Events:
APPEAL- Association for the Promotion of Political Economy and the Law
A Program of the LPE Collective
www.lpecollective.org
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HETERODOX ECONOMICS MEETS LAW AND POLITICAL ECONOMY:
RECLAIMING DEMOCRACY
John Jay College, 524 W 59th St New York, NY 10019 United States
Pre-Registered attendees Enter at 59th St (New Building) with an ID
Saturday, November 8, 2025
8:45 am – 5:00 pm ET
Co-organizers and Sponsors:
The Association for the Promotion of Political Economy and the Law (APPEAL), a program of the LPE Collective; John Jay College Economics Department; John Jay College Law and Political Economy Society; and UMass Amherst LPE Group
Program
Room L2.85
8:45 am Light Breakfast and Gathering
9:15 am Welcome and Opening Remarks
9:30 am Keynote: Zephyr Teachout, Professor of Law, Fordham Law School
10:30 am Break
10:45 am Methodology Roundtable
Panelists:
Michelle Holder, Professor of Economics, John Jay College & Senior Fellow, Roosevelt Institute
Jessica Forden, Doctoral Student in Economics, The New School
Reshard Kolabhai, Doctoral Student, Yale Law School
Jonah Wolf, Doctoral Student in Economics, UMass Amherst
Moderator:
Jamee K. Moudud, Professor of Economics, Sarah Lawrence College
12:15 pm Lunch Faculty Dining Room, New Building 2nd Floor
1:30 pm Emerging Scholar Presentations
Panel A Breakout Room 1.66
Daniella Medina
A Cosmology of Formality: The Political Economy of Colonial-Capitalist Formality from Lenapehoking to New York City
Knjeri Ambrose
Saints, Sinners, and Salvation in the Racialized Debt Economy
John McLaughlin
Reconciling Competing Analyses of Democratic Crisis
Panel B Breakout Room 1.67
Marie Therese Kane
Political Cooperatives: The Future of Left Political Work in Times of Trump
Arjun Janakiram
Neoliberalism, Reactionary Populism, and the Crisis of the State
Madhubala Pothula
Law as a Means of Dispossession: The Case of Assam
Panel C Breakout Room 1.69
Lauren Johnston
U.S. Outsourcing Post Great Recession: Impacts on Income Distribution
B.V. Alaka
Digital Monopoly Capitalism: A Critique of Political Economy and Law
Zachary Sedefian
Crowdsourcing as Economic Imperialism
Karthik Manickam
The Construction of the Poverty Line in an Aging Economy
3:30 pm Break
3:45 pm Keynote: Kimberly Kracman, Associate Research Scholar, Princeton University
4:45 pm Closing Remarks
5:30 pm Informal Gathering at Gossips Bar and Restaurant,733 9th avenue (between 49th and 50th Street). Dinner, drinks at your own expense
At this workshop, we seek to feature multi-disciplinary and intersectional emerging scholarship reflecting on the relationships between politics, law, economics, and society. On the heels of the New York mayoral election, this workshop will be organized around the theme of “Reclaiming Democracy”.
In addition to highlighting the work of students and emerging scholars, this workshop will feature a panel discussion on the methods of law and political economy and keynote lectures by Kimberly Kracman and Zephyr Teachout on the role of left movements in bringing about economic democracy in the past and present.
Kimberly Kracman is an Associate Research Scholar in the Department of Sociology at Princeton University. Kim’s research uses the methods of historical sociology and economic history, critical accounting theory, stratification economics and conflict economics to study the origins, mechanisms, and justification of the distribution of wealth in the United States in the context of global systems of capital accumulation.
Zephyr Teachout is Zephyr Teachout is a Professor at Law at Fordham Law School where she focuses on the intersection of corporate power and political power. Her most recent book, Break 'em Up (2020), makes a case for reimagining the relationship between democracy and antimonopoly law.
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What is Capitalism? Reading & Discussion Group
All are welcome!
Friday, November 21, 2025 at 3 PM EST/ 2pm Central US (20:00 GMT; UTC-5): Discussion with Jessica A. Shoemaker and James Fallows Tierney featuring their co-authored article, Trading Acres (forthcoming in Yale Law Journal 2025-26).
Excerpt from the co-authors’ abstract:
Farmland’s conversion into an asset class threatens rural livelihoods, agriculture and food system resilience, economic and spatial justice, and—in our final estimation—democracy itself.
… [H]istorically, investor-owned farmland was seen as a deep and politically motivating threat to rural life. In this Article, we argue that Wall Street’s arrival at rural America’s gate is not merely a market trend but rather the product of deep social choices governing the accumulation of investor wealth: property, corporate, and securities law. We explore the ways in which these deep structures of our legal system—from the primacy of market logics to a range of biases that skew our spatial, temporal, and social relations— constitute the conditions for this profound transformation in the way farmland, as a basic and essential rural resource, is being integrated
into the modern capital economy.
Jessica A. Shoemaker is Steinhart Foundation Distinguished Professor of Law, University of Nebraska College of Law.
James Fallows Tierney is Associate Professor of Law and Associate Dean for Academic Affairs, Chicago-Kent College of Law.
A draft of the article is available on SSRN here.
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We welcome suggestions for readings and presenters!