May 14, 2008 Colloquia/Workshops
Katharina Pistor (Columbia Law), Reassessing Linkages between Sovereign Wealth Funds and Western Banks
Rufus Pollock (Cambridge), Forever Minus a Day? Some Theory and Empirics of Optimal Copyright
Law and Economics - Chicago
The Midwest Law and Economics Association will hold its annual meeting Oct. 3-4, 2008, at Northwestern University School of Law. This year’s Meeting is sponsored by the Searle Center on Law, Regulation, and Economic Growth at Northwestern University School of Law.
To submit a presentation, please send an abstract or paper to searlecenter[at]law.northwestern.edu. At previous MLEA meetings, scholars have presented papers on a diverse assortment of legal topics such as securities regulation, tort law, family law, environmental law, and constitutional law. The deadline for submission will be July 15th, 2008. Jump to full post
May 13, 2008 Colloquia/Workshops
Loyola
Pittsburgh
Event regarding the arrest of Dr. Binayak Sen. For information go to http://www.cnbc.com/id/24243747
UCLA Law, Economics, & Organizations
Andrew Metrick (UPenn Business), The Economics of Private Equity Funds
May 8, 2008 Colloquia/Workshops
Chicago Family, Sex, and Gender
Rachel Jean-Baptiste (Chicago History), Settling Out of Court, Marriage, and Divorce in Post-colonial Gabon
Yifat Holzman-Gazit (Stanford Law), The Effect of Form and Content on Public Approval Investigatory Commissions: Findings from Israel
Peter Nicolas (Washington Law), Taking State Law Seriously: A Re-Assessment of Our Obsession with All Things Federal
Todd Henderson (Chicago Law), Rule 10b5-2 Trading Plan Disclosure Choice
Canadian Law and Economics Ass’n Conference - Toronto
The Canadian Law and Economics Association will meet Sept. 26-27, 2008, at the Faculty of Law, University of Toronto. The call for papers asks for submissions “in all areas of Law and Economics. In addition, there will be a number of panels focusing on specific topics,” including Bankruptcy, Behavioural Law and Economics, Competition Policy, Corporate Finance, Corporate Governance, Corporate Law, Crime, Environmental Law and Economics, Family Law and Economics, Intellectual Property, Normative Law and Economics, Norms, Regulation of the Legal Profession, Securities Law, and Taxation. The deadline for submissions is May 28, 2008.
May 5, 2008 Colloquia/Workshops
Kris. F. Heinzelman (Cravath, Swaine & Moore), Private Equity Firms that Don’t Want to do Deals: How Defaulting on your Mortgage Turned the Private Equity Industry Upside Down
Antitrust Economics and Policy - Chicago
Northwestern Law’s Searle Center on Law, Regulation, and Economic Growth presents a Research Symposium on Antitrust Economics and Policy, Sept. 26-27, 2008.
Bad Public Goods - Chicago
Northwestern Law’s Searle Center on Law, Regulation, and Economic Growth presents a Research Symposium on Bad Public Goods, Sept. 15-16, 2008.
Economics and the Law of the Entrepreneur - Chicago
Northwestern Law’s Searle Center on Law, Regulation, and Economic Growth presents Economics and Law of the Entrepreneur June 18-19, 2008. The conference is organized in cooperation with the Journal of Economics & Management Strategy (JEMS). JEMS will publish a special issue on the economics of the entrepreneur. “The goal of this Research Symposium is to provide a forum where economists and legal scholars can gather together with Northwestern’s own distinguished faculty to present and discuss high quality research relevant to the economics and law of the entrepreneur.”
Law and Economics - Haifa, Israel
The European Association of Law and Economics holds its 25th Annual Conference Sept. 24-26, 2008, in Haifa, Israel.
Law and Economics - New York City
The 18th Annual Meeting of the American Law and Economics Association will be held on Friday and Saturday, May 16-17, 2008, at Columbia Law School.
