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: The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) implements a rigorous review process to determine whether drugs and medical devices are sufficiently safe and effective to be sold to consumers. In some cases, the FDA relies on Advisory Committees made up of external experts to help make approval decisions with respect to drugs that may require … Continue reading “The FDA Advisory Committee Selection Process: Do Financial Conflicts of Interest Affect Outcomes?”
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 “Public Policy Conference, “The Law & Economics of Privacy and Data Security””
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: Last month the White House announced a new initiative to combat so-called “patent trolls.” Quoting the President as saying they “are just trying to essentially leverage and hijack somebody else’s idea and see if they can extort some money,” they estimate the direct cost of patent trolls were $29 billion in 2011. However, some … Continue reading “Patent Trolls: Greasing the Wheels or Grinding the Gears?”
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”
The Law & Economics Center at George Mason University School of Law hosted the Ninth Annual Meeting of the American College of Business Court Judges. In October 2005, a group of judges working with complex business cases founded the American College of Business Court Judges (ACBCJ). With the assistance of the Law & Economics Center at … Continue reading “Ninth Annual Meeting of the American College of Business Court Judges”
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”
