Category: L&E Announcements

The Doctoral College of Ulster University is offering a scholarship for a PhD student at the School of Applied Social and Policy Sciences. The PhD student should work under the supervision of Dr. Michele Gazzola and Prof. Gordon Marnoch on the topic “The Multilingual Public Administration“. We are looking for an outstanding student in economics, law and economics, public policy, or political science. The scholarships will cover tuition fees and a maintenance award of £14,777 per annum for three years. Applications are invited from UK, European Union and overseas students. The PhD should start in September 2019.

Submission Deadline: Monday 18 February 2019

Interview Date: 25 to 27 March 2019

The Faculty of Law at the British University in Egypt (BUE) is holding its first workshop on Law and Economics in collaboration with the Institute of Law and Economics at Hamburg University (ILE). The workshop will be held on Sunday, 24 March 2019 at the British University in Egypt campus at Sherouk City, Cairo.

The workshop strives to give an introduction to Economic Analysis of the Law in an interactive workshop. The workshop will feature sessions at which scholars and professionals in the area of Law and Economics will be invited to give presentations. After each presentation discussions will be held. This workshop will expose speakers, guests and faculty members to some of the
insights Law and Economics can provide in several branches of law and policy areas.

Please send an email expressing your interest to participate and details of your paper or presentation to Dr. Alex Atanasov: alex.atansov@bue.edu.eg
The workshop on 24 March 2019 will begin at 9:00 am. There will be no participation fee or any other costs for presenters associated with participating in the workshop.

The Submission Deadline is January 27th 2019. For more details see the uploaded brochure.

EconomiX (CNRS and Paris Nanterre), the Paris Center for Law & Economics (Paris 2 Panthéon-Assas), the Laboratoire d’Economie Dionysien (Paris 8 Vincennes-St Denis), ERUDITE (Paris Est-Créteil), and the Center for Economics of Paris Nord (CNRS and Paris 13 Villetaneuse) will jointly organize the: 6th International Meeting in Law & Economics, on April 18-19, 2019. The workshop in 2019 will be organized on the Campus of Nanterre.

The organization of this international conference dedicated to Law & Economics aims at establishing an annual meeting in order to attract top Law & Economics scholars on a regular basis in Ile-de-France, and to promote sustained interactions with the French scholars also interested in these topics. The workshop consists in 8 thematic sessions of 2 papers; this allows each speaker to have 45 minutes in all, and enables longer discussions with the audience than what is nowadays possible during the international conferences in the field.

Submissions must be sent before January 14, 2019, in a pdf format, and by email to Eric.Langlais@parisnanterre.fr . Papers (completed, or at least in preliminary draft) using various methodologies (theoretical, empirical, or experimental) and related to any topics of Law & Economics are welcome, including: Economics of Procedures, Litigations, Law and Finance, Entrepreneurship, Economics of Competition Law, Tort Law and Liability Rules, Law Enforcement and Economics of Crime, Constitutional Law and Political Economics, Intellectual Property and Innovation, Contracts and Law. The selection of papers will be made before February 7, 2019.

Contact, information and submission : Eric.Langlais@parisnanterre.fr .

Important dates :

• Deadline for submission : January 14, 2019.
• Selection of papers : February 7, 2019.

Registration and payment of fees (including 2 lunches, all coffee-breaks, and 1 dinner): before March 31, 2019.

Participation fees : Students (Master, PhD) : 80 euros. Academics : 150 euros. Institutions and Non Academics : 200 euros.

On behalf of the Organizing Committee: Béatrice Dumont (CEPN, CNRS & Paris 13), Eric Langlais (EconomiX, CNRS & Paris Nanterre), Marie Obidzinski (CRED, Paris 2), Jacques Pelletan (LED Paris 8), Arnold Vialfont (ERUDITE, Paris Est-Créteil).

For more details see the information brochure

The Institute of Law & Economics (ILE), Law School, Universität Hamburg, is proud to host the Midterm Meeting of the European Master in Law & Economics Programme in Hamburg on 14-16 February 2019.

Scholars in the field of Law & Economics and Empirical Legal Studies are invited to present their research at the academic conference on 15 February 2019.

Please submit your paper or abstract as PDF-file to mtm19info@emle.org. Please indicate “MTM paper submission” as subject of the email. Priority in the selection process will be given to completed papers.

The deadline to submit a paper or abstract is 15 December 2018. We will send notifications of acceptance before Mid-January.

The academic conference on 15 February 2019 will commence at 9:00 am and continue until 5:30 pm. The conference will include a key lecture in the morning by Dr. Andreas Dressel, Hamburg’s Senator for Finance. The day will be concluded by a formal conference dinner. The conference schedule will be available at the end of January 2019.

There will be no conference fee or any other costs for presenters associated with attending the academic programme. In addition, ILE will provide complimentary refreshments and lunch during the conference.

Hotel accommodation will be provided to speakers whose papers are selected for presentation.

For general inquiries, please contact us at mtm19info@emle.org.

Euroacademia announces that a call for papers and panels for the 7th Euroacademia International Conference: The European Union and the Politicization of Europe is open until 10th December 2019. The conference itself will take place on 25-26th January 2019 in Bruges, Belgium.  Details are available on the website of the event.

Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich (ETH Zurich) is looking for PhD students in law (law & economics, intellectual property, privacy, law & tech, antitrust). Details are available on the website of the Institute. The application deadline is January 31, 2019.