GEORGE MASON LAW & ECONOMICS CENTER
SEVENTEENTH LAW INSTITUTE FOR ECONOMICS PROFESSORS
$3,000 HONORARIUM
Sunday, June 1 to Friday, June 13, 2025
Grand Summit Hotel
Park City, UT
The Law & Economics Center at George Mason University Antonin Scalia Law School held its Seventeenth Law Institute for Economics Professors at The Grand Summit Hotel in Park City, Utah from Sunday, June 1 to Friday, June 13, 2025.
The Law Institute for Economics Professors provided professors with an introduction to basic legal research methods, legal procedures and substantive areas of the law. The time-tested program that launched the LEC in 1974 counts many of today’s leading scholars in law and economics among its five decades of alumni. The objective of the Institute was to help economists bring greater policy relevance to their teaching and scholarship.
The Institute was primarily a course about law, not “Law & Economics”. It was carefully designed to provide academic economists with an overview of the American legal system. The course was directed to scholars with little or no previous legal education; emphasis was placed on those legal issues that are most appropriate for economic analysis.
More than 370 economics and business professors worldwide have attended the Law Institute. Alumni credit the Institute with providing them with insights leading to new research, new courses and new alliances with law and other professors.
Topics covered include:
- Introduction to the Law:
- What is Law? What are Legal Rules
- Norms, Customs & Private Ordering
- Institutions – Courts and Congress
- Institutions – The Executive and the Administrative State
- English Common Law and Stare Decisis
- State Statues and the Common Law
- Property
- Contracts
- Torts
- Civil Procedure
- Criminal Law and Procedure
- Torts and Products Liability
- Antitrust
- Intellectual Property
- Business Associations
- Securities Regulation
- Bankruptcy
- Employment and Labor Law
Instructors included:
- Sarah Rudolph Cole, J.D., Ohio State Law
- James C. Cooper, J.D., Ph.D., Scalia Law
- Michael L. Davis, J.D., Scalia Law
- Nuno Garoupa, LL.M, D. Phil., Scalia Law
- Michael S. Greve, Ph.D., Scalia Law
- The Honorable Ryan T. Holte, US Court of Federal Claims
- Donald J. Kochan, J.D., Scalia Law
- Erin E. Meyers, J.D., Ph.D., Scalia Law
- Paolo Saguato, LL.M, J.D., Ph.D., Scalia Law
- The Honorable David R. Stras, US Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
- Todd J. Zywicki, J.D., Scalia Law
The Seventeenth Law Institute accommodated 29 economics professors. Professors were required to attend all group meals and social events. Classes met for two weeks, with several days ending in the early afternoon.
The Law Institute for Economics Professors ran concurrently with the Economics Institute for Law Professors (Please see here). Many of the group meals were combined.
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No Tuition; Hotel Rooms and Group Meals Provided
There was no tuition for the Institute, and room and board were covered by the LEC.
Participants were responsible for their own travel expenses to and from the Institute, as well as incidental expenses and individual meals.
Honorarium:
Participants received a $3,000 honorarium upon successful completion of the Institute.
Venue:
Grand Summit Hotel
4000 Canyons Resort Drive
Park City, UT 84098
Meals:
Breakfast will be provided on days with class sessions. There will be eight (8) lunches and three (3) receptions and dinners over the course of the Institute. Interaction between Institute faculty and participants is an important part of the learning experience. Therefore, all participants are required to attend all group meals on the program agenda.
Questions:
Please contact Gwendolyn Watson at [email protected] or 703.993.8388 with any questions.
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The LEC’s Henry G. Manne Program in Law & Economics Studies promotes law and economics scholarship by funding faculty research, convening research roundtables, and hosting policy-relevant academic workshops and conferences.
Established in 2010 to honor the legacy of Henry G. Manne – legendary former Dean of the Antonin Scalia Law School, founder of the Law & Economics Center, and one of the founding fathers of the law and economics movement – the program seeks to improve the quality of legal scholarship by offering educational workshops on important and topical areas of study.
Since its founding, the LEC’s workshops and research roundtables have included more than 10,000 participants from 543 academic institutions. In addition to its core constituency of academics, Manne Program events also attract attendance from the policy community, including economists and lawyers from federal agencies, Capitol Hill, state government offices, and the non-profit and for-profit research sectors.