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Sponsored by the Searle Center on Law, Regulation, and Economic Growth, the Searle Law and Political Economy Colloquium is part of a thriving interdisciplinary scholarship program at Northwestern University School of Law. In this colloquium, leading scholars from the fields of law, political science and economics present cutting edge scholarship on the law-making processes of courts, agencies, Congress and the President. Faculty and students alike attend the colloquium and discuss theoretical and methodological aspects of the work.
Presenters receive valuable feedback and suggestions for how to expand or improve their research, and Northwestern Law students and faculty gain a broader understanding of the relation of politics to the study and practice of law.
The Law & Economics Colloquium is sponsored by the Searle Center on Law, Regulation, and Economic Growth.
Fall 2009
Organized by Professors Lee Epstein, Beatrice Kuhn Professor of Law and Emerson Tiller, J. Landis Martin Professor of Law and Business. The colloquia will take place at 4 p.m. in Schachtman-Gordon Hall (Rubloff 339) on the dates listed below.
September 14
Anna L. Harvey, Associate Professor, Department of Politics, New York University
Confirmation Bias in the United States Supreme Court Judicial Database
September 28
Joanna Shepherd, Assistant Professor of Law, Emory University School of Law
The Politics of Judicial Opposition
October 12
Ryan Owens, Assistant Professor, Harvard University, Department of Government
Strategic Bargaining on the United States Courts of Appeals
October 26
Tom Clark, Assistant Professor, Emory University, Department of Political Science
Locating Supreme Court Opinions in Doctrine Space
November 9
David S. Law, Professor of Law, Washington University in St. Louis School of Law
paper title forthcoming
November 23
Rui de Figueiredo, Associate Professor, University of California, Berkeley, Haas School of Business
paper title forthcoming
Spring 2009
Organized by Tonja Jacobi, Professor of Law, and Nancy Staudt, Class of 1940 Research Professor of Law. The colloquia will take place at 4 p.m. in Schachtman-Gordon Hall (Rubloff 339) on the dates listed below.
January 21
Daniel Diermeier, IBM Distinguished Professor of Regulation and Competitive Practice, Northwestern University, Kellogg School of Business
Parties, Coalitions, and the Internal Organization of Legislatures
January 28
Jennifer F. Reinganum, Bronson Ingram Professor of Economics, Vanderbilt University, Department of Economics
Privacy, Publicity, and Choice (coauthored with Andrew F. Daughety)
February 11
Richard Brooks, Professor of Law, Yale University, School of Law
Groups and Individuals
February 18
Daniel B. Rodriguez, Minerva House Drysdale Regents Chair in Law, University of Texas, School of Law
Is Administrative Law Inevitable (co-authored by Barry Weingast)
March 4
William G. Howell, Associate Professor, University of Chicago, Harris School of Public Policy
War-Time Judgments of Presidential Power: Striking Down but Not Back
March 11
Betsy Sinclair, Assistant Professor, University of Chicago, Department of Political Science
The Party Line Vote: Legislative Power, Networks of Agreement, and Term Limits in California
April 8
Vanessa Baird, Associate Professor, University of Colorado, Department of Political Science
Tonja Jacobi, Professor of Law, Northwestern University School of Law
How the Dissent Becomes the Majority: Using Federalism to Transform Coalitions in the U.S. Supreme Court
Fall 2008
Organized by Professors Lee Epstein, Beatrice Kuhn Professor of Law and Emerson Tiller, J. Landis Martin Professor of Law and Business. The colloquia will take place at 4 p.m. in Schachtman-Gordon Hall (Rubloff 339) on the dates listed below.
September 22
Elizabeth Garrett, Sydney M. Irmas Professor of Public Interest Law, Legal Ethics, Political Science, and Policy, Planning, and Development, USC Gould Law School
Direct Democracy and Public Choice
October 6
Daniel E. Ho, Assistant Professor of Law and Robert E. Paradise Faculty Fellow for Excellence in Teaching and Research, Stanford Law School
Did a Switch in Time Save Nine?
October 20
Eileen Braman, Assistant Professor, Indiana University, Bloomington, Department of Political Science
No Eyes but Our Own: How Political Views Influence Normative Legal Reasoning Processes
November 3
Traci Burch, Assistant Professor Northwestern University, Department of Political Science, and American Bar Foundation
Did Disfranchisement Laws Help Elect President Bush? A Closer Look at the Characteristics and Preferences of Florida's Ex-Felons
November 17
Nancy Scherer, Assistant Professor, Wellesley College, Department of Political Science
Does Descriptive Race Representation Enhance Institutional Legitimacy? The Case of the U.S. Courts
November 24 (rescheduled from December 1st)
Pablo T. Spiller, Jeffrey A. Jacobs Distinguished Professor of Business and Technology, and Professor of Business and Public Policy, Walter A. Haas School of Business, University of California, Berkeley
An Institutional Theory of Public Contracts: Regulatory Implications
For more information contact the Searle Center at (312) 503-1811 or at searlecenter@law.northwestern.edu
Fall 2007
September 17
Daniel R. Pinello, Professor of Government, John Jay College
of Criminal Justice, City University of New York
"Legislative Versus Judicial Strategies for Social Change: The Case of
Same-Sex Marriage in New York State"
Optional Reading: Lee Epstein & Gary King, "The Rules of Inference," 69 University of Chicago Law Review 1 (2002). [.pdf]
September 24
Richard A. Posner, Judge, United States Court of Appeals
for the Seventh Circuit; Senior Lecturer, University of Chicago
Law School
"Judicial Behavior: A Statistical Study"
October 1
Tracey E. George, Professor of Law,Vanderbilt University
Law School
"Supreme Court Panels?"
October 15
Adam Winkler, Acting Professor of Law, University of California,
Los Angeles, School of Law
"Free Speech Federalism"
October 29
Sunita A. Parikh, Associate Professor of Political Science, and
Alfred T. Darnell,Washington University
"Interbranch Bargaining and Judicial Review
in India"
November 12
Jacob Gersen, Assistant Professor of Law, University of Chicago
Law School
"The Emergence and Effects of Electoral Institutions"
December 3
Matthew Stephenson, Assistant Professor of Law, Harvard
Law School
"Optimal Political Control of the Bureaucracy"
