Democrat FTC Chairwoman Lina Khan has ties to a Marxist group, the Law and Political Economy (LPE) Project, which supported the pro-Palestinian protesters concerned within the encampment at Columbia University.
Khan, who’s at the moment serving because the chairwoman for the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), can be an affiliate professor of legislation at Columbia University who’s at the moment on depart whereas serving in her current place and has been reported to have helped Amy Kapczynski, a college co-director with the LPE Project and a professor at Yale University, “design” her first LPE seminar.
In the Yale Law Report journal from the summer time of 2023, Kapczynski spoke in regards to the targets of the LPE motion:
Our targets are to develop new mental theories and approaches to perceive our authorized order and likewise to develop proposals that substantively can work in favor of extra equality and democracy. There is a brand new peerreivewed Journal of Law and Political Economy, and LPE work is commonly being revealed in distinguished legislation journals. We additionally now have main conferences and symposia devoted to LPE concepts and LPE students within the administration in Washington – together with Lina Khan ’17, who leads the Federal Trade Commission and who was a part of the coed group at Yale that helped me design my first LPE seminar. The curiosity on this work has been fairly exceptional. It is fairly frequent now to hear that LPE is the subsequent new college of authorized thought.
Kapczynski has said that she has “spent formative years studying political theory” together with different “forms of critical thought” comparable to from the “Frankfurt School, queer theory, post-colonial theory, psychoanalytic theory, and Marxist feminist thought,” in accordance to the LPE Project website.
The Frankfurt School of Critical Theory is described as being an “assemblage of social scientists and researchers” who have been fascinated by “the application” of Marxism, philosophy, and society.
An preliminary anti-Israel encampment was established at Columbia University on April 17, leading to a number of college students being suspended the subsequent day and a whole lot of protesters being arrested. While the college eliminated the encampment, one other one was established as a substitute and remained till the New York Police Department (NYPD) carried out a raid on Tuesday after protesters seized management of Hamilton Hall, an educational constructing on campus.
Since then, anti-Israel protests and encampments have been popping up on school and college campuses in support of the unique one began at Columbia University.
Kapczynski shared a post from the LPE Project during which present and former legislation college college students from the Yale University Law School, the New York University (NYU) School of Law concerned with LPE scholar teams, and scholar organizations such because the City University of New York (CUNY) Law Students Against Genocide and the Columbia Law Students for Palestine (CLSP) shared their ideas on the anti-Israel protests and encampments.
“Everyone is talking about the student protests. But *stunning* how little we’ve heard from student organizers themselves,” Kapczynski wrote in a post on X, during which she shared a hyperlink to the LPE Project. “We asked some to explain their aims and concerns. If you read one thing about the protests today, read this.”
Everyone is speaking in regards to the scholar protests. But *gorgeous* how little we have heard from scholar organizers themselves. We requested some to clarify their goals and issues. If you learn one factor in regards to the protests at the moment, learn this: https://t.co/onwo5G30Fa pic.twitter.com/6hgvSRItYE
— Amy Kapczynski (@akapczynski) May 2, 2024
Corrine Blalock, who at the moment serves because the Executive Director of the LPE Project, additionally shared a hyperlink to the put up on the group’s web site in a post on X, during which she famous that she “could not be happier” to have a bunch of scholars “involved with the encampments” at serveral universities.
“Genuinely could not be happier to have a group of incredible law students involved with the encampments at Columbia University, CUNY, Yale, and NYU talking about their experiences, their demands, and the LPE of it all on the blog today!” Blalock wrote:
Genuinely couldn’t be happier to have a bunch of unimaginable legislation college students concerned with the encampments at Columbia, CUNY, Yale, and NYU speaking abt their experiences, their calls for, and the LPE of all of it on the weblog at the moment! https://t.co/A06BUzrVIZ
— Corinne Blalock 🍉 (@corinneblalock) May 2, 2024
This shouldn’t be the primary time that Khan has been related to the LPE Project. In July 2022, Khan and FTC Commissioner Rebecca Slaughter spoke at an occasion that was hosted by the LPE Project.
During this occasion, the 2 spoke about “anti-racist antitrust” and the way the FTC can “shape markets and economic outcomes.”
Most not too long ago, throughout an event hosted by the LPE Project, Yale Law School LPE Student Group, American Constitution Society, Yale Law Democrats, the Yale Solomon Center for Health Law and Policy, and the Yale Information Society Project in March, Khan stated it was an “honor to communicate and praised Kapczynski:
First of all, let me simply say, it’s such an honor to be right here. I truly took antitrust legislation on this very classroom. I see the portrait of Robert Bork continues to be up there. I additionally took IP legislation with Professor Kapczynski and it’s a selected honor to get to have this dialog along with her since she was such a supply of inspiration and admiration, and naturally such a key chief within the LPE motion. Khan stated.
Breitbart News reached out to Khan for a press release however didn’t obtain a response by the point of publication.
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