Law and Economics Workshops: Past Years

2011 - 2012

Tuesday, September 27 4:10 – 6:00	Dan Kahan – Yale Law School The Tragedy of the Risk-Perception Commons: Culture Conflict, Rationality Conflict, and Climate Change
Tuesday, October 11 4:10 – 6:00	Gillian Hadfield – University of Southern California Gould School of Law What is Law? A Coordination Account of the Characteristics of Legal OrderT
Tuesday, November 15 4:10 – 6:00	Joshua Fischman – University of Virginia Law School Inconsistency, Indeterminacy, and Error in Adjudication
Tuesday, November 29 4:10 – 6:00	Gustavo Bobonis – University of Toronto Economics Department The Dynamic Effects of Information on Political Corruption: Theory and Evidence from Puerto Rico
Tuesday, January 17 4:10 – 6:00	Alan Schwartz – Yale Law School Conceptualizing Contractual Interpretation
Tuesday, February 14 4:10 – 6:00	Jennifer Arlen – New York University School of Law Corporate Governance Regulation Through Non-Prosecution
Tuesday, March 6 4:10 – 6:00	Saul Levmore – University of Chicago Law School Incentives for Evidence Production
Tuesday, March 20 4:10 – 6:00	Bentley MacLeod – Columbia Law School Law, Economics and Evidence

2010 - 2011

Date	Speaker	Title
September 21	Daniel Klerman University of Southern California Law School	Legal Origin and Economic Growth
November 9	Thomas Ulen Illinois University College of Law	The Role of Law in Economic Development
November 30	Jonathan Nash Emory University Law School	The Cathedral in Transition: Property- and Liability-Based Environmental Regulatory Relief
December 7	Randy Picker University of Chicago Law School	The Razors-and Blades Myth(s)
January 18	Richard Brooks Yale Law School	Field Experiments on Race and Spatial Distance
February 1	THIS WORKSHOP HAS BEEN CANCELLED Omri Ben-Shahar University of Chicago Law School
February 15	Lynnette Purda Queen's University School of Business	Detecting Fraud from the Language of Financial Reports
March 8	Avery Katz Columbia Law School	Virtue Ethics and Efficient Breach
March 22	Lee Fennell University of Chicago Law School	Property and Precaution
April 5	Stephen Choi New York University Law School	The Price of Pay to Play in Securities Class Actions

2009 - 2010

Date	Speaker	Title
September 22	J.J. Prescott University of Michigan Law School	Trial and Settlement: A Study of High-Low Agreements
October 13	Christine Jolls Yale Law School	Rationality and Consent in Privacy Law
November 17	Daniel Crane University of Michigan Law School	Optimizing Private Antitrust Enforcement
December 1	Benjamin Alarie University of Toronto Faculty of Law	Interventions at the Supreme Court of Canada
January 19	Janis Sarra University of British Columbia Faculty of Law	The Current Financial Crisis adn the Incentive Effects of Derivatives
February 2	Scott Hemphill Columbia Law School Co-sponsored by the Centre for Innovation Law and Policy Workshop Series	Generic Drug Challenges Prior to Patent Expiration
March 9	Marcel Kahan NYU Law School	Embattled CEOs
March 23	Anita Anand University of Toronto Faculty of Law	Is Systemic Risk Relevant to Securities Regulation?

2008 - 2009

Date	Speaker	Title
September 10 12:30 - 2:00	Alicia Davis Evans University of Michigan Law School	Are Investors' Gains and Losses from Securities Fraud Equal Over Time? Some Preliminary Evidence
October 22 12:30 - 2:00	Chad P. Bown Brandeis University	The Economics of Permissible WTO Retaliation
November 12 12:30 - 2:00	Alexander Dyck Craig Doidge Rotman School of Management University of Toronto	Taxes, Valuation and Organizational Structure: Evidence from Canada
January 14 12:30 - 2:00	Yair Listokin Yale Law School	The Pivotal Mechanism and Organizational Control
February 4 12:30 - 2:00	Talia Fisher Tel Aviv University	The Confessional Penalty
February 11 12:30 - 2:00	Mitchell Kane NYU Law School Co-sponsored by the James Hausman Tax Law & Policy Workshops	Bootstraps and Poverty Traps: Treaties as Novel Toos for Development Finance
MARCH 5 THURSDAY 4:10 - 6:00 P.M.	Rafael Di Tella Harvard Business School	Why Doesn't Capitalism Flow to Poor Countries?
March 18 12:30 - 2:00	Timur Kuran Duke University Economics Department LOCATION: Flavelle Dining Room	The Rule of Law in Islamic Thought and Practice: A Historical Perspective

