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Workshops Archives
Winter 2008 Schedule
| January 10, 2008 |
First day of Workshop - No speaker
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| 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 Davis Evans
Are Investors' Gains and Losses from Securities Fraud Equal Over Time? Some Preliminary Evidence |
| February 28, 2008 |
Spring Break - No class
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| 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
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| January 18, 2007 |
Alicia Davis Evans, 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
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| 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
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| 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
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| 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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Fall 2005 Schedule - Law and Economics Workshop
| September 8, 2005 |
First day of Workshop - No speaker
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| September 15, 2005 |
Curtis Milhaupt, Columbia
In the Shadow of Delaware? The Rise in Hostile Takeovers in Japan |
| September 22, 2005 |
Sam Vermont, Michigan (Humphrey Fellow)
The Source of Blackstone's Intuition: Why We Think it Better to Free the Guilty than to Convict the Innocent |
| September 29, 2005 |
Steve Shavell, Harvard
Specific Performance versus Damages for Breach of Contract: An Economic Analysis |
| October 6, 2005 |
Radhakrishnan Gopalan, Michigan Business School
Large Shareholder Trading and Takeovers: The Disciplinary Role of Voting With Your Feet |
| October 13, 2005 |
Donald Langevoort, Georgetown
Opening the Black Box of "Corporate Culture" in Law and Economics |
| October 20, 2005 |
Adam Pritchard, Michigan
The Screening Effect of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act |
| October 27, 2005 |
Sean Griffith, Connecticut
Uncovering a Gatekeeper: Why the SEC Should Mandate Disclosure of Details Concerning Directors' & Officers' Liability Insurance Policies |
| November 3, 2005 |
Jesse Fried, UC-Berkeley
The Vulnerability of Common Shareholders in VC-Backed Firms |
| November 10, 2005 |
Lucian Bebchuk, Harvard (Olin Lecturer)
The Political Economy of Investor Protection |
| November 17, 2005 |
James Hines, Jr., Michigan Business School
Value-Added Taxes and International Trades: The Evidence |
| December 1, 2005 |
Adair Morse, Michigan Business School
Who Blows the Whistle on Corporate Fraud? |
| December 8,2005 |
Mitch Polinsky, Stanford
The Optimal Use of Fines and Imprisonment when Wealth is Unobservable |
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Winter 2005 Schedule - Cyberlaw and Economics Workshop
| January 20, 2005 |
John Rothchild, Wayne State
Economic Analysis of Technological Protection Measure |
| January 27, 2005 |
Peter Swire, Ohio State
A Model for When Disclosure Helps Security: What is Different About Computer and Network Security? |
| February 3, 2005 |
Guhan Subramanian, Harvard
Post-Siliconix Freeze-Outs: Theory & Evidence |
| February 10, 2005 |
Margaret Jane Radin, Stanford & Michigan
Regulation by Contract, Regulation by Machine
and
Regime Change in Intellectual Property: Superseding the Law of the State with the "Law" of the Firm |
| February 17, 2005 |
John de Figueiredo, MIT & Princeton
Paying for Politics |
| February 24, 2005 |
Lewis Kornhauser, New York
Decision Rules in a Judicial Hierarchy |
| March 3, 2005 |
Spring Break - No class
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| March 10, 2005 |
Mitu Gulati, Georgetown
What Drives Changes in Boilerplate Contracts |
| March 17, 2005 |
Daryl Levinson, New York
Empire-Building Government in Constitutional Law |
| March 24, 2005 |
Henry Hansmann, Yale
Legal Entities, Asset Partitioning, and the Evolution of Organizations |
| March 31, 2005 |
Oren Gazal, Humphrey Fellow, Michigan
Screening, Plea Bargains and the Innocent Problem
and
Plea Bargains Only for the Guilty |
| April 7, 2005 |
Oren Bar-Gill, Society of Fellows, Harvard
Pricing Legal Options: A Behavioral Perspective |
| April 14, 2005 |
Keith Hylton, Boston
Church and State: An Economic Analysis |
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