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The Midwestern Law and Economics Association's annual meeting draws scholars from law schools, business schools, and economics departments from across the country. This year, 45 scholars will give presentations on diverse legal topics such as torts, family law, environmental law, and constitutional law.

This year's conference, coorganized by Professors Ronen Avraham and Max Schanzenbach, will take place Oct. 14 and 15 at Northwestern University School of Law, 357 E. Chicago Ave., Chicago, Il.

Presentations will be made in topical panels composed of three scholars who will each present for 15 to 20 minutes, with another 15 minutes for questions and comments from the audience.

FRIDAY OCTOBER 14, 2005

Corporations Section, Faculty Lounge, 9: 05-10:20 a.m.

Anup Malani, Associate Professor of Law, University of Virginia/University of Chicago, Do Non-Profits Even Signal their Status?

Anthony Y. Page, Assistant Professor of Law, Indiana University School of Law– Indianapolis, Director Independence: Independent From Whom and for What Purpose?

Larry Ribstein, Richard W. and Marie L. Corman Professor of Law, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign College of Law and Bruce Kobayashi, Professor of Law, George Mason University Law School, Outsider Trading as an Incentive Device

Property Section, Rubloff 140, 9: 05-10:20 a.m.

Jay Weiser, Associate Professor of Law, Baruch College–Zicklin School of Business, Judicial Review Standards and Litigation Frequency: An Empirical Study of Community Association Decisions and the Business Judgment Rule

Jeffrey Stake, Professor of Law, Indiana University School of Law— Bloomington, A Brief Comment on Trust Protectors

Thomas Mitchell, Assistant Professor of Law, University of Wisconsin Law School and Steve Malpezzi, Chair of the Real Estate and Urban Land Economics Department, University of Wisconsin School of Business, Forced Sales and Farmland Prices: Testing for Discrimination against Black and Small Farmers

Securities Section, Faculty Lounge, 10:30-11:45 a.m.

Peter B. Oh, Assistant Professor of Law, William Mitchell College of Law, The Dutch Auction Myth

Elizabeth F. Brown, Assistant Professor of Law, University of St. Thomas School of Law, E Pluribus Unum – Out of Many, One: Why the United States Needs a Single Financial Services Regulator

Peter H. Huang, Harold E. Kohn Chair Professor of Law, Temple University — James Beasley Law School, Affective Cost-Benefit Analysis in Financial Regulation

ADR Section, Rubloff 140, 10:30-11:45 a.m.

Stephen J. Ware, Professor of Law, University of Kansas School of Law, The Case for Enforcing Adhesive Arbitration Agreements - with Particular Consideration of Class Actions and Arbitration Fees

Tom Ginsburg, Professor of Law and Political Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, The Unreluctant Litigant? An Emprical Analysis of Japan's Turn to Litigation

Christopher R. Drahozal, Professor of Law, University of Kansas School of Law, On Secret Settlements and Unintended Consequences

Telecommunications Section, Faculty Lounge, 1:00-2:15 p.m.

Jim Chen, James L. Krusemark Professor of Law , University of Minnesota Law School, The Death of Regulatory Compact

Dale Thompson, Professor of Economics, St. Cloud State University, Of Rainbows and Rivers: Lessons for Telecommunications Spectrum Policy from Transitions in Property Rights and Commons in Water Law

Eric Goldman, Assistant Professor of Law, Marquette University Law School, A Coasian Analysis of Marketing

Law and Economic Theory Section, RB 140, 1:00-2:15 p.m.

Claire Hill, Visiting Professor of Law, University of Minnesota Law School, The Newly Discovered Self in Economics [Abstract]

Nicholas Georgakopoulos, Professor of Law and John S. Grimes Fellow, Indiana University School of Law– Indianapolis, Failures of Coasean Irrelevance

Robert J. Rhee, Associate Professor of Law, Washburn University School of Law, A Theory of Private Pricing in Bargaining: Rational Choices in Face of Dynamic Uncertainty and Indeterminacy

International and Environmental Law Section, RB 140, 2:30-3:45 p.m.

Jide Nzelibe, Assistant Professor of Law, Northwestern University School of Law, In the Shadow of the Future: Strategic Adjudication by the WTO

Eugene Kontorovich, Assistant Professor of Law, George Mason University School of Law, Inefficient Customs and the Unexplored Normative Basis of Customary International Law

Douglas A. Kysar, Associate Professor of Law, Cornell Law School, It Might Have Been: Risk, Precaution, and Opportunity Costs

Constitutional Law Section, RB 140, 4:00-5:15 p.m.

