All Readings

Day 1

Corinne Blalock, Law & the Critique of Capitalism, SAQ Intro (2022)
Angela P. Harris, Amy Kapczynski, Noah Zatz, Where is the Political Economy?, LPE Blog (2021)
Amy Kapczynski, David Singh Grewal, & Jedediah Britton-Purdy, How Law Made Neoliberalism, Boston Review (2021)
Matt Dimmick, Is Capitalism a Thing?, LPE Blog (2023)
George Goehl, Fundamentals of Community Organizing (2023)
Make the Road New York Staff Development Manual, Power and Power Analysis

Recommended but not required:

Jane F. McAlevey, “The Power to Win is in the Community, Not the Boardroom,” in No Shortcuts: Organizing for Power in the New Gilded Age (2016)

Deepak Bhargava and Stephanie Luce, “Tool Seven: Power for Underdogs” and “Tool Nine: New Grooves: Application of the Seven Models,” in Practical Radicals: Seven Strategies to Change the World (2023)
Scott L. Cummings, A Pragmatic Approach to Law and Organizing: A Comment on “The Story of South Ardmore,” Marshall Law Review (2009) – excerpt
Karl Klare, Labor Law as Ideology: Toward a New Historiography of Collective
Bargaining Law, Industrial Relations Law Journal (1981) - excerpt
Stuart Hall, Race, Articulation, and Societies Structured in Dominance (1980) – excerpt
Skim: Larry Englestein, SEIU 32BJ’s experience organizing low-wage workers: the role of organizational transformation, commitment and resources.

Recommended but not required:

Michael Grinthal, Power With: Practice Models for Social Justice Lawyering, University of Pennsylvania Journal of Law and Social Change (2011)

Andrew Manuel Crespo, Why Study Criminal Law? (forthcoming) – excerpt
Andrew Manuel Crespo, Defendants, United, Could Strike the State Blindsided, LPE Blog (2023)
Andrew Manuel Crespo, No Justice, No Pleas: Subverting Mass Incarceration Through Defendant Collective Action, Fordham Law Review (2022) – excerpt
WATCH: Andrew Manuel Crespo, Root and Branch: Lawyers, Movements, and the End of Mass Incarceration, Harvard Law School Faculty Chair Lecture (2024), (15:28 through end)
Reformist reforms vs. abolitionist steps in policing, Critical Resistance (2020)
Reformist reforms vs. abolitionist steps to end imprisonment, Critical Resistance (2021)
Joey Mogul, “Tactical Case Study: The Grassroots Struggle for Chicago Police Torture Survivors,” in Lawyering for Liberation: A Movement Lawyering Toolkit (forthcoming)
YOUR CHOICE: Either listen to Mariame Kaba, "Why is this Happening" w/ Chris Hayes... or read Dan Berger, Mariame Kaba and David Stein, What Abolitionists Do, Jacobin (2017)
Skim zine, Racial Capitalism and Prison Abolition (2020)
Skim VOCAL-NY’s website

David Madden and Peter Marcuse, In Defense of Housing: The Politics of Crisis (2016) - read Chapter 1, skim Chapter 2
Sara Rankin, The Unavoidable Consequences of Being Human, LPE Blog (2024)
Marika Dias, Adams’ unfair homelessness and migrants policy, New York Daily News (2024)
Tara Raghuveer and John Washington, The Case for the Tenant Union, Poverty and Race Research Action Council (2023)
Skim MRNY's website

Additional resources (not required reading, but a useful resource):