Midwestern Law & Economics Association Annual Meeting – Day One
Friday, October, 3rd 2008
Wieboldt Hall, 340 E. Superior Street
8:30-10:10 Session A – Courts (WB 348)
Panel Chair: James Lindgren
James Lindgren, Law and Politics
Eugene Kontorovich & Maxwell Stearns, The Median Voter Theorem and Universal Voting Participation by Judges
Nancy Staudt, Does the Court Cycle?
Royce de R. Barondes, Attributes of Judicial Chambers and Reversal Rates
8:30-10:10 Session B – Intellectual Property/Technology (WB 350)
Panel Chair: Peter DiCola
Andrew W. Torrance & William Tomlinson, Patents and Regress in the Useful Arts
John Shahar Dillbary, The Role of Trademarks in Intra-Brand Settings: An Economic Analysis
Matthew Sag, Copyright and Copy-Reliant Technologies
10:30-12:10 Session A – Procedure (WB 348)
Panel Chair: Nancy Staudt
Maxwell Stearns, How Narrow is the Narrowest Grounds Doctrine?
Ann M. Scarlett, To Jury or Not to Jury: A Right to a Jury Trial Should Exist in Shareholder Derivative Litigation
Katherine M. Swift, A Marriage of Convenience: Federal Abstention in Domestic Relations Cases
Paul Stancil, The Practical Economics of Pleading
10:15-12:15 Session B – Corporate Law (WB 350)
Panel Chair: Peter DiCola
Brett McDonnell, Professor Bainbridge and the Arrowian Moment
Matthew T. Bodie & Grant Hayden, Arrow’s Theorem and the Exclusive Shareholder Franchise
Giuseppe Dari-Mattiacci, Barbara Abatino & Enrico Perotti, Depersonalization of Business in Ancient Rome (abstract)
Nadelle Grossman, Clarifying the Long-Term Nature of Directors’ and Stockholders’ Fiduciary Duties in the Non-takeover Context
1:15-3:05 Session A – Torts (WB 348)
Panel Chair: James Lindgren
David Hyman, Bernard Black & Charles Silver, The Effects of Pretrial Process Reform: Evidence From Texas Medical Malpractice Cases
Elizabeth W. Leonard, Where There’s a Wrong, There May Be No Remedy: FDA Preemption of Common Law Claims and Implications for ERISA
Nuno Garoupa, Giuseppe Dari-Mattiacci and Fernando Gomez-Pomar, State Liability
Rick Swedloff, Peter H. Huang, Non-Pecuniary damages, Hedonic Adaptation, and Jury Awards
1:15-3:05 Session B – Environmental Law (WB 350)
Panel Chair: David Dana
Daniel H. Cole, Climate Change and Collection Action
Jonathan Nash, Scott v. Harris: Lessons for, and from, Environmental Law
Shi-Ling Hsu, The Politics and Psychology of Gasoline Taxes: an Empirical Study
Valerie Phillips, Indigenous Economics in the 21st Century
3:15-5:15 Session A – Theory (WB 348)
Panel Chair: James Lindgren
Eric Rasmusen, Internalities and Paternalism: Applying the Compensation Criterion to Multiple Selves Across Time
Ben Depoorter & Jef De Mot, Technology & Torts: A Theory of Memory Costs, Nondurable Precautions and Interference Effects
Andrew F. Daughety & Jennifer F. Reinganum, Privacy, Publicity, and Choice
Peter Z. Grossman & Daniel H. Cole, Institutions Matter! Why the Herder Problem is not A Prisoner’s Dilemma
3:15-5:15 Session B – International Law (WB 350)
Panel Chair: Eugene Kontorovich
David Dana, Valuing Foreign Lives and Settlements in Cost-Benefit Analysis-The Case of Climate Change
Jide Nzelibe, Courting Genocide: The Unintended Effects of Humanitarian Intervention
Francesco Parisi, Emanuela Carbonara & Barbara Luppi, Self Defeating Subsidiarity: An Economic Analysis
Elizabeth F. Brown, The Development of International Legal Norms for in Insurance Regulation: Prospects and Problems
