Henry G. Manne Program in Law & Economics 2024

Third Party Litigation Financing Research Roundtable

From Patents to Guns: Examining Third-Party Litigation Funding
Jonas Anderson, Professor of Law, University of Utah S.J. Quinney College of Law

Do TPLF Disclosure Requirements Deter Patent Trolls?
Natalie Berfeld, Assistant Professor, Boston College Carroll School of Management
Luke Martin, Senior Economist, Legal Economics LLC

Targeting Third-Party Litigation Funding Reform
Seth Katsuya Endo, Associate Professor of Law, Seattle University School of Law

Litigation Finance as Intermediation
Adrian Ivashkiv, Judicial Law Clerk, Third Circuit Court of Appeals

A Comparative Analysis of Third-Party Litigation Funding in the United States and the United Kingdom
Gary Myers, Earl F. Nelson Professor of Law, University of Missouri School of Law

TPLF As Quasi-Partnership
Omer Pelled, Assistant Professor, Bar-Ilan University Faculty of Law
Yifat Naftali Ben Zion, Assistant Professor, Tel Aviv University Buchmann Faculty of Law

The Alchemist’s Inversion
Samir D. Parikh, Professor of Law, Wake Forest University School of Law

“Economics of Litigation Financing” (Forthcoming 2025, Eur. Rev. Priv. Law)
Francesco Parisi, Oppenheimer Wolff and Donnelly Professor of Law, University of Minnesota Law School

Optimizing the Litigation Funding Ecosystem
Cassandra Burke Robertson, John Deaver Drinko–BakerHostetler Professor of Law and Director, Center for Professional Ethics, Case Western Reserve University School of Law

Valuing Litigation Assets
Robert F. Weber, Associate Professor of Law, Georgia State University College of Law

Market Share Liability Research Roundtable

Corporate Liability for Climate Change Adaptation Costs: A Market Share/Several Liability Approach
David A. Dana, Kirkland & Ellis Professor of Law, Northwestern University Pritzker School of Law

“Whither Joint and Several Liability: Pareto Improvement or Covert Redistribution?”
Richard A. Epstein, Laurence A. Tisch Professor of Law and Director, Classical Liberal Institute, New York University School of Law; James Parker Hall Distinguished Service Professor of Law Emeritus and Senior Lecturer, University of Chicago Law School

Market Share Liability versus (Random) Strict Liability
Murat C. Mungan, Professor of Law and Director, Law & Economics Program, Texas A&M University School of Law

‘Market Shift Liability’ for Generic Drugs: Market Share Theory’s Eccentric New Cousin
Lars Noah, Chesterfield Smith Eminent Scholar, University of Florida Fredric G. Levin College of Law

Market Share Liability and Anticompetitive Behavior: A Perspective from Antitrust Law
Eric Posner, Kirkland & Ellis Distinguished Service Professor of Law; Arthur and Esther Kane Research Chair, University of Chicago Law School

The Deep Contradiction between Product Liability and Market Share Liability
George L. Priest, Edward J. Phelps Professor of Law and Economics, Yale Law School

Causation’s Due Process Dimensions
Charles W. “Rocky” Rhodes, Professor of Law and Charles Weigel II Research Professor of State and Federal Constitutional Law, South Texas College of Law Houston
Cassandra Burke Robertson, John Deaver Drinko-BakerHostetler Professor of Law & Director of the Center for Professional Ethics, Case Western Reserve University School of Law

Research Roundtable on the Emerging Law & Political Economy Movement

“‘Law and Political Economy’: A Solution in Search of a Problem
David E. Bernstein, University Professor of Law and Executive Director, Liberty & Law Center, George Mason University Antonin Scalia Law School

Good Law & Economics, Bad Law & Political Economy
Peter. J. Boettke, Distinguished University Professor, George Mason University
Rosolino Candela
, Program Director, Academic and Student Programs and Senior Fellow, F.A. Hayek Program for Advanced Study in Philosophy, Politics, and Economics, Mercatus Center at George Mason University

A Theory for All and None: A Neo-schumpeterian Model of Antitrust Law and Political Economy
Joseph V. Coniglio, Director, Antitrust and Innovation Policy, Information Technology & Innovation Foundation

Redistribution without Romance
Charles Delmotte, Assistant Professor of Law, Michigan State University College of Law

LPE and the Death of the Individual
Jeremy Kidd, Professor of Law, Drake University Law School

The Problems with Piketty’s Data
Phillip W. Magness, Senior Fellow and David J. Theroux Chair in Political Economy, Independent Institute

Law and Political Economy: Missing Markets, Missing Laws, and Missing Political Economy
Roger E. Meiners, Professor of Economics, University of Texas at Arlington
Andrew P. Morriss, Professor, Texas A&M University Bush School of Government & Public Service

“The Wrath of Khan: The Left Rediscovers Originalism, and Ignores the Arguments for Capitalism” (Forthcoming)
Michael C. Munger, Professor of Political Science, Duke University

The Law and Political Economy Project: A Critical Analysis
Todd J. Zywicki, George Mason University Foundation Professor of Law, George Mason University Antonin Scalia Law School

14th Annual Henry G. Manne Faculty Forum

“Searching for the Appropriate Judicial Interest Rate: Theory and Experimental Evidence”
Yijia Lu, Assistant Professor of Law, George Mason University Antonin Scalia Law School

“The Arrest Penalty: Empirical Evidence on Job Discharge Following Arrest”
Erin E. Meyers, Assistant Professor of Law, George Mason University Antonin Scalia Law School