The Tenth Annual Henry G. Manne Faculty Forum is an annual Roundtable where junior tenure-track faculty at George Mason University Antonin Scalia Law School 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 revise … Continue reading “10th Annual Henry G. Manne Faculty Forum”
For all the expansion of freedom in modern times, most countries’ borders have remained fixed and rigid. And although capital and goods flow relatively freely, human beings’ ability to move between countries or change their citizenship is severely limited. Two new books critically examine these limits, and propose changes. Ilya Somin’s book Free to Move … Continue reading “Crossing Borders, Breaking Borders: New Ideas about Migration, Secession, and Political Freedom”
Seventh Latin American Workshop in Law & Economics The Seventh Latin American Workshop in Law & Economics (LAWLE) is an academic, annual event supporting law and economics research. The workshop provides an opportunity for top Latin American scholars in law and economics to meet and discuss their ongoing research with leading American scholars in the … Continue reading “Seventh Latin American Workshop in Law & Economics”
The Governance, Liberty, and Prosperity for American Indians program was a co-sponsored program between the Law & Economics Center and The Hoover Institution’s Renewing Indigenous Economies Project. The program gathered scholars and commissioned nine original research papers from experts around the country to encourage and support research that furthers the understanding of indigenous economies and … Continue reading “Governance, Liberty, and Prosperity for American Indians”
The Research Roundtable on Public Nuisance was a part of a new Public Nuisance Litigation project and commissioned six original research papers from leading experts at universities around the country to: Analyze the flawed legal reasoning that has led to the public nuisance doctrine’s expansion; Detail the economic and due process harms associated with penalizing … Continue reading “Research Roundtable on Public Nuisance”
The LEC Workshop for Law Professors on the Introduction to the Economics of Information, Privacy, and Data Security introduced law professors to the economics of information, including concepts such as search costs, adverse selection, signaling, and screening. The program covered the economics of privacy, data security, and online advertising, as well as an understanding of how … Continue reading “LEC Workshop for Law Professors on the Introduction to the Economics of Information, Privacy, and Data Security”
The Law & Economics Center at the George Mason University Scalia Law School has embarked on a three-year project—the “Capitalism and Rule of Law Project”— offering a comprehensive set of programs, across all of its divisions, to defend the economics and law of capitalism. The project will educate and awaken key legal and policy decisionmakers … Continue reading “Research Roundtable on Capitalism & the Rule of Law”
Almost 51 years ago, on September 13, 1970, Milton Friedman published an essay in The New York Times with a title that captured his thesis that “The Social Responsibility Of Business Is to Increase Its Profits.” This shareholder value maximization metric for evaluating the legal and financial fiduciary duties of corporate officers has served as … Continue reading “Business Roundtable v. Milton Friedman: Reflections on the Second Anniversary of “Redefining” the Purpose of the Corporation”
The 11th Annual Henry G. Manne Faculty Forum is an annual Roundtable where junior tenure-track faculty at George Mason University Antonin Scalia Law School presented draft papers for comment, discussion, and critique by senior faculty at the law school. Each author also invited one other discussant of their choice to participate. Following the Forum, the … Continue reading “11th Annual Henry G. Manne Faculty Forum”
Forum on the Economic & Legal Foundations of Capitalism, with Nobel Laureate Vernon Smith Cosponsored with the Smith Institute for Political Economy and Philosophy In the rush to solve complex emerging problems, there is always a risk of forgetting simple truths and fundamental insights from the past that are still critically relevant today. The Forum … Continue reading “Forum on the Economic & Legal Foundations of Capitalism, with Nobel Laureate Vernon Smith; Cosponsored with the Smith Institute for Political Economy and Philosophy”
