Program Description: The George Mason University Antonin Scalia Law School was proud to host the Tenth Annual Transatlantic Law Forum. This year‘s Forum was entitled Business and the Rule of Law. Over two days, prominent scholars, judges, and legal practitioners from both sides of the Atlantic discussed pressing legal and political questions in a world where … Continue reading “Tenth Annual Transatlantic Law Forum”
Program Description: The Manne Faculty Forum is an annual Roundtable, held in September, where junior tenure-track faculty at George Mason University School of Law present draft papers for comment, discussion, and critique by senior faculty at the law school. Each author also invites one other discussant of their choice to participate. Following the Forum, the authors … Continue reading “Seventh Annual Manne Faculty Forum”
Elinor Ostrom was awarded the 2009 Nobel Prize in Economics for her “her analysis of economic governance, especially the commons.” In particular, Ostrom identified a third realm of voluntary common governance of commons and voluntary provision of public goods that is in between the coercive action of the state and individualized market exchange. Ostrom, along … Continue reading “LEC Workshop for Law Professors on Elinor Ostrom and the Spontaneous Order Tradition”
Regulatory Reform, Transparency, and the American Economy Government regulation is intended to improve the efficiency of markets and protect people from harms they cannot identify or prevent on their own. But, for decades, advocates have debated whether the regulatory process and rules developed through it are too strict or too lax; whether they properly account … Continue reading “14th Annual Symposium of the Journal of Law, Economics & Policy”
The Consumer Welfare Standard: From The Antitrust Paradox to Hipster Antitrust Recently, there have been a series of challenges aimed at “reinvigorating” antitrust enforcement agencies and institutions and calling into question the economic approach to antitrust. The “Hipster Antitrust” movement represents a departure from the longstanding nonpartisan consensus that rigorous economic analysis is a key … Continue reading “George Mason Law Review’s 21st Annual Antitrust Symposium”
Economist Herbert Stein is credited for having observed, “Something that can’t go on forever, won’t.” Such appears to be the state of higher education today—spiraling cost and declining value is bringing the entire economic structure of higher education into question. Moreover, many of the policies that have been designed to ameliorate the problem—from accreditation to … Continue reading “LEC Workshop for Law Professors on the Economics of Higher Education”
Program Description: The Workshop for Law Professors on Empirical Methods was designed to teach law professors the conceptual and practical skills required to (1) understand and evaluate others’ empirical studies, and (2) design and implement their own empirical studies. Participants were not expected to have background in statistical knowledge or empirical skills prior to enrollment. … Continue reading “LEC Workshop on Empirical Methods for Law Professors”
Program Description: The Manne Faculty Forum is an annual Roundtable, held in September, where junior tenure-track faculty at George Mason University School of Law present draft papers for comment, discussion, and critique by senior faculty at the law school. Each author also invites one other discussant of their choice to participate. Following the Forum, the authors … Continue reading “Eighth Annual Manne Faculty Forum”
Program Description: In this major policy address, U.S. Securities and Exchange Commissioner Robert J. Jackson, Jr. explored questions surrounding how well the country’s stock exchanges are serving American investors and whether the regulation of exchanges is keeping pace with our rapidly changing markets. Commissioner Jackson took questions from the audience following his remarks. And a … Continue reading “Rethinking Exchange Regulation: Remarks by SEC Commissioner Robert J. Jackson, Jr.”
