The George Mason University Law & Economics Center and the Program on Economics & Privacy (PEP) hosted the Workshop for Attorneys General and Regulators on the Economics of Information, Advertising, and Privacy at George Mason University’s Arlington, Virginia campus on Thursday, May 31 and Friday June 1, 2018. Today’s vibrant internet economy is increasingly driven … Continue reading “Workshop for Attorneys General and Regulators on the Economics of Information, Advertising, and Privacy”
The Program on Economics & Privacy, with the support of the Federalist Society’s Regulatory Transparency Project, held its 6th Annual Public Policy Symposium on the Law & Economics of Privacy and Data Security, on Friday, June 1, 2018 at George Mason University Antonin Scalia Law School in Arlington, VA. In the wake of the Facebook-Cambridge … Continue reading “6th Annual Public Policy Symposium on the Law & Economics of Privacy and Data Security”
Program Description: The Workshop for Law Professors on Empirical Methods was designed to teach law professors the conceptual and practical skills required to (1) understand and evaluate others’ empirical studies, and (2) design and implement their own empirical studies. Participants were not expected to have background in statistical knowledge or empirical skills prior to enrollment. … Continue reading “LEC Workshop on Empirical Methods for Law Professors”
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”
The Economics Institute was a three and a half day educational program that helped AG staff attorneys improve their understanding of the basic economic principles often found at the heart of legal and public policy disputes. Through interactive, classroom-style lectures, participants received a solid grounding in economic concepts and methods and learned how these tools … Continue reading “AGEP Economics Institute”
The Law & Economics of Criminal Justice Reform The tools of law and economics can help identify strengths and weaknesses in America’s system of criminal justice and can be used to evaluate reform proposals. The Symposium on the Law and Economics of Criminal Justice Reform gathered the country’s leading authorities on crime, policing, and punishment … Continue reading “The Law & Economics of Criminal Justice Reform”
The goal of the Workshop for Law Professors on Public Choice Economics was to introduce law professors to the concepts of public choice and positive political economy and how to use those concepts in their research and teaching. The workshop was designed to be conceptual rather than technical and was aimed at introducing participants to … Continue reading “Workshop for Law Professors on Public Choice Economics”
From Medicaid fraud to medical malpractice and from hospital mergers to drug pricing practices, state attorneys general must be vigilant in protecting health care consumers and state taxpayers from deceptive, misleading, and other illegal activity. So, enforcement and oversight decisions should always be informed by of an understanding of the economics underlying the complex interactions … Continue reading “AGEP Workshop on the Law & Economics of Health Care”
The 15th Annual Symposium of the Journal of Law, Economics & Policy was on Health Care Cost, Quality, and Transparency. The symposium was comprised of four panels featuring subject matter experts on such topics as “Health Care Transparency: Price and Quality,” “Regulating Health Care: Licensing v. Medical Malpractice,” “Why do Drugs Cost so Much and What … Continue reading “15th Annual Symposium of the Journal of Law, Economics & Policy: Health Care Cost, Quality, and Transparency”
Recently, there have been a series of challenges aimed at “reinvigorating” antitrust enforcement agencies and institutions and calling into question the economic approach to antitrust. This latest challenge to the modern antitrust paradigm calls for the rejection of the consumer welfare standard and the incorporation of non-economic considerations, such as fairness, income inequality, and other broader … Continue reading “AGEP – Symposium: Antitrust at the Crossroads?”
