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: The motivation for the Research Roundtable on Competition in Higher Education was to spur research and understanding by policy-makers about the economics of higher education and how competition can address some of the issues facing higher education today. The Roundtable involved detailed discussions of 9 original draft papers.
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 “Fifth Annual Manne Faculty Forum”
The Economics Institute for Judges–the JEP’s flagship program–addressed fundamental issues that often are at the heart of legal disputes. Over a full week of intensive classroom lectures and discussions, judges were given a solid grounding in economics, finance, and scientific method. The practical relevance of these disciplines was emphasized through the analysis of numerous cases.
Program Description: 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 economics, statistics, and the scientific method. The program includes the analysis of numerous court cases and emphasizes … Continue reading “AGEP Economics Institute”
The goal of the LEC Workshop for Law Professors on Austrian Law and Economics was to provide law professors basic tools for understanding the Austrian school and a sense of how they might look at their research and teaching differently if they put on their “Austrian glasses”. The Workshop presented the basic and distinctive ideas … Continue reading “LEC Workshop for Law Professors on Austrian Law & Economics”
Program Description: This public policy conference followed on the heels of an LEC Research Roundtable where commissioned original papers had been presented on: “For-Profit Education: Economic and Historical Perspectives,” “The Accreditation Process,” “Costs of Higher Education and the Government’s Role as it Relates to Higher Education and Consumers.” The first day was an Attorneys General … Continue reading “Workshop on Higher Education and Public Policy Conference on Competition and Consumer Protection in Higher Education”
Program Description: The traditional model of higher education is coming under increasing challenge from competitive forces, including for-profit education, information technology, and government regulation. At the same time, the costs of higher education continue to rise, student loan default rates are rising, and the quality and relevance of higher education is coming under increasing criticism. This … Continue reading “LEC Public Policy Conference on Competition and Consumer Protection in Higher Education”
Program Description: With a curriculum designed by a committee of distinguished practitioners and scholars jointly selected by the ABA Section of Antitrust Law, Federal Judicial Center and the Mason JEP, the Antitrust Law & Economics Institute was structured to provide maximum practical value to judges with no prior training in either antitrust law or antitrust economics. … Continue reading “Antitrust Law & Economics Institute for Judges”
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”
