Faculty Law & Economics Workshops

The workshop program invites law and economics scholars from our own faculty and from other schools to deliver working drafts of their papers to the faculty and a small group of students at Virginia. Faculty and students attending the workshops are encouraged to read the paper prior to the workshop. After brief introductory remarks by the workshop guests, questions and discussion follow for the remainder of the session.

spring 2008
12:00 pm

Monday, February 4
Yair Listokin, Yale Law School
Does Shareholder Voting Maximize Stock Market Value?

Monday, February 18
JJ Prescott, University of Michigan Law School
Do Sex Offender Registration and Notification Laws Affect Criminal Behavior?

Monday, March 17
Ronen Avraham, Northwestern Law School
Should Courts Ignore Ex-post Information When Determining Contract Damages? A Re-evaluation of Contract Remedies

Monday, March 31
Stephen Choi, NYU Law School
Director Elections and the Influence of Proxy Advisors

Monday, April 21
Christine Jolls, Yale Law School
Mandated Medical Leave in the Workplace

Fall 2007
12:00 pm

Monday, September 17
Alan Sykes, Stanford Law School
Transnational Forum Shopping as a Trade and Investment Issue

Monday, October 1
Abraham Wickelgren, Northwestern Law School
Advantage Defendant: Why Sinking Litigation Costs Makes Negative Expected Value
Defenses, but not Negative Expected Value Suits Credible
co-authored with Warren Schwartz

Monday, October 15
Joshua Fischman, Tufts Economics Department
Strategic Compliance in a Judicial Hierarchy

Monday, October 22
Tonja Jacobi, Northwestern Law School, and Matthew Sag, DePaul College of Law
The Effect of Judicial Ideology in Intellectual Property Cases

Monday, October 29
Andy Hanssen, Montana State Economics Department
“Rulers Ruled By Women” An Economic Analysis of the Rise and Fall of Women’s Rights in Ancient Sparta

Monday, November 12
Matthew Stephenson, Harvard Law School
"Optimal Political Control of the Bureaucracy"

spring 2007
12:00 pm

Monday, January 29
Kenneth Ayotte, Columbia Business School
Optimal Property Rights in Financial Contracting

Wednesday, February 28
Jennifer Arlen, NYU Law School

Monday, March 26
Barry Adler, NYU Law School

Monday, April 2
Gillian Hadfield, USC Law School

Monday, April 9
Kathryn Spier, Kellogg School of Management

Fall 2006
12:00 pm

Monday, October 2
Richard McAdams, University of Illinois College of Law
The Just World Bias and Hate Crime Statues

Monday, October 16
Albert Choi
Costly Verification and Contract Design

Monday, October 23
Mitchell Polinsky, Stanford Law School
Mandatory versus Voluntary Disclosure of Product Risks

Monday, November 6
David Weisbach, University of Chicago Law School
A Welfarist Approach to Disabilities

Monday, November 13
Roberta Romano, Yale Law School
Institutional Investors and Proxy Voting: The Impact of the 2003 Mutual Fund Voting Disclosure Regulation

Monday, December 4
Matthew Adler,  University of Pennsylvania Law School 

Spring 2006
12:00 pm

Monday, February 13
Ian Ayres, Yale Law School
Market Failure and Inequality: An Anti-Competitive Conduct Standard for Assessing When Disparate Impacts Are Unjustified

Monday, February 20
Omri Ben-Shahar, University of Michigan Law School
Boilerplate and Economic Power in Auto Manufacturing Contracts

Monday, April 3
Tracy Lewis, Duke University Fuqua School of Business
Treating Clinical Trials as a Public Good: The Most Logical Reform

Monday, April 17
Jason Johnston, University of Pennsylvania Law School
Centralization Versus Decentralization in the Regulation of Terrorism, Natural Hazards and Other Large-Scale Risks

Tuesday, May 16
Oren Bar-Gill, NYU Law School
Consent and Exchange

FALL 2005

SPRING 2005
12:00 pm

Monday, January 24
WB129
Alan Schwartz, Yale Law School (2-week Olin visitor)
How Much Irrationality Does the Market Permit?

Monday, February 7
Faculty Lounge
Laura Beny, U Michigan Law School
Does Diversity Pay? Reflections on the Diversity-Performance Nexus among Elite American Law Firms

Monday, February 21
Faculty Lounge
Kim Krawiec, UNC Law School
"The Economics of Limited Liability: An Empirical Study of New York Law Firms"

Monday, February 28
WB 129
Edward Morrison, Columbia Law School
Serial Entrepreneurs and Small Business Bankruptcies

Thursday, March 17
WB 129
Henry Smith, Yale Law School (2-week Olin visitor)
Self-Help and the Nature of Property

Monday, March 21
Faculty Lounge
Andrew Guzman, Berkeley Law School
Power Plays & Capacity Constraints: The Selection of Defendants in WTO Disputes

Monday, March 28
WB 129
Steven Shavell, Harvard Law School
Contracts, Holdup, and Legal Intervention

Wednesday, April 13
WB 129
Jesse Fried, Berkeley Law
Common Shareholder Vulnerability in Venture-Backed Startups

Monday, April 18
WB 129
Lior Strahilevitz, Chicago Law School
Exclusionary Club Goods in Residential Communities

FALL 2004

Thursday, September 9
Ariel Porat, Tel Aviv University (2-week Olin visitor)
Achieving Consensus for Wealth Redistribution

Monday, September 13
Chris Sanchirico, U Penn Law School
Evidence, Procedure and the Upside of Cognitive Error

Monday, October 4
Barak Richmond, Duke Law School
Firms, Courts, and Reputation Mechanisms: Towards a Positive Theory of Private Ordering

Monday, November 22
Klaus M. Schmidt, University of Munich (visiting at Yale)
Fairness and the Optimal Allocation of Ownership Rights

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