Program Description: This symposium focused on the unique challenges in competition and antitrust law across differing global regimes. Panels discussed class actions and private actions, economics and economic evidence across differing antitrust regimes, non-competition goals in global antitrust law, and remedies and commitments across differing antitrust regimes. Expert panelists and speakers presented viewpoints of both domestic … Continue reading “18th Annual Antitrust Symposium: Perspectives on Global Competition Law”
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: Administrative law reflects the hope that modern societies can be governed not only liberally and democratically but also rationally, sensibly, and with tolerable efficiency. On both sides of the Atlantic, that once-confident conviction now meets with considerable skepticism, in somewhat different ways and for different reasons. At the Transatlantic Law Forum’s Eighth Annual … Continue reading “Eighth Annual Transatlantic Law Forum”
The one-day conference featured panels focusing on the enduring legacy of the works of Henry G. Manne, including Mergers and the Market for Corporate Control,Insider Trading and the Stock Market, and Wall Street in Transition: The Emerging System and its Impact on the Economy. Agenda Mergers and Markets for Corporate Control Mergers and the Markets … Continue reading “Twelfth Annual Symposium of the Journal of Law, Economics, and Policy – The Enduring Legacy of Henry G. Manne”
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 “Sixth Annual Manne Faculty Forum”
Underfunded public employee pensions are one of the major fiscal crises confronting American states and municipalities. It is estimated that the shortfall is as much as $1 trillion and payments to retirees increasingly are diverting funds for necessary services, including police, fire, schools, roads, and other core services. Efforts at reform have run into increasing … Continue reading “LEC Public Policy Conference on Solving the Public Pension Crisis”
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 “Seventh Annual Manne Faculty Forum”
Regulatory Reform, Transparency, and the American Economy Government regulation is intended to improve the efficiency of markets and protect people from harms they cannot identify or prevent on their own. But, for decades, advocates have debated whether the regulatory process and rules developed through it are too strict or too lax; whether they properly account … Continue reading “14th Annual Symposium of the Journal of Law, Economics & Policy”
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 “Eighth Annual Manne Faculty Forum”
