Research Roundtable
Attendance at all Research Roundtables is by invitation only. If you are interested in receiving an invitation, please send your request to: searlecenter@law.northwestern.edu.
BOOK PREVIEW ROUNDTABLE ON The Health Care Mandate, the Constitution, and Tough Libertarianism by Andrew Koppelman
Date TBD, Summer 2012
Additional details will be forthcoming.
SECOND ANNUAL RESEARCH ROUNDTABLE ON LAW AND ECONOMICS OF DIGITAL MARKETS
October 4-5, 2012
This roundtable is organized by Peter Dicola, Assistant Professor of Law, Northwestern University School of Law and Shane Greenstein, Elinor and H. Wendell Hobbs Professor, Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University.
Additional details will be forthcoming.
RESEARCH ROUNDTABLE ON CLIMATE CHANGE ADAPTATION AND BIODIVERSITY
October 11-12, 2012
Additional details will be forthcoming.
BOOK PREVIEW ROUNDTABLE ON Innovation from the Edges: Creating the Commerical Internet by Shane Greenstein
December 6-7, 2012
Additional details will be forthcoming.
RESEARCH ROUNDTABLE ON INNOVATION AND TECHNOLOGY STANDARDS
Thursday, February 7-Friday, February 8, 2013
Additional details will be forthcoming.
PAST ROUNDTABLES
BOOK PREVIEW ROUNDTABLE: The Innovative Entrepreneur (Daniel F. Spulber)
Thursday, April 26, 2012-Friday, April 27, 2012
This roundtable will feature a preview of the forthcoming book, The Innovative Entrepreneur by Daniel F. Spulber, Elinor Hobbs Distinguished Professor of International Business, Professor of Management Strategy, Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University.
Confirmed Participants
- Esther Barron, Northwestern University School of Law
- Ola Bengtsson, College of Business, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Bernie Black, Northwestern University School of Law
- Shane Greenstein, Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University
- David Haddock, Northwestern University School of Law and Department of Economics
- F. Scott Kieff, George Washington University School of Law
- Lynne Kiesling, Department of Economics, Northwestern University
- Jin Li, Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University
- Kate Litvak, Northwestern University School of Law
- Simon C. Parker, Richard Ivey School of Business, University of Western Ontario
- Joaquin Poblete, London School of Economics
- Stephen F. Reed, Northwestern University School of Law
- E.J. Reedy, Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation
- David E.M. Sappington, Department of Economics, University of Florida
- Daniel F. Spulber, Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University
- Arvids Ziedonis, Lundquist College of Business, University of Oregon
- Rosemarie Ziedonis, Lundquist College of Business, University of Oregon
RESEARCH ROUNDTABLE ON INSTITUTIONAL REVIEW BOARDS
Saturday, October 29, 2011
Participants
- Sydney Halpern, University of Illinois at Chicago
- Carol Heimer, American Bar Foundation and Northwestern University
- David Hyman, University of Illinois College of Law
- Elizabeth Knoll, Harvard University Press
- James T. Lindgren, Northwestern University School of Law
- Carl Schneider, University of Michigan Medical School
- Simon Whitney, Baylor University Medical School
BOOK PREVIEW ROUNDTABLE: ACCELERATING DEMOCRACY (John O. McGinnis)
Thursday, September 15, 2011-Friday, September 16, 2011
This featured a preview of Accelerating Democracy by John O. McGinnis, George C. Dix Professor of Law, Northwestern University School of Law.
RESEARCH ROUNDTABLE ON THE LAW AND ECONOMICS OF DIGITAL MARKETS
Thursday, June 23, 2011-Friday, June 24, 2011
Agenda | Participant List | Roundtable Photos
This roundtable is organized by Peter Dicola, Assistant Professor of Law, Northwestern University School of Law and Shane Greenstein, Elinor and H. Wendell Hobbs Professor, Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University.
