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Conference 2025

The 21st Annual Conference (2025) of the Italian Society of Law and Economics (SIDE) will held on December 11-13, 2025, in the premises of the Faculty of Law of the University of Catania,
Dipartimento di Economia e Impresa (Palazzo delle Scienze, Corso Italia 55 - Catania, Italy).

The SIDE Conference aims to provide a forum for developing, discussing, and disseminating studies on any topic regarding the Law and Economics (JEL Code: K) .

Main topic areas include (but are not limited to): Administrative Law and Regulated Industries; Antitrust and Competition Law; Bankruptcy Law, Business Law, Theory of the Firm, Corporate Governance; Behavioural L&E; Comparative L&E; Constitutional L&E, Public Choice, Public Finance, and Tax Law; Contracts; Criminal L&E; Economics of Social Norms; Employment Law, Labour Law; Environmental Law; Experimental L&E; Health Law and Insurance Law; Inequality, Social Justice and Human Rights Law; Intellectual Property, Cyber law and Privacy; International L&E; Judicial Behaviour and Legal Profession; L&E of Non‑Profit Organizations; Law and Finance; Litigation Process and Law Enforcement; Philosophical and Methodological Foundations of L&E; Property Law; Torts; Transaction Cost Economics and Economics of Institutions; Varieties of Capitalism.

The set-up of the conference is highly interdisciplinary and open to all rigorous scientific methodologies. Moreover, the SIDE conference wants to encourage the contribution of young scholars and to consolidate relationships among European centers of Law and Economics.

Keynote speakers:

Francesco Parisi (University of Minnesota & University of Bologna)
Paige Skiba (Vanderbilt University)

Two selected papers may appear in a special issue of the European Journal of Law and Economics (https://www.springer.com/journal/10657).

In the submission form, you will be asked to indicate whether you are eligible for the 2025 SIDE Award for best young scholar (formerly Brenno Galli Award). To qualify for the award, the presenter must have obtained her/his PhD not earlier than December 2023.

Conference fees (including SIDE membership and social dinner):

Student fee*: €100
Regular fee (until October 30, 2025): €180
Regular fee (after October 30, 2025): €220

*Doctoral students and post‑docs without a tenure or tenure‑track position.

Important dates:

Submission deadline: September 15, 2025
Communication of acceptance: September 30, 2025 (expected)
Early‑bird fee deadline: October 30, 2025
Registration deadline: November 30, 2025
Conference dates: December 11‑13, 2025

Scientific committee: Roberto Cellini (Dipartimento Economia e Impresa, Università degli Studi di Catania), Giuseppe Di Vita (Dipartimento Economia e Impresa, Università degli Studi di Catania), Alessandro Melcarne (EconomiX, Université Paris Nanterre), Giovanni Ramello (Dipartimento di Economia e Statistica, Università di Torino)

Local organizing committee: Giuseppe Di Vita (Dipartimento Economia e Impresa, Università degli Studi di Catania), Paolo Lorenzo Ferrara (Dipartimento di Economia, Università degli Studi di Pescara "G. d'Annunzio" of Chieti-Pescara, Alessandra Patti (Dipartimento Economia e Impresa, Università degli Studi di Catania).

SIDE Board: Giuseppe Bellantuono (Università di Trento), Filippo Belloc (Università di Siena), Giuseppe di Vita (Università di Catania), Marco Faillo (Università di Trento), Massimiliano Granieri (Università di Brescia), Roberta Lombardi (Università del Piemonte Orientale), Maria Rosaria Maugeri (Università di Catania), Stefania Ottone (Università di Torino), Giovanni Ramello (Università di Torino) and Giovanni Tuzet (Università “L. Bocconi”).

President: Giovanni Ramello (Università di Torino)
Secretary: Alessandro Melcarne (Université Paris Nanterre)
Treasurer: Maurizio Lisciandra (Università LUMSA)

Further info: segreteria@side-isle.it

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[1] Doctoral student and post-docs without a tenure or tenure-track position.