1/12/2010 The European Doctorate in Law and Economics (EDLE), offered by the Universities of Bologna, Hamburg and Rotterdam in collaboration with the Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research (Mumbay), is currently welcoming applications for the academic year 2011. EDLE is a 3-years doctoral programme of excellence supported by the European Commission under the Erasmus Mundus action.
Applications of promising economists and lawyers interested in carrying out research on the economic analysis of law are solicited. 9 Mundus Scholarships (net income about € 1600 pcm) are available. Application deadline: 10 January 2010. Please visit: www.edle-phd.eu for more details.

1/11/10       'The Foundations of Law and Economics' – you can register now! Join the first MetaLawEcon workshop on Friday, 26 November from 8.30-19.00 hours at Tilburg University, Cobbenhagen building, Ruth First Room (C186), organized by Tilburg Law & Economics Center (TILEC). Topics range from legal theory through epistemology and philosophy of science to specific methodological issues. More info on the programme and registration can be found here:  http://www.tilburguniversity.nl/tilec/events/conferences/26112010/metalawecon/

4/8/2010 CALL FOR PAPERS:
The 8th Annual Meeting of the German Law and Economics Association will take place at the EBS Universität für Wirtschaft und Recht on 3rd-4th December 2010 in Wiesbaden, Germany. Those interested in submitting a paper are cordially invited to send a paper or a short abstract (200 words) electronically to glea2010@ebs.edu by 15. August 2010. For further information please see the attached call for papers. [Attached File]

28/7/10 Call for Papers: International Economic Law in a Time of Change.   
The International Economic Law Interest Group of the American Society of International Law has issued a call for papers for its biennial interest group conference to take place November 18-20, 2010, at the University of Minnesota Law School. The theme is "International Economic Law in a Time of Change: Reassessing Legal Theory, Doctrine, Methodology and Policy Prescriptions." For further details see the attached annoucement. [Attached File]

26/7/10  Call for Papers: The German Law and Economics Association (GLEA) will hold its 8th Annual Meeting on December 3rd and 4th, 2010 at EBS Business School in Wiesbaden, Germany. Those interested in presenting a paper are invited to submit a title and abstract by e-mail to glea2010@ebs.edu. On account of a funding application deadline with the Thyssen Stiftung, the submission deadline is August 15. For further inofrmation see the attached conference announcement.[Attached File]

23/7/10 Call for Papers: The Economic Analysis of Law Review [Attached File] is currently accepting interesting papers for review.  Papers in English, Portuguese and Spanish are eligible for submission.  To submit your work, register at http://portalrevistas.ucb.br/index.php/EALR/user/register.  Then go to "Submissions", log in, and follow the directions there to submit your document to the journal."  More information about the Review is available at the website.  Any questions or comments should be sent to ealr@ucb.br.

23/7/10 Job Announcement: Two lectureships in law at the University of Manchester, one with possibility of teaching economics of law at undergraduate and post-graduate levels.  Further particulars are available at:
http://www.staffnet.manchester.ac.uk/employment/jobs/academic/vacancy/index.htm?ref=175404

22/7/10 Forthcoming Conference: The 8th annual meeting of the German Law and Economics Association (GLEA) will take place on 3.-4.December 2010. Further information to be announced soon.

17/6/10 SUMMER SCHOOL 2010: "LAW AND ECOMOMICS OF CONTRACTS," The Center For Financial Studies and the Ph.D. Program
in Law and Economics off Money And Finance (LEMF) are delighted to cordially invite you to join the CFS/LEMF Summer School 2010 on August 16 - 20, 2010 at the Campus Westend, Goethe University Frankfurt, Germany. The deadline for applications is July 15, 2010. For further details, please visit: http://www.ifk-cfs.de/index.php?id=1673&PHPSESSID=d8a3894e605492f153f72a892fc606bb.

