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 2008

Date Speaker School Paper Title Room #
Jan 14 Jeffrey Staton Emory University The Value of Vagueness: Delegation, Defiance, and Judicial Opinions Sheffield Room
Jan 28 Niko Matouschek Northwestern University Optimal Delegation TNH 3.127
Feb 4 Giuseppe Dari-Mattiacci Universiteit Van Amsterdam Negative Liability Sheffield Room
Feb 11 Alon Harel The Hebrew University of Jerusalem Uncertainty Revisited: Legal Prediction and Legal Postdiction Sheffield Room
Feb 18 David Walker Boston University Regulatory Tax Penalties TNH 3.127
Feb 25 Mark Gergen The University of Texas School of Law Third Party Opinions as a Tool for Enforcing Tax Law Sheffield Room
Mar 3 Katherine Litvak University of Texas School of Law The Correlation Between Cross-Listing Premia, US Stock Prices, and Volume of US Trading: A Challenge to Law-Based Theories of Cross-Listing TNH 3.127
Mar 17 Jens Dammann University of Texas School of Law The Incorporation Choices of Privately Held Corporations Sheffield Room
Mar 24 Adair Morse University of Chicago Payday Lenders: Heroes or Villains? TNH 3.127
Mar 31 Michael Perino St. John's University The Milberg Weiss Indictment: No Harm, No Foul? Sheffield Room
April 7 Albert Choi University of Virginia Integrating an Agreement to Induce Information Disclosure* TNH 3.127
April 14 Jeffrey Lax Columbia University Doctrinal Choice in the Judicial Hierarchy Sheffield Room
April 28 Mark Weinstein University of Southern California Why Is Debt Debt? Sheffield Room

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