Director, Program on Law and Political Economy

The Program on Law and Political Economy at Harvard Law School is an academic program complementing national efforts to develop a sophisticated and high-impact field of law and political economy. The core function of the program is to foster a vibrant intellectual community in which faculty and students are on the cutting edge of thinking about political economy as an integral part of law. The program provides a variety of settings for scholarship and pedagogy that advances our understanding of how law structures social relations in the market society. These efforts are anchored at Harvard Law School but encompass cross-institutional and cross-disciplinary collaborations with scholars, students, and practitioners throughout the country who are concerned with how racialized and gendered power asymmetries interact with class power and economic inequality. In addition to research and teaching, the program serves as a roundtable for concrete programmatic efforts to transform areas critical to American law and political economy–including but not limited to labor law, innovation policy, monetary design, policing and the carceral state, and the judiciary. For more information, visit https://lpe.law.harvard.edu/ 

As the Director you will:

• Develop the program’s substantive elements–including fellowship programs, reading groups, workshops, colloquia, and research initiatives

• Manage program finances and administration

• Provide mentorship to the program’s postdoctoral and student fellows 

• Co-teach the student fellows seminar with the faculty director

• Maintain relations with the funders; writing grant reports; build development relations and pursue funding opportunities 

• Coordinate with student organizations and research centers with overlapping objectives

• Direct research and writing of reports or white papers the program will develop and publish 

• Develop appropriate online content and encourage links with public policy foundations and media organizations as appropriate