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 “Third Annual Manne Faculty Forum”

Program Description:  In a series of influential and provocative articles, Professor Larry Ribstein examined the forces behind the recent upheaval in the market for legal services.  These forces included increased global competition, changes in the demand for legal services resulting from the expanded role of the in-house counsel, and the expanded use of technology.  His … Continue reading “Second Annual Henry G. Manne Law & Economics Conference, “Unlocking the Law: Building on the Work of Larry Ribstein””

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”

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”

George Mason Law Reivew The proceedings of this symposium were published in the George Mason Law Review, vol. 21, no. 5 (2014). Law Review Program Co-Sponsored by the LEC Program Description: The George Mason Law Review and the Law & Economics Center at George Mason University School of Law proudly present the George Mason Law Review … Continue reading “17th Annual Law Review Symposium on Antitrust Law “The FTC: 100 Years of Antitrust and Competition Policy””

Program Description: The LEC Public Policy Conference on Administration Unbound? Delegation, Deference, and Discretion featured panels on specialized topics, such as regulatory cost-benefit analysis, the judicial review of regulatory science, and the consequences of significant delegated discretion to administrative agencies. Speakers included the Honorable Douglas H. Ginsburg, Senior Circuit Judge, US Court of Appeals for the … Continue reading “Public Policy Conference on Administration Unbound? Delegation, Deference, and Discretion”

Fourth Annual Henry G. Manne Law & Economics Conference Program Description: The one-day symposium featured a comprehensive analysis of the history and economics of consumer credit and its regulation in America, with commentary from leading economists, law professors, and policy-makers. Panels focused on policy and contemporary debates as well as economic and legal perspectives. Research papers … Continue reading “Eleventh Annual Symposium of the Journal of Law, Economics, and Policy: A Symposium on Consumer Credit and the American Economy”

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: 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”