Speaker

Commentator

Topic

Feb. 1
9-10 am

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Stephen Choi (Berkeley)

Paper Presenting:
Law, Finance and Path Dependence: Developing Strong Securities Markets? *

schoi@law.berkeley.edu

Jack Coffee
(Columbia; visiting Harvard)

jcoffee@law.columbia.edu jcoffee@law.harvard.edu

Law and Integrity of Financial Markets

Feb. 1
10-11 am

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Jay Westbrook (Texas)

A Research Agenda for Consumer Bankruptcy in the Early Twenty-first Century

jwestbrook@mail.law.utexas.edu

Lynn LoPucki (UCLA)

lopucki@law.ucla.edu

Economic and Social Consequences of Bankruptcy Laws

Feb. 1
11-12 pm

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Frank Cross (Texas)

Paper Presenting:
Law and Economic Growth*

crossf@mail.utexas.edu

Bob Cooter (Berkeley)

rdc@law.berkeley.edu

Law and Economic Growth

Feb. 1
1:30-2:30pm

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Richard Abel (UCLA)

Paper Presenting:
Judges Write the Darndest Things:
Judicial Mystification of Limitations on Tort Liability *

abel@law.ucla.edu

Wendy Wagner (Texas)

wwagner@mail.law.utexas.edu

Economic Consequences of Tort Law

Feb. 1
2:30-3:30pm

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Troyen Brennan & coauthor Michelle Mello (Harvard Public Health)

Paper Presenting:
Deterrence of Medical Errors:
Theory and Evidence for Malpractice Reform

tabrennan@bics.bwh.harvard.edu

David Hyman (Maryland)

DHyman@law.umaryland.edu

Litigation and Health Care Quality

Feb. 1
3:30-4:30pm

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Tom McGarity (Texas) & coauthor Ruth Ruttenberg

Paper Presenting:
Counting the Cost of Health, Safety and Environmental Regulation

tmcgarity@mail.law.utexas.edu

Lynn Blais (Texas)

lblais@mail.law.utexas.edu

Costs of Regulation

Feb. 2
9-10 am

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Herbert Kritzer (Wisconsin)

Paper Presenting:
Lawyer Fees and Lawyer Behavior in Litigation: What Does the Empirical Literature Really Say? *

Kritzer@PoliSci.Wisc.Edu

Lynn Baker (Texas)

lbaker@mail.law.utexas.edu

Importance of Fee Arrangements

Feb. 2
10-11 am

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Stephen Daniels (American Bar Foundation)

Paper Presenting:
It Was The Best of Times, It Was The Worst of Times: The Precarious Nature of Plintiff's Practice in Texas

s-daniels@law.northwestern.edu

Ted Schneyer (Arizona)

schneyer@nt.law.arizona.edu

Empirical Study of Texas Plaintiffs' Lawyers

Feb. 2
11-12 pm

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Ted Eisenberg (Cornell)

Paper Presenting:
Trial Outcomes and Demographics:
Is There A Bronx Effect? *

eisnberg@postoffice.law.cornell.edu

Michael Saks (Arizona State)
michael.saks@asu.edu

Empirical Studies of Damages

Feb. 2
1:30-2:30 pm

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Deborah Hensler (Stanford)

dhensler@stanford.edu

Sam Issacharoff (Columbia)

sissac@law.columbia.edu

Asbestos Litigation after Amchem

Feb. 2
2:30-3:30 pm

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Charles Silver (Texas)

Paper Presenting:
Does Civil Justice Cost too Much? *

csilver@mail.law.utexas.edu

Geoff Miller (NYU)

MILLERG@juris.law.nyu.edu

Transaction Costs in the Civil Justice System