14/6/10 CALL FOR PAPERS: The 14th Joint Seminar of the International Association for the Study of Insurance Economics (the Geneva Association) and the European Association of Law and Economics (EALE) will take place at the Leopold-Franzens-University in Innsbruck on February 24-25, 2011. The main topic of this seminar will be “Law and Economics of Natural Hazard Management in a Changing Climate”. Abstracts should be submitted by September 15th, 2010 for review by a scientific board at the University of Innsbruck. Full papers are due by January 31st, 2011. A selection of papers from the seminar will be invited for publication in The Geneva Papers on Risk and Insurance - Issues and Practice.
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11/2/10 CALL FOR APPLICATIONS for a Post-Doctoral Position: ERC PROJECT RESEARCHING CONDITIONS FOR EFFECTIVE INTERNATIONAL ADJUDICATION, http://www.effective-intl-adjudication.org/. The position is available with the ERC Project Researching Conditions for Effective International Adjudication (The Effectiveness Project). The Effectiveness project is a five year research project funded by the European Research Council. It is designed to develop and apply criteria for assessing the effectiveness of international courts and tribunals. For more information.  Led by Prof. Yuval Shany, the project is carried out by a research group based at the Faculty of Law, in the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. For the academic year 2010-2011, the project is offering one post-doctoral fellowship for researchers interested in studying international court effectiveness. The sum awarded as a fellowship will be 24,000 Euro per annum, plus the cost of one round trip to Israel (where applicable). Interested applicants are invited to submit a short letter of intent by 1 March 2010, to which a one page research project proposal, a CV, a writing sample, and a letter ofrecommendation from the PhD supervisor (confirming, inter alia, the award or submission of a PhD) should be appended. Applications should be sent via email to: Prof. Yuval Shany yshany@mscc.huji.ac.il. Preference will be accorded in 2010-2011 to projects focusing on assessing the effectiveness of various aspects relating to the work of human rights courts.

9/2/10 CALL FOR PAPERS:  SEARLE CENTER - THIRD ANNUAL RESEARCH SYMPOSIUM ON THE ECONOMICS AND LAW OF THE ENTREPRENEUR, Northwestern School of Law, June 17th-18th, 2010.   The Searle Center on Law, Regulation, and Economic Growth is issuing a call for original research papers to be presented at the Third Annual Research Symposium on The Economics and Law of the Entrepreneur at Northwestern University School of Law. Papers for the conference should be submitted to d-gundersen@law.northwestern.edu by February 20, 2010. Authors will be notified of decisions by March 5, 2010. Authors will receive an honorarium of $1,200 per paper to cover reasonable transportation expenses. Government employees and non-US residents may be reimbursed for travel expenses up to the honorarium amount. Authors are expected to attend and participate in the full duration of the symposium. The Searle Center will make hotel reservations and pay for rooms for authors and discussants for the night of Thursday, June 17th.  The conference is organized in cooperation with the Journal of Economics & Management Strategy (JEMS), which is edited by Dan Spulber. JEMS encourages submissions on the economics of the entrepreneur. Submissions are independent of the conference. Authors are free to publish their work in other venues (with appropriate acknowledgement of the Searle Center).

8/2/10  CALL FOR PAPERS, SPANISH ASSOCIATION OF LAW AND ECONOMICS CONFERENCE. The First Annual Conference of the Spanish Association of Law and Economics (Asociación Española de Derecho y Economía) will be held on July 1-2, 2010 at the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, in Madrid, Spain.  The Conference is inviting those interested in submitting a paper (in English or Spanish) to send electronically a short abstract (200 words) in English (and Spanish if the author so wishes) plus either a copy of the final paper (if already available) or an outline of a minimum of 2 pages to aede10@uam.es by 20 March 2010. Further information can be found in the attached call.

6/2/10 EALE 2010 Call for papers: The 27th Annual Conference of the European Association of Law and Economics (EALE) will be held on September 23-25, 2010 in Paris, France at the Université Panthéon - Assas. Those interested, are invited to submit electronically the paper (at least in its draft form) and  a short abstract (200 words)  following the online procedure at http://www.eale2010.eu/. Priority in the selection will be given to completed papers. Proposal's submission deadline: February 28, 2010. Comunication of Acceptance: May 15, 2010.  Early registration by: June 1, 2010. Final papers due by: July 15, 2010. Start here to submit a paper to this conference: STEP ONE OF THE SUBMISSION PROCESS. For further information see the conference website at http://www.eale2010.eu/.

25/1/10 CALL FOR PAPERS: XIV Annual Conference Latin American and Iberian Law and Economics Association (ALACDE) April 26 & 27, 2010. More information

22/12/09 A New Doctoral Program: A new structured doctoral programme at the Institute of Law & Economics at the University of Hamburg on The Economics of the Internationalisation of the Law is to start in April 2010. Its aim is to analyse various issues of international law based on the economic approach. The Graduiertenkolleg, which is sponsored by the German Sci­ence Foundation (DFG), will offer up to 15 scholarships. For more details see http://www.ile-graduateschool.de/_rubric/index.php?rubric=Structure.

