Law and Economics Workshops: Past Years

2021 - 2022 SCHEDULE
DATE & TIME	LOCATION	SPEAKER & TOPIC
September 21, 2021 4:10 PM - 5:45 PM	Zoom Meeting	Dorothy Lund – University of Southern California
September 28, 2021 4:10 PM - 5:45 PM	Zoom Meeting	Hajin Kim - University of Chicago
October 12, 2021 4:10 PM - 5:45 PM	Zoom Meeting	Ann Lipton - Tulane
October 19, 2021 4:10 PM - 5:45 PM	Zoom Meeting	Dave Hoffman - University of Pennsylvania
October 26, 2021 4:10 PM - 5:45 PM	Zoom Meeting	Alon Brav - Duke, Faqua
November 30, 2021 4:10 PM - 5:45 PM	Zoom Meeting	Jens Frankenreiter - University of Washington
January 11, 2022 4:10 PM - 5:45 PM	Zoom Meeting	Dan Awrey - Cornell
March 8, 2022 4:10 PM - 5:45 PM	Zoom Meeting	Jonah Gelbach - Berkeley
March 22, 2022 4:10 PM - 5:45 PM	In Person TBA	Adi Leibovitch - Hebrew University

2020 - 2021 SCHEDULE
DATE & TIME	LOCATION	SPEAKER & TOPIC
September 22 2020 4:10 PM - 5:45 PM	Zoom Meeting	Alan Schwartz – Yale University The Unavoidable Production Problem in Contract Law
October 20 2020 4:10 PM - 5:45 PM	Zoom Meeting	Adam Badawi - UC Berkeley Law School
November 10 2020 4:10 PM - 5:45 PM	Format TBD In person if conditions permit	Peter Cziraki - University of Toronto Department of Economics
January 12 2021 4:10 PM - 5:45 PM	Format TBD In person if conditions permit	Jared Ellias - US Hastings College of Law
January 26 2021 4:10 PM - 5:45 PM	Zoom Meeting	Howell Jackson - Harvard Law School
February 9 2021 4:10 PM - 5:45 PM	Zoom Meeting	Cathy Hwang - University of Virginia Law School
February 23 2021 4:10 PM - 5:45 PM	Zoom Meeting	Megan Stevenson - University of Virginia Law School
March 9 2021 4:10 PM - 5:45 PM	Zoom Meeting	Abby Wood - USC Gould Law School
March 23 2021 4:10 PM - 5:45 PM	Format TBD In person if conditions permit	Ignacio Cofone - McGill University Faculty of Law

2019 - 2020 SCHEDULE
DATE & TIME	LOCATION	SPEAKER & TOPIC
September 10	FL-219 Flavelle Building 78 Queen's Park	Mitu Gulati - Duke University School of Law Pricing Collective Action Clauses: Where's the Hidden Holdout?
September 24	FL-219 Flavelle Building 78 Queen's Park	Mikhail Simutin - University of Toronto Rotman School of Management The origins and real effects of the gender gap: Evidence from CEOs' formative years
October 8	FL-219 Flavelle Building 78 Queen's Park	Elisabeth Kempf - University of Chicago Booth School of Business Litigating Innovation: Evidence from Securities Class Action Lawsuits
October 22	FL-219 Flavelle Building 78 Queen's Park	Manisha Padi - University of Chicago Law School Fiduciary Duty and the Market for Financial Advice
November 12	FL-219 Flavelle Building 78 Queen's Park	Joanna Shepherd - Emory University School of Law Free to Judge: The Corrupting Influence of Money in State Courts
January 14	FL-219 Flavelle Building 78 Queen's Park	Christian Turner - University of Georgia School of Law The Segregation Of Markets Co-sponsored with the Legal Theory Workshop series
January 28	FL-219 Flavelle Building 78 Queen's Park	Nicolas Lamp - Queens University Faculty of Law How Should We Think about the Winners and Losers from Globalization? Three Narratives and Their Implications for the Redesign of International Economic Agreements
February 11	FL-219 Flavelle Building 78 Queen's Park	Daniel Klerman - University of Southern California Gould School of Law
February 25	FL-219 Flavelle Building 78 Queen's Park	Frederick Tung - Boston University School of Law Banking on Innovation: The Role of Lender Governance

