'Law and Political Economy of Social Change' is the inaugural session of the New School's LPE Night School. It is a conversation between Amy Kapczynski (Yale Law School) and Corinne Blalock (Law and Economy Project), moderated by Sandipto Dasgupta (NSSR) on law's relationship to social change, and how law structures our political and economic lives.
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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.
This event will be held in person and also as a Zoom webinar. To register for the Zoom link, please click here.
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
Amy Kapczynski is a Professor of Law at Yale Law School, Faculty Co-Director of the Law and Political Economy Project, and the Global Health Justice Partnership. Her research focuses on the failures of legal logic and structure that condition contemporary inequality, precarity, and hollowed out democracy.
Corinne Blalock is the Executive Director of the Law and Political Economy Project. Her research draws on her education in both law and critical theory to explore how our political economy and market logic transform and limit the ways we imagine our society and the role of government in it. Corrine holds a PhD from Duke University.
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