Jose Atiles

1/2 Sen. Wyden of the US Senate Finance Committee today published new findings indicating that Pantera Capital's Dan Morehead, a crypto billionaire based in #PuertoRico, may have improperly avoided more than $100M in federal taxes through a purported residency scam.

We know we haven’t been very active here, but rest assured we are active in real life!

Save the date for the LPE in Europe Summer Academy 2026: 10-12 June, University of Glasgow.

Call for applications will follow!

The New Face of US Interventionism: Economic Warfare in Brazil - Latino News Network How the U.S. has historically used economic warfare in Latin America and the Caribbean, the current use of tariffs as a tool of political punishment marks a new phase.

Check out my latest op-ed in Latino News Network on how economic warfare is reshaping US interventionism in Latin America and the Caribbean. Written as part of my work as part of The OpEd Project 2025–26 Public Voices Fellow. latinonewsnetwork.com/community/th...

Who owns Puerto Rico’s beaches? Law, extractivism, and the political economy of paradise Puerto Rican beaches are central to sociolegal debates on economic development, tax policies, luxury real estate and climate change. Despite being constitutionally public, access to many of the 122...

A little late to share, but my new article in Third World Quarterly explores Puerto Rico’s offshore finance center and the privatization of beaches. It’s part of my ongoing research on offshore finance and the legal imaginations of paradise.
👉 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

If you haven't checked out the LPE Project syllabus bank you're missing out!!

(also, if you are teaching an LPE or LPE-adjacent course, please send us your syllabus!)

lpeproject.org/syllabi

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Today's the day: submissions are now open for the inaugural Association of Law & Political Economy conference!

📢 Heads up! The Association of Law & Political Economy is accepting submissions for our first-ever conference starting THIS Friday 🎉

The Economics of Sanctions: Why the U.S. Targeted Francesca Albanese On July 9, 2025, UN Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese became the latest target of unilateral U.S. sanctions. These sanctions are an unjustified assault on Albanese, the United Nations…

Today, @msjamshidi.bsky.social argues that the recent US sanctions against Francesca Albanese—a human rights expert whose work threatens several major American corporations—exemplify the economic goals that are part and parcel of U.S. sanctions policy.

Why We Need to Stop Subsidizing Venture Capitalists From lending to stock trading to crypto, leading fintech companies have gained an edge not through actual technological innovation, but by using tech-driven narratives to obscure how they profit from…

Today, @profhilaryallen.bsky.social explains how Silicon Valley Venture Capitalists turned “innovation” into a smokescreen for regulatory arbitrage—and how we underwrite this behavior by showering VCs with public subsidies.

*extremely* excited about this new development!

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CfP for the Inaugural Association for Law and Political Economy (ALPE) Conference is out!!!

LPE is moving the central locus of coordination away from a foundation-funded model to a dues-paying membership organization.

lawandpoliticaleconomy.org

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Assistant/Associate/Full Professor - Climate Equity and Environmental Justice - Rausser College of Natural Resources University of California, Berkeley is hiring. Apply now!

UC-Berkeley has an open-rank faculty position in our incredible Climate Equity and Environmental Justice (CEEJ) research cluster. It is an extraordinary interdisciplinary group working across multiple colleges and departments at the university! More information here: aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF04842

Comrades! Friends! Nemeses! The CfP for the annual meeting of Australian Progressive Legal Studies is open until next Friday, 11th of July. Send us your abstracts on all things law, political economy and modern authoritarianism.

The one and only Melinda Cooper (!!!) will deliver the keynote.

Working in the area of critical sociology? Consider submitting to our workshop!

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We are excited to announce that ebooks can now be purchased directly from sup.org! As a special introductory offer, we’re happy to give a 50% discount on all direct ebook purchases made during the month of July

More information about our ebooks can be found here:
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We are excited to announce that ebooks can now be purchased directly from sup.org! As a special introductory offer, we’re happy to give a 50% discount on all direct ebook purchases made during the month of July

More information about our ebooks can be found here:
www.sup.org/ebooks

The G7 is exempting American multinationals from the global minimum tax. It’s pathetic and scandalous.

