Category: Law

Law and Political Economy

Law and Political Economy Projects presents International Law of Money
For the past two decades, the legal construction of money has received increasing attention from scholars of history and (heterodox) economics. Legal scholarship on the international law of money has lagged behind. Yet, it is widely recognized that international monetary dynamics are key to the democracy-curbing effects of neoliberalism as expressed through the ‘Washington Consensus’ and enforced by the International Monetary Fund (IMF). This panel is aimed at exploring the wider context of the international law of money (which is central to the international dimensions of neoliberalism) encouraging the development of this area of scholarship as a conscious sub-field of international law. Feb 8, 2021 8:00am pacific 90 min

Panel (register and download panelist presentations here)

• John Haskell (University of Manchester School of Law), The Political Economy Turn in International Law and Why Money Matters
• Karina Patrício Ferreira Lima (University of Leeds School of Law; Durham Law School), Legal Political Economy of Sovereign Insolvency Governance
• Nathan Tankus, (Modern Money Network & “Notes on the Crises”),
Monetary Sovereignty and the Federal Reserve’s International COVID-19 Response
• Rohan Grey, (Willamette University College of Law, Modern Money Network, Digital Fiat Currency Institute), The International Law of Digital Currency

Law & Political Economy

The Law & Political Economy (LPE) Project — housed at Yale Law School — “brings together a network of scholars, practitioners, and students working to develop innovative intellectual, pedagogical, and political interventions to advance the study of political economy and law. Our work is rooted in the insight that politics and the economy cannot be separated and that both are constructed in essential respects by law. We believe that developments over the last several decades in legal scholarship and policy helped to facilitate rising inequality and precarity, political alienation, the entrenchment of racial hierarchies and intersectional exploitation, and ecological and social catastrophe. We aim to help reverse these trends by supporting scholarly work that maps where we have gone wrong, and that develops ideas and proposals to democratize our political economy and build a more just, equal, and sustainable future.”

From UC Davis Journal of Law & Political Economy: Better Than Jail: Social Policy in the Shadow of Racialized Mass Incarceration
— Noah D. Zatz, Professor, UCLA School of Law, 2021 Posted to Research section of our Job Guarantee page.

Explore their blog, which features a nifty set of sort fields. Added to the NiceThings blogroll. Watch for contributions from the young lawyers and law students affiliated or associated with Modern Money Network (MMN), inlcuding Ashley Burke (@lilburke247), Raúl Carrillo (@RaulACarrillo), Emma Caterine (@EmmaCaterineDSA), Rohan Grey (@rohangrey) and Luke Herrine (@LDHerrine).