This event has been rescheduled from Spring 2024 to March 17, 2025. We hope you can join!
"Race, Space, and Displacement in NYC” is the fourth session of the New School’s LPE Night School. In a conversation facilitated by Tasleemah Tolu Lawal (NYU Center on Race, Inequality, and the Law), Alejo Rodriguez (Columbia Law/ BATTLE) and Shirley Lin (Brooklyn Law School) will discuss how institutions exploit race and immigration status as part of a divide-and-conquer strategy against movements in New York. They will begin their conversation by discussing the political economy of the ongoing migration crisis as a launch point for interrogating the state's use of bureaucracies of force.
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.
Presented by the Politics Department at The New School for Social Research and LPE NYC.
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