Berk Eker receives first “Freedom from Want” Writing Award for “Ultra-Processed Foods and the Legal Design of School Meals: Decommodification, Delegation, and Children’s Welfare.”
LPE@HLS is pleased to announce that Berk Eker is the recipient of the first “Freedom from Want” writing Award for his paper “Ultra-Processed Foods and the Legal Design of School Meals: Decommodification, Delegation, and Children’s Welfare.” The paper analyzes how the legal structure for providing school meals in the United States leads to overreliance on industrialized,…
Now Accepting Applications for the 2026-27 LPE Student Fellowship
The Student Fellowship in Law and Political Economy is a year-long program designed to foster early-career LPE research. Applications are due July 15, 2026. Fellows receive grant support of $4,000 and are expected to spend the year writing an academic paper that contributes to the field of law and political economy. In addition, fellows are required…
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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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