The Law, Economics, and Organization Workshop, which was established in 1984, is an interdisciplinary workshop that brings to Yale Law School social scientists and legal scholars, generally from other universities, whose research involves a broad range of issues.

2006-2007 Schedule

The workshop meets from 4:10-5:40 p.m. in Room 121.
For further information, please contact
Deborah Sestito at (203) 432-4830 or deborah.sestito@yale.edu

Fall 2006

September 7	Judy Chevalier and Fiona Scott-Morton, Yale, Management State Casket Sales Restrictions: A Pointless Undertaking?
September 14	Max Schanzenbach, Northwestern, Law Strategic Judging Under the Sentencing Guidelines:  Positive Political Theory and Evidence
October 5	Devah Pager, Princeton, Sociology Race at Work: Discrimination in Low Wage Labor Markets
October 19	Timothy Guinnane, Yale, Economics Business Organization in the Long Run:  Private Limited Companies Rule!
November 9	Jeff Strnad, Stanford, Law Should Legal Empiricists Go Bayesian
November 16	Kevin Murphy, USC, Business Executive Stock Options & IPO Underpricing
November 30	Jesse Rothstein, Princeton, Economics Tipping and the Dynamics of Segregation in Neighborhoods and Schools

Spring 2007

February 8	Anup Malani, University of Chicago, Law Valuing Laws as Local Amenities
February 22	Lee Epstein, Northwestern, Law The Changing Dynamics of Senate Voting on Supreme Court Nominees
March 8	Erica Field, Harvard, Economics
March 29	Jon Klick, Florida State, Law Cheap Doughnuts and Expensive Broccoli:  The Effect of Relative Price Changes on Obesity
April 12	John Ferejohn, Stanford, Political Science and NYU, Law The First Superstatute:  Institutionalizing Central Banking in the US Paper 1 Paper 2
April 26	Ken Ayotte, Columbia, Business, Optimal Property Rights in Financial Contracting
May 10	Michael Greenstone, MIT, Economics Climate Change, Mortality, and Adaptation: Evidence from Annual Fluctuations in Weather in the US

Course requirements for registered students
LEO Course Requirements, Spring 2007 
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