Fall 2011 - Spring 2012 Workshops

Spring 2012

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• January 9 - Abraham Wickelgren (University of Texas), Topic: "Admissible Third Party Litigation Funding Contracts as a Way to Constrain the Exploitation of Plaintiffs." Joint Paper with Ronen Avraham.
• January 23 - Richard Epstein (New York University School of Law), Topic: "The Constitutional Paradox of the Durbin Amendment: How Monopolies Are Offered Constitutional Protections Denied To Competitive Firms."
• February 6 - Vikramaditya Khanna (University of Michigan Law School), Topic: "CEO Connectedness within Executive Suites and Corporate Frauds."
• February 27 - Andrew Daughety (Vanderbilt University) and Jennifer Reinganum (Vanderbilt University), Topic: "Cumulative Harm and Resilient Liability Rules for Product Markets."
• March 5 - Giuseppe Dari-Mattiacci (University of Amsterdam, Visiting Professor at the University of Chicago), Topic: "The Good-Faith Purchaser: Markets, Culture, and the Legal System."
• March 19 - Zorina Khan (Bowdoin College), Topic: "Inventing in the Shadow of the Patent System: Evidence from Nineteenth Century Patents and Prizes."
• April 2 - Ronald Mann (Columbia University School of Law), Topic: "The Idiosyncracy of Patent Examiners: A Preliminary Study of the Effects of Experience and Tenure."

Fall 2011

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• September 19 - Kathryn Zeiler (Georgetown), Topic: "Are Medical Malpractice Damages Cap Study Results Method-Dependent?"
• October 3 - Benjamin Hermalin (University of California, Berkeley), Topic: "TBA."
• October 10 - Justin Wolfers (University of Pennsylvania), Topic: "Forecasting Elections: Voter Intentions versus Expectations." Location: Faculty Lounge, Rm. 433.
• October 17 - William Hubbard (University of Chicago), Topic: "The Problem of Measuring Legal Change, with Application to Bell Atlantic v. Twombly."
• October 31 - Yehonatan Givati (Harvard Law School), Topic: "The Optimal Structure of Policymaking: Rulemaking, Adjudication, Licensing and Advance Ruling."
• November 14 - Frank Partnoy (University of San Diego),  Topic: "Disclosure Strategies and Shareholder Litigation Risk."
• November 28 - Gary Charness (University of California, Santa Barbara), Topic: "How Communication Affects Flexibility: An Experimental Study of Formal and Informal Contracting."

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