The 2005 meeting will take place in Northwestern University Law School, on October 14 and 15.
The link to the full text of some papers and the final schedule is http://www.law.northwestern.edu/news/fall05/MLEA.pdf
The tentative schedule for the conference is:
| NAME | INSTITUTION | PAPER TITLE | Topic | Friday |
| Anup Malani | Univ Of Virginia/Chicago | Do Non-Profits Even Signal their Status? | corporations | 9:05- 10:20 |
| Antony Y. Page | Indiana University School of Law – Indianapolis | Director Independence: Independent From Whom and for What Purpose? | Corporations | |
| Larry Ribstein | University of Chicago College of Law | Outsider Trading as an Incentive Device | Corporations | |
| Jonathan Remy Nash | Tulane Law School | The Unknowing Race to Capture | property | 9:05- 10:20 |
| Jeffrey Stake | Indiana University School of Law--Bloomington | An economic framework for analyzing recording act problems | Property | |
| Thomas Mitchell, et al. | University of Wisconsin Law School | Forced Sales and Farmland Prices: Testing for Discimination against Black and Small Farmers | propert/empirical | |
| Peter B. Oh | William Mitchell College of Law | The Dutch Auction Dilemma | securities | 10:30-11:45 |
| Elizabeth F. Brown | University of St. Thomas School of Law | E Pluribus Unum – Out of Many, One: Why the United States Needs a Single Financial Services Regulator | securities | |
| Peter H. Huang | James Beasley Law School, Temple University | Affective Cost-Benefit Analysis in Financial Regulation | securities | |
| Stephen J. Ware | University of Kansas | The Case for Enforcing Adhesive Arbitration Agreements - with Particular Consideration of Class Actions and Arbitration Fees | ADR | 10:30-11:45 |
| Tom Ginsburg | University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign | The Unreluctant Litigant? An Empirical Analysis of Japan’s Turn to Litigation | ADR | |
| Christopher R. Drahozal | University of Kansas School of Law | On Secret Settlements and Unintended Consequences | ADR | |
| Jim Chen | University of Minnesota Law School | The Death of Regulatory Compact | telecommunication | 1:00-2:15 |
| Dale Thompson | St. Cloud State University | Of Rainbows and Rivers: Lessons for Telecommunications Spectrum Policy from Transitions in Property Rights and Commons in Water Law | telecommunication | |
| Eric Goldman | Marquette University Law School | A Coasian Analysis of Marketing | telecommunication | |
| Claire Hill | Kent Law | The Newly Discovered Self in Economics | law and economic theory | 1:00-2:15 |
| Nicholas Georgakopoulos | Indiana University School of Law – Indianapolis | Failures of Coasean Irrelevance | law and economic theory | |
| Robert J. Rhee | Washburn University School of Law | A Theory of Private Pricing in Bargaining: Rational Choices in Face of Dynamic Uncertainty and Indeterminacy | law and economic theory | |
| Eugene Kontorovich | George Mason Univeristy School of Law | Why Customary International Law?: The Divergent Treatment of Custom in Domestic and International Law | International and environmental law | 2:30-3:45 |
| Douglas A. Kysar | Cornell Law School | It Might Have Been: Risk, Precaution, and Opportunity Costs | International and environmental law | |
| Jide Nzelibe | Northwestern University School of Law | In the Shadow of the Future: Strategic Adjudication by the WTO | International and environmental law | |
| John McGinnis | Northwestern University School of Law | The Condorcet Case for Supermajority Rules | Constiutional | 4:00-5:15 |
| Tonja Jacobi | Northwestern University School of Law | The Dissent Becomes the Majority: Using Federalism to Transform Coalitions in the US Supreme Court | constitutional | |
| Brett McDonnell | University of Minnesota Law School | Employees v. Shareholders in Economics and Civic Republicanism | Constiutional | |
| Saturday | ||||
| Tom Miles | Univ of Chicago | Recidivism and Sentencing | empirical | 9:05- 10:20 |
| Eric Rasmusen | Kelley School of Business, Indiana University | "Prosecutor Budgets and Win Rates | empirical | |
| Margaret Brining | Univ of Iowa | Bargaining in the Shadow of Joint Parenting | empirical | |
| Lior Strahilevitz | University of Chicago | The Rights to Exclude | Property | 9:05- 10:20 |
| Jay Weiser | Zicklin School of Business, Baruch College | Judicial Review Standards and Litigation Frequency: An Empirical Study of Community Association Decisions and the Business Judgment Rule | Property | |
| Jay P. Kesan | University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign | Property Rights and Incentives to Invest in Seed Varieties: Governmental Regulations in the Case of Argentina | Property | |
| William D. Henderson | Indiana University School of Law--Bloomington | Effect of Single-Tier versus Two-Tier Partnership Tracks at Am Law 200 Law Firms: Theory and Evidence | Business Forms | 10:30-11:45 |
| Robert Sitkoff | Northwestern University School of Law | The Rise of the Statutory Business Trust | Business Forms | |
| Royce Barondes | University of Missouri-Columbia School of Law | The Business Entity as a Nexus of Relational Contracts | Business Forms | |
| Barak Orbach | University of Arizona, Rogers College of Law | Platform Economics and Indirect Liability for Copyright Infringement | IP | 10:30-11:45 |
| Matthew Sag | Northwestern University School of Law | Copyright Scope and Fair Use | IP | |
| Katherine J. Strandburg | DePaul University College of Law | Kinetics of the Patent Citation Network: A Physics Approach to Understanding the Patent System | IP | |
| Scott Moss | 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") | Behavioral | 1:00-2:15 |
| Janice Nadler | Northwestern University School of Law | Testing the Focal Point Theory of Expressive Law: The Role of Expectations and Feedback | Behavioral | |
| Kathryn Zeiler | Georgetown University Law Center | Asymmetries in Exchange Behavior Incorrectly Interpreted as Evidence of Prospect Theory | Behavioral | |
| Alexia Brunet | Northwestern University School of Law | Guiding Jury Decision-making in Non-Economic Compensatory Damages”, | Private Law | 2:30-3:45 |
| David Hyman | University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign | Rescue Without Law: An Empirical Perspective on the Duty to Rescue | Private Law | |
| George S. Geis | The University of Alabama | An Embedded Options Theory of Indefinite Contracts | Private Law | |
| Kathryn Burgy | The University of Tulsa College of Law | Toward a Resolution of Blackmail’s Second Paradox | criminal law | 4:00-5:15 |
| Russell Christopher | The University of Tulsa College of Law | Meta-blackmail | criminal law | |
| Sam Vermont | University of Michigan | The Value of Accuracy Revisited. | criminal law |
See you there!