Midwestern Law & Economics Association

Annual Meeting 2004

Tentative Program as of September 14th, 2004

Day 1: Friday, October 8
College of Law, University of Iowa
Boyd Law Building, Fourth Floor Student Lounge

8:00-8:45 Continental Breakfast Buffet in Faculty Lounge

8:45am Introductory Remarks and welcome by Dean Carolyn Jones

9:00-10:30am Panel A: Common Law Subjects I

	Lipson, Jonathan: Why Do Lawyers Ask for And Give Third Party Closing Opinions?
	Geis, George: Empirically Assessing Hadley
	Weiser, Jay: The Enforcement of Real Estate Covenants: An Empirical Study

10:30-10:45 Coffee and snacks

10:45-12:15 Panel B: Corporations I

	Aviram, Amitai: The Placebo Effect of Corporate Compliance Programs
	McDonnell, Brett: Delaware, Federalism, and the Expertise-Bias Tradeoff
	Sale, Hillary: Securities Litigation

12:15-1:15 Box Lunch in Faculty Lounge

1:15-2:45 Panel C: Empirical Papers

	Kesan, Jay: Adjudication and Settlement of Patent Disputes--An Empirical Study (with G. Ball)
	Lindgren, James: What Gays, Lesbians, and Bisexuals Think About Law, Politics, and Religion
	Stake, Jeffrey E: Some Effects of Law School Rankings

2:45-3:00 Coffee and snacks

3:00-4:30 Panel D: Tax and Administrative Law

	Nash, Jonathan: The Law and Economics of New Source Review
	Stone, Ethan:  Popularity, Publicity, and the Taxation of Charitable Sponsorships
	Carstensen, Peter: Analysis of Monopsony and Antitrust

6:45 cars leave hotel; 7:00 Drinks; and 7:30 Dinner, Margaret Brinig's residence (523 Woodridge Avenue, 466-9423)

Day 2: Saturday, October 9, 2004
College of Law, University of Iowa
Boyd Law Building, Fourth Floor Student Lounge

8:15am Continental Breakfast Buffet in Faculty Lounge

9:00-10:30 Panel E: Procedure

	Drahozal, Christopher R.: Arbitration Costs and Contingency Fee Contracts
	Dau-Schmidt, Kenneth: Lost in Translation: Economic Analysis of Law in the United States and Europe
	Lederman, Leandra: Do Attorneys Affect the Resolution of Tax Court Cases?

10:30-10:45 Coffee and Snacks

10:45-12:15 Panel F: Corporations II

	Beny, Laura:  Do Insider Trading Laws Matter? Some Preliminary Comparative Evidence
	Georgakopoulos, Nicholas: Contract-Centered Veil-Piercing
	Ribstein, Larry: Film and Firms

12:15-1:15 Lunch at Faculty Lounge

1:15-2:45 Panel G: Wrongs

	Rasmusen, Eric: Predictable Court Error and the Fundamentals of Property-Rule Protection
	Page, Antony: Bounded Rationality and the Unconstitutional Use of the Peremptory Challenge
	Fennell, Lee:  Efficient Trespass: The Case for "Bad Faith" Adverse Possession

2:45 Depart for other activities, according to weather and interest

Many ideas are collected at www.law.uiowa.edu/community.

The Hancher Auditorium is featuring the Hubbard Street Dance, Chicago.

The football team (2-2 currently) has a bye that weekend.

There is, however, a volleyball game (versus Wisconsin) Saturday evening at 7.