Workshop Archives
Winter 2010 Schedule
| January 14, 2010 |
Enrolled Students Only - No Speaker |
| January 21, 2010 |
Enrolled Students Only - No Speaker |
| January 28, 2010 |
Louis Kaplow, Harvard
Toward a Test for Price Fixing: Communication Prohibition Compared |
| February 4, 2010 |
Yair Listokin, Yale
The Meaning of Contractual Silence: A Field Experiment and Bayesian Contractual Interpretation |
| February 11, 2010 |
Enrolled Students Only - No Speaker |
| February 18, 2010 |
Gillian Hadfield, USC
Law for a Flat World: Building Legal Infrastructure for the New Economy |
| February 25, 2010 |
Justin McCrary, Berkeley
The Deterrence Effect of Prison: Dynamic Theory and Evidence and Dynamic Perspectives on Crime |
| March 4, 2010 |
Spring Break - No Class |
| March 11, 2010 |
Enrolled Students Only - No Speaker |
| March 18, 2010 |
Betsey Stevenson, Penn
Inequality and Subjective Well-Being |
| March 25, 2010 |
Ian Ayres, Yale
Evidence from Two Large Field Experiments that Peer Comparison Feedback Can Reduce Residential Energy Usage |
| April 1, 2010 |
Enrolled Students Only - No Speaker |
| April 8, 2010 |
Mitch Polinsky, Stanford
The Uneasy Case for Product Liability |
| April 15, 2010 |
Bob Cooter, Berkeley (visiting Michigan)
Jody Kraus, Virginia (visiting Michigan)
The Measure of Law and Economics |
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Fall 2008 Schedule
| September 4, 2008 |
First day of Workshop - No speaker |
| September 11, 2008 |
Max Schanzenbach, Northwestern
The Impact of Tort Reform on Private Health Insurance Coverage |
| September 18, 2008 |
Matt Stephenson, Harvard
Political Accountability under Alternative Institutional Regimes |
| September 25, 2008 |
John Pfaff, Fordham
The Myths and Realities of Correctional Severity: Evidence from the National Corrections Reporting Program |
| October 2, 2008 |
David Gilo, Tel Aviv
Liability for Insufficient Risks |
| October 9, 2008 |
Lisa Cook, Michigan State
Domestic Terrorism and Economic Activity: Evidence from African American Patents, 1870 to 1940 |
| October 16, 2008 |
Bernard Black, Texas
The Impact of Early Settlement Offers: Evidence from Texas Malpractice Cases |
| October 23, 2008 |
Eric Talley, Berkeley
Public Ownership, Firm Governance, and Litigation Risk |
| October 30, 2008 |
Dan Klerman, USC
Legal Origin and Economic Growth |
| November 6, 2008 |
Justin Wolfers, Penn
Underestimating Female CEOs |
| November 13, 2008 |
Steve Choi, NYU
Motions for Lead Plaintiff in Securities Class Actions |
| November 20, 2008 |
Jennifer Arlen, NYU
The Inefficiency of Contractual Liability for Medical Malpractice |
| December 4, 2008 |
Steve Shavell, Harvard
On the Design of the Appeals Process: The Optimal Use of Discretionary Review vs. Direct Appeal |
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Winter 2008 Schedule
| January 10, 2008 |
First day of Workshop - No speaker |
| January 17, 2008 |
Kathy Zeiler, Georgetown
The Endowment Effect: Implications of Recent Empirical Developments for Legal Theory |
| January 24, 2008 |
Tom Miles, Chicago
Markets for Stolen Property: Pawnshops and Crime |
| January 31, 2008 |
Avi Bell, Fordham
Private Takings |
| February 7, 2008 |
Jon Klick, Florida State
The Effect of Contract Regulation: The Case of Franchising |
| February 14, 2008 |
Albert Choi, Virginia
Integrating an Agreement to Induce Information Disclosure |
| February 21, 2008 |
Alicia J. Davis
Are Investors' Gains and Losses from Securities Fraud Equal Over Time? Some Preliminary Evidence |
| February 28, 2008 |
Spring Break - No class |
| March 6, 2008 |
Robert Daines, Stanford
Rating the Ratings: How Good are the Commercial Governance Ratings? |
| March 13, 2008 |
