Law & Economics Workshop

These workshops are a component of the Law and Economics Program at the Faculty, which promotes special study and research opportunities in a broad range of subject areas having a significant law-economics interface. The workshops, which students take for academic credit, attract distinguished legal and economics scholars for sessions approximately 10 times throughout the year.

The workshops are held on Tuesdays, from 4:10 - 6:00 pm, in the Solarium at 84 Queen's Park Cres. 

2012-13 Schedule

DATE & TIME

LOCATION

SPEAKER & TOPIC

September 11
Tuesday
4:10 - 6:00		Solarium
Falconer Hall
84 Queen's Park		Holger Spamann, Harvard Law School
American Exceptionalism Revisited
October 9
Tuesday
4:10 - 6:00		Solarium
Falconer Hall
84 Queen's Park		Matthew Stephenson, Harvard Law School
Does Separation of Powers Promote Stability and Moderation?
November 6
Tuesday
4:10 - 6:00		Solarium
Falconer Hall
84 Queen's Park		Francesco Parisi, University of Minnesota Law School
Double-Edged Torts
November 20
Tuesday
4:10 - 6:00		Solarium
Falconer Hall
84 Queen's Park		Kory Kroft - University of Toronto Department of Economics
Duration Dependence and Labour Market Conditions: Theory and Evidence from a Field Experiment
January 15
Tuesday
4:10 - 6:00 		Solarium
Falconer Hall
84 Queen's Park		Robert Ellickson, Yale Law School
The Law and Economics of Street Layouts: Why Most Downtowns Are Rectangular Grids
February 12
Tuesday
4:10 - 6:00		Solarium
Falconer Hall
84 Queen's Park		Mitu Gulati, Duke University Law School
The Eurozone Debt Crisis
February 26
Tuesday
4:10 - 6:00		Solarium
Falconer Hall
84 Queen's Park		Florencia Marotta-Wurgler, New York University Law School
Set in Stone?  Change and Innovation in Consumer Standard Form Contracts
March 12
Tuesday
4:10 - 6:00		Solarium
Falconer Hall
84 Queen's Park		Steven Shavell, Harvard Law School
A Fundamental Enforcement Cost Advantage of the Negligence Rule over Regulation
April 2
Tuesday
4:10 - 6:00		Solarium
Falconer Hall
84 Queen's Park		Veronica Santarosa, University of Michigan Law School
Financing Long-Distance Trade Without Banks: The Joint Liability Rule and Bills of Exchange in 18th-century France

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