“A advocacia sempre foi a profissão liberal por excelência. O advogado presta um serviço profissional especializado em um regime de confiança. O cliente do advogado não entende bem o que o advogado faz: não sabe que o correto é mandado – não mandato – de segurança. Não sabe que não é possível entrar com uma liminar: é preciso primeiro pedi-la. (E o juiz pode, inclusive, negar o pedido). E o cliente, incauto, não tem a menor idéia das suas chances de êxito numa ação antes de propô-la; aliás, às vezes nem sabe o que a palavra êxito quer dizer. (…)”

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The Workshop on Empirical Methods for Law Professors is designed to teach law professors the conceptual and practical skills required to (1) understand and evaluate others’ empirical studies, and (2) design and implement their own empirical studies. Participants are not expected to have background in statistical knowledge or empirical skills prior to enrollment. Instructors have been selected in part to demonstrate the development of empirical studies in a wide-range of legal and institutional settings including: antitrust, business law, bankruptcy, class actions, contracts, criminal law and sentencing, federalism, finance, intellectual property, and securities regulation. Class sessions will provide participants opportunities to learn through faculty lectures, drawing upon data and examples for cutting edge empirical legal studies, and participating in experiments. There will be numerous opportunities for participants to discuss their own works-in-progress or project ideas with the instructors.

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WORKSHOP FACULTY:

Eric Helland, Ph.D., Claremont-McKenna College
http://www.cmc.edu/academic/faculty/profile.asp?Fac=159

Jonathan Klick, J.D., Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania School of Law
http://www.law.upenn.edu/cf/faculty/jklick/

Bruce Kobayashi, Ph.D., George Mason University School of Law
http://www.law.gmu.edu/faculty/directory/fulltime/kobayashi_bruce

Joshua Wright, J.D., Ph.D., George Mason University School of Law
http://www.law.gmu.edu/faculty/directory/fulltime/wright_joshua

SCHEDULE:

The workshop will take place at:
George Mason University School of Law
3301 N. Fairfax Drive
Arlington, VA 22201
http://law.gmu.edu

The Workshop will begin on Monday May 21, at 8:30 a.m. and conclude on Friday May 25, at 12:00 pm. Classes on May 21 – 24 will run from 8:30 am to 4:30 pm, and include lectures and applied “hands-on” sessions. On May 25, the participants will have an opportunity to present their own empirical projects or “works in progress” and receive feedback from instructors and other participants.

Topics covered include:

• Research Design
• Finding Data
• Basic Probability Theory
• Descriptive Statistics
• Formulating Testable Hypotheses
• Specification
• Statistical Inference
• Cross-Sectional Regression
• Time Series Regression
• Panel Data Techniques
• Sensitivity Analysis
• Experimental Methods

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REGISTRATION AND TUITION:

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Tuition for the Workshop on Empirical Methods is $1000 (with a discounted rate of $850 if received by April 1, 2012) for the first professor from a law school and $600 for additional registrants from the same school.

29^th Annual Conference

20-22 September 2012, Stockholm, Sweden

CALL FOR PAPERS

The 29^th Annual Conference of the European Association of Law and Economics (EALE) will be held on September 20-22, 2012 in Stockholm, Sweden at Stockholm University in Aula Magna. The conference is arranged by Stockholm University, Faculty of Law, the Ratio Institute and Jönköping International Business School in cooperation with EALE.

Those interested in presenting a paper are invited to submit electronically the paper (at least in its draft form) and a short abstract following the online procedure at http://eale.irenoshii.net. Priority in the selection will be given to completed papers.

Papers may be on any topic in or related to Law and Economics including:

Antitrust and Regulation – Bankruptcy, Commercial Corporate Law and Corporate Governance – Behavioural Law and Economics – Comparative Law and Economics – Contract Theory and Contract Law – Crime, Deterrence and Criminal Law – Environmental Law and Economics – Experimental Law and Economics – Family Law, Gender, and Discrimination – Health Law – Intellectual Property and Innovation Policy – International Law, International Trade, and Immigration – Labour and Employment Law – Law and Development – Litigation, Dispute Resolution and the Legal Process – Market and Non- market Regulation – Mergers and Acquisitions – Political economy and public choice –Property rights, property law and growth – Public and Administrative Law – Finance, Securities and Capital Market Regulation – Taxation and Social Welfare – Theory of the Firm (Includes Non-Profits and Government Orgs.) – Tort Law and Compensation Systems.