2007 - 2008

Date	Speaker	Title
September 19 12:30 - 2:00	Kyle Bagwell Columbia University, Economics	Remedies for Violations of WTO Obligations
NEW DATE: September 27 Thursday 12:30 - 2:00	Richard Bird University of Toronto, Rotman School Eric Zolt UCLA Law School Co-sponsored by the James Hausman Tax Law & Policy Workshops NEW LOCATION: Faculty Lounge, 78 Queen's Park	The Dual Income Tax: A Possible Approach for Developing Countries
October 31 12:30 - 2:00	Susan Rose-Ackerman Yale Law School	Public Administration and Judicial Institutions in Latin America: A Review of the Issues and Proposals for Reform
November 14 12:30 - 2:00	Cherie Metcalf Queen's University	Corporate Social Responsibility as Global Public Law: Third Party Standards as Regulation by Information
December 5 12:30 - 2:00	Matthew Adler University of Pennsylvania Law School Co-sponsored by the Legal Theory Workshops	Well-Being, Inequality and Time: The Time-Slice Problem and its Policy Implications
January 16 12:30 - 2:00	Thomas Miles University of Chicago Law School	Judging the Voting Rights Act (co-authored with Adam Cox)
March 5 12:30 - 2:00	Douglas Baird University of Chicago Law School	Financial Innovation and the New Chapter 11
March 19 12:30 - 2:00	Tom Ginsburg University of Illinois College of Law	The Lifespan of Written Constitutions
April 2 12:30 - 2:00	Edward Rock University of Pennsylvania Law School	The Hanging Chads of Corporate Voting

2006 - 2007

Date	Speaker	Title
SEPTEMBER 13 (Wed) 12:10-2:00	Donatella Porrini University of Lecce (Italy)	Class Actions for Financial Losses: Deterrence Effects from Ex-Post Regulation
SEPTEMBER 27 (Wed) 12:10 - 2:00	Jody Kraus University of Virginia Law School	The Jurisprudential Origins of Contemporary Contract Theory
OCTOBER 11 (Wed) 12:10 - 2:00	Massimo D'Antoni University of Siena (Italy)	Proprietary vs. Non-Proprietary Licensing and Software Development
NOVEMBER 1 (Wed) 12:10 - 2:00	Claire Priest Northwestern University Law School	Creating an American Property Law: Alienability and Its Limits in American History
NOVEMBER 15 (Wed) 12:10 - 2:00	James Hines University of Michigan Co-sponsored by the James Hausman Tax Law & Policy Workshops	Should Governments Try to Tax Foreign income?
November 29 (Wed) 12:10 - 2:00	Catherine Sharkey Columbia University Law School	Regulatory Voids: Tort Law in the Modern State
JANUARY 17 (Wed) 12:10 - 2:00	Martha Bailey University of Michigan Department of Economics	Momma's Got the Pill: The Impact of Griswold v. Connecticut on U.S. Childbearing
FEBRUARY 7 (Wed) 12:10 - 2:00	Jonathan Klick Florida State University	Cheap Doughnuts and Expensive Broccoli: The Effect of Relative Price Changes on Obesity
FEBRUARY 14 (Wed) 12:10 - 2:00	Steve Bank UCLA School of Law Co-sponsored by the James Hausman Tax Law & Policy workshops NEW LOCATION: Classroom FLA, 78 Queen's Park	Taxation and the Separation of Ownership and Control
February 28 (Wed) 12:10 - 2:00	Robert Rasmussen Vanderbilt University Law School	Financial Contracting and Transnational Insolvencies
MARCH 6 (Tuesday) 12:10 - 2:00	Edward Morrison Columbia University	The Irrelevance of Federal Bankruptcy Law: Small Business Distress and State Law
March 21 (Wed) 12:10 - 2:00	Alison Morantz Stanford University Law School

