Program Description: Every year the United States Supreme Court makes many decisions that broadly influence our society and our way of life. Similarly broad impacts often affect the business community, particularly when the Court’s decisions involve energy and the environment. At this event, leading legal and economic scholars, as well as experienced advocates, will preview cases … Continue reading “Supreme Court Preview: Energy and Environmental Issues in the 2013-2014 Term”
Program Description: The Law & Economics Center at George Mason University School of Law held a Research Roundtable on Law’s Information Revolution as part of the LEC’s Project on Legal Services Reform. Seeking to promote work on legal innovation, legal education, law firms, and legal regulation, the following papers, which examinine the effect of advances in … Continue reading “LEC Research Roundtable on Law’s Information Revolution”
Program Description: This three-day workshop intends to expose professors who teach natural resource and environmental law to the importance of property rights, transaction costs, and markets for solving environmental problems. The workshop will begin with some initial theoretical insights regarding the potential for environmental markets and build to specific applications to land, forests, wildlife, minerals, … Continue reading “LEC-PERC Workshop on Environmental Economics for Law Professors”
Program Description: On the morning of October 10, the Law & Economics Center hosted a public policy conference on Competition Among Online Platforms. Amazon, Apple, Face Book, and Google each began by offering vastly different services and products: online shopping, computers, social networking, and search. Today, however, these companies compete with one another across a variety … Continue reading “LEC Public Policy Conference on Competition Among Online Platforms”
Program Description: Eight professors of economics or law were commissioned to write papers for the “LEC-PERC Research Roundtable on Environmental Federalism.” These papers focused on various topics of mutual interest to participating authors and discussants with a goal of encouraging publishable research applicable to the Joint Program’s mission. This Roundtable was the first in the LEC-PERC Roundtable … Continue reading “LEC-PERC Research Roundtable on Environmental Federalism”
Third Annual Henry G. Manne Law & Economics Conference Tenth Anniversary Symposium of the Journal of Law, Economics, and Policy This one day symposium reflected on the lives and works of three great scholars who contributed in significant ways to Law & Economics at George Mason University School of Law: Armen Alchian taught in the … Continue reading “The Unique Contributions of Armen Alchian, Robert Bork, and James Buchanan to George Mason University School of Law”
Program Description: The goal of the Workshop for Law Professors on Risk, Injury, Liability, and Insurance is to introduce law professors to these four concepts, provide clarity on how they are interrelated, and give guidance on how to use these concepts in their research and teaching. The topics covered by this workshop include Risk and Risk … Continue reading “LEC Workshop for Law Professors on Risk, Injury, Liability, and Insurance”
George Mason Law Reivew The proceedings of this symposium were published in the George Mason Law Review, vol. 21, no. 5 (2014). Law Review Program Co-Sponsored by the LEC Program Description: The George Mason Law Review and the Law & Economics Center at George Mason University School of Law proudly present the George Mason Law Review … Continue reading “17th Annual Law Review Symposium on Antitrust Law “The FTC: 100 Years of Antitrust and Competition Policy””
Agenda Government Surveillance and Internet Search Behavior Catherine E. Tucker, Mark Hyman, Jr. Career Development Professor and Associate Professor of Marketing, Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Alex Marthews, Interim National Coordinator, Restore the Fourth and President, Digital Fourth Other People’s Papers Jane Y. Bambauer, Associate Professor of Law, James E. Rogers … Continue reading “LEC Research Roundtable on the Future of Privacy & Data Security Regulation”
