The 16th annual meeting of the Society for Environmental Law and Economics

The 16th annual meeting of the Society for Environmental Law and Economics will be held on 29 and 30 May 2025, at the Florence School of Transnational Governance, European University Institute, Florence, Italy.

The organizers hope to build upon the great success of past meetings, and continue to build a community of environmental scholars interested in working in the intersection of law, economics, social science and environmental or natural resource issues. The organizers welcome both theoretical and empirical papers, as well as studies looking at problems at local, state, national, and international levels. The goal is to create a program that includes a variety of disciplinary perspectives.

To submit a paper, please email a PDF or Word file to Josephine van Zeben (josephine.vanzeben@eui.eu) with the subject line “SELE SUBMISSION” by 15 November 2024. We will review all submissions and provide notice of the outcome of your submission by 15 December 2024.

NAIL: Bringing European Banking Supervision to the Forefront of Innovation

The Network for Artificial Intelligence and Law (NAIL) invites you to its next event.

NAIL is delighted to welcome Dr Lukasz Kubicki, Head of Supervisory Technology at the European Central Bank, to talk about the potential of artificial intelligence in banking supervision. The event will be held in English.

The in-person event will take place at the Institute of Law & Economics, Room 110, Johnsallee 35, Hamburg. No need to register – all welcome!

Alternatively, you may want to follow the event online. Please register for online participation at https://uni-hamburg.zoom.us/meeting/register/u5wucOugrz4vE9R_Uga5HC33oqXpwT7M0UGO.

Workshop on Constitutional Compliance

We cordially invite you to a workshop on the economics of constitutional compliance on January 20, 2023, 14.00 – 20.00 CET.

Over the last couple of years, a team from the University of Warsaw and the Institute of Law & Economics at the University of Hamburg has analyzed the determinants of constitutional compliance. We have looked into factors of
– constitutional design (such as the comprehensibility of constitutions),
– environmental factors (such as important cultural traits),
– the traits of the main actors, but also
– the relevance of particular events (such as the Covid pandemic).

Besides summarizing the main results of this research project, this workshop serves to discuss next steps: what are the most pressing questions that wait to be answered?

Confirmed contributors include Pete Boettke, Tom Ginsburg, Peter Graijzl, Jarek Kantorowicz, Rok Spruk, Georg Vanberg, and Barry Weingast.

Interested in participating? To receive a link, pls register here: https://lnkd.in/eduN7jAz

Event of the Hamburg Network for Artificial Intelligence and Law (NAIL)

Event of the Hamburg Network for Artificial Intelligence and Law (NAIL) on Monday 12 December 2022 at 6:00 pm,  Universität Hamburg, Johnsallee 35, Room 110

“Bridging Tech and Policy Innovation: A Policy Experiment on the AI Act”

With: Antonella Zarra, AI Policy Program Manager, Meta

The Network for Artificial Intelligence and Law (NAIL) invites you to its next event. We are delighted to welcome Antonella Zarra, AI Policy Program Manager with Meta, to discuss Meta’s OpenLoop project, an initiative to improve the quality of regulation for technological issues. The event will be held in English.

The in-person event will take place at the Institute of Law & Economics, Room 110, Johnsallee 35, Hamburg. Please register for the event at the following link: https://www.eventbrite.de/e/bridging-tech-and-policy-innovation-a-policy-experiment-on-the-ai-act-tickets-468499262907

Alternatively, you may want to follow the event online. Please register for online participation by emailing nail@ile-hamburg.de.

Inframarginalism & Internet: A Conference on Markets as Wealth Distributors, and the Implications for Tech Policy

The 18th Annual STOREP Conference will be held online on June 17-18, 2021, (virtually) hosted by the Università dell’Insubria, Dipartimento di Economia, Varese. The title of the Conference is “Law and Economics: History, Institutions, Public Policies”.