2018 - 2019 SCHEDULE
DATE & TIME	LOCATION	SPEAKER & TOPIC
September 18	FL-219 Flavelle Building 78 Queen's Park	Michael Frakes - Duke University School of Law Is Great Information Good Enough? Evidence from Physicians as Patients
October 2	FL-219 Flavelle Building 78 Queen's Park	Kathryn Judge - Columbia Law School Guarantor of Last Resort
October 16	FL-219 Flavelle Building 78 Queen's Park	Ahmed Taha - Pepperdine University School of Law Regulating the Advertising of Opinions: An Experimental Investigation
October 30	FL-219 Flavelle Building 78 Queen's Park	Talia Gillis - Harvard Law School Big Data and Discrimination
November 13	FL-219 Flavelle Building 78 Queen's Park	Tom Merrill - Columbia Law School The Economics and Law of Leasing
January 15	FL-219 Flavelle Building 78 Queen's Park	Sarath Sanga - Northwestern University Pritzker School of Law
January 29	FL-219 Flavelle Building 78 Queen's Park	Frank Partnoy - University California, Berkeley School of Law The Misuse of Tobin's Q
February 12	FL-219 Flavelle Building 78 Queen's Park	Avi Goldfarb - University of Toronto Rotman School of Management Artificial Intelligence and Healthcare: RESCHEDULED to March 12
February 26	FL-219 Flavelle Building 78 Queen's Park	Colleen Honigsberg - Stanford Law School Deleting Misconduct: The Expungement of BrokerCheck Records
March 12	FL-219 Flavelle Building 78 Queen's Park	Avi Goldfarb - University of Toronto Rotman School of Management Artificial Intelligence and Healthcare

2017- 2018 Schedule
DATE & TIME	LOCATION	SPEAKER & TOPIC
September 12	Room J225 Jackman Law Bldg 78 Queen's Park	Marin Levy - Duke University School of Law Panel Assignment in the Federal Courts of Appeals
September 26	Room J225 Jackman Law Bldg 78 Queen's Park	Cynthia Rudin - Duke University Computer Science Transparency, causality, and bias: Can we really use machine learning for high stakes decisions
October 10	NEW LOCATION Flavelle Building Room 219	George Triantis - Stanford Law School The Design of Staged Contracting (co-authored with Albert Choi)
November 14	NEW LOCATION Flavelle Building Room 219	J.J. Prescott - University of Michigan Law School Noncompetes and Employee Mobility
January 16	Room 219 Flavelle Building 78 Queen's Park	Paige Marta Skiba - Vanderbilt Law School What Do Small Claims Court Judges Maximize? Evidence from Italy
January 30	Room 219 Flavelle Building 78 Queen's Park	Natalie Bau - University of Toronto Dept. of Economics Can Policy Crowd Out Culture?
February 13	Room 219 Flavelle Building 78 Queen's Park	Eric Talley - Columbia Law School Informed Trading and Cybersecurity Breaches
February 27	Room 219 Flavelle Building 78 Queen's Park	John Pfaff - Fordham University School of Law Truth in Sentencing Laws and the Limited Role of the Federal Government in Criminal Justice: Evidence From the 1994 Crime Control Act, And What it Means for Today
March 6	Room 219 Flavelle Building 78 Queen's Park	Edward Cheng - Vanderbilt Law School Fair Division of Attorneys' Fees

