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2012 GMU Law & Economics Center Workshop on Empirical Methods for Law Professors
May 21-25 the GMU LEC will be hosting its Workshop on Empirical Methods for Law Professors once again this year. Applications are available at the links below — and more information is available here. The Workshop on Empirical Methods for Law Professors is designed to teach law professors the conceptual and practical skills required to ... 2012 GMU Law & Economics Center Workshop on Empirical Methods for Law Professors
Randomizing Regulation
An interesting post on the University of Pennsylvania Reg Blog from Michael Abramowicz, Ian Ayres, and Yair Listokin (AAY) on “Randomizing Regulation,” based upon their piece in the U Penn L. Rev. If legislators disagree about the efficacy of a proposed policy, why not resolve the disagreement with a bet? One approach would be to impose ... Randomizing Regulation
Reference Bloat in Management Journals Meets its Match
Peter Klein offers up some thoughts on “reference bloat” in academic journals: Nature News (via Bronwyn Hall): One in five academics in a variety of social science and business fields say they have been asked to pad their papers with superfluous references in order to get published. The figures, from a survey published today in ... Reference Bloat in Management Journals Meets its Match
Do Expert Agencies Outperform Generalist Judges? Some Preliminary Evidence from the Federal Trade Commission
I’ve posted a new project in progress (co-authored with Angela Diveley) to SSRN. In “Do Expert Agencies Outperform Generalist Judges?”, we attempt to examine the relative performance FTC Commissioners and generalist Article III federal court judges in antitrust cases and find some evidence undermining the oft-invoked assumption that Commission expertise leads to superior performance in ... Do Expert Agencies Outperform Generalist Judges? Some Preliminary Evidence from the Federal Trade Commission
Further Empirical Evidence on Forum Shopping in Philadelphia Civil Courts
Late last year, with support from the International Center for Law and Economics, I published a paper that empirically analyzed the Philadelphia civil court system. That study focused upon the Philadelphia Complex Litigation Center (PCLC) which handles large mass tort programs including asbestos cases, hormone therapy replacement cases, various prescription drug-related injuries, and other mass ... Further Empirical Evidence on Forum Shopping in Philadelphia Civil Courts
Olin-Searle-Smith Fellows in Law
I am pleased to pass along the following information regarding Olin-Smith-Searle Fellowships for the upcoming 2012-13 academic year. The application deadline is March 15, 2012. 2012 – 2013 The Program The Olin-Searle-Smith Fellows in Law program will offer top young legal thinkers the opportunity to spend a year working full time on writing and developing their ... Olin-Searle-Smith Fellows in Law
Research Bleg: Competition Settlements With Conditions (Arguably) Contrary to Consumer Welfare
Judge Ginsburg and I are working on a project for an upcoming festschrift in honor of Bill Kovacic. The project involves the role of settlements in the pursuit of the goals of antitrust. In particular, we are looking for examples of antitrust settlements between competition agencies and private parties — in the U.S. or internationally ... Research Bleg: Competition Settlements With Conditions (Arguably) Contrary to Consumer Welfare
Remembering Larry Ribstein
I was terribly saddened and, quite frankly, dumbfounded when I heard that Larry Ribstein had passed away. I had seen Larry approximately three weeks before when he gave a workshop at Yale and the last thought that would have crossed my mind would have been that I would be receiving such horrible news. At the ... Remembering Larry Ribstein
Larry Ribstein, RIP
This morning our dear colleague, Larry Ribstein, passed away. The intellectual life of everyone who knew him, of this blog, and of the legal academy at large is deeply diminished for his passing. For me, as for many others, Larry was an important influence, not only intellectually but personally, as well. Larry was the godfather ... Larry Ribstein, RIP
The AALS doesn’t want to hear about the future of law teaching
The AALS each year selects a few “hot topics” program proposals for discussion of “late-breaking” subjects at the January meeting. This year I agreed to be included in a hot topics panel described as follows: Law schools have long kept a comfortable distance from the concerns of the practicing bar. Earlier calls for reform such ... The AALS doesn’t want to hear about the future of law teaching
UCLA Law’s Lowell Milken Institute Law Teaching Fellowship Now Accepting Applications
I’m pleased to pass along the following information from the Lowell Milken Institute for Business Law and Policy at UCLA School of Law: Introduction The Lowell Milken Institute for Business Law and Policy at UCLA School of Law is now accepting applications for the Lowell Milken Institute Law Teaching Fellowship. This fellowship is a ... UCLA Law’s Lowell Milken Institute Law Teaching Fellowship Now Accepting Applications
An academic’s day in court
About a month ago I discussed a case in which I had written an amicus brief: Last year I wrote here about Roni LLC v Arfa, which I cited as an example of the ”troubling lawlessness of NY LLC law.” In brief, the court sustained a non-disclosure claim based on “plaintiffs’ allegations that the promoter ... An academic’s day in court