2005 - 2006

Date	Speaker	Title
SEPTEMBER 14 12:10-2:00	Peter Schuck Yale Law School	Bad Draws, Bad Bets, Bad Apples, and Bad Policies
OCTOBER 5 12:10 - 2:00	Tomer Broude Hebrew University of Jerusalem	Taking 'Trade and Culture' Seriously: Geographical Indications and Cultural Protection in WTO Law
OCTOBER 19 12:10 - 2:00	Albert Choi University of Virginia	Optimal Successor Liability
NOVEMBER 16 12:10 - 2:00	Edward McCaffery University of Southern Caliornia Co-sponsored by the James Hausman Tax Law & Policy Workshop series.	Starving the beast: The psychology of budget deficits
NOVEMBER 30 12:10 - 2:00	Tony Duggan University of Toronto	Exemplary Damages in Equity (Punitive Damages for Breach of Fiduciary Obligation)
JANUARY 4 12:10 - 2:00 PLEASE NOTE NEW DATE	Samuel Issacharoff New York University	Backdoor Federalization: Grappling with the "Risk to the Rest of the Country"
FEBRUARY 1 12:10 - 2:00	Ronen Avraham Northwestern University	The Impact of Tort Reform on Medical Malpractice Awards, 1991-1998
FEBRUARY 15 12:10 - 2:00	George Triantis University of Virginia	A Capital-Structure Theory of Firm Boundaries
MARCH 8 12:10 - 2:00	Steven Shavell Harvard University	Contract Law
TUES MARCH 14 12:10 - 2:00 Location: Classroom FLA 78 Queen's Park	Gillian Hadfield University of Southern California Please note different day and time.	tba
MARCH 29 12:10 - 2:00	Reinier Kraakman Harvard University	A Gatekeeper Problem: The Structure of Incentives for Outide Directors

2004 - 2005

Date	Speaker	Title
SEPTEMBER 17 12:10-2:00	Curtis Milhaupt Columbia University	Choice as Regulatory Reform: The Case of Japanese Corporate Governance
OCTOBER 6 12:10 - 2:00	Art Durnev University of Miami Business School; Visiting Professor, Rotman School of Management	To Steal or Not to Steal: Firm Attributes, Legal Environment, and Valuation
OCTOBER 13 12:10 - 2:00	Joanna Shepherd Emory University	Are All Executions Equal? The Varying Deterrent Effects of Different Executions
OCTOBER 27 12:10 - 2:00	Richard McAdams University of Illinois	Expressive Adjudication
NOVEMBER 17 12:10 - 2:00	Michael Trebilcock University of Toronto	Critiquing the Critics of Economic Globalization
DECEMBER 1 12:10 - 2:00	Andrew Green University of Toronto	Trade Rules and Climate Change Subsidies
JANUARY 19 12:10 - 2:00	Alexander Dyck University of Toronto	Theft and Taxes
FEBRUARY 2 12:10 - 2:00	Lior Strahilevitz Univeristy of Chicago	A Social Networks Theory of Privacy
FEBRUARY 23 12:10 - 2:00	Albert Yoon Northwestern University	Offer-of-Judgment Rules and Civil Litigation: An Empirical Study of Insurance Litigation in the East
MARCH 16 12:10 - 2:00	Laura Beny University of Michigan	Reflections on the Diversity-Performance Nexus among Elite U.S. Law Firms: Toward a Theory of a Diversity Norm
MARCH 30 12:10 - 2:00	Richard Brooks Yale University	Incorporating Race

For more information about this workshop, please contact Nadia Gulezko at n.gulezko@utoronto.ca