Harvard University
For Support Of The Program On Law And Political Economy At Harvard Law School
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Amount$1,502,497
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Program
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Date Awarded7/19/2021
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Term36.0 Months
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Type of SupportProject
Overview
The program is designed to complement national efforts to develop a discipline of law and political economy by creating a community of legal scholars and students at Harvard who seek to make political economy an integral part of legal theory and education, and on training students and entry-level academics to think about how law shapes the distribution of power as it structures social relations in economy and society. The program will also develop a framework for cross-disciplinary interactions with other scholars seeking to center political economy in the social sciences and history, and to serve as a roundtable for concrete programmatic efforts at the law school aimed at transformation of areas critical to American law and political economy, such as labor law, racial capitalism, monetary policy, mass incarceration, or voting rights.SPECIAL PROJECTSReported Grants
About the Grantee
Grantee Website
www.harvard.edu
Address
Office for Sponsored Programs
1033 Massachusetts Avenue, 5th Floor, Cambridge, MA, 02138, United States
Grants to this Grantee
for support of and learning from a community of practice focused on system transformation
The Deeper Learning Dozen is a project of the Harvard Graduate School of Education. The project supports a community of practice with 12 superintendents and their team members, all of whom are committed to making the changes necessary so that all young people and adults equitably experience deeper learning. The work will result in an understanding of how to create changes in systems, policies, practices, roles, beliefs, and assumptions. This grant will expand how the project shares its learnings, including through a book that reflects on past school reform approaches in contrast with some of the project’s work. (Substrategy: District Deep Dives and Networks)
for The Lab for Democracy Renovation
The Lab for Democracy Renovation sits within Harvard Kennedy School’s Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation. Members of the lab research and develop governance innovations needed to achieve healthy democracy in the 21st century — for massively scaled up, complex, digitally powered societies with significant social heterogeneity. The lab also investigates strategies for bringing those governance innovations into existence. This grant supports the general operations of the lab and its four focus work areas: governance of emerging technology, political economy for power-sharing liberalism, aspirational federalism, and the reimagining of American democracy.
for Harvard Kennedy School Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation’s Freedom Project
The HKS Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation brings remarkable faculty together with global leaders in the democracy field to develop constructive dialogue, exceptional scholarship, and bold ideas. In an era of spiraling inequality and political polarization, the idea of freedom as a core political value has dropped from progressive discourse. The Center’s Freedom Project — in collaboration with the Boston Review — aims to recover the word from its distortions, and to reframe it as a cornerstone of post-neoliberal democracy. Convening philosophers and academics, together with practitioners, it will revisit foundational concepts toward changing the public conversation of what a just society looks like, and what it can accomplish.
