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The John M. Olin Program in Law and Economics at UVA Law School supports faculty and student interests and research relating to the economic analysis of legal issues. The program stimulates discussions and debate through conferences, workshops and lectures. It encourages student research through colloquia.
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Extraordinary times beget extraordinary measures. Multiple national emergencies during the past quarter century have generated a pitched debate as to...
The history of public policy is littered with failures to solve large-scale social problems using interventions derived from behavioral science...
The Supreme Court has twice held since 2020 that statutory restrictions on the President’s removal power violate Article II of the U.S. Constitution...
Large language models (LLMs) now perform extremely well on many natural language processing tasks. Their ability to convert legal texts to data may...
Countries hit by unexpected crises often look to their overseas diasporas for assistance. Some countries have tapped into this generosity of their...
This chapter studies political corruption and its many relationships to the law of democracy. It begins with bribery laws, which forbid officials from...
Faculty Director(s)
Jason S. Johnston
Blaine T. Phillips Distinguished Professor in Environmental Law
Nicholas E. Chimicles Research Professor of Business Law and Regulation
Director, John M. Olin Program in Law and Economics