Collaborative Research Networks
Organizers
Jay Varellas, Maj Grasten, Leanna Katz
The Law and Political Economy CRN provides a forum for conversations among legal scholars, social scientists, and others whose work sits at the intersection of law and approaches to political economy from across the social sciences and humanities. The CRN promotes interdisciplinary scholarship that brings diverse political economy perspectives into legal and sociolegal scholarship, while also encouraging deeper engagement with legal rules, institutions, and processes by scholars from multiple disciplines. The CRN is especially committed to contextualizing the study of markets and political-economic life through sustained dialogue with disciplines such as sociology, political science, anthropology, geography, history, literature and business studies, and complementary strands of economic research. By centering political economy, the CRN highlights and explores how power and the broader sociolegal structures constitute and continually shape behavior, governance, and institutional development. In addition, the CRN supports scholarship that foregrounds issues of justice, fairness, identity, and sustainability in analyses of law and political economy. It welcomes work that is comparative, historical, and transnational, as well as research attentive to the specificities of local legal systems and sociolegal processes.