John McGinnis, Class of 1940 Research Professor of Law, Northwestern University School of Law, The Condorcet Case for Supermajority Rules

Tonja Jacobi, Assistant Professor of Law, Northwestern University School of Law, The Dissent Becomes the Majority: Using Federalism to Transfrom Coalitions in the US Supreme Court

Brett McDonnell, Associate Professor of Law, University of Minnesota Law School, Employees v. Shareholders in Economics and Civic Republicanism

SATURDAY OCTOBER 15, 2005

Empirical Section, Faculty Lounge, 9: 05-10:20 a.m.

Tom Miles, Assistant Professor of Law, University of Chicago College of Law, Fugitives

Eric Rasmusen, Professor of Business Economics & Public Policy, Kelley School of Business, Indiana University, Prosecutor Budgets and Win Rates

Margaret Brining, William G. Hammond Distinguished Professor of Law , University of Iowa College of Law, Bargaining in the Shadow of Joint Parenting

Property Section, Rubloff 339, 9: 05-10:20 a.m.

Lior Strahilevitz, Assistant Professor of Law, University of Chicago College of Law, The Rights to Exclude [ Abstract ]

Jonathan Remy Nash, Robert C. Cudd Associate Professor of Law, Tulane Law School, The Unknowing Race to Capture [Abstract]

Jay P. Kesan, Professor of Law, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign College of Law, Property Rights and Incentives to Invest in Seed Varieties: Governmental Regulations in the Case of Argentina

Business Forms Section, Faculty Lounge, 10:30-11:45 a.m.

William D. Henderson, Associate Professor of Law, Indiana University School of Law— Bloomington, Effect of Single-Tier versus Two-Tier Partnership Tracks at Am Law 200 Law Firms: Theory and Evidence [Abstract]

Robert Sitkoff, Associate Professor of Law, Northwestern University School of Law, The Rise of the Statutory Business Trust [Abstract]

Royce Barondes, Associate Professor of Law, University of Missouri-Columbia School of Law, The Business Entity as a Nexus of Relational Contracts

IP Section, Rubloff 339, 10:30-11:45 a.m.

Barak Orbach, Associate Professor of Law, University of Arizona , Rogers College of Law, Platform Economics and Indirect Liability for Copyright Infringement

Matthew Sag, Visiting Assistant Professor of Law, Northwestern University School of Law, Copyright Scope and Fair Use

Katherine J. Strandburg, Associate Professor of Law, DePaul University College of Law & University of Illinois College of Law, Kinetics of the Patent Citation Network: A Physics Approach to Understanding the Patent System

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Behavioral Section, Rubloff 339, 1:00-2:15 p.m.

Scott Moss, Assistant Professor of Law, Marquette University Law School , Judges' “Behavior” Problems: What Behavioral Economics Says Employment Discrimination Law Is Getting Wrong (Or: "Yes, Virginia , There Is A Prescriptive Aspect To Behavioral Law & Economics")

Janice Nadler, Professor of Law, Northwestern University School of Law, and Richard McAdams, Guy Raymond Jones Professor of Law, University of Illinois College of Law, The Focal Point Theory of Expressive Law: A Contextualized Test

Kathryn Zeiler, Associate Professor of Law, Georgetown University Law Center , Asymmetries in Exchange Behavior Incorrectly Interpreted as Evidence of Prospect Theory

Private Law Section, Rubloff 339, 2:30-3:45 p.m.

Alexia Brunet, Visiting Assistant Professor of Law, Northwestern University School of Law, Guiding Jury Decision-making in Non-Economic Compensatory Damages

David Hyman, Professor of Law, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign College of Law, Rescue Without Law: An Empirical Perspective on the Duty to Rescue

George S. Geis, Assistant Professor of Law, University of Alabama School of Law, An Embedded Options Theory of Indefinite Contracts

Criminal Law Section, Rubloff 339, 4:00-5:15 p.m.

Kathryn Burgy, Adjunct Professor of Law, University of Tulsa College of Law, Toward a Resolution of Blackmail's Second Paradox

Russell Christopher, Assistant Professor of Law, University of Tulsa College of Law, Meta-blackmail

Sam Vermont, Michigan Humphrey Fellow, University of Michigan Law School, The Source of Blackstone's Intuition: Why We Think It Better to Free the Guilty than to Convict the Innocent

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