Papers
“Bye, Bye, Miss American Pie? The Supply of New Recorded Music Since Napster”
Joel Waldfogel, Carlson School of Management, University of Minnesota
“Law and Economics of Enforcement in Digital Markets: Business as Usual?” (PowerPoint)
“Technology and Uncertainty: The Shaping Effect on Copyright Law” (Background Material)
Ben Depoorter, University of California-Hastings College of Law
“News at Work: Imitation in an Age of Information Abundance”
Pablo Boczkowski, Northwestern University, Department of Communication
“The Impact of File Sharing on Movies” (with Felix Oberholzer‐Gee, Harvard University)
Koleman Strumpf, University of Kansas, School of Business
“The Social Value of Shared Infrastructure”
Brett Frischmann, Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law, Yeshiva University
“Friends, Family, and the Flat World: The Geography of Crowdfunding”
Avi Goldfarb, Associate Professor of Marketing, Rotman School of Management,
University of Toronto
RESEARCH ROUNDTABLE ON INNOVATION POLICY, INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY, AND ENTREPRENEURSHIP
Friday, April 29, 2011
This roundtable will feature presentations by Stuart Graham, Chief Economist for the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) and Georgia Tech College of Management and Daniel F. Spulber, Research Director, Searle Center on Law, Regulation, and Economic Growth and Elinor Hobbs Distinguished Professor of International Business, Professor of Management Strategy, Kellogg School of Management, Professor of Law, Northwestern University School of Law (Courtesy).
“Should Business Method Inventions Be Patentable?"
Daniel F. Spulber, Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University
RESEARCH ROUNDTABLE ON CLIMATE CHANGE, ADAPTATION, AND ENVIRONMENTAL LAW
Thursday, April 7-Friday, April 8, 2011
This roundtable is co-sponsored by the Initiative for Sustainability and Energry at Northwestern University.
Papers
"Learning about Climate Change Adaptation and Its Effects on Support for Climate Change Mitigation"
David A. Dana, Stanford Clinton Sr. and Sylpha Kilbride Clinton Research Professor, Northwestern University School of Law
Michael P. Vandenbergh, Professor of Law, Vanderbilt University School of Law
“Adapting Law for a Changing World: How to Alter Legal Systems to Respond to Climate Change”
Victor B. Flatt, Thomas F. and Elizabeth Taft Distinguished Professor in Environmental Law; Director, Center for Law, Environment, Adaptation, and Resources (CLEAR), University of North Carolina Chapel Hill School of Law
"Water Law’s Climate Disruption Adaptation Potential"
A. Dan Tarlock, Distinguished Professor of Law and Director of the Program in Environmental
and Energy Law, Chicago-Kent College of Law
"Making Marine Zoning Climate-Change Adaptable"
Robin Kundis Craig, Attorneys’ Title Professor and Associate Dean for Environmental Programs,
Florida State University College of Law
"Climate Change Adaptation and the Law of the Horse"
J.B. Ruhl, Matthews & Hawkins Professor of Property, Florida State University College of Law
“How Externalized is Carbon? Life-Cycle CO2 Emissions Estimates from Financial Market
Responses to Carbon Disclosure Requirements”
Nicholas Switanek, Visiting Assistant Professor of Management & Organizations, Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University
"The Challenge of Climate AdaptationLearning from National Planning Efforts in Britain, China, and the United States"
Daniel Farber, Sho Sato Professor of Law; Director, Environmental Law Program,
UC Berkeley School of Law
"The Need for (and Obstacles to) Regional Collective Action in Climate Adaptation"
Barton H. "Buzz" Thompson, Jr., Robert E. Paradise Professor in Natural Resources Law and
Perry L. McCarty Director, Woods Institute for the Environment, Stanford Law School
"Land Use and Climate Adaptation: Reconsidering the Federal Role"
Alice Kaswan, Professor of Law, University of San Francisco School of Law
“Adapting to Pollution”
John Copeland Nagle, John N. Matthews Professor of Law, Notre Dame Law School
"Allocating Authority in an Uncertain and Dynamic World: A Framework for Managing Climate Change Adaptation in Diverse Contexts"
Alejandro (Alex) Camacho, Professor of Law, University of California, Irvine School of Law
Robert L. Glicksman, J. B. and Maurice C. Shapiro Professor of Environmental Law,
The George Washington University Law School
SECOND ANNUAL RESEARCH ROUNDTABLE ON THE EMPIRICAL STUDIES OF PATENT LITIGATION
Thursday, November 18-Friday, November 19, 2010
"An Empirical Analysis of Patent Litigation in the Semiconductor Industry"
Bronwyn H. Hall, Professor of the Graduate School, Department of Economics,
University of California, Berkeley
Rosemarie Ziedonis, Associate Professor of Management, Lundquist College of Business, University of Oregon
"Patent Quality and Settlement Among Repeat Patent Litigants" (coauthored with Mark Lemley and Joshua Walker)
John Allison, Professor, University of Texas at Austin, McCombs School of Business
"Knowledge Spillovers and Patent Litigation"
John L. Turner, Associate Professor, Department of Economics, Terry College of Business, University of Georgia
"Do Economic Downturns Dampen Patent Litigation?"
