Midwestern Law & Economics Association Annual Meeting -Day Two

October 4, 2009 - Law and Gender - Tagged:

 The Ninth Annual Meeting of the Midwestern Law & Economics Association will be held on October 4-5 at Notre Dame Law School.  Program after the break.

Session V
9:00 am – 10:30 am Panel A: Corporate II
Moderator: Julian Velasco (Notre Dame)Claire Hill (Minnesota) & Brett McDonnell (Minnesota)
   “Avoiding Short Term Management: Can Better Corporate Governance Prevent Future Crises?”

Matthew Bodie (Saint Louis) & Grant Hayden (Hofstra)
   “The Shareholder Franchise and the Myth of Contract”

Colleen Baker (Pennsylvania—Business)
   “Regulating the Invisible: The Case of Over-The-Counter Derivatives”

 Room 3130 Eck Hall of Law
 
  Panel B: Environmental
Moderator: Thomas Ulen (Illinois)Stephanie Holmes (Northwestern—Management)
   “The Delay Cost of Climate Change Inaction”

Shi-Ling Hsu (British Columbia)
   “Nine Reasons to Adopt a Carbon Tax”

Jay Kesan (Illinois)
   “An Economic Evaluation of the Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS) Bio-fuel Program: An Industrial Policy Approach”

 Room 3140 Eck Hall of Law
 
10:30 am – 10:45 am Break Room 2130 Eck Hall of Law
 
Session Vl
10:45 am -12:15 pm Panel A: Tax
Moderator: Lee Fennell (Chicago)Leandra Lederman (IU-Bloomington)
    “A Tisket, A Tasket: Tax Basketing”

Michael Bommarito II (Michigan—Political Science), Lilian Faulhaber (Harvard—Climenko), and Daniel Katz (Michigan—Political Science)
   “A Tale of Two Codes: An Empirical Analysis of the Jurisprudence of the United States Tax Court (1990-2008)”

Thomas Brennan (Northwestern)
   “The Tax Consequences of a Non-Flat Yield Curve for Debt Instruments and Interest Rate Swapss”

 Room 3130 Eck Hall of Law
 
  Panel B: Associations
Moderator: Lloyd Mayer (Notre Dame)Robert Katz (IU-Indianapolis) & Antony Page (IU-Indianapolis)
   “Social Enterprises: What Are They, What Special Agency Problems Do They Present, and Can Organizational Law Address These Problems?”

Larry Ribstein (Illinois)
   “The Death of Big Law”

Matthew Dimick (Georgetown – Fellow)
   “Revitalizing Labor Union Democracy: : Labor Law, Bureaucracy, and Workplace Association”

 Room 3140 Eck Hall of Law
 
12:15 pm – 1:30 pm Lunch The Commons Eck Hall of Law
 
Session Vll
1:30 pm – 3:00 pm Panel A: Bankruptcy, Consumer, Tax
Moderator: Kenneth Dau-Schmidt (IU-Bloomington)Rafael Pardo (Seattle)
   “Reconceptualizing Present-Value Analysis in Consumer Bankruptcy”

Christopher Drahozal (Kansas) & Samantha Zyontz (Northwestern—Searle)
   “Private Regulation of Consumer Arbitration”

Ajay Mehrotra (IU-Bloomington—History/Law)
   “American Economic Development, Managerial Corporate Capitalism and the Institutional Foundations of the Modern Income Tax”

 Room 3130 Eck Hall of Law
 
  Panel B: Procedure II
Moderator: Stephen Smith (Notre Dame)Thomas Jeitscho (Michigan State—Economics)
   “Informational Implications of Pre-Trial Motions: Learning about Case Strength and Settlement”

Jonathan Nash (Emory)
   “Instrument Choice in Federal Court Jurisdiction: Rules, Standards, and Discretion”

Brian Fitzpatrick (Vanderbilt)
   “Class Action Settlements and Their Fee Awards”

 Room 3140 Eck Hall of Law