George Mason University Antonin Scalia Law School

Manne Madness: Tournament Lectures & Competitors

Below is a list of all the lectures presented by our competitors in the Manne Madness Tournament.

Arthur Martin Edwards (University of Mississippi School of Law)
  • A Brown M&M’s Theory of Vertical Restraints
  • Contracting in the Shadow of the Law: From the Bag Man to Name, Image, and Likeness
Kenneth G. Elzinga (University of Virginia)
  • The Hidden Economic Logic of Resale Price Maintenance: From Patent Medicine to Women’s Fashion Accessories
Jim Hawkins (University of Houston Law Center)
  • Consumers as Sellers, Doctors As Bankers
  • High Costs and Credit
  • Is it Credit?
  • Overpaid and Unprotected
M. Todd Henderson (University of Chicago Law School)
  • The Law & Economics of Limited Liability
  • The Law & Economics of Torts
  • The Law & Economics of Trust
Jonathan Klick (University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School)
  • Government Regulation of Irrationality
  • Moral Hazard in the Wild
  • Valuing Property Rights
Bryan C. McCannon (Illinois Wesleyan University)
  • Jury Decision Making: The Wisdom of the Crowds?
Michael C. Munger (Duke University)
  • Five Important Myths About Tariffs
  • The Right Kind of Nothing: French Gardens and German Groceries
Catherine M. Sharkey (New York University School of Law)
  • The Economics Loss Rule(s)
  • Products Liability in the Digital Age
  • Public Nuisance as Modern Business Tort
  • Tort Liability and Insurance

For more information on the Miami National Championship Round, click here.

Daniel L. Chen (French National Centre for Scientific Research; Toulouse School of Economics)
  • Can AI Help Courts be Fair and Just?
  • Training Judges and Civil Servants: Human-Centric AI Support
  • Unlocking the Positive Effects of Justice on Economic Development
Nicholas Georgakopoulos (Indiana University Robert H. McKinney School of Law)
  • Meinhard v. Salmon: Faith or Freedom?
  • Tort in Agency and Safety Innovations
M. Todd Henderson (University of Chicago Law School)
  • The Law & Economics of Crime in “Indian Country”
  • The Law & Economics of Limited Liability
  • The Law & Economics of Trust
Keith Hylton (Boston University School of Law)
  • Copyright and Property Rights
  • Waivers of Rights
Ben Johnson (University of Florida Levin College of Law)
  • Efficiency IS Moral
  • Get Active
  • Not Your Usual Machine Learning and AI Talk
  • Rational Choice Interpretation
Katherine “Kate” Litvak (Northwestern University Pritzker School of Law)
  • How to See Through Manipulations in Empirical Research and Expert Testimony: Proper Research Design in Antidiscrimination, Employment, Education, and Family Law
  • How to See Through Manipulations in Empirical Research and Expert Testimony: Proper Research Techniques, Corporate Securities, and Commercial Law
  • How to See Through Manipulations in Empirical Research and Expert Testimony: The Introduction to Causal Inference
Bryan C. McCannon (Illinois Wesleyan University)
  • Bargaining in the Shadow of the Trial
  • Economics of Judicial Decision Making
  • Prosecutor Elections
  • The Right to Counsel
  • Why Not Maximize Sanctions?
Andrew “Andy” Morriss (Texas A&M University, The Bush School of Government & Public Service, and Law School)
  • Bootleggers & Baptists: Implicit Coalitions for Rent-Seeking
  • Spotting Quantitative Bullsh*t
  • What the @#$% is Wrong with Higher Education?
  • Wyoming, Montana, & Texas: Lessons from Property Rights on the Frontier

For more information on the Chicago Regional Round, click here.

Barry E. Adler (New York University School of Law)
  • Contract Modification Without Consideration
  • Proximate Cause in Tort
Eric C. Alston (University of Colorado Boulder Leeds School of Business)
  • Governing Data Intermediation in the Age of Platform Economies
  • Nothing New Under the Sun? Digital Currencies and Information Asymmetries
  • Property, Uncertainty, and Development – Squaring Demsetz and de Soto
  • The Nobels of Law and Economics? – Buchanan, Coase, North and Williamson
  • What Constitutes a Constitution?
Jeremy Kidd (Drake University Law School)
  • Adam Smith and Vicarious Liability
  • Corporate Governance as Bloodsport
  • Kindergarten Coase
Michael C. Munger (Duke University)
  • Don’t Know the Question, But the Answer is Transaction Costs
  • Legislature is a “They,” Not an “It”
  • The Stream Cannot Rise Above Its Source
  • They Clapped: In Support of Price Gouging
Catherine M. Sharkey (New York University School of Law)
  • Products Liability in the Digital Age
  • Public Nuisance as Modern Business Tort
  • The Economic Loss Rule(s)
Thomas Stratmann (George Mason University College of Humanities and Social Sciences)
  • AI and The Law
  • Numbers and Estimates
  • Property Rights
Andrew P. Vassallo (Shippensburg University)
  • Statistical Evidence and Error Costs
  • Understanding Statistical Evidence
Todd J. Zywicki (George Mason University Antonin Scalia Law School)
  • “Junk Fees,” Behavioral Economics, and the Economics of Consumer Protection
  • Consumer Finance and Its Regulation: Or, The Not-So-Good-Old-Days of Consumer Finance
  • Judging Without Romance: Public Choice Implications for Judging
  • Student Loans and the Regulatory State

For more information on the Las Vegas Regional Round, click here.