May 1, 2008 Colloquia/Workshops
Linda McClain (Boston University), Why is Equality So Hard?: Men, Women, and Social Cooperation
Chicago Family, Sex, and Gender
Viviana Zelizer (Princeton Sociology), Intimacy in Economic Organization
David Rosenberg (Harvard Law), A New Sampling Method to Reduce the Cost of Resolving Differing Claims Against a Defendant
Minnesota Faculty Works
Barry Friedman (NYU Law), Judicial Activism and Popular Opinion
April 29, 2008 Colloquia/Workshops
Chris Conley (Harvard Law Grad, 2007), Transparency and Digital Surveillance
Notre Dame
Linda McClain (Boston University Law), Marriage Pluralism in the United States: Multiple Jurisdictions and the Demands of Equal Citizenship
Ian Ferrell (Texas Law), Gilbert & Sullivan and Scalia: The Philosophical Basis of the Eigth Amendment’s Proportionality Principle
Henrik Lando (Copenhagen Business), Optimal Standards of Negligence when One Party is Uninformed
Washington
David Binder (UCLA Law) & Albert Moore (UCLA Law), Demystifying the First-Year Classroom
Raghuram G. Rajan (Chicago Business), Landed Interests and Financial Underdevelopment in the United States
April 28, 2008 Colloquia/Workshops
Bar Ilan
Sagit Leviner (Bar Ilan Law), A New Era of Tax Enforcement - From “Big Stick” to Responsive Regulation
Margaret Gilbert (Connecticut Philosophy), Scanlon on Promissory Obligation & A Theory of Political Obligation Chapter 2 & 7
Frank Michelman (Harvard Law), Socioeconomic Rights in Constitutional Law: Explaining America Away
Richard Abel (UCLA Law), The Defense of Legality in post-9/11 America
Hon. Guido Calabresi (U.S. Court of Appeals), Toward a Unified Theory of Torts
USC Law, Economics, & Organization
Kevin Quinn (Harvard Government), Viewpoint Diversity and Media Consolidation: An Empirical Study of National Newspapers
April 25, 2008 Colloquia/Workshops
Jessie Hill (Case Western Law), Of Christmas Trees and Corpus Christi: The Establishment Clause and Change in Meaning Over Time
Haider Hamoudi (Pittsburgh Law), Realism in Islamic Jurisprudence
Ed Morrison (Columbia Law), Creditor Control and Conflict in Chapter 11
April 24, 2008 Colloquia/Workshops
Jim Fleming (Boston University Law), Traditionalism and Backlash in Constitutional Argument
Chicago Family, Sex, and Gender
Laura Rosenbury (Washington University in St. Louis Law), Beyond Intimacy
Claire Priest (Columbia Law), Understanding the End of Entail: Information, Institutions, and Slavery in the American Revolutionary Period
Madhavi Sunder (UC Davis), The New Enlightenment: How Muslim Women are Bringing Religion Out of the Dark Ages
Sharon Dolovich (UCLA Law), Defining Eighth Amendment Deliberate Indifference
Minnesota Faculty Works
Heidi Kitrosser (Minnesota Law), The Reality Based Constitution
NYU Tax Policy & Public Finance
Jason Furman (The Brookings Institution), Reforming the Tax Treatment of Health Care: Right Ways and Wrong Ways
Rose Villazor (SMU Law), Birthright Citizenship in the U.S. Territories
Rachel Brewster (Harvard Law), Renegotiation and Reinterpretation of Treaties
Ruti Teitel (New York Law School), Humanity’s Law
Sendhil Mullainathan (Harvard Economics), Taking the Long Way Around: Real Consequences of Transport Corruption
April 21, 2008 Colloquia/Workshops
Christopher Morris (Maryland Law), Natural Rights and Political Legitimacy & P 1-2 Declaration of Independence & Anarchy, State, and Utopia & State Legitimacy and Social Order
Eric Zolt (UCLA Law), Inequality, Collective Action, and Taxing and Spending Patterns of State and Local Governments
Alan O. Sykes (Stanford Law), Transnational Forum Shopping as a Trade and Investment Issue
Greg Mandel (Temple Law), Left Brain vs. Right Brain: Conflicting Conceptions of Creativity in Intellectual Property Law
Jean Comaroff (Chicago Anthropology), Nations with/out Borders: Neoliberalism and the Problem of Belong in Africa, and Beyond
Lauren Edelman (UC Berkeley Law) & Linda Krieger (UC Berkeley Law) & Scott Eliason (Minnesota Sociology) & Catherine Albiston (UC Berkeley Law) & Virginia Mellema (EEOC), When Organizations Rule: Judicial Deference to Institutionalized Employment Structures
UC Hastings
Adam Scales (Washington & Lee Law), Insurance in the Aftermath of Katrina
Joshua Foa Dienstag (UCLA Political Science), The Promise of Pessimism
Christine Jolls (Yale Law), Mandated Medical Leave in the Workplace
Reinier Kraakman (Harvard Law), Exit, Voice, and Liability: Legal Dimensions of Organizational Structure
April 17, 2008 Colloquia/Workshops
Paul Caron (Cincinnati Law), The Story of Murphy: A New Front in the War Against the Income Tax
Note: Professor Caron will be blogging on this paper today here.
