The Economics Institute for Judges, Week One, addressed fundamental issues that often are at the heart of legal disputes. Over a full week of intensive classroom lectures and discussions, judges were given a solid grounding in economics, finance and statistics. The practical relevance of these disciplines was emphasized through the analysis of numerous cases.
Program Description: The AGEP Economics Institute is a three and a half day program that addresses the fundamental issues often at the heart of legal disputes and provides Attorneys General and their staff with a solid grounding in economics, statistics, and the scientific method. The program includes the analysis of numerous court cases and emphasizes … Continue reading “Economics Institute”
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”
The Supreme Court will hear a number of cases this Term in the civil justice arena that will likely have far-reaching effects. Notable questions include: whether an arbitrator or a court decides whether a precondition has been satisfied in a multistage arbitration agreement; if a parens patriae action by a state Attorney General is considered … Continue reading “SCOTUS Civil Justice: Cases to be heard before the Supreme Court’s October Term 2013”
With a curriculum designed by a committee of distinguished practitioners and scholars jointly selected by the Antitrust Section and Mason JEP, the Antitrust Institute provided maximum practical value to generalist judges with no prior training in either antitrust law or antitrust economics. The Institute concluded with an in-depth mock trial encompassing sophisticated (yet, commonplace) economic … Continue reading “Antitrust Law & Economics Institute”
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”
The Economics Institute for Judges, Week One, addressed fundamental issues that often are at the heart of legal disputes. Over a full week of intensive classroom lectures and discussions, judges were given a solid grounding in economics, finance and statistics. The practical relevance of these disciplines was emphasized through the analysis of numerous cases.
Program Description: The House Judiciary Committee recently passed the Lawsuit Abuse Reduction Act of 2013, and it awaits action on the floor of the House. Join us for a discussion of attempts to reform Rule 11 and return it to its pre-1993 language, which required federal judges to impose sanctions on attorneys who violate Rule 11’s … Continue reading “Rule 11 Reform”
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”
