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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