In the spring of 2022, Professor and Community and Economic Development Clinic (CEDC) Co-Director John Whitlow will join Yale Law School’s Law and Political Economy (LPE) Project as its first-ever Visiting Faculty Fellow.
The LPE Project brings together scholars, practitioners, and students who are developing interventions to advance the study of political economy and law. The work of LPE is grounded in an analysis of the law’s role in facilitating various inequalities and the tension that creates where law purports to be neutral and apolitical.
Corinne Blalock, Executive Director of the LPE Project, is excited to work more closely with Professor Whitlow this coming spring.
“The LPE Project has been privileged in the past to include Professor Whitlow in conference events, blog series, and mentorship programming. He’ll be helping with the general work of the Project while further developing LPE scholarship and activism on issues of housing justice, gentrification, tenant resistance, and displacement.”
In addition to the aforementioned areas of focus, Professor Whitlow will continue working on a law reform project aimed at expanding tenants’ organizing capacities.
Professor Whitlow notes he was drawn to the work of the LPE Project because of its critical, multi-disciplinary approach to law, as well as how it relates to so much of the work of CUNY Law.
“Many of our students go out and do legal work to combat the worst outgrowths of racial capitalism: evictions, deportations, incarceration, family separation — so it only makes sense to think critically and rigorously about the role of law in constituting and reproducing how power operates in society, and to imagine how law can be used to help construct a better world.”
Please join us in congratulating Professor Whitlow on this incredible accomplishment here, follow his work on Twitter, and read more about his work with LPE here, where he tackles topics from the eviction moratorium to slumlord capitalism with both criticism and hope towards using law as a tool of social change.