Law and Organizing Academy
Daily Itinerary
Day 1
Day 2
Day 3
Day 4
Day 1
Day 2
Day 3
Day 4
Instructors
Readings
Participants
All Readings
Day 1
Amy Kapczynski, David Singh Grewal, Jedediah Britton-Purdy,
How Law Made Neoliberalism
, Boston Review
Angela P. Harris, Amy Kapczynski, Noah Zatz,
Where is the Political Economy?
, LPE Blog
Steven Teles, Rise of the Conservative Legal Movement, pp. 90-118
LPE Project Neoliberalism Primer
(Recommended)
Day 2
Richard Healey and Sandra Hinson,
The Three Faces of Power
Amna Akbar, NYU Law Review,
Toward a Radical Imagination of Law
We Dream in Black,
Unbossed, A Black Domestic Worker Agenda
Rep. Ayanna Pressley,
People’s Justice Guarantee
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez,
Recognizing the duty of the Federal Government to create a Green New Deal
Marika Dias,
Paradox and Possibility: Movement Lawyering During the COVID-19 Housing Crisis
, CUNY Law Review, 2021
John Whitlow,
Law, Political Economy, and Racialized Rent Gaps
(Journal of Race and Poverty, 2023)
Day 3
Amna Akbar & Marbre Stahly-Butts,
Reforms for Radicals? An Abolitionist Framework
(UCLA Law Review, 2022)
Movement for Black Lives,
Reparations Now Toolkit
(Read page 20-32 and page 66-72)
VOCAL-NY
video
Chris Gelardi,
New York City’s City Hall Encampment is a Middle Finger to Our Elected Leaders
, the Nation
Day 4
The Dig Radio,
The Return of Labor Militancy
James Pope, Labor & the Constitution, Texas Law Review (1987)
Veena Dubal,
Gig Work Organizing for Solidarity Unions
, LPE Blog
Veena Dubal,
Solidarity Unionism v. Company Unionism in the Gig Economy
, LPE Blog
Cathy Kennedy, RN,
Worker Militancy Has Fueled a Surge in Union Growth and Popularity
, Common Dreams
Matthew Ginsburg,
Nothing New Under the Sun: “The New Labor Law” Must Still Grapple With the Traditional Challenges of Firm-Based Organizing and Building Self-Sustainable Worker Organizations
, Yale Law Journal Forum (2017)