wrote for LPE Blog about the political economy of artillery shells as a way to think about us imperialism and genocide in palestine

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The web of legal forms that makes U.S. imperialism possible goes beyond federal legislation and much of it is not public: it includes MoAs and executive agreements between states, technical instruments, contracts between governments and private entities.lpeproject.org/blog/imperiali…

CFP: Dollar Hegemony, State Sovereignty and International Order: an International Workshop. Come join us in Sydney for this workshop that ⁦⁦Ntina Tzouvala⁩ and I are organising in December. Abstracts due July 1! lpeproject.org/events/cfp-dol…

Today, Darryl Li (darryl li) examines how the United States facilitates the global flow of 155mm artillery shells, and the role that these weapons have played in the destruction of Gaza.

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Pls read by darryl li: 'A law & political economy approach..shows why imperialism shld be understood..as a tool for understanding..relations in which the subjugation of some nations by others is maintained by & for the accumulation of capital across borders.'
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The inimitable darryl li on the blog today, digging into the political economy of US imperialism and the US's role in the destruction of Gaza by looking at the circulation of one commodity: the 155mm artillery shell.

An absolute MUST READ!

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Students are identifying investments in war in The New School endowment’s portfolio. Highly recommend using this tool from AFSC to search mutual funds to see if they contain any investments in prisons, occupations, or borders: investigate.afsc.org

As many have said, the crackdowns threaten academic freedom and freedom of speech. But that doesn't fully capture what is happening and what's at stake.

The crackdowns are likely *discriminating* due to viewpoint—and perhaps on the basis of race, ethnicity, or religion. 1/

Ryan Ryan Doerfler joins Majority Report to talk about how we are already defying the Supreme Court majorityreportradio.com/2024/04/25/4-2…

The rule is 'the result of more than 26,000 public comments.... more than 25,000 of these comments supported the ban, and many described how non-compete clauses had kept them stuck in abusive jobs or prevented them from pursuing better opportunities.'

Today, Sandeep Vaheesan and Jonathan F. Harris explain why the FTC's comprehensive ban on non-compete clauses promises to be so effective, and discuss the coming legal challenges it will face.

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Officially the next president of NYU Law The LPE Project !!! 🥂🎉🎉🎉🥳🥳

From back in November:

'a number of prominent university administrators, subject to the intense pressures mentioned above, are increasingly treating protest speech as hate speech, seemingly regardless of the speakers’ intentions or declared positions.'

Worth a re-read at this moment

Sending in the police to arrest them was a serious mistake, doubling-down w/ more sanctions would be worse. We shouldn't punish our students for peaceful protest.

This site is a hellscape. But am proud of the students out protesting over the last several days at Yale. From what I've seen, peaceful, thoughtful, and a serious attempt to do something to stop the horrors in Gaza.

Today, Kate Yoon (Kate Yoon) interviews Vincent Bevins (@Vinncent) about his recent book *If We Burn* and what we can learn from the failed protests of the previous decade.

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Today, Maggie Blackhawk continues our symposium on Aziz Rana's *The Constitution Bind,* considering what might be lost were we to abandon our longstanding constitutional struggle toward a more perfect union.

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'The spirit of Douglass may continue to haunt The Constitutional Bind. There are, as Douglass and his 'radical constitutionalists' recognized, significant costs to the Garrisonian approach, costs which loom particularly large in the context of American colonialism.'