Georgetown Law & Economics Workshop

The Georgetown Law & Economics Workshop is a research workshop in which scholars present their current work in the field of law and economics.

Fall 2023

The fall 2023 workshop is organized by Professor Joshua C. Teitelbaum. The workshop meets at Georgetown University Law Center on Fridays from 12:00 PM to 2:00 PM in Hotung Hall, Room 2001 (unless noted otherwise).

September 8
Weijia Rao
George Mason University, Antonin Scalia Law School
The Impact of Foreign Investors’ Challenges to Domestic Regulations

September 15
Keith Hylton
Boston University, School of Law
Utility, Copyright, and Fair Use after Warhol

September 29
Cherie Metcalf
Queen's University, Faculty of Law and Department of Economics
Liability Reconsidered: Experimental Evidence

October 6
Elissa Gentry
Florida State University, College of Law
Market Versus Policy Responses to Novel Occupational Risks

October 13
Yonathan Arbel
University of Alabama, School of Law
The Readability of Contracts: Big Data Analysis

October 20 (Hotung 6005)
Emma Harrington
University of Virginia, Department of Economics
Prediction Mistakes in the Criminal Justice System: Evidence from Linking Prosecutor Surveys to Court Records

October 27 (Hotung 6005)
Michael Makowsky
Clemson University, John E. Walker Department of Economics
Better Stealing Than Dealing? The Effects of Felony Theft Thresholds

November 3
Sepehr Shahshahani
Fordham University, School of Law
The Missing Element in Trademark Infringement

November 10
Andrew Hayashi
University of Virginia, School of Law
Law and Economics for Empaths

November 17
Oren Bar-Gill
Harvard University, Law School
Algorithmic Harm in Consumer Markets

Fall 2022

The fall 2022 workshop is organized by Professor Neel U. Sukhatme. The workshop meets at Georgetown University Law Center on Fridays from 12:00 PM to 2:00 PM in Hotung Hall, Room 2001 (unless noted otherwise).

September 9
Jaclyn Rosenquist
University of California, Irvine, Department of Economics
Lasting Impacts of Juvenile Curfew Laws: Adult Contact with the Criminal Justice System

September 16
Adriana Robertson
University of Chicago, Law School
Noisy Factors in Law

September 23
Jennifer Doleac
Texas A&M University, Department of Economics
Registering Returning Citizens to Vote

September 30
Adam Chilton
University of Chicago, Law School
Political Ideology and Judicial Administration: Evidence from the COVID-19 Pandemic

October 7
Manisha Padi
University of California, Berkeley, School of Law

October 14
Chika Okafor
Harvard University, Department of Economics

October 21
Hannah Shaffer
University of Chicago, Law School

October  28
James Hicks
Columbia University, Law School

November 11
Christopher Wildeman
Duke University, Department of Sociology

November 18
Michael Morse
University of Chicago, Law School

Fall 2021

The fall 2021 workshop is organized by Professor Joshua C. Teitelbaum. The workshop meets at Georgetown University Law Center on Fridays from 10:00 AM to 12:00 PM in Hotung Hall, Room 2001 (unless noted otherwise).

September 17
Frances Lee
Loyala University Chicago, Quinlan School of Business
Misleading Labeling and Product Quality

September 24
Michael Frakes
Duke University, School of Law
Investing in Ex Ante Regulation: Evidence from Pharmaceutical Patent Examination

October 1
Analisa Packham
Vanderbilt University, Department of Economics
Syringe Exchange Programs and Harm Reduction: New Evidence in the Wake of the Opioid Epidemic

October 8
Adam Badawi
University of California, Berkeley, School of Law
Evolutionary Learning in Complex Contracts

October 22
Edward Fox
University of Michigan, Law School
Seeing Down the Road Not Taken: The Canadian Regulation of the Poison Pill

October 29
Anna Stansbury
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Sloan School of Management
Employer Concentration and Outside Options

November 5
Karen Bradshaw
Arizona State University, Sandra Day O'Connor College of Law
Climate Change Viewed Through the Lens of Mismatched Property Rights

November 12
Aileen Nielsen
ETH Zürich, Center for Law & Economics
Can a computer invade your privacy? An experimental matchup of algorithmic and human surveillance

Fall 2020

The fall 2020 workshop is organized by Professor Neel U. Sukhatme. The workshop meets online via Zoom on Fridays from 9:30 AM - 11:30 AM (unless noted otherwise). Please email Professor Sukhatme or his assistant Jessica Dowd (Jessica.Dowd@georgetown.edu) for the Zoom link to attend.

September  4
Kevin Cope                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                             University of Virginia, School of Law and Batten School of Leadership and Public Policy
An Expert-Sourced Measure of Judicial Ideology

September 18
John Wallis
University of Maryland, Department of Economics
Making Rules Impersonal: The Historical and Institutional Foundations of General Laws in the United States

September 25
Sonja Starr
University of Chicago, Law School
Do Employers' Neighborhoods Predict Racial Discrimination?

October 2
Andrew Toole
United States Patent and Trademark Office
Patent Eligibility After Alice: Evidence From USPTO Patent Examination

October 9
Miguel de Figueiredo
University of Connecticut, School of Law
When Do Voters Punish Corrupt Politicians? Evidence from an Electoral Field and Survey Experiment

October 16
Shayak Sarkar
University of California, Davis, School of Law
How Does the Elimination of State Aid to For-Profit Colleges Affect Enrollment? Evidence from California’s Reforms

October 23
Elliott Ash
ETH Zürich, Economics and Data Science Group
Mandatory Retirement for Judges Improved Performance on U.S. State Supreme Courts

Thursday, October 29, 4:30 PM (joint with George Mason/Ribstein Law and Economics Workshop)
Orley Ashenfelter
Princeton University, Department of Economics
Economic Effects of Prohibition

November 6
Ashna Arora
University of Chicago, Crime and Education Labs
Prisons as Schools for Change? Evidence from Illinois

November 13
Nayoung Rim
United States Naval Academy, Department of Economics
The Black-White Recognition Gap in Award Nominations

November 20
Evan Starr
University of Maryland, Robert H. Smith School of Business
Subjective Beliefs and Contract Enforceability

Fall 2019

The fall 2019 workshop is organized by Professor Joshua C. Teitelbaum. The workshop meets at Georgetown University Law Center on Fridays from 12:00 PM to 2:00 PM in Hotung Hall, Room 2001 (unless noted otherwise).

September  27
Paolo Saguato
George Mason University, Antonin Scalia Law School
Risky Middlemen

October 4
Leo Katz
University of Pennsylvania, Law School
What Courts Really Do: The Paradoxical Implications of the Selection Effect

October 11
Albert Choi
University of Michigan, Law School
Federal Forum Provisions and the Internal Affairs Doctrine

October 18 (McDonough Hall, Room 520)
Daniel Klerman
University of Southern California, Gould School of Law
Legal Origin from Outer Space

October 25
Amanda Agan
Rutgers University, Department of Economics
The Minimum Wage, EITC, and Criminal Recidivism

November 1
Natasha Sarin
University of Pennsylvania, Law School
How to Make Banks Too Safe to Fail

November 8
Jonathan Klick
University of Pennsylvania, Law School
The Costs of Critical Habitat or Owl's Well that Ends Well

November 15
Colleen Honigsberg
Stanford University, School of Law
Deleting Misconduct: The Expungement of BrokerCheck Records

November 22
Katherine Waldock
Georgetown University, McDonough School of Business
Unearthing Zombies in India