Law and Economics

This is an advanced seminar that brings together outside scholars, resident faculty, and Northwestern students for discussion of cutting-edge research papers in the law and economics tradition. On just over half of the weeks, a workshop will be held at which a leading scholar will present a paper growing out of his or her research in the law and economics tradition. These workshops will be attended by members of the Northwestern Law faculty, faculty from other schools and departments within and outside of Northwestern, and interested students.

The Law & Economics Colloquium is sponsored by the Searle Center on Law, Regulation, and Economic Growth.

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Spring 2008

Organized by Professors Ronen Avraham and Abraham Wickelgren. The colloquia will take place at 4 p.m. in Schachtman-Gordon Hall (Rubloff 339) on the dates listed below.

January 28
Edward B. Rock, Associate Dean and Saul A. Fox Distinguished Professor of Business Law, Co-Director, Inst. for Law & Economics, University of Pennsylvania School of Law
The Hanging Chads of Corporate Voting (co-authored with Marcel Kahan)

February 4
Leemore S. Dafny, Assistant Professor of Management & Strategy, Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University
Are Health Insurance Markets Competitive?

February 18
Kyle D. Logue, Wade H. McCree, Jr. Collegiate Professor of Law and Associate Dean for Academic Affairs, University of Michigan Law School
Overlapping Sanctions

February 25
Richard Craswell, William F. Baxter-Visa International Professor of Law, Stanford Law School
When is a Willful Breach Willful?

March 10
Betsey Stevenson, Assistant Professor of Business and Public Policy, University of Pennsylvania, Wharton School
Beyond the Classroom: Using Title IX to Measure the Return to High School Sports

March 31
Roberta Romano, Oscar M. Ruebhausen Professor of Law and Director, Yale Law School Center for the Study of Corporate Law, Yale Law School
Does the Sarbanes-Oxley Act Have a Future?

April 14
Oliver Hart, Andrew E. Furer Professor of Economics, Harvard University, Department of Economics
Hold-up, Asset Ownership, and Reference Points

April 21
Alan O. Sykes, James and Patricia Kowal Professor of Law, Stanford Law School
Transnational Forum Shopping as a Trade and Investment Issue

Fall 2007

Organized by Professors Max Schanzenbach and Albert Yoon. The colloquia will take place at 4 p.m. in Schachtman-Gordon Hall (Rubloff 339) on the dates listed below.

September 20
Daniel E. Ho, Assistant Professor of Law, Stanford Law School
"Congressional Agency Control: The Impact of Statutory Partisan Requirements on Regulation"

September 27
James R. Hines Jr., Richard A. Musgrave Collegiate Professor of Economics and Professor of Law, University of Michigan
"Which Countries Become Tax Havens?"

October 11
Edward Iacobucci, Osler Chair in Business Law, University of Toronto Faculty of Law
"An Empirical Examination of the Governance Choices of Income Trusts" (co-author Anita Anand)

October 18
Lily Batchelder, Associate Professor of Law and Public Policy, New York University School of Law
"How Should and Ideal Consumption Tax or Income Tax Treat Wealth Transfers?"

November 1
Margaret F. Brinig, P Fritz Duda Family Chair in Law, University of Notre Dame Law School
"The One-Size Fits All Family"

November 8
Jesse M. Fried, Professor of Law, Co-Director, Berkeley Center for Law, Business and the Economy, University of California, Berkeley-Boalt Hall School of Law
"Deviations from Contractual Priority in the Sale of VC-Backed Firms"

November 29
David Arthur Skeel, S. Samuel Arsht Professor of Corporate Law, University of Pennsylvania Law School
"The Future of the Global Law Firm"

December 4
J.J. Prescott, Assistant Professor of Law, University of Michigan Law School
"Do Sex Offender Registration and Notification Laws Affect Criminal Behavior"

For more information contact Derek Gundersen, The Searle Center Coordinator at (312) 503-1811 or at searlecenter@law.northwestern.edu