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.

2007-2008 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 2007

September 6	Professor Raj Chetty, University of California at Berkeley/Economics Salience and Taxation: Theory and Evidence
September 27	Professor Deirdre McCloskey, University of Illinois at Chicago/Economics How to Buy, Sell, Make, Manage, Produce, Transact, Consume with Words
October 11	Professor Abraham Bell, Bar Illan University/Law--Israel Fordham University/ Law Private Takings
November 1	Professor Glenn Loury, Brown University/Economics Valuing Identity:  The Simple Economics of Affirmative Action Programs (with Roland Fryer, Harvard)
November 15	Professor Dean Lueck, University of Arizona/Economics The Rectangular Survey versus Metes and Bounds:  Systematic and Unsystematic Land Demarcation (with Gary D. Libecap)
December 6	Professor Abraham Wickelgren, Northwestern University/Law Credible Discovery, Settlement, and Negative Expected Value Suits

Spring 2008

February 7	Professor Tom Miles, University of Chicago/Law Strategic Judging Under the Voting Rights Act (co-authored with Professor Adam Cox) Judicial Decisionmaking and the Transformation of Voting Rights Doctrine (co-authored with Professor Adam Cox)
February 21	Professor Erica Field, Harvard University/Economics Muslim Family Law, Prenuptial Agreements and the Emergence of Dowry in Bangladesh (co-authored with Attila Ambrus and Maximo Terero)
March 6	Professor Michael Woodford, Columbia University/Economics Principles and Public Policy Decisions: The Case of Monetary Policy
March 27	Professor Kathy Zeiler, Georgetown University/ Law Do Insurer Reserving Practices Drive Liability Insurance Premium Cycles?:  An Empirical Study at the Claim Level
April 10	C. Fritz Foley, Harvard University/Business Welfare Payments and Crime
April 24	Professor Sendhil Mullainathan, Harvard University/Economics Taking the Long Way Around:  Real Consequences of Transport Corruption, joint with Simeon Djankov and Sandra Sequiera
May 8	Professor Todd Henderson, University of Chicago/Law Rule 10b5-2 Trading Plan Disclosure Choice

Course requirements for registered students
LEO Course Requirements, Spring 2008 
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