This post introduces a symposium on ruptures and continuities in international law under the second Trump administration. ** ** ** In retrospect, the longevity and power of US imperialism made it difficult to recognize its historically specific character. Critical legal scholars, like ourselves, pointed out the inconsistencies of the post-World War II legal order, which promised sovereign equality… Source Source…Read More

The intricate patterns of the Alhambra. The Knicks’ ability to blow a fourth-quarter lead. The sheer volume and quality of scholarship being produced by the LPE community. Some things you have to see to believe. Which is why we’ve put together the following (partial and necessarily incomplete) list of noteworthy new articles for your browsing pleasure. ** ** ** Amy…Read More

The Fourteenth Amendment was written as an instrument to deliver the bounties of emancipation to freedwomen and freedmen. Yet it fell far short of this original intent, not least because the Supreme Court drastically limited the actors and, ultimately, the actions that might be targeted by the amendment’s guarantees of “due process” and “equal protection.” During the same interval of…Read More

Last week, several hundred academics, think tankers, and political operators gathered in a spectacular new building whimsically named The Treehouse, across the street from Harvard Business School, to discuss the obsolescence of neoliberalism. The Treehouse is named after its primary donor, the cofounder of a private equity firm that has made its profits by targeting, stripping… Source Source linkRead More