2016- 2017 Schedule
DATE & TIME	LOCATION	SPEAKER & TOPIC
September 13 Tuesday	Solarium (Rm. FA2) Falconer Hall	Dan Awrey - University of Oxford Faculty of Law Law and the Shadow Payment System
September 20 Tuesday	Solarium (Rm. FA2) Falconer Hall	Kevin Davis - NYU School of Law\| Multijurisdictional Enforcement Games
October 18 Tuesday	Solarium (Rm. FA2) Falconer Hall	Alison Morantz - Stanford University Law School Rejecting the Grand Bargain: What Happens When Large Companies Opt Out of Workers' Compensation?
November 1 Tuesday	Solarium (Rm. FA2) Falconer Hall	Jennifer Bennett Shinall - Vanderbilt University Law School Opting Out and Division of Marital Assets
November 15 Tuesday	Solarium (Rm. FA2) Falconer Hall	Yun-chien Chang - Institutum Iurisprudentiae, Academia Sinica, Taiwan Do Parties Negotiate After Trespass Litigation? An Empirical Study of Cosaean Bargaining
January 17 Tuesday	Solarium (Rm. FA2) Falconer Hall	Michael Heise - Cornell Law School When Winning Is Not Enough: Non-Adverse State Civil Appeals and Their Implications for Efficiency
February 7 Tuesday	Solarium (Rm. FA2) Falconer Hall	Paul Mahoney - University of Virginia School of Law The Regulation of Trading Markets: A Survey and Evaluation
February 28 Tuesday	Solarium (Rm. FA2) Falconer Hall	Cherie Metcalf - Queen's University Faculty of Law Institutions & Information: Public Perception of Climate Change Information Provided by Government vs. the Market
March 14 Tuesday	Solarium (Rm. FA2) Falconer Hall	Joel Trachtman - Tufts University Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy The International Law and Economics of Citizenship and Migration

2015- 2016 Schedule
DATE & TIME	LOCATION	SPEAKER & TOPIC
September 15 Tuesday 4:10 - 5:45	Solarium Falconer Hall 84 Queen's Park	Oliver Hart - Harvard Department of Economics Short-term, Long-term, and Continuing Contracts
October 13 Tuesday 4:10 - 5:45	Solarium Falconer Hall 84 Queen's Park	Steven Choi - NYU Law School Does Majority Voting Improve Board Accountability?
October 27 Tuesday 4:10 - 5:45	Solarium Falconer Hall 84 Queen's Park	Joanna Shepherd - Emory University Law School Partisanship in State Supreme Courts: The Empirical Relationship between Party Campaign Contributions and Judicial Decisionmaking (co-authored with Michael Kang)
November 24 Tuesday 4:10 - 5:45	Solarium Falconer Hall 84 Queen's Park	Miguel de Figueiredo - University of Connecticut Law School Throw Away the Jail or Throw Away the Key? The Effect of Punishment on Recidivism and Social Cost
January 12 Tuesday 4:10 - 5:45	Solarium Falconer Hall 84 Queen's Park	Pat Akey - University of Toronto Rotman School of Management Policy Uncertainty, Political Capital, and Firm Risk-Taking
February 9 Tuesday 4:10 - 5:45	Solarium Falconer Hall 84 Queen's Park	Anthony Casey - University of Chicago Law School Bankruptcy on the Side
February 23 Tuesday 4:10 - 5:45	Solarium Falconer Hall 84 Queen's Park	Valerie Hans - Cornell Law School From Meaning to Money: Translating Injury into Dollars
March 8 Tuesday 4:10 - 5:45	Solarium Falconer Hall 84 Queen's Park	Jonah Gelbach, University of Pennsylvania Law School
March 22 Tuesday 4:10 - 5:45	Solarium Falconer Hall 84 Queen's Park	Sonia Starr, University of Michigan Law School Ban the Box Laws: An Auditing Study

