Workshop Series

The Law, Business, and Economics Workshop Series serves as an important focal point at the University of Texas for research on the economic analysis of law and business. The workshop generally involves presentations by guests from outside the University community. Students can take the workshop as a course, which focuses on their presentation of written critiques of each of the papers presented in the workshop series.

Workshops are held at 3:30 p.m. to 6:00 p.m., see schedule below for room location

Fall 2009 | Spring 2009 | Fall 2008 | Spring 2008 | Spring 2007

Fall 2006 | Spring 2006 | Fall 2005 | Spring 2005 | Fall 2004

Spring 2005

Date Speaker School Paper Title
January 24 David Dana Northwestern “Using the Veil of Ignorance to Ensure Distributive Justice in Class Actions”
January 31 No speaker
February 7 Ehud Kamar USC “Beyond Competition for Corporations”
February 14 Clayton Gillette NYU “The Political Economy of International Sales”
February 21 Kate Litvak Texas “Governance Through Exit: Default Penalties and Walkaway Options in Venture Capital Partnership Agreements”
February 28 Rick Sander UCLA “A Systematic Analysis of Affirmative Action in American Law Schools”
March 7 Silver & Black

Tom Baker		 Texas

Connecticut		 Stability, Not Crisis: Medical Malpractice Claim Outcomes in Texas

“The Uses and Abuses of Empirical Research On the Validity of Medical Malpractice Claims”
March 14 Spring Break
March 21 Jeffrey Rachlinski Cornell “Can Judges Ignore Inadmissible Information?”
March 28 Kathryn Zeiler Georgetown “Asymmetries in Exchange Behavior Incorrectly Interpreted as Evidence of Prospect Theory”
April 4 Brian Cheffins Cambridge “Dividends and Politics”
April 11 Doron Teichman Texas “Sex, Shame, and the Law: An Economic Perspective on Megan’s Laws”
April 18 Reinier Kraakman Harvard “CEO Job Tenure, Equity Ownership, and the Decision to Sell the Company”
April 25 Michael Heise Cornell “Judges, Juries, and Punitive Damages: Empirical Analyses”
May 2 Guhan Subaramian Harvard “Fixing Freezeouts“

Copies of speakers’ papers will be posted as they become available.