21/12/09 Fellowships in Law, Economics, and Technology: The University of Michigan's Program in Law, Economics, and Technology is offering a post-graduate Fellowship in Law, Economics, and Technology. The Fellowship supports research by an individual who has finished graduate school (or is about to finish) and is writing on topics in the intersection between law, economics, and technology. The purpose of the fellowship is to foster research and interest in areas of Intellectual Property and Innovation, with emphasis on economics and empiricism as the disciplines of inquiry. The Fellow is expected to devote their time to their proposed course of research, to be in residence at the Law School in Ann Arbor, and to participate in the Law School's law-and-economics activities. Fellowship is either for one or two semesters. For more information contact Al LaGrone at: Tel: (734) 647-4034. Email::alagrone@umich.edu or visit: http://www.law.umich.edu/centersandprograms/lawecontech/Pages/lawecontechfellowships.aspx. Applications should be submitted by February 28, 2010.

20/12/09 CALL FOR PAPERS: PHILIP D. SHELTON PRIZE FOR OUTSTANDING LEGAL EDUCATION RESEARCH. The Shelton Prize is for outstanding published empirical research related to legal education. The prize of $5,000 will be awarded in 2010 for research published in 2008 or 2009. The winner(s) will be invited to present the paper at the LSAC annual meeting, which will be held in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, on June 2-5, 2010. Winners will be announced in the Chronicle of Higher Education. APPLICATION PROCEDURE: Nominations are now being accepted for this prize. Please send a copy of the nominated article and brief information about the author(s) to:  Stephen T. Schreiber Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer Law School Admission Council, 662 Penn Street, Newtown, PA 18940. Email:         sschreiber@LSAC.org. Nominations must be received no later than February 1, 2010, to be considered for the 2010 Shelton Prize.

19/12/09 The European Doctorate in Law and Economics (EDLE), offered by the Universities of Bologna, Hamburg and Rotterdam in collaboration with the Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research (Mumbay), is currently welcoming applications for the academic year 2010. EDLE is a 3-years doctoral programme of excellence supported by the European Commission under the Erasmus Mundus action.
Applications of promising economists and lawyers interested in carrying out research on the economic analysis of law are solicited. 10 Mundus Scholarships (net income about € 1600 pcm) are available. Application deadline: 15 February 2010. Please visit: www.edle-phd.eu for more details. POSTER

18/12/09 Call for Workshops: The Mediterranean Programme of the Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies at the European University Institute (Italy) has issued a Call to Direct a Workshop for the Twelfth session of the Mediterranean Research Meeting that will take place from 6 to 9 April 2011. Applications must be submitted electronically by 1 March 2010. All relevant details are available on the Mediterranean Research Meeting web page. An advertising poster (in pdf) can be downloaded and printed.

14/12/09 Fellowship Announcement: CALL FOR CANDIDATES – THE HENRY G. SCHERMERS FELLOWSHIP PROGRAMME. In 2008 the Hague Institute for the Internationalisation of Law (HiiL) and the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities and Social Sciences (NIAS) have      established the Henry G. Schermers Fellowship Programme. The Programme aims at providing research Fellowships to prominent scholars conducting research within the parameters of the HiiL Research Programme, National Law in a Global Society. All applications will principally be assessed against the contribution they make towards the implementation of that programme. Henry G. Schermers Fellowships are awarded for a full research year, from 1 September to 30 June (ten months), or for one semester (either 1 September to 31 January or 1 February to 30 June). DEADLINE FOR APPLICATION: For the academic year 2011/2012: 1 April 2010.  For further information about the Call: http://www.hiil.org/calls/current-calls/.

13/12/09 Fellowship Announcement: GARCIA PELAYO POSTDOCTORAL FELLOWSHIPS PROGRAMME 2009, Centre for Political and Constitutional Studies, Ministry of Presidency, Spain. The Fellowship is intended to attract PhD graduates to spend up to three years researching at the Centre. The CEPC will contract 6 outstanding postdoctoral fellows holding Ph.D. degree in either public law or social science. Applicants must have a Ph. D. degree, completed in the five years prior to the date of the closing of the call. Fellows will be assigned to the following research programmes of the CEPC: - Territorial pluralism of the state (2 fellowships) - European Union (1 fellowship) - Immigration and citizenship (1 fellowship) - Democracy and representation  (1 fellowship) - Fundamental rights (1 fellowship). Total stipend is 55.349,30 Euros per year gross (plus benefits). Fellows are covered by Spanish Social Security. Deadline for applications: 18 January 2010. For further information, see: http://www.cepc.es/convocatoria_2009.asp, Email:    fellowship@cepc.es.

