2007 Annual Meeting of Midwestern Law and Economics Association at the University of Minnesota Law School, Minneapolis, Minnesota
9:05 – 10:20 a.m. Regulation and Governance
Dale Thompson, Optimal Federalism Across Many Dimensions
Guiseppe Dar-Mattiacci, Multi-Level Governance and Risk Diversification
Jonathan Remy Nash, Environmental Regulation Through the Looking-Glass
10:30 – 11:45 a.m. Procedure and Family Law
Scott Moss, O Brave New World That Has Such Creatures Evidence: An Economic Analysis of Courts’ Misguided Rules on Discovery of Digital Evidence
Margaret Brinig, The One Size Fits All Family
Vincy Fon & Francesco Paris, Plaintiff in Default: An Economic Analysis
1:00 – 2:15 p.m. Behavioral Law and Economics: Theory
Peter Huang, Law and Human Flourishing: Fostering Happiness, Learning, and Mindfulness
Jeffrey Lipshaw, Aboutness, Thingness, Models, and Understanding
Jeff Stake & Michael Alexeev, Who Responds to U.S. News & World Report’s Law School Rankings?
2:30 – 3:45 p.m. Tax and Finance
Bradley Borden, The Aggregate-Plus Theory of Partnership Taxation
Elizabeth Brown, A Preliminary Look at Regulatory Structures for Financial Services
Joseph Warburton, Business Trusts Versus Corporations: Evidence from the British Mutual Fund Industry
4:00 – 5:15 p.m. Law and Medicine
Robert Katz, Gimme Some Skin: When Tissue Banks Compete for Transplant Tissue, Who Wins?
Robert Mikos, Supervising Criminal Activity: The Case of State Medical Marijuana Exemptions
Elizabeth Weeks, Right to Experimental Treatment
