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Quick Reaction to the Leiter Poll on Best Faculties in Law and Economics
Brian Leiter conducted a poll where voters (anybody, apparently could vote with a poll restricted to specialists to come later) could rank the top law and economics faculties from a list of the individual scholars on those faculties. Here are the results followed by a few first impressions: 1. Harvard University 2. University of Chicago ... Quick Reaction to the Leiter Poll on Best Faculties in Law and Economics
Pioneers of Law and Economics — Available Now
Pioneers of Law and Economics, a volume I edited alongside my colleague Lloyd Cohen, is now available at the Elgar Website. I’m very happy with how the book came out in large part because of the fantastic group of contributors who agreed to take on chapters, including: Harold Demsetz, Nuno Garoupa and Fernando Gomez-Pomar, Mark ... Pioneers of Law and Economics — Available Now
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Alex Tabarrok reviews economic growth textbooks and recommends this one Ribstein on the proxy access battles Private antitrust litigation is increasing quickly (picture here) — I’m setting the over/under for 2010 at 1600 cases Steve Salop on the appropriate Section 2 rule of reason standard for refusal to deal and price squeezes by unregulated, vertically ... Some Links
Jones v. Harris and Some Ramblings on Burdens of Proof, Empirical Evidence, and Behavioral Law and Economics
Much has been made about the importance of Jones v. Harris as a battle in the ongoing war between behavioral economics and rational choice/neoclassical framework (see, e.g. the NYT). If the case if to be about the appropriate economic methodology or model for assessing legal questions, it is definitely an interesting turn to have Judge ... Jones v. Harris and Some Ramblings on Burdens of Proof, Empirical Evidence, and Behavioral Law and Economics
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Kobayashi and Ribstein on jurisdictional competition in LLCs Bainbridge on Shareholder Activism in the Obama Administration Co-blogger Thom Lambert’s review of Ribstein and O’Hara’s The Law Market Peter Leeson makes the case for bringing back the third cheer for capitalism Bill Page reviewing my own review (and Dan Crane’s) of Bob Pitofsky’s How the Chicago ... Scholarship Links
Available Now: Pioneers of Law and Economics
I’m very pleased to announce that my first book editing project (along with my colleague Lloyd Cohen), Pioneers of Law and Economics, is available on-line from Edward Elgar Publishing. The book includes a series of specially commissioned essays designed to honor the founders of the law and economics enterprise. From the book: The editors of ... Available Now: Pioneers of Law and Economics
Revisionist corporate governance
If you haven’t been living under a rock recently, you’ve seen an incredible amount of hand wringing–and proposed regulation–around “excessive compensation.” I’m a little too lazy to amass all the relevant links here, but both the administration and the congress are introducing regulations/bills and talking about the issue extensively. Commentators, too, have gotten in on ... Revisionist corporate governance
Ribstein on Business, Film and Law
Wrapping up what looks like a very interesting conference at the University of Illinois on the interaction between business, film, and law, Larry Ribstein shares some thoughts in an excellent post. Readers of Ideoblog will be familiar with Professor Ribstein’s take on how artists’ negative views of capitalists find their way into film. In summing ... Ribstein on Business, Film and Law
Ribstein on Bebchuk on Paycaps
Here is Larry Ribstein commenting on Lucien Bebchuk’s recent WSJ op-ed criticizing the stimulus bill paycaps, Harvard’s Lucian Bebchuk, perhaps the leading academic critic of executive pay, has found a regulation of executive pay he didn’t like – the stimulus bill. … Academics often do not seem to understand when they propose regulatory fixes that they do not ... Ribstein on Bebchuk on Paycaps
O'Hara and Ribstein's The Law Market
You can now purchase it in hard copy, or on Kindle, and follow the action at the Conglomerate Book Club in March. I’ll be starting it on my Kindle on an airplane this afternoon.
The Law Market
The Law Market, Larry Ribstein’s new and important book with Erin O’Hara looks great and is available here from Oxford University Press. The book description from the website sets the stage: Today, a California resident can incorporate her shipping business in Delaware, register her ships in Panama, hire her employees from Hong Kong, place her ... The Law Market
Will This Be a Bull Market for Law and Economics?
Larry Ribstein thinks so. The argument is that current economic conditions have exposed the costs of economic naivete and that now is the time for rational and serious discourse about the costs and benefits of specific regulations: The last election has revealed clearly the costs of economic cluelessness. McCain’s floundering in the face of financial ... Will This Be a Bull Market for Law and Economics?
