Week in review: We offer our biannual round-up of forthcoming LPE scholarship, and Premal Dharia concludes our symposium on Radical Acts of Justice.

Plus, LPE events, reading groups, and new articles in the 🧵👇

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Yesterday, we concluded our symposium on *Radical Acts of Justice: How Ordinary People Are Dismantling Mass Incarceration,* by Jocelyn Simonson. A brief 🧵.

Jocelyn kicked off the series by laying out the book's central arguments and motivations.

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'The role of public defenders has never been more urgent, and yet has never been more unclear... How can defenders best tackle the power dynamics inherent in that work? And what does it mean that many in the field are trying to do more, be more, serve more?'

ICYMI: We gathered some first-rate .pdfs to add to your collection 📂 (gotta catch 'em all)

Today, our spring scouting report on some of the hottest LPE and LPE-adjacent articles. Congrats to all the authors on such wonderful placements 🎉

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LPE scholarship continuing it’s ☄️ rise!!

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I find these facts very unsettling:

Week in review: Mila Versteeg, Kevin Cope, and Gaurav Mukherjee on the right to sleep under bridges, Luke Messac on how the IRS could reduce medical debt, and Elizabeth Dale on the history of popular police power.

Plus, 🔥LPE events & pieces in the 🧵

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having Sotomayor’s seat flipped to R would probably mean an R majority on the Court for the rest of this century

With the impending arrival of Aziz Rana's *The Constitutional Bind,* it's a good time to refresh your memory of season 1: *The Two Faces of American Freedom.*

And to help you do so, here's our interview with Aziz on the book's 10th anniversary:

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'By recounting how ordinary people lost their power to administer criminal law, I hope to supplement Simonson’s account of radical groups reclaiming a role for the people in the criminal legal system with an historical understanding of popular justice in all its virtue and vice.'

On April 16th our What To Do About the Courts reading group will get to the heart of the matter & start looking at the legal tools available to us to restructure/reform/disempower the Supreme Court with Amy Kapczynski & Ganesh Sitaraman !!

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🚨 Extended Deadline 🚨

We have extended the deadline for applications to be an LPE Blog editor for 2024-2025 until **April 10**.

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I don’t usually endorse quick fixes to societal ills, but here is one: presumptive eligibility for hospital financial assistance would avert billions in medical debt for low-income patients. The IRSnews has been too lax on hospitals since the 60s, but it can change course.

Claudia has a new book out if you want more: The Beauty of Falling: A Life in Pursuit of Gravity.

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Reduce medical debt using this One Weird Trick (make hospitals follow the law).

cc The Debt Collective 🟥

The Court has repeatedly held 'that there is no constitutional right to minimal subsistence, education, or healthcare. And it has made clear that there’s certainly no constitutional right to housing. Since late 2018, however, this longstanding aversion has started to give way.'

Week in review: Chris Essert on homelessness and property; Ganesh Sitaraman, Sanjay Jolly, Zephyr Teachout, Nikolas Guggenberger, Anupam Chander, and Elettra Bietti on the TikTok ban; and Meredith Whittaker on social media and authoritarianism.

Plus, LPE goodies in the 🧵

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