Terry L. Anderson (Hoover Institution, Stanford University)
  • Frontiers of Property Rights: The Not so Wild, Wild West
  • Markets, Mandates, and Incentives for Environmental Policy
  • Sovereignty, the Rule of Law, Culture, and Prosperity
  • Viewing the World through Coase-Colored Glasses
Jim Hawkins (University of Houston Law Center)
  • Consumers as Sellers and Doctors as Bankers
  • The High Costs of Short-Term Loans—Both Having Them and Banning Them
  • Is This Credit?
Thomas W. Hazlett (Clemson University Wilbur O. and Ann Powers College of Business)
  • DOS Kapital: US v. Microsoft
  • Net Neutrality: The Unending Policy Debate
  • The Property Rights in Your iPhone
Jonathan Klick (University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School)
  • Law & Economics of MedMal
  • The Coase Theorem — The Limits of Blackboard Economics
  • The Evidence on Criminal Deterrence
  • The Market for Corporate Control – Henry Manne’s Most Important Idea
  • When is Correlation Causation?
Dean Lueck (Indiana University)
  • Good Law and Bad Economics from SCOTUS: The Saga of the Raisin Administrative Committee
  • Law and Economics of the Natural Environment: From Common Law to the Administrative State
Gary Myers (University of Missouri School of Law)
  • The Big Chill: The Impact of Product Liability Law on Innovation
  • Deal or No Deal: Non-Competition Agreements, Markets, and Governing Law
  • What to do about HAL — How to Regulate AI — Market and Regulatory Approaches
Francesco Parisi (University of Minnesota Law School)
  • The Coase Theorem(s)
  • Contracts Without Law
Henry A. Thompson (University of Mississippi)
  • The First-Best as a False Promise (Economists Sometimes Ignore Tradeoffs)
  • The Ghost of Our Legal Future: Tradeoffs Will Still Exist
  • The Ghost of Our Legal Past: Tradeoffs Existed Then
  • The Ghost of Our Legal Present: Tradeoffs Exist Now

For more information on the San Diego Regional Round, click here.

Jane Bambauer (University of Florida)
  • Has Third-Wave Feminism Hurt Professional Women?
  • Social Media’s Trilemma: Addiction, Privacy Violation, or AntiCompetitive Markets
Martin Edwards (University of Mississippi School of Law)
  • Economics Can and Does Help Us Understand the History and Tradition of Firearms Regulation
  • Judge Easterbrook Was Right About ProCD and Online Contract Law is (Better Than) Fine
  • Shareholder Wealth Maximization is a Schelling Point
Kenneth “Ken” G. Elzinga (University of Virginia)
  • The Hidden Economic Logic in Brooke Group: Predatory Pricing as Investment
  • The Hidden Economic Logic of Intercollegiate Sports: Monopsony Theory and the NCAA
  • The Hidden Economic Logic in Matsushita: What makes “economic sense” with regard to pricing below cost?
  • The Hidden Economic Logic of Resale Price Maintenance: from Patent Medicine to Women’s Fashion Accessories
James Huffman (Lewis & Clark Law School)
  • Free Market Environmentalism is Not an Oxymoron
  • Public Versus Private Resource Management: The Case of Federal Public Lands
Justin (Gus) Hurwitz (University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School)
  • The Answer is Law & Economics. What is the Question?
  • Incentives Matter: A Top 10 List
  • Information Puzzles
  • Public Choice and You and Me
Erin E. Meyers (George Mason University Antonin Scalia Law School)
  • Insurance and Tort Law (A Bird in the Hand is Worth Two in the Bush)
  • Life is Risk, Then You Die
  • Sampling Bias and Causal Inference
Dominic P. Parker (University of Wisconsin-Madison)
  • The Causes and Economic Consequences of Legal Uncertainty
  • Economic Causes and Effects of Property Rights to Natural Resources
  • Markets, Mandates, and Incentives for the Environment
John M. Yun (George Mason University Antonin Scalia Law School)
  • How Do Firms Protect Themselves?
  • How Do Firms “Trust” Each Other
  • Why Do Firms Do What They Do?
  • Why Do Firms Integrate and Vertically Merge?

For more information on the Nashville Regional Round, click here.

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