11/12/09 New Journal Announcement and Call for Papers: The European Journal of Risk Regulation (EJRR) is a new international journal that provides an innovative forum for informed and scholarly discussion on how risks are regulated across policy domains in Europe and beyond. While the central focus of the journal is the European law regulating inter alia Chemicals (REACH), Nanomaterials, Pharmaceuticals, Food and Feed, Cosmetics, Pollution, Climate Change, Industrial Accidents and Public Health, discussion extends to other social sciences, such as regulation studies, risk analysis, safety science, political science and sociology. The EJRR invites submissions for the first issues of the journal. The editors are looking for papers that communicate new research, business analysis and policy insights to an informed readership across EU regulatory domains. The EJRR is expected to 'go life' in Spring 2010, and we therefore ask that work be submitted no later than January 17, 2010. Submissions will be reviewed on a rolling basis beginning December 1, 2009. Please direct submissions and any questions about our journal to: Alberto Alemanno, Editor. lemanno@hec.fr.

26/11/09 A New Blog: The ESRC Centre for Competition Policy (CCP) at the University of East Anglia, has launched a new blog: http://competitionpolicy.wordpress.com/. CCP's blog provides selective comment on competition issues in the news, Government and agency policies, and new academic research that particularly catches our eye. New posts will be restricted to one (occasionally two) per week. The idea is to stimulate critical reflection on current competition policy issues.

23/11/09 Call for Papers: AMERICAN BUSINESS LAW JOURNAL, SPECIAL ISSUE: "Law as a Source of Strategic Advantage" special issue will take a broad perspective. Therefore, the ABLJ seeks submissions on a wide variety of topics. To submit, please send a copy of your manuscript, in Microsoft Word, as an email attachment. You may direct submissions to: Prof. Ann Morales Olazabal, Managing Editor, American Business Law Journal. Email: abljsubmission@alsb.org. Submitted papers should not have been previously published elsewhere. All papers are refereed through a peer review      process. All papers must comply with the latest edition of the Bluebook.      Submissions will be accepted until February 15, 2010 or until the issue is filled. Papers will be distributed for review immediately upon submission. The Journal's editorial board will contact authors approximately six weeks after submission to communicate publication decisions.

22/11/09 Call for Papers: The CESifo Conference in Law and Economics will be held in Munich on the 28 and 29 May 2010. The call for papers is now available here. The deadline for submissions is January 15, 2010

13/11/09 A New Casebook on "Empirical Methods in Law." Leading scholars in this important area of scholarship, Robert M. Lawless, Jennifer K. Robbennolt, and Thomas S. Ulen, all of the University of Illinois have teamed together to produce a new text that "teaches law students to recognize when empirical research needs to be applied in legal practice. It provides the vocabulary with which to communicate with scientific experts, and an awareness of the type of questions to ask about empirical findings." Link to webpage
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28/7/09 New L&E Course: The Amsterdam Center for Law and Economics organizes a course in L&E with professor Thomas S. Ulen (November 2-6, 2009). Please see lex.acle.nl for details about the course.

Now freely available for download: EALE Working Paper 014-2009: Roland Kirstein, Volkswagen vs. Porsche: A Power-Index Analysis, June 2009. This paper examines the structure of the Porsche SE supervisory board, which consists of three groups, following the takeover of  Volkswagen AG. The Porsche shareholders hold 6 seats, while the 324,000 Volkswagen employees and the 12,000 Porsche employees will be represented by 3 delegates each. This paper perceives each of these three groups as unitary players and presents a power-index analysis of this supervisory board. It shows that, unless the Porsche employees are made completely powerless, Porsche and VW employees will have identical power regardless of the actual distribution of seats on the employees' side. This analysis demonstrates that the request of the Volkswagen employees (for more seats than the Porsche employees in the future supervisory board) is unfounded.

