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

Joined August 2019
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The week in review: Ganesh Sitaraman on public utility regulation and AI, Zohra Ahmed and Brishen Rogers on the latest developments of the ALPE, and a roundtable on the right to stay and private law. Plus, the best of LPE from around the web.
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What would a meaningful right to stay require? And how can private law help disadvantaged people and families build lasting, rooted communities? Today, Marissa Jackson Sow, Allison Tait, Carla Spivack, Alina Ball, Juan Carlos Ibarra, and Carliss Chatman weigh in.
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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. 👇
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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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
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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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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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Always a good day when the Blog features rival interpretations of the enclosure of the English commons.
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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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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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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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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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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"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…
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Today, Ntina Tzouvala raises some doubts about the idea that capitalism is an irreducibly legal phenomenon.
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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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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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