2027 Annual ALPE Meeting

June 9-10, 2027, Boston, MA

We are thrilled to announce the Call for Proposals for the Association of Law and Political Economy’s 2027 annual meeting. We will meet in Boston, MA on June 9-10, 2027 and invite proposals for panels, roundtables, and individual papers. 

Over the past year, this community has helped build ALPE into a space for scholars, organizers, and practitioners who care deeply about how law structures our political and economic world—and want to construct better alternatives. We are excited to continue the work with you in Boston. The deadline for submission is December 9, 2026. Please take a look at the complete instructions, including access to the online portal, below. If you are not already an ALPE member, we encourage you to  join by clicking here. We look forward to your CFP submissions!

Call for Proposals

ALPE invites proposals for our second annual meeting, to be held on June 9-10, 2027, in Boston, MA. Panels, roundtables, and individual paper proposals are welcome. We encourage submissions by academics, organizers, practitioners, policy professionals, and others engaged in research that examines the relationship between law and political economy. 

The conference seeks to advance scholarship and movement analysis that addresses the manner in which law both shapes and reflects hierarchies that order our social world. LPE work embraces the contested boundaries of analytic categories like “law” and “the economy” and frequently centers questions of empire, citizenship, class, racialization, sex/gender, sexuality, the carceral state, and disability. You are welcome to take a look at last year’s conference program to see how these themes have been explored previously.

To become a member of ALPE, please click here. Conference proposals may be submitted through the online portal. The deadline for submissions is December 9, 2026. ALPE will announce decisions by March 5, 2027.

We strongly encourage panel or roundtable proposals, although individual paper submissions will also be considered. To ensure broad participation, ALPE has a strict one-presentation policy: Each attendee can appear only once as a panelist or on a roundtable. However, chairing a panel or roundtable does not count as “presentation.”

Panel Proposals. Panel proposals should include four paper presenters and one chair. Panels with fewer than four presenters may be supplemented by the Conference Committee with additional panelists selected from the pool of accepted individual paper submissions. Papers should be works in progress. Drafts of all papers will be due two weeks before the conference and shared securely with conference participants.

Panel proposals must include: 

(1) a title and 150-word description of the panel

(2) the name of the chair, who will be responsible for facilitating the panel

(3) the names of all paper presenters, who must agree in advance to join the panel

(4) a subject area selected within the portal

(5) a single file upload including the title and 150-word description of the panel; author name and short bio for each paper; 250-word abstract of each paper

Roundtable Proposals. Roundtable proposals should include four or five participants and one chair. Roundtables will feature discussions inviting audience participation to address an LPE-related research, pedagogy, or organizing question, or to share skills helpful for LPE scholars and advocates. 

Roundtable proposals must include: 

(1) a title and 250-word description of the roundtable discussion 

(2) the name of the chair, who will be responsible for facilitating the roundtable and discussion 

(3) the names of 4-5 roundtable participants, who must agree in advance to join the roundtable

(4) a subject area selected within the portal

Individual Paper Proposals. Individual paper proposals may be submitted and, if accepted, will be grouped into panels. Papers should be works in progress. Drafts of papers will be due two weeks before the conference and shared securely with conference participants.

Individual paper proposals must include: 

(1) the name of the author and the title of the paper

(2) a subject area selected within the portal

(3) a single file upload including the author’s name, the title of the paper, and a 250-word abstract of the paper

Eligibility and Funding. We welcome proposals from practitioners, policy professionals, 

faculty, postdocs and fellows, JD and PhD students, and independent scholars. The conference registration fee covers conference costs and facilitates participation by scholars in need of funding assistance. You may request financial support in the portal. If your proposal is accepted, we will contact you regarding support options. Reduced registration fees will be available for students, postdocs, and fellows. Participants should plan to attend the conference in person on Wednesday, June 9 and Thursday, June 10, 2027.