Please join us for the launch of LPE NYC on Thursday, February 16th, at NYU Law School (Greenberg Lounge)! 

Over the past several decades, developments in legal scholarship, pedagogy, and policy have helped facilitate rising inequality and precarity, political alienation, the entrenchment of social hierarchies, and ecological catastrophe. The Law and Political Economy (or “LPE”) movement aims to reverse these trends by bringing together scholars, practitioners, and students working to build a more just, equal, and sustainable future.

To date, our organizing efforts have been largely confined to groups within individual law schools. By organizing across the city, LPE NYC hopes to bridge efforts between law schools, as well as to break down barriers between people within and beyond law schools. 

New York City offers a unique opportunity to put this idea into practice. Law has given shape to a city of extreme inequality rooted in hierarchies of race, class, gender, and identity, but also organizing, activism, and resistance against the status quo. LPE NYC aims to build a citywide network of students, professors, lawyers, organizers, and other people fighting for a better future.

At our launch event, academic and non-academic speakers will dive into the law and political economy of NYC. Participants will then break out into small groups for more in-depth discussion of current campaigns around and ways to get involved in fighting for decarceration, worker power, housing for all, and taxing the rich within NYC.

Schedule:

• 5:30 - 6:00 PM - Meet & Greet
  
• 6:00 - 7:30 PM - Program 
• 7:30 - 8:00 PM - Reception

Drinks and snacks will be provided.

We look forward to seeing you there!

*This launch event is co-sponsored by the LPE Project, The Action Lab and the Initiative for Community Power at NYU!*