The inaugural conference of the Association of Law and Political Economy is underway in Richmond, Virginia with almost 500 attendees. Here is a (partial) description of the organization:
The Association of Law and Political Economy (ALPE) is dedicated to the production of scholarly knowledge by academics, researchers, organizers, practitioners, and others committed to centering issues of political economy in the study of law.
We seek to facilitate scholarship (which we define capaciously to include writing, teaching, advocacy) that deepens our understanding of law’s relationship to questions of economic and democratic equality through various theoretical lenses and methods, with particular attention to issues of inequality, power, subordination, and intersectionality. The Association is committed to developing LPE as a field furthering scholarly conversations and interdisciplinarity, and promoting LPE scholarship. The Association also seeks to develop scholarly work that is part of a larger project of imagining and working towards a more democratic, fair, egalitarian, inclusive, and sustainable future.
It’s a busy two days of programming! A copy of the full program is here.