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Aaron Baum

Student Fellow (2025-26)

Aaron Baum is a third-year JD student at Harvard Law School. He writes on administrative law and the political economy of regulation—including regulatory capture, institutional design, and democratic governance. Before law school, he worked on international economic development at the U.S. Treasury Department.

    Yochai Benkler

    Faculty Director

    Yochai Benkler is the Berkman Professor of Entrepreneurial Legal Studies at Harvard Law School, and faculty co-director of the Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society at Harvard University.

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      Corinne Blalock

      Postdoctoral Fellow (2025-27)

      Corinne Blalock is a postdoctoral fellow at Harvard Law School. Her interests include legal theory, political economy, and labor law. Her current research interrogates how law imagines and reinforces class relations. Corinne served as the Executive Director of the LPE Project from its founding in 2019 to 2025. Before that she was a fellow at the Center for Race, Law, and Politics at Duke Law School while completing her PhD.

        Sharon Block

        Faculty Affiliate

        Sharon Block is a Professor of Practice and Executive Director of the Center for Labor and a Just Economy at Harvard Law School. Prior to returning to Harvard, she served as the senior official delegated the duties of the Administrator of the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs in President Joe Biden’s White House.

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          Nikolas Bowie

          Faculty Affiliate

          Nikolas Bowie is an assistant professor of law at Harvard Law School. He is a historian who teaches courses in federal constitutional law, state constitutional law, and local government law. His research focuses on critical legal histories of democracy in the United States.

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            Angela Camacho-DeSousa

            Program Coordinator

            Angela Camacho-DeSousa supports faculty and the LPE Program at Harvard Law School. She is currently a master’s candidate in the field of Government, focusing on post-neoliberal approaches to increase affordability in rental markets.

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              Guy-Uriel E. Charles

              Faculty Affiliate

              Guy-Uriel Charles is the Charles J. Ogletree Jr. Professor of Law at Harvard Law School where he also directs the Charles Hamilton Institute for Race and Justice.  He writes about how law mediates political power and how law addresses racial subordination.

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                Jingtian Chen

                Student Fellow (2025-26)

                Jingtian Chen is a fourth-year PhD candidate in Political Science at MIT.  His research examines how political and legal institutions shape the interplay of economic and political power in network, platform and utility industries. He practiced law as a commercial litigator and holds a JD from Harvard Law School. 
                  Andrew Crespo

                  Andrew Manuel Crespo

                  Faculty Affiliate

                  Andrew Manuel Crespo is the Morris Wasserstein Public Interest Professor of Law at Harvard Law School, where he teaches criminal law and procedure and serves as the Executive Faculty Director of the Institute to End Mass Incarceration.

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                    Christine A. Desan

                    Faculty Affiliate

                    Christine Desan teaches about the international monetary system, the constitutional law of money, constitutional history, political economy, and legal theory.  She is the co-founder of Harvard’s Program on the Study of Capitalism.

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                      Ryan D. Doerfler

                      Faculty Affiliate

                      Ryan Doerfler is a Professor of Law at the Harvard Law School. His research focuses on the role of the judiciary within a democratic system.

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                        Omer Ein-Habar

                        Student Fellow (2025-26)

                        Omer Ein-Habar is an SJD candidate at Harvard Law School. His research focuses on the law and political economy of local government and local water infrastructure, with a particular focus on questions of municipal ownership and public provision.

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                          Minju Kang

                          Visiting Scholar (2025-26)

                          Minju Kang is a visiting scholar jointly affiliated with LPE@HLS and the Center for Labor and a Just Economy. She is currently a post-doctoral fellow at ChainGE Lab. Her research centers on business and human rights, with a particular focus on the theoretical and practical dimensions of meaningful stakeholder engagement.

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                            Anjali Katta

                            Student Fellow (2025-26)

                            Anjali Katta is a third-year JD student at Harvard Law School and writes about the intersections of energy and labor policies. Before law school, she worked as a researcher and advocate for energy and environmental justice issues.

                              Michael Klarman

                              Faculty Affiliate

                              Michael Klarman is the Charles Warren Professor of Legal History at Harvard Law School, where he joined the faculty in 2008. 

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                                R.H. Lossin

                                Executive Director


                                R.H. Lossin writes about labor history, American radicalism, and contemporary art. She teaches for The Brooklyn Institute for Social Research and holds a PhD in Communications from Columbia University. Her first book, Sabotage: The Rise and Fall of a Revolutionary Idea is under contract with Princeton University Press.

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                                  Kenneth W. Mack

                                  Faculty Affiliate

                                  Kenneth Mack is the inaugural Lawrence D. Biele Professor of Law and Affiliate Professor of History at Harvard University. He is also the co-faculty leader of the Harvard Law School Program on Law and History.

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                                    Anaïs Mattez

                                    Visiting Scholar (2024-25)

                                    Anaïs Mattez is a scholar of international law with interdisciplinary interests in anthropology, culture, and property. Her work addresses pressing global debates on the restitution of cultural property in relation to identity formation and global capitalism.

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                                      Alexandra Natapoff

                                      Faculty Affiliate

                                      Alexandra Natapoff is an award-winning legal scholar and criminal justice expert. She writes about criminal courts, public defense, plea bargaining, wrongful convictions, and race and inequality in the criminal system.

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                                        Ignacio Orellana García

                                        Student Fellow (2025-26)

                                        Ignacio Orellana García is an SJD candidate at Harvard Law School.  His research explores how law structures the exercise of monetary sovereignty by allocating authority to make decisions on the configuration of money, the calibration of the money supply, and the allocation of money.  Prior to his doctoral studies, Ignacio worked in law firms in his native Chile and in the U.S.

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                                          Daphna Renan

                                          Faculty Affiliate

                                          Daphna Renan is the Peter B. Munroe and Mary J. Munroe Professor of Law at Harvard Law School. Her work focuses on the U.S. presidency and the design of American democracy from the perspective of administrative and structural constitutional law.

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                                            Mila Rostain

                                            Student Fellow (2025-26)

                                            Mila Rostain is a second-year JD student at Harvard Law School. She is interested in the role that legal ambiguity plays in worker organizing. Prior to law school, Mila spent seven years as a union organizer.

                                              Benjamin I. Sachs

                                              Faculty Affiliate

                                              Benjamin Sachs is the Kestnbaum Professor of Labor and Industry at Harvard Law School and a leading expert in the field of labor law and labor relations. 

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                                                M. Sandhu

                                                Academic Fellow (2025-27)

                                                M. Sandhu is a sociologist of law interested in the relationship between democracy and liberalism.

                                                  Lea Steininger

                                                  Visiting Scholar (2024-25)

                                                  Lea Steininger is an economist who studies monetary policy. She is from Vienna, is a former central banker, and is particularly interested in questions of macro-finance, political economy and epistemology.

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                                                    Laura Weinrib

                                                    Faculty Affiliate

                                                    Laura Weinrib is the Fred N. Fishman Professor of Constitutional Law at Harvard Law School and Suzanne Young Murray Professor at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study.

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                                                      Dana Zuk

                                                      Student Fellow (2025-26)

                                                      Dana Zuk is an SJD candidate at Harvard Law School with interdisciplinary interests in political economy, American legal history, and class analysis. Her dissertation examines the historical formation and eventual fragmentation of the modern American middle class from the 1930s through the mid-1980s, focusing on how legal, institutional, and economic transformations reshaped class relations in the 20th century. 

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