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Who We Are

Yale LPE comprises an interdisciplinary network of scholars who explore connections between politics and the economy, through teaching, scholarship, workshops, and convenings.

Directors and Staff

Amy Kapczynski

Amy Kapczynski
Professor of Law

Amy Kapczynski is Professor of Law at Yale Law School, a co-founder of the LPEblog, and a faculty co-director of the LPE Project and the Yale Global Health Justice Partnership.

 

 

Helyeh Doutaghi
Deputy Director of the Law and Political Economy Project

Helyeh Doutaghi is the Deputy Director of the Law and Political Economy Project and an Associate Research Scholar at Yale Law School.

 
Talia Rothstein

Talia K. Rothstein
Law & Organizing Fellow for the Law and Political Economy Project

Talia K. Rothstein is the Law and Organizing Fellow with the Law and Political Economy Project and a Postdoctoral Associate at Yale Law School.

 
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Corinne Blalock
Executive Director of the Law and Political Economy Project

Corinne Blalock is the Executive Director of the Law and Political Economy Project and an Associate Research Scholar at Yale Law School. 

 
Sarah Harwood

Sarah Harwood
Program Coordinator for the Law and Political Economy Project

Sarah Harwood is the program coordinator for the Global Health Justice Partnership and the Law and Political Economy Project at Yale Law School.

 

Affiliated Faculty

Muneer I. Ahmad
Sol Goldman Clinical Professor of Law (on leave, fall 2023)

Muneer Ahmad is Sol Goldman Clinical Professor of Law at Yale Law School. He co-teaches the Worker and Immigrant Rights Advocacy Clinic (WIRAC). In WIRAC, he and his students represent individuals, groups and organizations in both litigation and non-litigation matters related to immigration, immigrants’ rights, and labor, and intersections among them.
 
James Bhandary-Alexander

James Bhandary-Alexander
Clinical Lecturer in Law

James Bhandary-Alexander is Clinical Lecturer in Law, Associate Research Scholar in Law, and the Legal Director of the Medical Legal Partnership at the Solomon Center for Health Law and Policy at Yale Law School.
 
Anne L. Alstott

Anne Alstott
Jacquin D. Bierman Professor of Law

Anne Alstott is the Jacquin D. Bierman Professor at the Yale Law School. She holds a courtesy appointment as Professor, Yale Child Study Center, and is a Faculty Affiliate at the Yale Institution for Social and Policy Studies.

 
Asli Bali

Aslı Ü. Bâli
Professor of Law

Aslı Ü. Bâli is a Professor of Law at Yale Law School. Bâli’s teaching and research interests include public international law — particularly human rights law and the law of the international security order — and comparative constitutional law, with a focus on the Middle East.
 
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Monica Bell
Professor of Law

Monica Bell is a Professor of Law at Yale Law School and an Associate Professor of Sociology at Yale University. Her areas of expertise include criminal justice, welfare law, housing, race and the law, qualitative research methods, and law and sociology.

 
Douglas Kysar

Doug Kysar
Joseph M. Field ’55 Professor of Law

Douglas Kysar is Joseph M. Field ’55 Professor of Law at Yale Law School and faculty co-director of the Law, Ethics and Animals Program.

 
Zachary Liscow

Zachary Liscow
Associate Professor of Law
(on leave, 2022–2023)

Zachary Liscow is an Associate Professor of Law at Yale Law School. His main research interest is understanding the appropriate policy levers to address income inequality and, in particular, the role that tax policy versus other legal rules should play.

 
Daniel Markovits

Daniel Markovits
Guido Calabresi Professor of Law

Daniel Markovits is Guido Calabresi Professor of Law at Yale Law School. He works in the philosophical foundations of private law, moral and political philosophy, and behavioral economics.

 
Samuel Moyn

Samuel Moyn
Henry R. Luce Professor of Jurisprudence

Samuel Moyn is Henry R. Luce Professor of Jurisprudence at Yale Law School and a Professor of History at Yale University. He has written several books in his fields of European intellectual history and human rights history, including The Last Utopia: Human Rights in History (2010), and edited or coedited a number of others.

 

Marisol Orihuela
Clinical Professor of Law

Marisol Orihuela is a Clinical Professor of Law at Yale Law School. She was most recently a Deputy Federal Public Defender at the Office of the Federal Public Defender in Los Angeles.

 
Vicki Schultz

Vicki Schultz
Ford Foundation Professor of Law and Social Sciences

Vicki Schultz is the Ford Foundation Professor of Law and Social Sciences at Yale Law School. She is an expert in law and social science, the workplace, discrimination, and the family.

 
 
Michael Wishnie

Michael J. Wishnie
William O. Douglas Clinical Professor of Law

Michael J. Wishnie is William O. Douglas Clinical Professor of Law at Yale Law School. Professor Wishnie’s teaching, scholarship, and law practice have focused on immigration, labor and employment, habeas corpus, civil rights, government transparency, and veterans law.