2007 Annual Meeting of Midwestern Law and Economics Association: Day Two

2007 Annual Meeting of Midwestern Law and Economics Association at the University of Minnesota Law School, Minneapolis, Minnesota

9:05 – 10:20 a.m.  Torts

Nuno Garoupa & Tom Ulen, The Economics of Activity Levels in Tort Liability and Regulation
Nicholas Georgakopoulos, Tort in Agency:  Transaction Costs
David Hyman, The Effect of Caps on Non-Economic Damages:  Evidence from Texas Medical Malpractice Cases

10:30 – 11:45 a.m.  Environmental Law and Property

Daniel Cole, The Stern Review and Its Critics
Lee Ann Fennell, Homeownership 2.0

1:00 – 2:15 p.m.  Arbitration, Litigation, and Judging

Christopher Drahozal & Quentin Wittrock, Is There a Flight from Arbitration?
Stephen Ware, Merit Selection and Judicial Nominating Commissions
Rafael Pardo, Anatomy of an Adversary Proceeding

2:30 – 3:45 p.m.  Corporate and Securities Law

Frederick Tung, The New Death of (Corporate) Contract:  Creeping Fiduciary Duty for Creditors
Alexander Robbins, The Rule 10b-5(1) Loophole:  An Empirical Study
Antony Page, Revising the Short-Swing Trading Rules for the 21st Century

4:00 – 5:15 p.m.  Corporate Law and Contracts

Peter Oh, Piercing Versus Lifting
Matthew Bodie, Workers, Information, and Corporate Combinations
Fan Zhang, Dynamic Contract Breach