Program Description: The goal of the Workshop for Law Professors on the Economics of Litigation and Civil Procedure is to help participants enhance their understanding of economics, broaden their analytical tools, and allow them to introduce greater economic sophistication and policy relevance to their academic work. This workshop is aimed at law professors interested in teaching … Continue reading “LEC Workshop for Law Professors on the Economics of Litigation and Civil Procedure”

Program Description:  The goal of the Workshop for Law Professors on the Economics of Contracting is to help participants enhance their understanding of economics, broaden their analytical tools, and allow them to introduce greater economic sophistication and policy relevance to their academic work. This workshop is aimed at law professors interested in teaching and conducting … Continue reading “LEC Workshop for Law Professors on the Economics of Contracting”

Program Description:  The goal of the Workshop for Law Professors on Public Choice and the Law is to introduce law professors to the concepts of public choice and positive political economy and how to use those concepts in their research and teaching.  The workshop will be designed to be conceptual rather than technical and will … Continue reading “LEC Workshop for Law Professors on Public Choice Economics”

Co-Sponsored by the Federalist Society.  Program Description:  Liberal democracies expect that public administration and government regulation will conform to rule-of-law norms and values, including legality, regularity, predictability, transparency, and accountability. Of late, and especially in the wake of an international fiscal and financial crisis that is well into its fifth year, public institutions that are … Continue reading “Sixth Annual Transatlantic Law Forum: The Rule of Law and the Administrative State in Crisis”

Program Description:  As a follow-up to last year’s Research Roundtable on Austrian Law & Economics, this program intends to prompt the discussion and exchange of ideas on those ideas related to and included in Austrian Law and Economics.  Using a broad definition, we intend to explore Austrian Economics, dynamic competition, subjectivism, the rule of law, … Continue reading “Research Roundtable on Austrian Law & Economics”

Program Description:  Search and social media are ubiquitous in everyday life, and increasingly , are the focus of competition policy discussions. Understanding the law and economics underlying search and social networks is necessary to facilitate sensible competition policy in this area.  The Third Annual Conference on Competition Policy in Search and Social Media sought to … Continue reading “Third Annual LEC Conference on Competition Policy in Search and Social Media”

Program Description:  The Workshop for Law Professors on Empirical Methods is 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 are not expected to have background in statistical knowledge or empirical skills prior to enrollment.  … Continue reading “LEC Workshop for Law Professors on Empirical Methods”

Program Description:  Consumers have an incredible array of technologies and services available to them online. As these technologies have progressed, there are growing questions as to what policies are best suited to protect consumers and encourage industry innovation. Topics include the role of the state attorneys general in enforcing privacy laws and a discussion of … Continue reading “LEC Public Policy Conference, The Law & Economics of Privacy and Data Security”

Prerequisite:  The Economics Institute is carefully designed for those who possess little or no previous formal economics education. It covers basic price theory, with emphasis on the allocative effects of alternative property rights regimes, transaction cost economics, and the application of basic economic theory to a variety of legal issues.  As such, there is no … Continue reading “Twenty-Ninth Economics Institute 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 “Fourth Annual Manne Faculty Forum”