Who We Are

Since 2014, APPEAL has organized scholarly activities and educational programs encouraging new (and renewed) approaches to interrelated problems of law, economy, and politics.

Since 2024, APPEAL has been part of the LPE Collective, a collaboration of membership organizations advancing LPE scholarship and community building.

Events:

What is Capitalism? Reading & Discussion Group

All are welcome!

Coming soon! Friday, November 21, 2025 at 3 PM ET

For questions, contact appeal@politicaleconomylaw.org

We welcome suggestions for readings and presenters!

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APPEAL

Association for the Promotion of Political Economy and the Law

A Program of the LPE Collective

www.lpecollective.org

ANNOUNCING: CALL FOR EMERGING SCHOLAR SUBMISSIONS

Heterodox Economics Meets Law and Political Economy:

Reclaiming Democracy

Saturday, November 8, 2025

9:00am–5:00pm ET

John Jay College

524 W 59th St, New York, NY 10019
SUBMIT HERE

At our Fall 2025 workshop, we seek to feature multi-disciplinary and intersectional emerging scholarship reflecting on the relationships between politics, law, economics, and society. On the heels of the New York mayoral election, this workshop will be organized around the theme of “Reclaiming Democracy”.

Students and emerging scholars interested in presenting law and political economy-informed analysis of class, gender, race, imperialism, and more, are welcome to submit a 100–300 word abstract with titles by October 17, 2025, click to submit. In keeping with a commitment to methodological pluralism, research utilizing quantitative or qualitative methods, analytic or institutional approaches, and other techniques from a variety of disciplines, will all be considered. We are especially interested in soliciting abstracts that cut across disciplinary lines involving economics, law and institutionalism, politics, history, etc.

We encourage proposals and projects at every stage of their development; completed papers are not necessary at the time of the workshop. If you are unsure if your proposal fits the submission guidelines, please do not hesitate to contact the organizers by mailing to appeal@politicaleconomylaw.org.

In addition to highlighting the work of students and emerging scholars, this workshop will feature a panel discussion on the methods of law and political economy and keynote lectures by Kimberly Kracman and Zephyr Teachout on the role of left movements in bringing about economic democracy in the past and present.

Kimberly Kracman is an Associate Research Scholar in the Department of Sociology at Princeton University. Kim’s research uses the methods of historical sociology and economic history, critical accounting theory, stratification economics and conflict economics to study the origins, mechanisms, and justification of the distribution of wealth in the United States in the context of global systems of capital accumulation.

Zephyr Teachout is Zephyr Teachout is a Professor at Law at Fordham Law School where she focuses on the intersection of corporate power and political power. Her most recent book, Break 'em Up (2020), makes a case for reimagining the relationship between democracy and antimonopoly law.

If you are interested in presenting or attending, please note that, while the workshop and conference are free of charge and will include lunch and refreshments, we are unfortunately unable to provide support for travel or lodging.

Co-organizers and Sponsors:

The Association for the Promotion of Political Economy and the Law (APPEAL), a program of the LPE Collective;

John Jay College Economics Department;

John Jay College Law and Political Economy Society; and

UMass Amherst LPE Group

RESOURCES:

Martha T. McCluskey, "Association for the Promotion of Political Economy and the Law (APPEAL): Transforming Law and Economy," Journal of Law and Political Economy, volume 4, issue 1 (2023)

This article reflects on the Association for the Promotion of Political Economy and Law (APPEAL), formed in 2012 as the first contemporary scholarly group named for the emerging field of Law and Political Economy (LPE).

2023-2024 APPEAL FELLOWS

Meet our first APPEAL Fellows for 2023-2024! Awarded to two emerging scholars, the APPEAL fellows will provide supplemental conference support and mentoring to encourage new leaders in law and political economy.

Zac Hale

Zac is Senior Staff Attorney and Group Representation Specialist at Brooklyn Legal Services Corporation A (BKA), where he organizes with and advocates for groups of tenants fighting for housing justice. He is also a graduate student in economics department at CUNY’s John Jay College, where he supports movement-informed academic work as President of the John Jay Law and Political Economy Society. Zac also advocates for tenant-centered policy reform as Co-Chair of the Brooklyn Tenant Lawyers Network . He collaborated with APPEAL to organize workshops in 2022 and 2023 that highlighted critical scholarship in both law and economics. He is also a nominee for the APPEAL Board.

Reshard Kolabhai

Reshard is currently an LLM student at Yale Law School, and a former full time lecturer in Constitutional Law at North-West University in South Africa. He is researching structural economic inequality under the post-apartheid South African Constitution, focusing especially on socio-economic rights, democracy, and political economy. His experience includes coordinating a grassroots civil society response to Covid-19 in South Africa and extensive involvement in the arts. He is enthusiastic about teaching the change-makers of tomorrow.

APPEAL Emerging Scholar Steering Committee

We are also excited to announce our new committee of new and aspiring scholars! The group will provide opportunities for informal advice for building the law and political economy field, especially offering perspectives of students and recent graduates with interest in integrating heterodox and interdisciplinary approaches to economics with an understanding of law grounded in legal realist and critical theories.

Committee members:

Emily Pisano (John Jay Economics)

Alex Richwine (John Jay Economics)

Lily Ginsburg (Berkeley Law graduate)

Eleanor Morgan (Sarah Lawrence College graduate)

Zac Hale (John Jay Economics)

Oskar Dye-Furstenburg (John Jay Economics)

Lauren Johnson (New School Economics)

Leah Masci (New School Economics)