''Law and Political Economy of Courts" is the third session of the New School's LPE Night School. It is a conversation between Peter Martin (Center for Community Alternatives), Tarek Z. Ismail (CUNY School of Law), and Jocelyn Simonson (Brooklyn Law School), moderated by Noah Rosenblum (NYU Law School) on the place of courts in creating our distinctive political economy, with a particular focus on New York, and explore opportunities for collective action in response.
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The Night School is a collaboration between LPE NYC and the Politics department of the New School for Social Research, designed to introduce non-lawyers to law from a critical perspective. From growing inequality to further entrenching hierarchies of race, class, gender and identity, law is inextricably bound up with many of our most pressing problems. But dominant ways of analyzing law can obscure its role in social and economic life. LPE ('Law and Political Economy') approaches seek to show the way the law structures our distinctive political economy in order to elaborate better tools for making social change.
This series brings together scholars and practitioners for public lectures and conversations on selected legal topics. Each session offers a critical exploration of an important issue in contemporary law and policy. Taken as a whole, the series offers a survey of major questions in critical legal thought and advocacy.
The series is designed to complement the minor in Law and Social Change at Eugene Lang, but it is open to everyone. Organizers, advocates, and others not currently enrolled in full-time degree programs are encouraged to attend.Â
Presented by the Politics Department at The New School for Social Research and LPE NYC.Â
Peter F. Martin is an organizer and a lawyer, working and organizing around judges, elections, nonprofit organizations, and grassroots power building. He works for the Center for Community Alternatives, to hold judges accountable and pushes for more progressive judges on state courts in New York and elsewhere.
Prior to joining CUNY Law’s faculty, Tarkek Z. Ismail served as Senior Staff Attorney at the Creating Law Enforcement Accountability & Responsibility (CLEAR) project, which aims to address the legal needs of Muslim, Arab, South Asian, and other communities in the New York City area. He is the lead author on a report co-published with Human Rights Watch, which examined and exposed human rights abuses in domestic counterterrorism prosecutions, Illusion of Justice: Human Rights Abuses in US Terrorism Prosecutions.
She writes and teaches about criminal law, criminal procedure, evidence, and social change. Prior to joining the Brooklyn Law School faculty, Professor Simonson was an Acting Assistant Professor of Lawyering at New York University School of Law, and spent five years as a public defender with the Bronx Defenders.
Noah A. Rosenblum works primarily in administrative law, constitutional law, and legal history. His research takes a historical approach to the study of state institutions, seeking to understand how law can be used to promote democratic accountability. His academic writing has appeared in the Columbia Law Review, the Notre Dame Law Review, and the Yale Law Journal, among other venues, and has been awarded the Joseph Parker Prize in Legal History and the Fred C. Zacharias Award in Legal Ethics, among other honors.
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