This course explains the key contradictions of capitalism and how the law interfaces with them. It traces the struggle faced by the labor movement and proposes the contours of a new labor strategy. The course analyzes how globalization created two antagonistic communities, and it deconstructs deglobalization and its challenges. It suggests potential routes for progressive deglobalization to strengthen local economies. Faculty explain the doctrine of odious debt and the way in which it is used as a tool of domination in the Global South. And they look at creative strategies to mitigate and oppose the policies and practices of the public financial and trade system of the Bretton Woods institutions.