Ted M. Sichelman, Assistant Professor of Law, University of San Diego School of Law
"Legal Scholarship and the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit: An Empirical Study of a National Court"
David L. Schwartz, Assistant Professor of Law, Chicago-Kent Law School
Lee Petherbridge, Professor of Law, Loyola Law School, Los Angeles
"Do Applicant Patent Citations Matter? Implications for the Presumption of Validity" (co-authored with Mark Lemley and Bhaven Sampat)
Christopher A. Cotropia, Professor of Law, University of Richmond School of Law
"The Impact of General and Patent-Specific Judicial Experience On the Efficiency and Accuracy of Patent Adjudication" (coauthored with Jay Kesan)
Gwendolyn G. Ball, Bradley University
PUBLIC POLICY ROUNDTABLE: THE ALIEN TORT STATUTE AND U.S. ENFORCEMENT OF FOREIGN JUDGMENTS
April 29-30, 2010
"The Five Levels of CSR Compliance: The Resiliency of Corporate Liability under the Alien Tort Statute and the
Case for a Counterattack Strategy in Compliance Theory"
David Scheffer, Center for International Human Rights, Northwestern University School of Law
Caroline Kaeb, Northwestern University School of Law
"The Political Economy of Customary International Law and the Alien Tort Claims Statute"
John O. McGinnis, Northwestern University School of Law
Ilya Somin, George Mason University School of Law
"Desperately Seeking Political Cover: The Partisan Logic of Alien Tort Statute Litigation"
Jide Nzelibe, Northwestern University School of Law
"Three Obstacles to the Promotion of Corporate Social Responsibility by Means of the Alien Tort Claims Act: The Sosa Court's Incoherent Conception of the Law of Nations, the "Purposive" Action Requirement for Aiding and Abetting, and the State Action Requirement for Primary Liability"
Michael Barsa, Northwestern University School of Law
David A. Dana, Northwestern University School of Law
"The ATS and TVPA in Comparative Perspective"
Anthea Roberts, London School of Economics, Law Department
"The Constitutional Underpinnings of Sosa’s Caution: Article I Limits on ATS Litigation"
Eugene Kontorovich, Northwestern University School of Law
PUBLIC POLICY ROUNDTABLE ON THE FEDERAL RULES OF FEDERAL PROCEDURE
April 21-22, 2010
"Back To The Future: Discovery Cost Allocation and Modern Procedural Theory"(coauthored with Colleen McNamara)
Martin H. Redish, Northwestern University School of Law
"Dropping the Spear: The Case for Enhanced Summary Judgment Prior to Class Certification"
Linda S. Mullenix, University of Texas at Austin School of Law
"An Economic Analysis of Preclusion, Vacatur, and Limitations on Settlement in Intellectual Property Litigation"
Bruce Kobayashi, George Mason University School of Law
"Conley as a Special Case of Twombly and Iqbal: Exploring the Intersection of Evidence and Procedure and
the Nature of Rules"
Ronald J. Allen, Northwestern University School of Law
"Offer-of-Judgment Rules and Civil Litigation: An Empirical Analysis of Medical Malpractice Cases"
Joanna Shepherd, Emory University School of Law
SEARLE-KAUFFMAN INSTITUTE ON LAW, INNOVATION, AND GROWTH III
(Chapman, CA)
March 14-March 16, 2010
SEARLE-KAUFFMAN INSTITUTE ON LAW, INNOVATION, AND GROWTH II
(Captiva, FL)
January 24-January 27, 2010
BOOK PREVIEW ROUNDTABLE: JUDICIAL POWER OF THE PURSE (Nancy Staudt)
January 14-15, 2010
EMPIRICAL STUDIES OF PATENT LITIGATION
November 12-13, 2009
"Doctrinal Displacement at the Federal Court"
David Schawartz, Chicago-Kent Law School
"District Court Citations to Patent Precedent: An Empirical Study of Institutional Authority and IP Ideology"
Emerson H. Tiller, Northwestern University School of Law
Dave Pekarek-Krohn, Northwestern University School of Law
