NEW REPORT: An Anti-Oligarchy Framework for Constitutional Labor Advocacy
The Program on Law and Political Economy at Harvard Law School is pleased to announce the publication of a new report, An Anti-Oligarchy Framework for Constitutional Labor Advocacy. Developed in collaboration with the Leadership Center for Attorney General Studies, the report draws on a robust LPE literature on labor constitutionalism to offer advocacy insights aimed at securing…
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LPE Student Writing Prize Awarded to Anjali Katta (JD ’26)
Anjali Katta (JD ’26) has been awarded this year’s LPE Student Writing Prize for her paper Powering the Grid: Labor, Electricity, and the Green Transition. The paper addresses the intersection of two important topics to LPE—green transition and labor representation—and provides a detailed, careful doctrinal analysis that state PUCs and attorneys general could use to support labor in…
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Submissions for 2026 LPE Student Writing Award Due May 8th
The LPE Student Writing Prize is a $2,000 prize awarded for the most outstanding paper on law and political economy written by an HLS student. Papers should be submitted to [email protected] no later than May 8, 2026. Students who wish to submit their paper must request that the professor who advised them on the paper email an evaluation…
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Public Writing and the Law
On February 27th, LPE@HLS will host Public Writing and the Law. What the law is and how it functions, or how it should function, is central to how Americans understand their political, economic, and social lives. For many people, legal understanding is informed equally by news coverage and popular culture—police procedurals, courtroom dramas, reality television. Journalism, therefore, plays a…
