Professor Samuel Moyn on Law and Political Economy: Interpretations, Critiques, and Possibilities

Event date
16 February 2022
Event time
17:30 - 18:45
Oxford week
HT 5
Audience
Postgraduate Students
Venue
Law Board Room St Cross Building
Speaker(s)

About

We are joined by Professor Samuel Moyn to discuss Law and Political Economy (LPE) in a historical context. This seminar critically examines the LPE movement and considers the following: How does LPE relate to past leftist and critical projects in law? How is law (and are lawyers) central to contemporary political crises? What can lawyers and academics do to respond to these crises? Can the LPE movement transcend its American intellectual heritage? What are the limitations of a framework that centres law in responding to contemporary political and economic problems? In what ways do these limitations constrain social movements and political imagination? This seminar is in–person, and refreshments will be provided. If you would like to attend, please register here.

 

Speaker 

Professor Samuel Moyn is the Henry R. Luce Professor of Jurisprudence and Professor of History at Yale University. His fields of interest include political and legal theory, international law, the law of war, human rights, and modern European intellectual history. In addition to recently publishing Not Enough: Human Rights in an Unequal World (2018) and Humane: How the United States Abandoned Peace and Reinvented War (2021), he has written extensively for the LPE Project on socialist constitutionalism, political courts, and human rights and political economy.  

 

Contact Us 

If you have any queries, please email Caoimhe Ring. If would like to join the group’s mailing list, please send a blank email to: oxford-lpe-subscribe@maillist.ox.ac.uk. You can also stay in contact by following our Twitter page (@LPE_Oxford).
 

 

Indicative Readings

The LPE Manifesto (~3min read) by David Singh Grewal, Amy Kapczynski, and Jedediah Britton-Purdy, 2020 
 
Twitter thread (~3min read) on LPE by Amna Akbar, 2022
 
Samuel Moyn’s conversation with Willy Forbath on socialist constitutionalism (“The Relevance of the Weimar”), 2020 ​​ 
 
Introduction of the Journal of Law and Political Economy (“Introduction: Law and Political Economy in a Time of Accelerating Crises”) by Angela P. Harris and James J. (“Jay”) Varellas, III, 2020 

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