2014-15 Schedule
DATE & TIME	LOCATION	SPEAKER & TOPIC
September 9 Tuesday 4:10 - 5:45	Solarium Falconer Hall 84 Queen's Park	Crystal Yang - Harvard Law School Justice Vacated? The Impact of Judicial Vacancies on the Criminal Justice System
September 30 Tuesday 4:10 - 5:45	Solarium Falconer Hall 84 Queen's Park	Suresh Naidu - Columbia University School of International and Public Affairs Coercive Contract Enforcement: Law and the Labor Market n 19th Century Industrial Britain
October 14 Tuesday 4:10 - 5:45	Solarium Falconer Hall 84 Queen's Park	Dan Trefler - University of Toronto Rotman School of Management The Rents from Trade: Removing the Sugar Coating
October 28 Tuesday 4:10 - 5:45	Solarium Falconer Hall 84 Queen's Park	Jeffrey Rachlinski - Cornell Law School Do Judges Follow the Law or Follow Their Feelings?
February 10 Tuesday 4:10 - 5:45	Solarium Falconer Hall 84 Queen's Park	Albert Choi - University of Virginia Law School Relational Sanctions against Non-Profit Organizations: Why a Selfish Entrepreneur Would Organize a Non-Profit Enterprise
February 24 Tuesday 4:10 - 5:45	Solarium Falconer Hall 84 Queen's Park	William Hubbard - University of Chicago Law School Nuisance Suits
March 3 Tuesday 4:10 - 5:45	Solarium Falconer Hall 84 Queen's Park	Kathryn Zeiler - Georgetown University Law Center The Impact of Damages Caps on Medical Malpractice Insurance Premiums
March 17 Tuesday 4:10 - 5:45	Solarium Falconer Hall 84 Queen's Park	Alan Sykes - NYU Law School Economic "Necessity" in International Law
March 31 Tuesday 4:10 - 5:45	Solarium Falconer Hall 84 Queen's Park	Tess Wilkinson-Ryan - University of Pennsylvania Law School The Common Sense of Contract Formation

2013-14

DATE & TIME	LOCATION	SPEAKER & TOPIC
October 1 Tuesday 4:10 - 6:00	Solarium Falconer Hall 84 Queen's Park	Eric Talley - Berkeley Law School Financial Regulation and the World's Most Important Number: LIBOR Reporting Behavior During the Credit Crisis
October 15 Tuesday 4:10 - 6:00	Solarium Falconer Hall 84 Queen's Park	Jill Fisch - University of Pennsylvania Law School The Influence of Arbitrator Background and Representation on Arbitration Outcomes
October 29 Tuesday 4:10 - 6:00	Solarium Falconer Hall 84 Queen's Park	Omri Ben-Shahar - University of Chicago Law School The Uneasy Case for Equal Access
November 12 Tuesday 4:10 - 6:00	Solarium Falconer Hall 84 Queen's Park	David Trubek - University of Wisconsin Law School Beyond Self-Estrangement: Law and Development 40 Years On This workshop is co-sponsored with the Globalization, Law & Justice Workshop series.
December 3 Tuesday 4:10 - 6:00	Solarium Falconer Hall 84 Queen's Park	Heski Bar-Isaac - University of Toronto Rotman School of Management Reputation with Heterogeneous Audiences: An Application to Optimal Client Lists
January 14 Tuesday 4:10 - 6:00	Solarium Falconer Hall 84 Queen's Park	Kathy Spier - Harvard Law School Shotguns and Deadlocks
February 4 Tuesday 4:10 - 6:00	Solarium Falconer Hall 84 Queen's Park	Jonathan Klick - University of Pennsylvania Law School The Effect of Privately Provided Police Services on Crime
March 11 Tuesday 4:10 - 6:00	Solarium Falconer Hall 84 Queen's Park	Bert Huang - Columbia Law School Concurrent Damages
March 25 Tuesday 4:10 - 6:00	Solarium Falconer Hall 84 Queen's Park	Joshua Gans - University of Toronto Rotman School of Management Remix Rights and Negotiations Over the Use of Copy-protected Works

2012-13

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 18^th-century France

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

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