With multiple companies creating a vaccine in record time, the COVID-19 pandemic has spotlighted the role pharmaceuticals and regulatory agencies play in combating an unseen opponent. Our reliance on a healthy pharmaceutical industry is nothing new, and questions of how to regulate pharmaceutical products, including their prices, have long been the subject of debate. Recently, … Continue reading “Symposium on the Economics and Law of Pharmaceutical Regulation: Emerging Issues”
VIRTUAL FORMAT Blackstone quite famously explained that “[I]t is a general and indisputable rule, that where there is a legal right, there is also a legal remedy, by suit or action at law, whenever that right is invaded.” 3 William Blackstone, Commentaries on the Laws of England 23, 109 (Univ. of Chicago Press 2002) (1765). Of … Continue reading “Symposium on the Economics and Law of Civil Remedies: Developments in Damages and Nationwide Injunctions”
The LEC AGEP program on Network Effects, Platforms, and the State of Competition in the Digital Economy was a six-day educational program that helped state Attorneys General, Solicitors General, and their staff attorneys improve their understanding of the application of economic analysis to issues of law and public policy at the intersection of competition policy … Continue reading “Network Effects, Platforms, and the State of Competition in the Digital Economy”
The Public Law, Economics, and Policy Institute was a six-day educational program that helped state Attorneys General, Solicitors General, and their staff attorneys improve their understanding of the basic economic principles often found at the heart of legal and public policy disputes. Through interactive, classroom-style lectures, Institute participants received a solid grounding in economic concepts … Continue reading “Public Law, Economics, & Policy Institute”
Advanced technology has become both a necessity and convenience of everyday life. With those advancements, policymakers and regulators are faced with the difficult task of protecting consumers in the wake of rapid technological innovations. The AGEP Workshop on the Economics of Information, Advertising & Privacy was designed to provide Attorneys General and their staff an … Continue reading “AGEP Workshop on the Economics of Information, Advertising, & Privacy”
The Public Law, Economics, and Policy Institute was a three-day educational program that helped state Solicitors General improve their understanding of the basic economic principles often found at the heart of legal and public policy disputes. Through interactive, classroom-style lectures, Institute participants received a solid grounding in economic concepts and methods and learned how these … Continue reading “Public Law, Economics, & Policy Institute for Solicitors General”
The emerging antitrust frontier is set to change dramatically the way competition is regulated, and it is being shaped by a confluence of forces — including increased attention from Congress to antitrust issues and a renewed appreciation for the power antitrust laws can wield to control economic players; unconventional coalitions forming to use antitrust as … Continue reading “The Changing Antitrust Frontier: Study Group for State Solicitors General & State Attorneys General”
Symposium on Novel Liability Theories and the Incentives Driving Them The court system is often used as a testing ground for novel theories of liability. Some believe this is a valuable feature of the civil justice system, while others see it as a bug. This Symposium examined whether the potential gains of choosing courts as … Continue reading “Symposium on Novel Liability Theories and the Incentives Driving Them”
The Economics Institute was a three and a half day educational program that helped AG staff attorneys improve their understanding of the basic economic principles often found at the heart of legal and public policy disputes. During the Institute and through interactive, classroom-style lectures, participants received a solid grounding in economic concepts and methods and … Continue reading “AGEP Economics Institute”
The Public Law, Economics, and Policy Institute was a six-day educational program to help state Attorneys General, Solicitors General, and their staff attorneys improve their understanding of the basic economic principles often found at the heart of legal and public policy disputes. Through interactive, classroom-style lectures, Institute participants received a solid grounding in economic concepts … Continue reading “AGEP Public Law, Economics, & Policy Institute”