"Daubert Challenges in Patent Litigation"
David A. Dana, Northwestern University School of Law
"Litigation of Internet Business Method Patents: An Empirical Analysis"
John Allison, University of Texas at Austin, McCombs School of Business
Tristan Bligh, Northwestern University School of Law
Emerson H. Tiller, Northwestern University School of Law
Samantha Zyontz, Northwestern University School of Law
"From Arms Race to Marketplace: The New Complex Patent Ecosystem and Its Implications for the Patent System"
Colleen V. Chien, Santa Clara University School of Law
"Extreme Value or Trolls on Top? The Characteristics of the Most-Litigated Patents"
John Allison, University of Texas at Austin, McCombs School of Business
THE LIMITS OF ANTITRUST REVISITED
October 29-30, 2009
"The Limits of Antitrust and the Chicago School Tradition"
George Priest, Yale Law School
"Easterbrook on Errors"
Fred S. McChesney, Northwestern University School of Law
"The Limits of Antitrust in the New Economy"
Joshua D. Wright, George Mason University School of Law
Geoffrey A. Manne, Lewis & Clark Law School and ICLE
"The Limits To Simplifying the Application of Current U.S. Antitrust Law"
Richard S. Markovits, University of Texas at Austin, School of Law
"Microsoft and the Limits of Antitrust"
William H. Page, University of Florida, Levin College of Law
BOOK PREVIEW ROUNDTABLE: LAWS OF CREATION: PROPERTY RIGHTS IN THE WORLD OF IDEAS
(Keith Hylton and Ronald Cass)
October 22-23, 2009
SEARLE-KAUFFMAN INSTITUTE ON LAW, INNOVATION, AND GROWTH I
(Chicago, IL)
September 30-October 2, 2009
PUBLIC POLICY ROUNDTABLE: THIRD PARTY FINANCING OF LITIGATION
September 24-25, 2009
"A Tale of Two Models: Third Party Litigation in Historical and Ideological Perspective"
Stephen B. Presser, Raoul Berger Professor of Legal History, Northwestern University School of Law
"A Market Approach to Litigation Accuracy"
Jonathan T. Molot, Professor of Law, Georgetown University Law Center
"A Fee Limitation Rule for Litigation Finance"
Michael B. Abramowicz, Professor of Law, The George Washington University School of Law
"On the Efficiency of Increasing Litigation"
Paul H. Rubin, Samuel Candler Dobbs Professor of Economics and Law, Department of Economics, Emory University
"How Would Third Party Financing Change the Face of American Tort Litigation? The Role of Agency Costs in the Attorney-Client Relationship"
Max Schanzenbach, Professor of Law, Northwestern University School of Law
David Dana, Northwestern University School of Law
ENERGY, TECHNOLOGY, AND INSTITUTIONS
June 2-3, 2009
"Combined Issues of Climate Policy and Energy Policy: Reducing Greenhouse Gas Emissions while Meeting Increasing Global Energy Demand"
Daniel H. Cole, Indiana University School of Law
"The Political Economy of Energy and Its Implications for Climate Change Legislation"
Jim Rossi, Florida State University School of Law
"Beneficial Complexity: A Field Experiment in Technology, Institutions, and Institutional Change in the Electric Power Industry"
Lynne Kiesling, Department of Economics, Northwestern University
David Chassin, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
"The Challenges of Valuing Carbon"
Rick Mattoon, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago
Margrethe Kearney, Latham & Watkins LLP
BOOK PREVIEW ROUNDTABLE: CORPORATE GOVERNANCE
(Jonathan R. Macey and Larry E. Ribstein)
April 30-May 1, 2009
The Research Roundtable on Corporate Governance will focus on Jonathan R. Macey's, "Corporate Governance: Promises Kept, Promises Broken" (Princeton University Press, 2008), and Larry E. Ribstein's, "The Rise of the Uncorporation" (Oxford University Press, 2009).