09/06/09 The Institute of Economic Affairs, The Business School, Bournemouth University, announces a seminar on "Law, Free Markets and the Crash."  The seminar will take place on Thursday, 9th July 2009, at 2, Lord North Street, Westminster, London.  Attendance at this event is free but registration is required to guarantee a place. To register, please e-mail your acceptance only to IEA Reception: iea@iea.org.uk. For further information on this seminar, please contact Dr Stephen Copp, Associate Professor, The Business School, Bournemouth University, Wallisdown, Poole BH12 5BB (e-mail scopp@bournemouth.ac.uk).  For further information about the Institute of Economic Affairs, please visit its web-site at www.iea.org.uk.
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07/06/09 Job Announcement: Professorship in International Development Law, University of Copenhagen, Faculty of Law, Copenhagen, Denmark
Date Posted: Apr. 14th, 2009. http://www.AcademicKeys.com/r?job=19694&o=398288&t=LA090521m.

04/06/09 Summer School organized by the University of Trento and Econometica: 19–25 July 2009. Summer School on the "Advances in the behavioral and experimental approach to the economics of organizations, firms, contracts and the economic analysis of the law"  organized by the University of Trento and Econometica. http://www-econo.economia.unitn.it/new/centri/laser/SS09.htm.
The deadline for Application is: 10 June 2009.

19/4/09 Now freely available for download: EALE Working Paper 013-2009: Oren Gazal-Ayal & Limor Riza, Plea-"Bargaining and Prosecution", April 2009. This working paper reviews the literature on the law and economics of prosecutorial discretion generally and plea bargaining specifically.

17/4/09 Call for Papers:  THE CANADIAN LAW AND ECONOMICS ASSOCIATION ANNUAL MEETING, October 2 and 3, 2009. To submit papers go to: http://hq.ssrn.com/conference=CLEA-2009 and follow the on-line submission instructions. The deadline for submissions is JUNE 30, 2009. If your paper has been accepted, you will be required to register for the conference immediately. Completed papers will be due by  AUGUST 15, 2009. Accepted papers will be posted on SSRN with the authors' approval. Further information is available on CLEA's website at http://www.canlecon.org.

8/4/09 Now freely available for download: EALE Working Paper 012-2009: Wolfgang Weigel, "Challenging Contemporary Trends in the (De-) Regulation for the Professions", April 2009.
This paper contains the warning that the intended deregulation for the professions, which is vigorously pursued by the European Union, might go too far given the nature of many services at stake. Building upon an objective function which focuses on the minimization of social cost of regulation it is argued that advocates of deregulation do not take sufficient account of the ‘credence good’ problem contained in the said services.
From the broad range of legal services the example of “authentication” for real estate, which is typically carried out by notaries is picked deliberately as an example. A sketch is provided of a comparison of ex ante and ex post regimes for the purpose of securing (risk averse) clients’ interests. Moreover, the likely consequences on the objective function are pointed out which result from the relaxation of regulations.

6/4/09 Now freely available for download: EALE Working Paper 011-2009: Bernd Hayo & Stefan Voigt, "The Relevance of Judicial Procedure for Economic Growth", March 2009. In this paper the authors challenge the view that procedural formalism undermines economic efficiency by fostering rent-seeking and corruption, arguing that a number of judicial procedures foster economic growth by increasing the predictability of court decisions, which leads to more transactions and higher investment levels. They investigate the effects on economic growth of 15 judicial procedures. Employing a standard growth model, they find in a cross-section of 67 countries that timeliness, written - as opposed to oral - procedures, and the right to counsel have a positive effect on growth, whereas the number of independent procedural actions as well as the presumption of innocence have negative effects.

5/4/09 Assistant Professor Positions available: BOCCONI UNIVERSITY. The Angelo Sraffa Department of Law of Bocconi University, Milan (Italy) invites applications for two positions at the junior faculty level in the area of Business Law. This year there will be a special emphasis in the areas of Italian and European Corporate law, Antitrust law, and Financial law. Application packages (full CV; samples of research; two letters of reference; teaching evaluation results, if available) should be sent via e-mail with attachments to recruiting@unibocconi.it. Applications should be received by April 30, 2009 preferably earlier).

