2007 Annual Meeting of Midwestern Law and Economics Association: Day One

2007 Annual Meeting of Midwestern Law and Economics Association at the University of Minnesota Law School, Minneapolis, Minnesota

9:05 – 10:20 a.m.  Regulation and Governance 

Dale Thompson, Optimal Federalism Across Many Dimensions
Guiseppe Dar-Mattiacci, Multi-Level Governance and Risk Diversification
Jonathan Remy Nash, Environmental Regulation Through the Looking-Glass

10:30 – 11:45 a.m.  Procedure and Family Law

Scott Moss, O Brave New World That Has Such Creatures Evidence:  An Economic Analysis of Courts’ Misguided Rules on Discovery of Digital Evidence
Margaret Brinig, The One Size Fits All Family
Vincy Fon & Francesco Paris, Plaintiff in Default:  An Economic Analysis

1:00 – 2:15 p.m.  Behavioral Law and Economics:  Theory

Peter Huang, Law and Human Flourishing:  Fostering Happiness, Learning, and Mindfulness
Jeffrey Lipshaw, Aboutness, Thingness, Models, and Understanding
Jeff Stake & Michael Alexeev, Who Responds to U.S. News & World Report’s Law School Rankings?

2:30 – 3:45 p.m.  Tax and Finance

Bradley Borden, The Aggregate-Plus Theory of Partnership Taxation
Elizabeth Brown, A Preliminary Look at Regulatory Structures for Financial Services
Joseph Warburton, Business Trusts Versus Corporations:  Evidence from the British Mutual Fund Industry

4:00 – 5:15 p.m.  Law and Medicine

Robert Katz, Gimme Some Skin:  When Tissue Banks Compete for Transplant Tissue, Who Wins?
Robert Mikos, Supervising Criminal Activity:  The Case of State Medical Marijuana Exemptions
Elizabeth Weeks, Right to Experimental Treatmen