The goal of the Economics Institute for Law Professors was to help participants enhance their understanding of economics and broaden their analytical tools in order to introduce greater economic sophistication and policy relevance to their professional work. More than 670 law professors worldwide have attended the LEC’s Economics Institutes. Alumni routinely credit the Institute with … Continue reading “LEC Thirty-Third Economics Institute for Law Professors”
The civil justice system in the United States is in a constant state of flux. Changes occur at both the state and federal levels, through both legislative and judicial actions. At the same time, judges face a constant barrage of new and innovative legal theories and procedural maneuvers. The goal of the annual symposium was … Continue reading “Eleventh Annual Judicial Symposium on Civil Justice Issues”
The Program on Economics & Privacy (PEP) and Mason Attorneys General Education Program were pleased to host their Workshop for Attorneys General on the Economics of Information, Advertising, and Privacy, Wednesday, June 7, 2017 through Thursday, June 8, 2017. The Workshop will brought together state attorneys general staff and regulators from throughout the United States … Continue reading “Workshop for Attorneys General and Regulators on the Economics of Information, Advertising, and Privacy”
The Program on Economics & Privacy, in partnership with the Future of Privacy Forum, and the Journal of Law, Economics & Policy, held its 5th Annual Public Policy Conference on the Law & Economics of Privacy and Data Security, on Thursday, June 8, 2017 at George Mason University Antonin Scalia Law School in Arlington, VA. … Continue reading “5th Annual Public Policy Conference on the Law & Economics of Privacy and Data Security”
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 the economics of legal and public policy issues. The program includes the analysis of numerous court cases and emphasizes … Continue reading “AGEP Economics Institute”
Program Description: The George Mason University Antonin Scalia Law School was proud to host the Tenth Annual Transatlantic Law Forum. This year‘s Forum was entitled Business and the Rule of Law. Over two days, prominent scholars, judges, and legal practitioners from both sides of the Atlantic discussed pressing legal and political questions in a world where … Continue reading “Tenth Annual Transatlantic Law Forum”
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”
The adequacy of federal agency rulemaking on any number of issues—ranging from consumer and environmental protection to trade, transportation, and technology policy–cannot be assessed without an understanding of the scientific and economic impacts of various proposals. Even when deferring to agency expertise, judges are still called upon to evaluate how closely agencies hew to their … Continue reading “Symposium for Judges: Judicial Deference and Regulatory Agency Science”
Elinor Ostrom was awarded the 2009 Nobel Prize in Economics for her “her analysis of economic governance, especially the commons.” In particular, Ostrom identified a third realm of voluntary common governance of commons and voluntary provision of public goods that is in between the coercive action of the state and individualized market exchange. Ostrom, along … Continue reading “LEC Workshop for Law Professors on Elinor Ostrom and the Spontaneous Order Tradition”
