Program Description: Increasingly, there is a call for competition authorities to take account of firms’ collection and use consumer data—conduct that has been the primary province of consumer protection—when reviewing mergers or conduct. For example, although the Facebook-WhatsApp, Google-Nest, and Oracle-Datalogix mergers raised no traditional antitrust concerns, some argued for a new competition analysis that would … Continue reading “Briefing on Big Data, Privacy, and Antitrust”
Program Description: The goal of the Workshop for Law Professors on Public Choice Economics was 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 was designed to be conceptual rather than technical and will be aimed at introducing … Continue reading “LEC Workshop for Law Professors on Public Choice Economics”
The Tullock and Gunderson Families, the Law & Economics Center, and the George Mason University School of Law had a memorial service to honor the memory of Gordon Tullock, Emeritus Professor of Law at GMU School of Law. Memorial Handout
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. Instructors … Continue reading “LEC Workshop on Empirical Methods for Law Professors”
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 included the role of the state attorneys general in enforcing privacy laws and a discussion of the … Continue reading “Third Annual LEC Public Policy Conference on Privacy and Data Security”
Program Description: The motivation for the Research Roundtable on Competition in Higher Education was to spur research and understanding by policy-makers about the economics of higher education and how competition can address some of the issues facing higher education today. The Roundtable involved detailed discussions of 9 original draft papers.
Program Description: Each 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. The cases of this 2014-2015 term raised particularly important issues regarding the intersection of economic … Continue reading “Supreme Court Wrap-Up: Energy and Environmental Issues in the 2014-2015 Term”
Prerequisite: The Economics Institute was carefully designed for those who possess little or no previous formal economics education. It covered 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 was no … Continue reading “Thirty-First 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 “Fifth Annual Manne Faculty Forum”
The goal of the Workshop for Law Professors on the Economics of Public Pension Reform was to introduce law professors to the looming financial and structural crises facing state pensions systems across the nation in order to improve their research and teaching. With several dozen states adopting modest to major reforms, the economic impact on … Continue reading “LEC Workshop for Law Professors on the Economics of Public Pension Reform”