3/4/09 Call for Papers: SEARLE CENTER ON LAW, REGULATION, AND ECONOMIC GROWTH SECOND ANNUAL RESEARCH SYMPOSIUM ON ANTITRUST ECONOMICS AND COMPETITION POLICY,  Friday, September 25th - Saturday, September 26th, 2009,  Northwestern University School of Law. Paper authors will receive an honorarium of $1,000 to cover reasonable transportation expenses, if more than one author presents at the symposium, the honorarium will be divided equally between the presenters. Government employees and non-US residents may be reimbursed for reasonable travel expenses up to the honorarium amount. Authors and discussants are expected to attend and participate in the full duration of the symposium. The Searle Center will make hotel reservations and pay for rooms for Thursday and Friday. Research Proposals should include an abstract (300 words maximum) and c.v.   Proposal Submission Deadline: by April 15th, 2009. Proposals for the conference should be submitted to both of the following email addresses: searlecenter@law.northwestern.edu and d-gundersen@law.northwestern.edu Research Proposals will be reviewed by a three-member committee. Authors will be notified of the committee's decisions by May 15th, 2009. Papers suitable for distribution to discussants and other conference participants must be received by September 1, 2009.

24/3/09 Now freely available for download: EALE Working Paper 010-2010, Bruno Deffains & Claude Fluet, "Legal versus Normative Incentives under Judicial Error." In this paper the authors analyze the complementarity between legal incentives (the threat of being held liable for damages) and normative incentives (the fear of social disapproval or stigma) in situations where instances of misbehavior are not perfectly observable. There are high stigma-high evidentiary standard regimes versus low stigma-low standard ones. The authors argue that this may explain some of the differences between common law and civil law regarding the notions of fault or negligence. The analysis also provides an explanation for trends currently observed in civil-law systems, in particular the weakening of evidentiary requirements in tort cases.

23/3/09 Post-Doctoral Position: Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter/Research Assistant, Universität Hamburg/University of Hamburg, Institut für Recht Und Ökonmik/Institute for Law and Econ. For further information visit: http://www.AcademicKeys.com/r?job=19378&o=398288&t=LA090323m.

22/3/09 Call for Papers: The Israeli Association for Law and Economics invites you to submit a paper to its 8th annual conference, to be held at the Bar-Ilan University Faculty of Law, on Thursday, June 18th, 2009. Papers can be presented in Hebrew or in English. Papers or abstracts (with the understanding that the paper will be completed by the conference date) should be submitted by April 30th, 2009. [full announcement attached].

21/3/09  A New Doctorate/Ph.D. Program in Law and Economics of Money and Finance (LEMF) at Goethe-University starts in fall 2009 and will offer a profound academic training to highly qualified international postgraduates. The application deadline for the fall 2009 term is Friday, 29 May 2009. Candidates are urged to submit their applications as soon as possible. Decisions on applications will be made on a continuous basis. Further information is available at: http://www.lemf.uni-frankfurt.de.

12/3/09 Call for Papers: THE FINANCIAL CRISIS. A conference jointly sponsored by the Yale International Center for Finance and The Review of Financial Studies. July 11 and 12, 2009, Yale University, New Haven, CT.  The absolute deadline for submission is May 1, 2009. However, authors of papers that are ready for consideration are highly encouraged to submit them as soon as the paper  is ready for consideration. The organizers will seek to provide all authors submitting a paper an indication within several weeks of the submission as to the likelihood of inclusion in the conference.  The full details of the call can be found at http://www.sfs.org/ConferenceYale2009.php.  

5/3/09 Nuno Garoupa posts on the EALE blog – following the earlier post by Henrik Lando on related matters – "On the Difference between US and European Law Schools," discussing important and timely questions regarding the nature of legal academia in Europe and its future.

5/3/09 Now freely available for download: EALE Working Paper 007-2009.Sönke Häseler, "Collective Action Clauses in International Sovereign Bond Contracts – Whence the Opposition?" This paper evaluates the debate on strengthening the international financial architecture, which peaked
in 2002 after a series of emerging market sovereign debt crises, where the universal adoption of collective action clauses (CACs) was the most promising reform proposal.

5/3/09 Now freely available for download: EALE Working Paper 006-2009. Stefan Voigt and Lorenz Blume Philipps, "The Economic Effects of Federalism and Decentralization - A Cross-Country Assessment." This paper estimates the economic effects of federalism and decentralization based on a principal component analysis, finding that institutional details differently impact outcome variables including (1) fiscal policy, (2) government effectiveness, (3) economic productivity, and (4) happiness.

4/3/09 Summer school course:  The University of Oslo, Norway announces a PhD Course on: "Topics in Economic Analysis of Institutions." Dates: 27 - 31 July 2009. Lecturer: Assistant Professor Nicola Gennaioli, CREI, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain. Main discipline: Economics
Course Credits: 10 pts (ECTS). Limitation: 30 participants. Online application form and information: http://www.sv.uio.no/oss/courses2009.html; Complete course outline: http://www.sv.uio.no/oss/gennaioli.html.

