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11/12/2010 Job Announcement: The University of Lausanne will offer starting Fall 2011, a joint master in Law and Economics set up by the Faculty of Law and the Faculty of Economics (http://www.hec.unil.ch/).In this respect, applications for a Professor in Law and Economics are now open (see attached document). |
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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. |
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21/9/2010 Job Announcement: The RILE institute in Rotterdam has posted job opening for a postdoc in Law and Economics. Position title: "Behavioural Approaches to Contract and Tort: Relevance for Policymaking" at the Erasmus School of Law, Erasmus University Rotterdam, the Netherlands. Further details are available at: http://www.academictransfer.com/employer/EUR/vacancy/5647/lang/nl/. The application deadline has been extended until after the annual conference of EALE in Paris; interested applicants may approach Professor Michael Faure at the conference to disucss the position. |
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20/9/2010 Call for Papers: The International Academy of Business and Economics 2011 Summer Conference in Barcelona, June 3-5, 2011 is now accepting submission. Submission deadline : February 15, 2011. For further details see the full call for papers at http://www.iabe.eu/domains/iabeX/callforpapers.aspx. |
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19/9/2010 Announcement: The deadline for submitting proposals for the next Joint Conference between the EALE and the Geneva Association which will be held in Innsbruck on 24-26 February 2011 has been extended until the 30th of September. Hence please all consider submitting proposals for this interesting event, requesting papers especially related to the law and economics of insurance of catastrophes.[Attached File] |
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19/9/2010 Latest Issue of the Geneva Papers on Risk and Insurance - Issues and Practice now available online. The latest issue of the journal (Vol 35 Iss 3, July 2010) features contributions from the 13th Joint Seminar of The Geneva Association and EALE held in Italy in May 2009 and is now available to view free of charge at http://www.palgrave-journals.com/gpp/journal/v35/n3/index.html. |
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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: |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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/. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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07/06/09 Job Announcement: Professorship in International Development Law, University of Copenhagen, Faculty of Law, Copenhagen, Denmark |
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05/06/09 Job Announcement: MAASTRICHT UNIVERSITY. Lecturer in International Economic Law. Maastricht University invites applications for a University Lecturer in International Economic Law. For further information, contact: Prof. P. Van den Bossche. Tel: +31 43 3882541. Email: p.vandenbossche@maastrichtuniversity.nl. Prof. A. Kamperman Sanders. Tel: +31 43 3883216. Email: a.kampermansanders@maastrichtuniversity.nl. Vacancy number: AT2009.99. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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] |
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3/3/09 Endre Stavang of the Oslo University, Faculty of Law, guest-posts on the EALE blog on "Free allocation and the rationale for emission trading: Is there an inconsistency?" In this post, Prof. Stavang argues that free allocation is not inconsistent with the basic social rationale behind alienable emission allowances, and indicates the legal relevance of this consistency analysis to the issue of designing a robust system |
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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 |
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22/2/09 Henrik Lando raises important questions about the future of European law and economics and university reform on the new EALE blog. |
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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! |
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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... |
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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/. |
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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] |
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16/1/09 New L&E Courses: The Amsterdam Center for Law and Economics organizes two courses in L&E in summer-course format (one week, lectures every day) for graduate students and faculty members. In March, Francesco Parisi (U Minnesota Law School) – "The Economics of Lawmaking" and in May: Dennis Kehoe (U Tulane) – on "Economics and History" Participation is free but registration is required at lex.acle.nl |
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15/1/09 UNIVERSITA BOCCONI, MILAN, PhD School is offering a PhD in International Law and Economics. The application deadline is March 12th, 2009. The PhD in International Law and Economics is the only one of its kind in Italy. Although it primarily deals with legal issues, it also aims to confront the economic and geopolitical problems that are at the root of legal disciplines, making the program particularly interdisciplinary in nature. The basic subjects offered are therefore International Economics, International Trade Law and Comparative Public Economic Law as well as the principles and functioning of the main economic organizations (OMC/WTO, IMF, World Bank, OECD, regional organizations). Compulsory courses include International Business Law, International Taxation, European Law, Antitrust Law and Economics, Environmental Law, European Economic Integration, Economics of International Development. Doctorate students are prepared for a career in universities, international organizations, public administrations, multinational corporate consulting and research centres. |
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13/1/09 Job Opening: UNIVERSITY OF LUXEMBOURG, Faculty of Law, Economics and Finance has an opening for 1 Assistant (PhD Student) in Commercial Law. Application deadline: January 31, 2009.[Link] |
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8/1/08 Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd., which had a book display at the 2008 EALE conference at Haifa, expresses interest in manuscript submissions by EALE members. For further inquiries contact Ben Booth, Commissioning Editor, at ben@e-elgar.co.uk. |
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17/12/08 Review of Law and Economics achieves high impact-factor ranking among law and economics journals. |
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1/11/08: Video of the keynote speech of Professor Robert J. (Yisrael) Aumann, Nobel Prize winner in Economics, 2005, at the EALE 25th annual conference in Haifa, September 25, 2008, now available online |
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5/10/08: The website for the EALE 25th Annual Conference in Haifa, Israel, September 24-26, 2008,remains available online, including access to the program and to the many papers presented at the conference. |
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26/10/08 Professor Stefan Voigt is nominated as one of EALE's representatives on the Review of Law and Economics editorial board, replacing Professor Gerrit de Geest and a member of the Advisory Board. |
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1/10/08 EALE Management Board nominates six new members to the EALE Advisory Board, including Professor Hans Bernd Schäfer, Professor Fernando Gomez, Professor Nuno Garoupa, Professor Francesco Parisi, Professor Roberto Pardolesi, and Professor Deša Mlikotin Tomić. |
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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. |