Emphasis on European laws, systems and institutions is welcome

Important dates:

 Proposal submission deadline: April 15, 2012

 Communication of Acceptance: June 1, 2012

 Early registration by: June 15, 2012

 Final papers due by: July 15, 2012

EALE Board Members:

Bruno Deffains – President – (University of Paris II), Thomas Eger (University of Hamburg),Matteo Rizzolli (University of Bozen), Per-Olof Bjuggren (Jönköping International Business School), Avishalom Tor (Notre Dame Law School), Anne Van Aaken (University of St. Gallen)

Coordinator:

Per-Olof Bjuggren (Jönköping International Business School and Ratio Institute)

Local Organization Committee:

Jan B Andersson (Law Department, Stockholm University)

Ronnie Eklund (Law Department, Stockholm University)

Nils Karlson (Ratio Institute)

Gustaf Sjöberg (Law Department, Stockholm University)

The Searle Civil Justice Institute (SCJI) is seeking proposals for empirical research projects that will result in publishable-quality and policy-relevant reports. The SCJI will select proposals in a three-stage process.

ABOUT THE SCJI: The Searle Civil Justice Institute (SCJI) is a public policy institute and a component of the Law & Economics Center at George Mason University School of Law. The SCJI’s core mission is to provide analytically rigorous, balanced, accessible, and policy-relevant empirical research in the field of law & economics. The SCJI uses academic conferences, reports, and an extensive communications strategy to inject its research into policy discussions.

SCJI research projects typically involve the collection of large data sets, performance of statistical and econometric analyses, and production of SCJI policy reports within a timeframe of 6-12 months. SCJI research projects follow a research protocol and undergo external peer review. An in-house research team of econometricians and lawyers, as well as significant financial resources, allows SCJI to engage in data collection and outreach efforts that often exceed the means of individual academics.

STAGE 1: CALL FOR PRELIMINARY STATEMENTS OF RESEARCH PROJECTS: SCJI requests Preliminary Statements of Research Projects, not to exceed one page. The Preliminary Statements should include a brief description of the policy issue(s) and the proposed empirical research questions. Aside from being policy-relevant and topical, research projects ideally will be relevant to one of the following research areas:
- Medicare Secondary Payer Act
- Class actions and aggregate litigation
- Criminalization of corporate conduct
- State and/or Federal False Claims Acts/qui tam/whistleblowers
- States Attorneys General scope of enforcement authority/retention of private counsel
- Third-party financing of litigation
- State and federal preemption/government standards defense
- Specialized courts/judicial quality and effectiveness/court congestion
- State Consumer Protection Acts
- Arbitration

STAGE 2: DEVELOPMENT OF FORMAL RESEARCH PROPOSAL AND PRESENTATION AT RESEARCH WORKSHOP: Upon review of the Preliminary Statements, the SCJI will select a small number of authors to prepare and present a formal research proposal. These second stage research proposals must include the following elements: an executive summary of two pages or less describing the proposal for a non-academic audience; a clear statement of the policy issue(s) to be studied; background and motivations; the specific empirical research questions; potential policy implications; proposed analyses and basic research plan; data needs, sources and estimated costs; and a timeline detailing milestones and deliverables. The SCJI will pay an honorarium of $5,000 to authors to prepare and present this research proposal.

Selected authors will present their formal research proposals at a Research Workshop at George Mason University School of Law. The SCJI will utilize the Research Workshop to determine which proposals will be fully funded in stage three.

STAGE 3: MANAGE AND COMPLETE THE SCJI RESEARCH PROJECT: SCJI will fully support certain accepted proposals by paying author(s) to lead the research efforts, providing in-house econometricians and legal experts as project staff, paying for necessary data (which includes employing large numbers of research assistants to find and code data that might otherwise by unavailable), and funding a comprehensive communications strategy for the final Public Policy Report. On average, the SCJI spends between $70,000 – $100,000 to research and promote each project.

PROPOSAL SUBMISSION PROCEDURE: Initial Preliminary Statements of Research Proposals, not to exceed one page, must be received by March 15, 2012, to receive full consideration for the 2011-12 funding cycle. Please send Preliminary Statements electronically to:jcoope20@gmu.edu

- SCJI will request a full proposal from selected authors by April 15, 2012
- The 2011 SCJI Empirical Research Workshop will take place in June 2012

FURTHER INFORMATION: For further information, please contact:

James Cooper
Director, Research and Policy
Law & Economics Center
George Mason University School of Law
3301 Fairfax Drive
Arlington, VA 22201

Informação do Jornal do Professor.

General antitrust
Anticompetitive practices
Unilateral conducts
Mergers
Economics

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Next Conference The 16th Annual Meeting of the Latin American and Iberian Law and Economics Association
will be held on a Monday and Tuesday, June 18-19th, and the Course for Judges on June 20th, at the University of San Martin de Porres at Lima, Peru.

Universidad de San Martín de Porres
Ciudad Universitaria Av. Las Calandrias s/n
Santa Anita, Lima – Perú
Phone:             (511) 362-0064      .

Papers
Click here for the Call for Papers – Deadline – March 30th, 2012