Program Description: The goal of the Workshop for Law Professors on Public Choice Economics 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 be aimed … Continue reading “LEC Workshop for Law Professors on Public Choice Economics”
Program Description: The Law & Economics Center through LEC Initiative for Energy and the Environment hosted a public policy conference on “Old Fuels, New Technologies, and Market Dynamics,” which examined the dynamics between environmental issues and the energy market. Panels addressed clean coal technology, carbon sequestration, the future direction of the oil and gas industry, and … Continue reading “Public Policy Conference on Energy and the Environment: Old Fuels, New Technologies, and Market Dynamics”
Program Description: Data Collection by public and private entities is ubiquitous. The increasing collection and use of these data holds great promise, but also raises important issues related to privacy and data security regulation. Several authors will present original work on privacy and data security policy, focusing on such topics as the proper reach of … Continue reading “LEC Public Policy Conference on “The Future of Privacy and Data Security Regulation””
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 on Empirical Methods for Law Professors”
The papers discussed at the Roundtable were later presented at the LEC Public Policy Conference on Administration Unbound? Delegation, Deference, and Discretion. Papers Seminole Rock and the Interpretive Dimension of Deference Kevin M. Stack, Professor of Law and Associate Dean for Research, Vanderbilt Law School Digging Underneath Seminole Rock Amy Wildermuth, Professor of Law … Continue reading “LEC Research Roundtable on Extreme Deference to Agency Interpretations of Vague and Ambiguous Regulations”
Program Description: “Competition” is a fact of life and a foundational idea for much of modern science, from biology to economics to political science. In its most elementary sense, it means rivalry with respect to scarce resources—territory, sexual partners, private goods, voters, political power, football championships. We associate competition with important virtues: industry and effort, discovery and innovation, efficient resource allocation. … Continue reading “Seventh Annual Transatlantic Law Forum: Competition”
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 “Thirtieth Economics Institute for Law Professors”
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, reviewed cases heard … Continue reading “Supreme Court Wrap-Up: Energy and Environmental Issues in the 2013-2014 Term”
Program Description: The LEC Public Policy Conference on Administration Unbound? Delegation, Deference, and Discretion featured panels on specialized topics, such as regulatory cost-benefit analysis, the judicial review of regulatory science, and the consequences of significant delegated discretion to administrative agencies. Speakers included the Honorable Douglas H. Ginsburg, Senior Circuit Judge, US Court of Appeals for the … Continue reading “Public Policy Conference on Administration Unbound? Delegation, Deference, and Discretion”
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, previewed cases accepted … Continue reading “Supreme Court Preview: Energy and Environmental Issues in the 2014-2015 Term”
