Law, Economics & Organization Workshop

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.

2009-2010 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 2009 Course Requirements

Fall 2009

September 17
Professor Joshua Greene, Harvard/Psychology
"Beyond Retribution?: Punishment and Responsibility in the Age of the Brain"
September 24

Professor Steven M.Shavell, Harvard/Law
"The Uneasy Case for Product Liability"

October 8
Professor Daniel Ho, Stanford/Law
"Did a Switch in Time Save Nine?"

October 29

Professor John Armour, Oxford/Law and New York University/Law
"The Berle-Means Corporation in the 21st Century"
co-sponsored by Center for the Study of Corporate Law

November 12

Professor Anne Joseph O'Connell, University of California at Berkeley/Law
"Vacant Offices: Delays in Staffing Top Agency Positions"
November 19 The Honorable Richard Posner, 7th Circuit and University of Chicago/Law
"Some Realism About Judges: A Reply to Edwards and Livermore
Co-sponsored by the Legal Theory Workshop
December 3

Professor Louis Kaplow, Harvard/Law & Economics
"Toward a Test for Price Fixing"

Spring 2010

January 28 Professor Ebonya Washington, Yale/Economics
February 11
Professor Emily Oster, University of Chicago/Economics
February 25
Professor Thomas Brennan, Northwestern/Law
March 11
Professor C. Scott Hemphill, Columbia/Law
April 1
Professor Esther Duflo, MIT/Economics
April 15 Professor Matthew Kotchen, Yale/Forestry
April 29 Professor Eugene Kontorovich, Northwestern/Law