The LEC’s 50th Anniversary Celebration Manne Madness Tournament consisted of four double-elimination regional tournaments, each featuring lectures from eight distinct professors, for a total of thirty-two tournament competitors. The top two professors from each region advanced to the Elite Eight National Championship in Miami.
The San Diego Regional Tournament took place from Sunday, October 20 to Friday, October 25, 2024 at the Hotel Republic. The eight different competitors from eight different schools gave a combined twenty-six lectures.
Professors Jim Hawkins (University of Houston Law Center) and Jonathan Klick (University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School) advanced to December’s championship double-elimination final round in Miami.
First Place
Jim Hawkins
Professor of Law and Alumnae College Professor in Law, University of Houston Law Center
Jim Hawkins earned his JD from the University of Texas, where he was the Grand Chancellor and served as the Chief Articles Editor of the Texas Law Review. He has published or placed articles in Science, the UCLA Law Review, the Minnesota Law Review, the Indiana Law Journal, the Boston University Law Review, the William and Mary Law Review, and the Harvard Journal on Legislation, among other journals. He has had papers selected for the Yale/Stanford/Harvard Junior Faculty Forum and for the Petrie-Flom Center’s annual conference at Harvard Law School.
Professor Hawkins joined the University of Houston Law Center after clerking for the Honorable Jerry E. Smith of the US Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals and working with the Houston office of Fulbright & Jaworski, LLP. His research and teaching interests include commercial and business law, the fringe banking industry, professional responsibility, and the fertility business. His research has been featured in the Wall Street Journal, the New York Times, the Washington Post, and other media outlets.
Runner-Up
Jonathan Klick
Charles A. Heimbold, Jr. Professor of Law, University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School
Jonathan Klick’s work focuses on identifying the causal effects of laws and regulations on individual behavior using econometric tools. Specific topics addressed by Jonathan Klick’s work include the relationship between abortion access and risky sex, how alcohol affects crime, the effect of police on crime, addiction as rational choice, how liability exposure affects the labor market for physicians, as well as a host of other issues. His scholarship has been published in numerous peer-reviewed journals, including The Journal of Economic Perspectives, The Journal of Law & Economics, The Journal of Law, Economics, and Organization, The Journal of Legal Studies, The Journal of Empirical Legal Studies, and many others. He has also published papers in the Stanford Law Review, the Columbia Law Review, and The University of Chicago Law Review.
FURTHER INFORMATION:
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