ENVIRONMENTAL, HEALTH, AND SAFETY RISKS OF EMERGING TECHNOLOGIES
April 23-24, 2009
This roundtable is co-sponsored by Northwestern University's Institute for Sustainable Practices.
"When Less Liability May Mean More Precaution: The Case of Nanotechnology"
David Dana, Northwestern University School of Law
"Five Myths About Nanotechnology in the Current Public Policy Debate"
Kimberly Gray, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Northwestern University
"Hard to Nail Down: Emerging Science and the Reality of the Complete Unknown"
Laurie Zoloth, Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University
"Regulation in an Era of Accelerating Technology"
John McGinnis, Northwestern University School of Law
"Framing, Motivated Reasoning, and Opinions about Emergent Technologies"
James N. Druckman, Department of Political Science, Northwestern University
"Public Acceptance and the Regulation of Emerging Technologies – The Role of Private Politics"
Daniel Andreas Diermeier, Department of Managerial Economic & Decision Sciences, Northwestern University
BOOK PREVIEW ROUNDTABLE: CONSTITUTIONAL CHOICES (Michael S. Greve)
April 16-17, 2009
This roundtable will feature the forthcoming book, Constitutional Choices, by Michael S. Greve, John G. Searle Scholar, AEI.
Constitutional Choices presents an ambitious re-conceptualization of constitutional federalism. The U.S. Constitution, Greve argues, is best understood as a competitive federalism. That understanding, at great variance with both conservative and progressive federalism theory, implies a substantial revision of “originalist” constitutional interpretation and construction.
BOOK PREVIEW ROUNDTABLE: SOLOMON'S KNOT: HOW LAW CAN END THE POVERTY OF NATIONS (Robert Cooter and Hans-Bernd Schafer)
December 11-12, 2008
Solomon's Knot: How Law Can End the Poverty of Nations
Title Page
Chapter 1: The Economic Future of the World
Chapter 2: The Double Trust Dilemma in Development
Chapter 3: Make or Take - The Property Principle
Chapter 4: Keeping What You Make - Property Law
Chapter 5: Contracts - Doing What You Say
Chapter 6: Giving Credit to Credit - Finance and Banking
Chapter 7: How to Keep a Secret - Corporations
Chapter 8: Hold or Fold - Bankruptcy
BOOK PREVIEW ROUNDTABLE: NETWORKS IN TELECOMMUNICATIONS
(Daniel F. Spulber and Christopher S. Yoo)
September 18-19, 2008
Networks In Telecommunications-Economics and Law
Table of Contents
Introduction
Chapter 1 The Economics of Networks
Chapter 2 The Design and Cost of Networks
Chapter 3 Pricing Network Services
Chapter 4 Network Regulation Basics
Chapter 5 Economic Effects of Regulating Access to Networks
Chapter 6 Pricing of Access to Networks
Chapter 7 Constitutional Limits on the Pricing of Access to Networks
Chapter 8 The Regulation of Local Telephone Networks
Chapter 9 Antitrust as Applied to Network Industries
Chapter 10 The Regulation of Last-Mile Broadband Networks
Chapter 11 The Regulation of Broadband Networks and the Internet: Network Neutrality Versus Network Diversity
Chapter 12 The Regulation of Broadband Networks and the Internet: Network Neutrality Versus Network Capacity
Bibliography
BOOK PREVIEW ROUNDTABLE: MISSION AND MONEY: UNDERSTANDING THE UNIVERSITY (Burton A. Weisbrod, Jeffrey P. Ballou, Evelyn D. Asch)
September 11-12, 2008
ALTERNATIVE ENERGY
April 17-18, 2008
"Why Do States Adopt Renewable Portfolio Standards? An Empirical Investigation"
Thomas P. Lyon, Dow Chemical Professor of Sustainable Science, Technology and Commerce, and Director, Erb Institute forGlobal Sustainable Enterprise, Stephen M. Ross School of Business and School of Natural Resources and Environment, University of Michigan
"Trade, Technology and the Environment: Why Do Poorer Countries Regulate Sooner?"
