Amy Kapczynski

@akapczynski

Professor of Law, Yale Law School. Blogging at , and faculty director at and

Joined November 2009
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    30 Apr 2020

    What is “law and political economy” scholarship, and how might it help us build toward a more genuinely equal and democratic society? Out today in , with @JedediahSPurdy, David Singh Grewal, and . /1

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  2. 3 hours ago

    Drug company monopolies and unfair tactics of competition siphon billions from the Medicare program and harm its beneficiaries. Testifying about this today before Senate Finance Subcommittee. It's past time for Congressional action on high drug prices.

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    5 hours ago

    Very excited that this is out today! The piece summarizes some themes from my second book project on corporate power and civil rights. Thanks also to a generous book research grant from I'll be expanding on the arguments here soon!

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    Feb 1

    🚨🚨New Pod!!🚨🚨Season 4 of Digging a Hole kicks off with a real banger! and talk with and me about their long-awaited, landmark new book, The Anti-Oligarchy Constitution

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    Feb 1

    3 more events in our political economy of care series. Today's panel talks about what we can learn from the Young Lords, Black Panthers & Grey Panthers on organizing for health justice in this new century.

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    Jan 31

    🚨🚨This Friday! Join us for the next session of the Harvard Empirical Legal Studies Series: LP&E and the Question of Method with and

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    Feb 1

    Apparently the LPE movement is building a "special relationship" across the ocean

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    Jan 30

    But go off about y'all 'crime wave' and how we need more police, criminalization, jails and prisons But no one like 'we need more nurses, doctors, clinics, hospitals & Medicare for all'

    More Americans have died of COVID in the past 11 days than have died of murder in any year ever.
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  9. Jan 31

    I was just about to write my essay abt how Wordle shows us what games would be like if they were not being organized for profit. Womp womp…

    the spent “low seven figures” to acquire wordle, meanwhile had to strike to get $300k worth of raises for ~70 people
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    Jan 31

    TOMORROW @ 4PM ET! Don’t miss the next event in our “Reimagining the Political Economy of Care Series” on the historic relationship between health, organizing, and social movements !! …

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    Jan 31

    TOMORROW!! Don’t forget to register! ⚕️✊

    Next Tuesday, 2/1 @ 4PM ET! Our "Reimagining the Political Economy of Care Series" w/ continues! historical perspectives on "Health, Movements, & Power-Building" ft. , Lucie White, & Maya Sandler moderated by
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    Jan 31

    🚨🚨 Funding alert! 🚨🚨 The History & Political Economy Project is excited to offer our first round of graduate/early career summer research grants. Call for applications, due March 4, is here:

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    Jan 31

    "To make a change, you had to challenge what everyone knew, and you had to risk being labeled a troublemaker. You had to stand against the powerful." Gerald Torres remembers Lani Guinier,

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  14. Jan 29

    Wordle 224 2/6 🕺🏻🕶🌨❄️ ⬜🟨⬜⬜⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

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    Jan 27

    I am delighted to announce that we here are hiring a director for our historic health law program! The role will serve as a hub for our vibrant community and may also involve some collaborative teaching and research. Please share and apply!

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    Jan 28

    Up this afternoon (14h CET, online): Roberto Unger on LPE in the project of legal imagination—all welcome!

    Special mention and invitation: Thrilled to welcome Roberto Mangabeira Unger () for a keynote "The Institutional Program of Legal Thought" Tomorrow, Fri 28 Jan, 14h CET/8h ET online - registration still open!
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  17. Jan 26

    Really looking fwd to the next 3 in this series of events on care and political economy. Next one is on Zoom, on Tues Feb, 1. Check out the amazing lineup and description - and register - here!

    Next Tuesday, 2/1 @ 4PM ET! Our "Reimagining the Political Economy of Care Series" w/ continues! historical perspectives on "Health, Movements, & Power-Building" ft. , Lucie White, & Maya Sandler moderated by
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    Jan 25

    Next Tuesday, February 1st, 4PM ET come join us for "Health, Movements, and Power-Building" sponsored by and with speakers from , Lucie White from , Maya Sandler from . Register here! 1/

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    Jan 25

    It was a true pleasure to organize this series on CBA/OIRA w/ . I strongly recommend people sign up for this session to hear about what's up & what's going down!

    If you liked our blog series on Cost-Benefit Analysis, you'll love this talk led by . "CBA at a Crossroads: A Symposium on the Future of Quantitative Policy Evaluation" Friday, Feb. 4 @ 3pm ET Register now! 👇
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  20. Jan 25

    Yet another great invention brought to us by the patent system!

    Whoa. A patent *application* that purports to claim title to 'holding hands' (among other things) while receiving psilocybin. Not a new strategy (patient support programs to extend market share are common) but still breathtaking/maddening to read. h/t +
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    Jan 25

    "Williams, president of the paras’ union, AFSCME Local 3429, pleaded for the board to ​“ensure that all staff are paid when they’re required by the health department to be quarantined due to Covid.”

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