The second meeting at the Illinois University College of Law on October 11th and 12th, 2002, was a smashing success. The repeat visitors obtained "MLEA Founding Member" tombstones, had a great dinner at Tom and Julia's house, saw the football game of the teams' "building seasons", etc. For one of us, the highlight was that our lodgings were immediately next to Wolfram Research, the makers of Mathematica! The schedule of the meeting is below, Eric's notes are here, the picture collage is available in vertical dimensions of 1200, 1024, 764, and 600. My apologies to the many that were not included (should like a copy of your own picture or your picture removed from the collage, of course, please email me).

Program

Friday, October 11
8:45 am
Welcome and Introduction
Dean Heidi M. Hurd

9 - 10 :30 am
Larry Ribstein, University of Illinois, "Market vs. Regulatory Responses to Corporate Fraud:  A Critique of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002"
Rob Sitkoff, Northwestern, "The Trust as Nexus of Contracts"
Royce Barondes, Missouri, "Law Firm Prestige and Performance in IPOs"

10:45 - 12:15 am
Lee Fennell, Texas, "Contracting Communities"
Jeff Stake, Indiana, "Residential Subdivision Control: Getting Voters to Reveal Their Preferences"
David Dana, Northwestern, "A Behavioral Economic Defense of the Precautionary Principle"

12:15 - 1:15
Lunch

1:15 - 2:45 pm
Chris Drahozal, University of Kansas, "National Laws and Arbitrator Selection in ICC Arbitration Proceedings"
Doug Kysar, Cornell "Reconciling the Risk-Utility and Consumer-Expectations Tests for Defective Products in Products Liability"
Dan Cole, Indiana University at Indianapolis, "The Irrelelevance of the In Rem-In Personam Distinction"

2:45 - 3 pm
Coffee break

3 - 4:30 pm
Eric Posner, University of Chicago, "A Theory of the Laws of War"
Tom Ginsburg & Richard McAdams, University of Illinois, "A Focal Point Theory of International Dispute Resolution"
Nicholas Georgakopoulos, Indiana University at Indianapolis, "The Uses of History by Law and Economics"

7 - ?pm: Dinner at the Ulens

Saturday, October 12
9 - 10:30 am
Peg Brinig, University of Iowa, "The Public Choice of Elder Abuse Legislation"
James Lindgren, Northwestern, "What Is Your Political Orientation?: Toward a New Liberal / Conservative
Scale" 
Eric Rasmusen, Indiana, "Economic Analysis of Agency Law"