David C. Popp, Associate Professor, Department of Public Administration,Center for Policy Research, The Maxwell School , Syracuse University
"Was That Really Necessary? Some Implications of Trade Law for Alternative Energy"
Andrew Green, Assistant Professor, Faculty of Law, University of Toronto
"Comparing Environmental and Technology Policies for Climate Mitigation and Renewable Energy"
Carolyn Fischer, Resources for the Future, Washington, DC
EXPANSION OF LIABILITY UNDER PUBLIC NUISANCE
April 7-8, 2008
"The Economics of Public Nuisance Law and the New Enforcement Actions"
Keith N. Hylton, Paul J. Liacos Scholar in Law, Boston University School of Law
"Market Share Liability in Personal Injury and Public Nuisance Litigation: An Economic Analysis"
George L. Priest, John M. Olin Professor of Law and Economics, Yale Law School
"Private Contingent Fee Lawyers and Public Power: Constitutional and Political Implications"
Martin H. Redish, Louis and Harriet Ancel Professor of Law & Public Policy, Northwestern University School of Law
"The Mismatch Between Public Nuisance Law and Global Warming"
David A. Dana, Professor of Law and Associate Dean for Faculty Research, Northwestern University School of Law
BOOK PREVIEW ROUNDTABLE OF THEORY OF THE FIRM (Daniel F. Spulber)
March 6-7, 2008
LAW & ECONOMICS OF INNOVATION II
January 31-February 1, 2008
"Incentives to Invest with Competition and Asymmetric Information"
Daniel F. Spulber, Elinor Hobbs Distinguished Professor of International Business, Professor of Management Strategy, and Professor of Law, Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University
"Spectrum Policy Reform and the Next Frontier of Property Rights"
Philip J. Weiser, Professor of Law, Associate Dean for Research & Executive Director of Silicon Flatirons Program, University of Colorado Law School
"The Impact of Uncertain Intellectual Property Rights on the Market for Ideas: Evidence from Patent Grant Delays"
Scott Stern, Associate Professor of Management and Strategy, Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University
"Enabling Research or Unfair Competition? De Jure and De Facto Research Use Exceptions in Major Technology Countries"
Sean O'Connor, Associate Director, CASRIP; Associate Director, Graduate Program in Intellectual Law and Policy; Associate Professor of Law; Faculty Director, Entrepreneurial Law Clinic, University of Washington School of Law
LAW & ECONOMICS OF INNOVATION
December 6-7, 2007
"Unlocking Technology: Antitrust and Innovation"
Daniel F. Spulber, Elinor Hobbs Distinguished Professor of International Business, Professor of Management Strategy, and Professor of Law, Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University
"Bundles of Joy: The Ubiquity and Efficiency of Bundles in New Technology Markets"
Stan Liebowitz, Ashbel Smith Professor of Economics, Univeristy of Texas at Dallas
"Economic Experiments and Neutrality in Internet Access"
Shane M. Greenstein, Elinor and Wendall Hobbs Professor of Management and Strategy, Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University
"Removing Property from Intellectual Property and (Intended?) Pernicious Impacts on Innovation and Competition
"F. Scott Kieff, Professor of Law, Washington University School of Law
Contact
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