Programe objectives:

The 2021 STOREP Annual Conference invites contributions exploring the different dimensions of law and economics: its history, from the seminal contributions of Aaron Director, Ronald Coase, Guido Calabresi, Richard Posner and Gary Becker to more recent developments; the history of antitrust and corporate law; the analysis of the interplay between government, other legal institutions, and markets; comparative institutional analysis and comparative political economy; the effects of law-and-economics research in shaping economic policies, new legislation, or court decisions; the legal coding of economic categories; the effects of legal definitions on economic development, inequality and other major economic phenomena.

Crucial dates and info:

The Conference will take place online.

Inframarginalism & Internet: A Conference on Markets as Wealth Distributors, and the Implications for Tech Policy

University of Kentucky Rosenberg College of Law will host An Online Conference on Markets as Wealth Distributors, and the Implications for Tech Policy, online on February 18-19, 2021.

Programe objectives:

The price of the marginal unit of production determines whether a market is efficient. But the price of all the other units—the inframarginal units—determines who enjoys the wealth created by the market. A surge in scholarship on monopoly power, antitrust, and economic rents suggests that concerns about inequality are driving an inframarginal revolution in law and economics today, in which scholars are asking not just whether rules are efficient but also who they enrich.

At the same time, advances in Internet technology have given sellers greater capacity to redistribute wealth from buyers to themselves, by allowing sellers to use consumer data to target advertising, charge dynamic or personalized prices, and pursue other data-driven marketing practices. And the profitability of these technologies has drained resources from legacy institutions, particularly newspapers, that play an important role in democratic life.

Crucial dates and info:

The Conference will take place online.

The Annual conference of the Italian Society of Law and Economics 2020

The Annual Conference of the Italian Association of Law and Economics (SIDE) will be held on December 16-19, 2020, online.
Programe objectives:

The purpose of the conference is to provide a discussion forum for all researchers interested in a interdisciplinary approach to Law and Economics. The Conference accepts original works in :

  •  The economic institutions of capitalism”: “Taking stock, looking ahead”
  •  The (post) Covid-19 crisis: Legal, economic and ethical challenges
  •  Law-and-Economics approaches to labour
  • Behavioral Law and Economics applied to public policies issues 

Crucial dates and info:

 In 2020, due to COVID-19 pandemic, the annual conference of the Italian Society of Law and Economics will not be an in-person meeting. Instead, it will be structured in an online format on three main virtual events 

  • Please apply using dedicated site
  • Submission fees: there is no fee to attend the 2020 SIDE-ISLE conference. However, the registration is mandatory and membership fee (40 euros) is vividly recommended to presenters for supporting activities of the association
  • Submission deadline for abstracts and/or draft papers: October 18, 2020.

A Conference on Markets as Wealth Distributors, and the Implications for Tech Policy

The University of Kentucky Rosenberg College of Law, with support from John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, will host Inframarginalism & Internet: A Conference on Markets as Wealth Distributors, and the Implications for Tech Policy, online on February 19, 2021.
Programe objectives:

The conference will bring together lawyers and economists interested in advancing the wealth-distributive analysis of legal problems, and explore applications to current global debates regarding tech law and policy

Crucial dates and info:

 Due to the current sanitary situation and the uncertainty surrounding the next academic year on the campus, the Conference could eventually take place online.

  • Submission deadline for abstracts and/or draft papers: October 2, 2020.
  • More information can be found on the conference’s website

GPODS Fellowship

Global Policy Insights (GPI), International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) and the United Nations Office for South-South Cooperation are launching an international online fellowship called the Global Policy, Diplomacy and Sustainability (GPODS) Fellowship. GPODS is a program for public policy practitioners, sustainability experts, business professionals, energy experts, entrepreneurs, academicians, scholars and strategic analysts to act as a launchpad for their careers.
  • It seeks to train and create a consortium of highly skilled young professionals over a period of three months from across the world who are at the inflection point of their careers.
  • Organizers have been lucky to have had confirmations from all around the globe including from eminent Chief Justices, Defence Strategists, Former Ministers, Asst. Secretary General of the UN and many more, who would not only be delivering lectures but also mentoring the fellows, through ‘interactive office hours’ and networking events.