4/3/09 The The Joseph von Sonnenfels Center for the Study of Public Law and Economics at the University of Vienna announces the program of their series “discourse in law and economics” for the summer-term 2009. [ATTACHED PDF]

2/3/09 Call for Papers: INVESTIGATING LENDER PRACTICES IN THE SUBPRIME MORTGAGE MARKET.  Proposal Deadline: MARCH 31, 2009.  The Valparaiso University School of Law and the National Consumer Law Center (NCLC) invite proposals for papers based on a unique set of data from the National Mortgage Data Repository (NMDR), a joint project between NCLC and the University of Connecticut. Authors whose projects are selected will be invited to present their work at a Spring 2010 symposium at Valparaiso.....[read more]

1/3/09 Conference Announcement: THIRD INTERDISCIPLINARY CONFERENCE, THE ECONOMICS AND LAW OF INNOVATION,  April 2-3, 2009.  The Center for Research on Innovation & Entrepreneurship (soon to be renamed the Center on Law, Innovation &  Economic Growth) at Washington University Law will be hosting its third interdisciplinary conference on the general topic, The Economics and Law of Innovation. For more information or to register, please visit: http://law.wustl.edu/CRIE/conferences. Contact: Karma Jenkin.

27/2/09 Call for Papers:  The Center for Corporate Governance (CCG) at Copenhagen Business School invites submissions of papers for a WORKSHOP ON CORPORATE GOVERNANCE, 19 - 20 June, 2009. Deadline for submission: 1. April 2009....[read more]

24/2/09 Call for Papers reminder: March 15 deadline for submission of papers to the "Frontiers in the Economic Analysis of Contract Law" Workshop in Bonn.  The aim of the workshop is to allow for in-depth scientific interactions between junior and senior researchers interested in applying advanced economic methodology to contract law. Selected papers will be presented in up to 8 one-paper sessions and assigned two invited discussants. Submissions in the area of contract law based on formal modelling, micro-econometric analysis and/or experiments are welcome.[Attached PDF]

24/2/09 Now freely available for download: EALE Working Paper 005-2009: Bruno Deffains and Dominique Demougin, Legal Competition, Political Process and Irreversible Investment Decisions, Febrary 2009.The paper compares the effects of competition for the design of labor laws in an environment characterized by irreversible investments in human and physical capital, finding that where the political system is free from capture legal competition reduces welfare, while where labor captures the institutional design process legal competition improves the overall outcome.

23/2/09 Hans-Bernd Schaefer offers thought-provoking observations in a post on International Banking Regulation, Squaring the Circle? on the new EALE blog.

22/2/09 The Institute for Consumer Antitrust Studies at the Loyola University Chicago School of Law is inviting applications for a Research Fellowship for the upcoming academic year (2009-10). The Research Fellowship is designed to encourage junior scholars in law, economics, business and related fields to pursue theoretical, empirical, and or applied research in antitrust and/or consumer protection law. For more information please visit the announcement on the institute's website at: http://www.luc.edu/law/academics/special/center/antitrust/research_fellowship.html

22/2/09 Henrik Lando raises important questions about the future of European law and economics and university reform on the new EALE blog.

17/2/09 CURRENT AND NEW EALE MEMBERS CAN NOW PAY THEIR 2009 MEMBERSHIP FEE ONLINE ON THE "BECOME A MEMBER" PAGE. The first step contains simple instructions, starting with a short form that will add you to the EALE member database. After filling up the form you will be able to pay the fee through PayPal. Registration on the database will provide you with the ability to post your research to the working paper series, send relevant announcements to be published at the website, get the EALE Newsletter, and additional features that are yet to come!     

16/2/09 Now freely available for download: Wolfgang Weigel, The Standard Cost Model: A Critical Appraisal, EALE Working Paper 004-2009. This paper notes that because economies suffer from red tape, part of the initiative which has been launched under the catchword “less and better
regulation” is dedicated to the measure and reduction of administrative burdens for businesses. One attempt which has earned widespread attention and support is the “standard cost model” (SCM). The paper offers a brief summery of the model is as a starting point for a critical examination. It turns out that the method contains several shortcomings. It must thus be doubted that it could serve as a starting point for the typical cost-benefit-analysis which is contained in a more comprehensive regulatory impact assessment

16/2/09 Now freely available for download: Henrik Lando, Optimal Standards of Negligence when One Party is Uninformed of the Standards, EALE Working Paper 003-2009. The paper examines the intriguing question of whether courts should adjust the standard of negligence to take into account a potential asymmetry between the parties, such as where only parties who specialize in a given activity know the standard. Such an adjustment, for instance, could mean the imposition of a higher standard of care on the informed parties, compared to settings where both parties could be expected to become informed of the standard.