Mark Ramseyer, Harvard
Talent and Expertise under Universal Health Insurance: The Case of Cosmetic Surgery in Japan |
| March 20, 2008 |
Michael Heise, Cornell
Plaintiphobia in State Courts? An Empirical Study of State Court Trials on Appeal |
| March 27, 2008 |
Rip Verkerke, Virginia
Legal Ignorance and Information-Forcing Rules |
| April 3, 2008 |
Fernando Gomez, Barcelona
Insurance and Tort: Coordination Systems and Imperfect Liability Rules |
| April 10, 2008 |
Guy Rub, Michigan
The Efficiency of Contracts that Reallocate Entitlements in Creative Work: A Skeptical View |
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Winter 2007 Schedule
| January 11, 2007 |
First day of Workshop - No speaker |
| January 18, 2007 |
Alicia J. Davis, Michigan
Do Individual Investors Affect Share Price Accuracy? Some Preliminary Evidence |
| January 25, 2007 |
Anup Malani, Chicago
Valuing Law as Local Amenities |
| February 1, 2007 |
Fred Tung, Emory
Cross-Monitoring and Corporate Governance |
| February 8, 2007 |
Merritt Fox, Columbia
Required Line of Business Reporting and Share Price Accuracy |
| February 15, 2007 |
Saul Levmore, Chicago
A Theory of Deception and then of Common Law Categories |
| February 22, 2007 |
Michelle White, UC San Diego
Personal Bankruptcy Law: Abuse Prevention vs Debtor Protection |
| March 1, 2007 |
Spring Break - No class |
| March 8, 2007 |
Robert Mikos, UC Davis
The Populist Safeguards of Federalism |
| March 15, 2007 |
Russell Korobkin, UCLA
Buying and Selling Human Tissues for Stem Cell Research; & "No Compensation" or "Pro Compensation": Moore v. Regents and Default Rules for Human Tissue Donations |
| March 22, 2007 |
Ronen Avraham, Northwestern
Collective Myopia |
| March 29, 2007 |
Joanna Shepherd, Emory
The Demographics of Tort Reform: Winners and Losers |
| April 5, 2007 |
Anita Anand, Toronto
An Empirical Examination of the Governance Choices of Income Trusts |
| April 12, 2007 |
Dan Rubinfeld, UC Berkeley
Federalism and the Democratic Transition: Lessons from South Africa
(Related article: Federal Institutions and the Democratic Transition: Learning from South Africa) |
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Winter 2006 Schedule - L&E of Intellectual Property Workshop
| January 12, 2006 |
First day of Workshop - No speaker |
| January 19, 2006 |
Bronwyn Hall, UC-Berkeley
Intellectual Property Strategy in the Global Cosmetics Industry |
| January 26, 2006 |
Richard Nelson, Columbia
The Market Economy, and the Scientific Commons |
| February 2, 2006 |
Michael Carroll, Villanova
One For All: The Problem of Uniformity Cost in Intellectual Property Law |
| February 9, 2006 |
Peter DiCola, Michigan
An Economic Model of Sampling, Cover Versions, and Musical Collage |
| February 16, 2006 |
Miriam Bitton, Irell & Manella LLP
A New Outlook on the Economic Dimension of the Database Protection Debate |
| February 23, 2006 |
Michael Abramowicz, George Washington
Patent Auctions |
| March 2, 2006 |
Spring Break - No speaker |
| March 9, 2006 |
Michael Meurer, Boston
Patents and Property |
| March 16, 2006 |
Sam Vermont, Michigan (Humphrey Fellow)
Independent Invention as a Defense to Patent Infringement |
| March 23, 2006 |
Wesley Cohen, Duke
John Walsh, Illinois-Chicago
The View from the Bench: The Patenting and Licensing of Research Tools and Biomedical Innovation |
| March 30, 2006 |
Paul Heald, Georgia
The Problem of Social Cost in a Genetically Modified Age |
| April 6, 2006 |
Scott Baker, North Carolina
Incomplete Contracts in a Complete Contracts World |
| April 13, 2006 |
Daniel Gervais, Ottawa
Intellectual Property and Development: Towards a Strategy |
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