If you are attending the Council for European Studies conference @ces-europe.bsky.social, and would like to chat about potential submissions to “Regional & Federal Studies” @regfedst.bsky.social, feel free to DM me.

Sanctions Against Israeli Officials: Smart or Spectacular? — Robert Knox and Eva Nanopoulos Robert Knox and Eva Nanopoulos on the ‘spectacular pseudo-sanctions’ against Israel that were recently announced by the UK government, and their role in normalising the settler-colonial…

@pashukanist.bsky.social @nanoboss.bsky.social on the 'smart' sanctions against Israeli officials:
legalform.blog/2025/06/17/s...

LPE friends - CONFERENCE UPDATE!! ⏰☎️ Planning is still underway for the first annual LPE conference, launching a new LPE Association, but we're pushing the dates to FEBRUARY 5-7, 2026. We'll be putting out a CFP by August with information about how and what to submit. Until then, save the new date!

Federal court blocks Trump from imposing sweeping tariffs under emergency powers law A federal court is blocking President Donald Trump from imposing sweeping tariffs on imports under an emergency-powers law.

Last night, a three-judge panel of the federal Court of International Trade unanimously held that Trump’s use of emergency powers to bypass Congress and impose worldwide tariffs is illegal. It’s a tightly reasoned decision that reaches the right outcome. 1/18 apnews.com/article/trum...

This is a terrific piece which does a great job at both critiquing the criminalisation of ecocide and offering crucial insight on the law-as-a-quick-fix and the implications thereof

ABSTRACT This article interrogates the impact that the codification of the International Crime of Ecocide may have in addressing and curtailing the environmental harms produced by the chemical industry in Latin America and the Global South. We contend that the International Crime of Ecocide should challenge the historical narratives that have informed international law and its relationship with colonialism. The role that Monsanto/Bayer plays in ecocidal practices such as the development, testing, and use of Agent Orange as war technology is examined, and we demonstrate its connection with current uses of Glyphosate in the war on drugs. At the center of this reflection are the connections between the chemical corporation, state crime, war, and ecocide. This allows us to offer a broader picture of the sociolegal and criminogenic practices that have historically contributed to ecocide and the normalization of corporate impunity in the Global South, specifically after World War II.

New article!

Ecocidal impunity? Wars and the profitability of the chemical corporation in the global south, by Jose Atiles & Gustavo Rojas-Páez. / @joseatiles.bsky.social

doi.org/10.1080/0964...

Terrific to see my book available online — and soon in print! Many thanks to series editors Nadia Lambek, @riclements.bsky.social, @leslava.bsky.social, and Markus Gunneflo! And congrats on the new series!

Toward an Abolitionist Human Rights Court Cambridge Core - Public International Law - Toward an Abolitionist Human Rights Court

The Element is *FREE* to access online for the next 2 weeks and pre-order print copies can be purchased in advance of print publication in June at a VERY reasonable price: www.cambridge.org/core/element...

Found my book out in the wild at #LSA2025! Come by the @supmktg.bsky.social booth and check out Crisis by Design: Emergency Powers and Colonial Legality in Puerto Rico. More than thankful to Marcela Maxfield for making this possible!

Call for Papers: The socio-economics of loss and decline in the climate crisis Special issue for Socio-Economic Review Guest Editors: Valentina Ausserladscheider, University of Vienna, (valentina.ausserladscheider@univie.ac.at), Timur Er

The climate crisis leads to unprecedented losses and damages.

Help us understand how they affect contemporary societies & political economies. Join @vapunkt.bsky.social, @trgn.bsky.social & me at:

- SASE Mini Conference
- Paper Workshop @mpifg.bsky.social
- Special issue at Socio-Economic Review

Australian Progressive Legal Studies is back with a call for papers on the law and political economy of contemporary authoritarianism. If you want to help us understand WTF is going on, send us your abstract by the 11th of July.

We are-ahem-low budget, so we can only help with domestic travel.