Watch a recording of the webinar here: Or listen on our podcast, “The Marketplace of Ideas”: Climate change litigation is once again in front of the U.S. Supreme Court. In recent years, there has been a flurry of lawsuits filed against energy companies and others, claiming they should be liable for alleged contributions to climate … Continue reading “Climate Change Lawsuits and Preemption or Displacement of State Law: An Analysis of the Sunoco Cert Petition”
Advanced technology has become both a necessity and convenience of everyday life. The Advanced Institute on the Economics of Information: Advertising, Privacy, and Data Security was designed to provide state and federal judges an understanding of the economic forces at work in online advertising and information markets, as well as a background on privacy, and first … Continue reading “Advanced Institute on the Economics of Information: Advertising, Privacy, and Data Security”
Watch a recording of the webinar here: Or listen on our podcast, “The Marketplace of Ideas”: This one-hour talk examined the recent Department of Justice (DOJ) complaint against Apple, which alleges that Apple has designed and structured its iPhone platform in a manner that violates Section 2 of the Sherman Act. Professor James Cooper of … Continue reading “The Intersection of Antitrust & Privacy: A Deep Dive into the U.S. v. Apple Antitrust Case (Webinar)”
The Law & Economics Center has launched a series of programs to examine what has been named the “Law & Political Economy Project” (LPE) by its founders at Yale Law School. These LEC programs evaluate the challenges the LPE Project makes to the findings and utility of law and economics scholarship and the … Continue reading “Seminar on the Law & Political Economy Project”
The Beaver Creek Colloquium was held from Sunday, June 9 to Saturday, June 15, 2024, at the Park Hyatt Beaver Creek Resort.
After a long, Covid-caused hiatus, the Transatlantic Law Forum (TLF) was able to gather again. The topic of the TLF’s 2024 Conference was A New Era of Disintegration? True to its mission and tradition of exploring, on a comparative transatlantic basis, questions broadly related to the Rule of Law, the 2024 TLF subjected legal … Continue reading “Thirteenth Transatlantic Law Forum”
The Law & Economics Center (LEC) at George Mason University Antonin Scalia Law School was founded by Henry G. Manne at the University of Miami in 1974. The LEC moved to Emory University in 1980, and then to George Mason in 1986 when Henry Manne became dean (that historic move is described here). Manne Madness … Continue reading ““Manne Madness” Chicago Regional Tournament”
The Henry G. Manne Program in Law & Economics Studies, a division of the Law & Economics Center at George Mason University Antonin Scalia Law School is hosting a Market Share Liability Research Roundtable. Full Details To allocate liability for torts, courts have traditionally demanded that plaintiffs provide proof of direct and … Continue reading “Market Share Liability Research Roundtable”
The 14th 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 “14th Annual Henry G. Manne Faculty Forum”
George Mason University Professor, Desiree Desierto, presented an excerpt from her paper titled “Magna Carta.” This workshop was open only to registered Antonin Scalia Law students.
