2007 Annual Meeting of Midwestern Law and Economics Association at the University of Minnesota Law School, Minneapolis, Minnesota
9:05 – 10:20 a.m. Torts
Nuno Garoupa & Tom Ulen, The Economics of Activity Levels in Tort Liability and Regulation
Nicholas Georgakopoulos, Tort in Agency: Transaction Costs
David Hyman, The Effect of Caps on Non-Economic Damages: Evidence from Texas Medical Malpractice Cases
10:30 – 11:45 a.m. Environmental Law and Property
Daniel Cole, The Stern Review and Its Critics
Lee Ann Fennell, Homeownership 2.0
1:00 – 2:15 p.m. Arbitration, Litigation, and Judging
Christopher Drahozal & Quentin Wittrock, Is There a Flight from Arbitration?
Stephen Ware, Merit Selection and Judicial Nominating Commissions
Rafael Pardo, Anatomy of an Adversary Proceeding
2:30 – 3:45 p.m. Corporate and Securities Law
Frederick Tung, The New Death of (Corporate) Contract: Creeping Fiduciary Duty for Creditors
Alexander Robbins, The Rule 10b-5(1) Loophole: An Empirical Study
Antony Page, Revising the Short-Swing Trading Rules for the 21st Century
4:00 – 5:15 p.m. Corporate Law and Contracts
Peter Oh, Piercing Versus Lifting
Matthew Bodie, Workers, Information, and Corporate Combinations
Fan Zhang, Dynamic Contract Breach
