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Legal scholars, students, & practitioners working to expose & transform law's role in the perpetuation of economic, racial, & gender inequality. & @LPEblog

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Everyone from Sam Altman to Abdul El-Sayed have called for treating AI as a public utility.

But what would this mean? One the country's leading experts in public utility regulation breaks it down. 👇

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Today, Zohra Ahmed and Brishen Rogers, co-chairs of the ALPE, share some exciting updates from the association.

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[Ganesh Sitaraman @GaneshSitaraman]

People sometimes say AI is or should be governed as a public utility. What does that mean?

I've spent a lot of time over the last decade studying public utility regulation, historically and across sectors.

Here's my primer on how to think about it. https://t.co/VZSGVaMcoT

[Christy Thornton @llchristyll]

Big news! The @HPE_Project is thrilled to invite applications for two residential fellowships at the @RemarqueNYU for AY 27-28, in our Histories and Futures of Global Governance Initiative. Info and call for applications here: https://t.co/FeWIryeQVa

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Everyone from Sam Altman to Abdul El-Sayed have called for treating AI as a public utility.

But what would this mean? One the country's leading experts in public utility regulation breaks it down. 👇

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Today, @GaneshSitaraman offers a primer on how to think about public utility regulation and its tools—and how to apply them to different parts of the AI tech stack.

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Today, @GaneshSitaraman offers a primer on how to think about public utility regulation and its tools—and how to apply them to different parts of the AI tech stack.

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Weekly Roundup: Omer Ein-Habar on the original sewer socialists, Ioannis Kampourakis on law as a produce force, and Yochai Benkler on the legal transformation of capitalism.

Plus, a junior faculty forum, a call for book reviews, democracy's death by consultancy, and more!

[James Brandt @j_e_brandt]

Always a good day when the Blog features rival interpretations of the enclosure of the English commons.

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Today, Yochai Benkler continues our symposium on Katharina Pistor's *The Law of Capitalism and How to Transform it.*

To design the right program for capitalism’s legal transformation, he argues, we must begin with the right theory of capitalism.

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"placing hope in lawyers as agents of social change is to a significant extent misplaced, as it fails to account for how their agency is itself constituted and constrained by structures in which historically sedimented relations of production and power are already inscribed"

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Today, Ioannis Kampourakis considers what follows, politically, from the idea that law is constitutive of capitalism.

What theories of social change does this view make available, where does it locate political agency, and what kinds of political energies might it unleash?

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Today, Ioannis Kampourakis considers what follows, politically, from the idea that law is constitutive of capitalism.

What theories of social change does this view make available, where does it locate political agency, and what kinds of political energies might it unleash?

[Samuel Moyn 🔭 @samuelmoyn]

Excellent https://t.co/lEKoO1OhhF

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Today, Omer Ein-Habar argues that as cities fight to take back control of local utilities, they should dust off the legal playbook of the original “Sewer Socialists.”

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Today, Omer Ein-Habar argues that as cities fight to take back control of local utilities, they should dust off the legal playbook of the original “Sewer Socialists.”

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The week in review: Katharina Pistor on the Law of Capitalism, and Ntina Tzouvala on capitalism beyond law.

Plus, a metric ton of cool new research: the effects of law firm resistance and capitulation, peace in a multipolar world, the history of the roadless rule, and more!

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Today, Ntina Tzouvala raises some doubts about the idea that capitalism is an irreducibly legal phenomenon.

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"Norman Vincent Peale, author of *The Power of Positive Thinking,* was, notably, the Trump family’s pastor: Donald Trump’s parents drove into Manhattan every Sunday to worship at Peale’s Church, and Peale officiated Trump’s first wedding."

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Today, Ntina Tzouvala raises some doubts about the idea that capitalism is an irreducibly legal phenomenon.