Past Workshops

Fall 2008

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

September 18th
Justin McCrary, Assistant Professor, University of California, Berkeley, School of Law
Crime, Punishment, and Myopia

September 25th
Jody S. Kraus, Robert E. Scott Professor of Law, University of Virginia
Contract Design and the Structure of Contractual Intent

October 7th
Yair Listokin, Associate Professor of Law, Yale Law School
Corporate Voting vs. Market Price Setting

October 16th
Dean Lueck, Bartley P. Cardon Professor, Professor of Economics, University of Arizona
The Demarcation of Land: Patterns and Economic Effects

October 30th
Yaniv Grinstein, Associate Professor of Finance, Cornell University, The Johnson School
The Market for CEO Talent: Implications for CEO Compensation

November 6th
John Coates, John F. Cogan, Jr. Professor of Law and Economics, Harvard Law School
Reforming the Taxation and Regulation of Mutual Funds: A Comparative Legal and Economic Analysis

November 20th
Michael Weisbach, Ralph Kurtz Professor of Finance, Ohio State University, Department of Finance
Leverage and Pricing in Buyouts: An Empirical Analysis

December 2nd
Douglas Baird, Harry A. Bigelow Distinguished Service Professor of Law, University of Chicago Law School
Financial Innovation and the New Chapter 11

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"

Spring 2007

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

January 29
Justin Wolfers, Assistant Professor of Business and Public Policy, The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania
"Racial Discrimination Among NBA Referees"

February 5
Louis Kaplow, Finn. M.W. Caspersen and Household International Professor of Law and Economics, Harvard Law School
"Taxation of Families"

February 19
William M. Sage, James R. Dougherty Chair for Faculty Excellence, University of Texas School of Law
"Some Principles Require Principals: Conflicts of Interest in Biomedical Research"

February 26
Jennifer Reinganum, Bronson Ingram Professor of Economics, and Andrew Daughety, Professor of Economics and Law, Vanderbilt University
"Products Liability, Signaling and Disclosure"

March 26
George Triantis, Professor of Law, Harvard Law School
"Contract Design in the Shadow of Costly Verification"

April 2
Kevin Davis, Professor of Law, New York University School of Law
"Interpreting Boilerplate"

April 16
Lior Strahilevitz, Assistant Professor of Law, University of Chicago Law School
"Reputation Nation"

April 20
Ehud Kamar, Professor of Law, University of Southern California Gould School of Law
"Does Shareholder Voting on Acquisitions Matter?"

FALL 2006

Organized by Professors Kathryn Spier and Max Schanzenbach. The colloquia took place on the dates listed below.

September 25
A. Mitchell Polinsky, Josephine Scott Crocker Professor of Law and Economics, Stanford University
"Mandatory Versus Voluntary Disclosure of Product Risks" (pdf)

October 2
Eric Helland, Associate Professor, Claremont McKenna (with Alex Tabarrok)
"Crash and Learn: Consumption Externalities and the Reduction of Aircraft Accidents" (pdf)

October 16
Dan Klerman, Professor of Law, University of Southern California
"Jurisdictional Competition and the Evolution of the Common Law" (pdf)

October 23
Kenneth Ayotte, Assistant Professor, Columbia University
"Asset-Backed Securities: Costs and Benefits of Bankruptcy Remoteness" (pdf)

November 6
Joanna Shepherd, Assistant Professor of Law, Emory University
"The Demographics of Tort Reform: Winners and Losers" (pdf)

November 13
Edward Morrison, Associate Professor of Law, Milton Handler Fellow, Columbia University
"Bargaining Around Bankruptcy: Small Business Distress and State Law" (pdf)

November 27
Doug Lichtman, Professor of Law, University of Chicago
"Discouraging Patent Holdouts through Reciprocal Commitment"

December 4
Tom Hubbard, Associate Professor of Management and Strategy, Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University
"The Return to Knowledge Hierarchies"

FALL 2005

Organized by Professors Ronen Avraham and Max Schanzenbach

September 14
Keith Hylton, Professor of Law, Boston University
"Property Rules and Liability Rules, Once Again"

September 21
Jonathan Klick, Jeffrey A. Stoops Professor of Law, Florida State University
"Abortion Access and Risky Sex Among Teens: Parental Involvement Laws and Sexually Transmitted Diseases"

October 5
Mark Geistfeld, Crystal Eastman Professor of Law, New York University
"Economic Analysis in a Rights-Based Conception of Tort Law"

October 12
Robert Daines, Pritzker Professor of Law and Business, Stanford University
"Mandatory Disclosure, Asymmetric Information and Liquidity: The Impact of the 1934 Act"

October 26
Catherine Sharkey, Associate Professor of Law, Columbia University
"Crossing the Punitive-Compensatory Divide"

November 2
Randy Kroszner, Professor of Economics, University of Chicago
"Is it Better to Forgive Than to Receive? An Empirical Analysis of the Impact of Debt Repudiation"

November 16
Henry Smith, Professor of Law, Yale University
"Modularity in Contracts: Boilerplate and Information Flow"

November 23
Kathy Spier, Professor of Law and Professor of Management and Strategy, Northwestern University
"Strategic Judgment Proofing"

FALL 2004

Organized by Professors Robert Sitkoff and Ronen Avraham

September 15
Alan Schwartz, Sterling Professor of Law, Yale University
"The Lost Volume Problem"

September 22
David Haddock, Professor of Law, Northwestern University
"Irrelevant Externality Angst"

October 6
Eric Talley, Professor of Law, University of Southern California
"Uncorporated Professionals" (with John Romley)

October 13
Laura Beny, Assistant Professor of Law, University of Michigan
"Do Insider Trading Laws Matter?"

October 27
Avery Katz, Milton Handler Professor of Law, Columbia University
"Is Electronic Contracting Different?"

November 3
Chris Sanchirico, Professor of Law, Business, and Public Policy, University of Pennsylvania
"Evidence, Procedure, and the Upside of Cognitive Error"

November 17
Henry Hansmann, Augustus E. Lines Professor of Law, Yale University
"Legal Entities, Asset Partitioning, and the Evolution of Organizations"

November 24
Deborah Lucas, Donald C. Clark/Household International Distinguished Professor of Finance, Kellogg School of Management
"Understanding and Controlling PBGC's Risk Exposure"