13/2/09 The new EALE Blog now online! The newly launched EALE Blog, moderated by Professor Henrik Lando, is now online and linked to the EALE website – just follow the link… Your comments are most welcome. Henrik has already put on an interesting post, and more are coming soon...

8/2/09 Conference announcement: NEW TRENDS IN FINANCING CIVIL LITIGATION IN EUROPE: A LEGAL, EMPIRICAL AND ECONOMIC ANALYSIS, on APRIL 24, 2009, at the Erasmus University Rotterdam. A description and the preliminary outline of the conference can be found in the attached brochure.[attached pdf]

4/2/09 Now freely available for download: Avishalom Tor, Oren Gazal-Ayal,and Stephen M. Garcia,Innocence, Fairness and the Willingness to Accept Plea Bargain Offers,EALE Working Paper 002-2009. The paper provides observational and experimental evidence that fairness-related concerns systematically impact defendants' preferences and judgments, and discusses the normative implications of these findings, including the cost paid by innocents collectively for their reluctance to plea.

4/2/09 Now freely available for download: Anne Van Aaken, Effectuating Public International Law through Market Mechanisms,EALE Working Paper 001-2009. The paper, which is also forthcoming in the Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics, draws on theoretical insights of a rational-choice approach to public international law (PIL) in order to analyze the prerequisites of effectuating PIL through private-market-actor incentives and market mechanisms.

2/2/09 Online Survey on Interdisciplinary Studies:  Maarten Vos, a Master's student in Law and Economics from the University of St. Gallen, who is writing his master thesis about the content of the studies of the master by sending around a questionaire in order to ask for the labor market utility of interdisciplinary studies (it is thus not only useful for the university of ST. Gallen, but for all those who offer a degree in L&E), requests those members of EALE who could spare a few moments to fill the questionnaire. The survey is available at: http://ww3.unipark.de/uc/CH_SG_UniStGallen_Vos_test/e6eb/.

30/1/09  Call for Papers: International Review of Finance issues a call for papers on Global Market Integration and Financial Crises. Submissions invited on issues related to the integration of global markets and the ongoing financial crisis. Potential topics include but are not limited to: Banking and credit markets; Real estate, Regulation of financial markets; and Market transparency and liquidity. A set of papers from those submitted for the special issue will be featured in a conference to be held in Hong Kong on July 12th and 13th 2009. The conference will be organized by the International Review of Finance jointly with the Center for Asian Financial Markets at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology and the Cheung Kong Graduate School of Business, China. Conference organizers will provide accommodation and cover economy air fare for one presenting author. The deadline for paper submissions is April 1, 2009. Authors of papers selected for the conference will be notified by April 30, 2009.

27/1/09 Workshop announcement: The Ronald Coase Institute announces the 2009 Bratislava Workshop on Institutional Analysis.The workshop will take place on May 10-15, 2009 in Bratislava, Slovakia. The application deadline is Feb 16.[attached document]

26/1/09 Fellowships announcement: The University of Trento, coordinator, (Italy), the Corvinus University of Budapest (Hungary), the University of Ljubljana (Slovenia) and the University of Regensburg (Germany) offer a number of fellowships for incoming Scholars from non EU countries. The main objective is to share, acquire and contribute to create knowledge and to pursue research in comparative Local Development, also from an interdisciplinary point of view. The Call is open to scholars submitting research projects on local development in the following disciplinary areas: Law, Economics, Sociology and Political Sciences. Scholars can benefit from the fellowship from September 2009 to March 2011. The deadline for submitting the application documentation is February 2nd, 2009.[attached pdf]

26/9/08 The EALE General Assembly at the 25th Annual Conference nominates new members to the EALE Management Board. The Assembly elected Professor Eli Salzberger as President, and Dr. Avishalom Tor as Secretary. The General Assembly also nominated Professor Bruno Deffains as a Management Board member for 3 years, and Professor Henrik Lando as a member for one additional year.