Archives 2005-2020

1^st annual conference of the Italian Society of Law and Economics, University of Siena, November 25-27, 2005

Keynote speakers:

• Francesco Parisi (George Mason University & Università di Milano)
  The evolution of L&E: lessons from founding fathers

• Benito Arrunada (Pompeu Fabra University)
  Specialization advantages and rent-seeking in religious intermediation: the case of Catholic confession

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2^nd annual conference of the Italian Society of Law and Economics, LUISS “Guido Carli” University, Rome, October 20-21, 2006

Keynote speaker:

• Alain Schwartz (Yale University)
  Contract theory and contract law

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3^rd annual conference of the Italian Society of Law and Economics, University “Luigi Bocconi, Milan, November 09-10, 2007

Keynote speakers:

• Jules Coleman (Yale University)
  The grounds of welfare
• Patrick Rey (Toulouse School of Economics)
  The Law and Economics of unilateral practices

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4^th annual conference of the Italian Society of Law and Economics, University of Bologna, November 07-08, 2008

Keynote speakers:

• Oliver Hart (Harvard University)
  Contracts, reference points and firms
• Henry Manne (George Mason University)
  Past, present and future of L&E (in the US and in the world)

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5^th annual conference of the Italian Society of Law and Economics, University of Florence, December 4-5, 2009

Keynote speakers:

• Jacques Crémer (University of Toulouse)
  Solving the “selective intervention” puzzle

• Nuno Garoupa
  The Law and Economics of Constitutional Courts

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6^th annual conference of the Italian Society of Law and Economics, Free University of Bozen, December 09-11, 2010

Keynote speaker

• Henry Smith (Harvard University)
  Law versus equity

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7^th annual conference of the Italian Society of Law and Economics, University of Turin, December 16-17, 2011

Keynote speakers:

• Theodore Eisenberg (Cornell University, and IEL)
  The English vs. the American rule on who pays attorney fees: an empirical study of publicly-held companies’ contracts

• Hans-Bernd Schaefer
  The sovereign debt crisis in Europe, save banks not States

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8^th annual conference of the Italian Society of Law and Economics, Università degli Studi di Roma Tre, Rome, December 13-15, 2012

Keynote speaker:

• Giuseppe Dari-Mattiacci (Amsterdam Center for Law and Economics)
  Law and culture. A theory of comparative variation

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9^th annual conference of the Italian Society of Law and Economics, Università della Svizzera italiana, Lugano, December 12-13, 2013

Keynote speakers:

• Luigi Alberto Franzoni (University of Bologna)
  On the economics of trade secrets law

• Bruno S. Frey (Zeppelin University, and CREMA)
  Future European integration. An unconventional view from Constitutional Law and Economics

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10^th annual conference of the Italian Society of Law and Economics, University of Rome “La Sapienza”, December 18-20, 2014

Keynote speaker:

• Eliana La Ferrara (Bocconi University)
  A test of racial bias in capital sentencing

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11^th annual conference of the Italian Society of Law and Economics, University of Naples, December 18-19, 2015

Keynote speakers:

• Marco Pagano (University of Naples)
  Strategic leverage and employees’ rights in bankruptcy  

• Fernando Gomez (Universitat Pompeu Fabra)
  Why firms write legal contracts in a lawless world?

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12^th annual conference of the Italian Society of Law and Economics, University of Turin, December 16-17, 2016

Keynote workshop
Empirical legal studies around the world. The legacy of Theodore Eisenberg

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13^th annual conference of the Italian Society of Law and Economics, LUMSA University, Rome, December 15-16, 2017

Keynote speakers:

• Alberto Alemanno (HEC Paris, and NYU Law School)
  Regulating fake news
• John McCahery (Tilburg University)
  Tranching in the syndicated loan market around the world
• Simone Sepe (IAST – Toulouse School of Economics, and University of Arizona)
  Whither corporate law

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14^th annual conference of the Italian Society of Law and Economics, Università del Salento, Lecce, December 13-15, 2018

Keynote speakers:

• Yuval Feldman (Bar-Ilan University)
  The law of good people
• Daniel Markovitz (Yale Law School)
  The meritocracy trap: the Law and Economics of human capital
• Marianna Belloc (University of Rome “La Sapienza”)
  Religious preferences and political institutional change

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15^th annual conference of the Italian Society of Law and Economics, University of Milan “La Statale”, December 19-21, 2019

Keynote speakers:

• Kaushik Basu (Cornell University)
  The republic of beliefs. A new approach to Law and Economics

• Katharina Pistor (Columbia Law School)
  The code of capital: how the law creates wealth and inequality

• Stefan Grundmann (EUI)
  A theory of regulation of financial markets and contracts

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16^th annual conference of the Italian Society of Law and Economics, on-line conference, December 16-18, 2020

Keynote speakers:

• Cristina Bicchieri (University of Pennsylvania)
  Norm nudging and social inferences
• Henry Hansmann (Yale Law School)
  The evolution of organizational agency costs

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