyers, such as those involved in the LPE movement, can take today from CLS’s complex and varied legacy."
Today, Akbar Rasulov discusses what CLS meant by the indeterminacy thesis.
https://lpeproject.org/blog/what-cls-meant-by-the-indeterminacy-thesis/
Nathan Schneider