Scott Moss (Colorado Law), O Brave New World That Has Such Creatures Evidence: An Economic Analysis Of Courts’ Misguided Rules On Discovery Of Digital Evidence
Chicago Family, Sex, and Gender
Richard Briffault (Columbia Law), A Special Case?: Corporations and Campaign Finance
Fernanda Nicola (American University Law), Invisible Cities: Markets, Distribution and Development in European Union Law
Allan Hutchinson (Osgoode Law), The Province of Jurisprudence Revisited
Loyola
Minnesota Faculty Works
Ed McCaffery (USC Law), Towards a Unified Theory of Tax and Property
NYU Tax Policy & Public Finance
David Gamage (UC Berkeley Law), Optimal Tax Theory Meets Tax Avoidanc: A Tentative Defense of “Double Taxation”
Diane Ring (Boston College Law), Sovereignty and International Tax
Mariano-Florentino Cuellar (Stanford Law), “Securing” the Bureaucracy: The Federal Security Agency and the Political Design of Legal Mandates, 1939-1953
Sai Prakash (San Diego Law), The Seperation and Overlap of War and Military Powers
Joshua Cohen (Stanford Political Science), Politics, Power, and Public Reason
Washington
Amy Wildermuth (Utah Law), The Failed Mead Experiment - A Critical Review of the Skidmore Revival
Randy Barnett (Georgetown Law), The Misconceived Assumption About Constitutional Assumptions
April 16, 2008 Colloquia/Workshops
Kathryn Sikkink (Minnesota Law), Do Human Rights Trials Make a Difference?
Felice Batlan (Chicago-Kent Law), The Imperial SEC? Historicizing the Internationalization of the Securities Markets
CUNY
Dinesh Khosla (CUNY Law), A Case Study in Social Entrepreneurship
Michael Hoeflich (Kansas Law), Selling the Law in Antebellum America: The Sale & Distribution of Law Books, 1780-1870
St. Thomas (Mn)
Matt Bodie (St. Louis Law), The False Promise of One Share, One Vote
UC Hastings
April 14, 2008 Colloquia/Workshops
Adrienne Davis (Virginia Law), Slavery & Shadow Families: Re-Thinking Miscegenation Regulation Through the Lens of Case
Cynthia Nicoletti (Harvard Law, Berger Fellow), The American Civil War as a Trial by Battle
Gopal Sreenivasan (Duke Philosophy), A Hybrid Theory of Claim-Rights
Vicki Jackson (Georgetown Law), Constitutional Cosmology: Convergence, Resistance, and Engagement
Oliver Hart (Harvard Economics), Hold-up, Asset Ownership, and Reference Points
Jack Goldsmith (Harvard Law), Constitutional Law, International Law, Public Law
Jean Braucher (Arizona Law), The Supreme Court’s 5-4 Rejection of Textualist Interpretation of the Bankruptcy Code in Marrana v. Citizens Bank of Massachusetts
James Fishkin (Stanford Communication), An Online Experiment in Democracy: Deliberative Polling for Democratic Reform
Alison Morantz (Stanford Law), Rethinking the Great Compromise: What Happens When Large Companies Opt Out of Workers Compensation?
USC Law, Economics & Organization
Devah Pager (Princeton Sociology), Race at Work: A Field Experiment of Discrimination in Low-Wage Labor Markets
Vanderbilt Faculty Presentations
Gary J. Wolfe (Seward & Kissel), Golden Ocean–Taking Supertankers from Junk Bonds to Restructuring Bankruptcy to (Someone Else’s) Profit, and Fighting Every Step of the Way
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