Call for papers: 36th EALE Annual Conference

The call for papers for the 36th EALE Annual Conference (Tel Aviv University, 18-20 September 2019) is now open. Papers may be on any topic in or related to Law and Economics. Policy papers are eligible if they deal with very important and timely issues. Submissions must be original and not yet published and preference is given to full papers.

Submit online at eale.org by April 8, 2019.

In the submission form you will be asked to indicate whether you are eligible for the Göran Skogh Award for the most promising paper presented at the EALE Conference by a young scholar. To qualify for the award, all of the authors must have obtained their PhD prior to April 8, 2017. The winner will receive EUR 1,000.

If you would like your paper to be scheduled on a particular day for religious reasons, please send an email to eale2019@tauex.tau.ac.il contextually to the submission. Later scheduling requests will not be considered.

Acceptance will be communicated on or around May 25, 2019.
 
Confirmation through Registration: Authors of accepted papers will have about two weeks to confirm their attendance by registering to the conference. Papers by authors who are not able to confirm will be excluded from the program. We do this to minimize the number of empty slots at the conference.

Registration fee (including EALE membership): €300 for regular participants and €175 for Ph.D. students.

Accomodation: Tel Aviv tends to be a very busy city during September, and we strongly recommend to reserve your accomodation as early as possible. We are happy to offer you a choice of hotels in agreement with Tel Aviv University, at special rates for the participants of the conference – on an availability basis. A list of suggested accommodation options is available on the EALE website.

Please see the General Information about the conference on the EALE website. 

Pre-doc position in Competition and Innovation at ZEW Mannheim

The ZEW – Leibniz Centre for European Economic Research in Mannheim is looking to fill a pre-doctoral researcher position in the Junior Research Group “Competition and Innovation” within the Research Department “Economics of Innovation and Industrial Dynamics.”

This is a great opportunity for prospective PhD students who are interested in applied work with a strong policy focus. German language skills are not required.

More details are available on this website. The application deadline is 10 March 2019.

Call for Papers: Conference on Data Science and Law

Call for Papers: Conference on Data Science and Law
7-8 June 2019, ETH Zürich, Switzerland

Submissions Deadline: Feb 12th

In recent years, the digitization of legal texts and developments in statistics and computer science have paved the way for new methodological approaches in the area of data science and law. This constellation of new data and methods has created exciting opportunities for progress on old questions as well as the prospect of opening entirely new areas in empirical legal scholarship.

The Conference on Data Science and Law will convene researchers across disciplines who are interested in this burgeoning field. Scholars in law, social and behavioral sciences, digital humanities, computer science, machine learning, and data analytics are invited to present works-in-progress in all areas of empirical legal studies that involve big data sources or use data science techniques, including natural language processing, machine learning, algorithmic fairness, topic modeling, or network analysis. The purpose of the conference is to highlight the best and most innovative scholarship in data science and law and to help build an intellectual community in support of this new field. Works that are descriptive in nature are invited as well as research that focuses on causal inference.

The workshop will be held at ETH Zürich, Switzerland on June 7–8, 2019. Molly Roberts (UCSD) will give a keynote on her research in this area. Researchers are invited to submit unpublished working papers for presentation at the conference by February 12th, 2019. Papers will be selected through a peer review process. While full drafts are recommended, we will accept and review extended abstracts.

Papers can be submitted to Dasa Skopp (dasa.skopp@gess.ethz.ch) with the subject line “Conference Submission.” Multiple author submissions are welcome. Questions can be sent to Elliott Ash (ashe@ethz.ch).

6th International Workshop on Economic Analysis of Litigation – Call for Papers

The 6th International Workshop on Economic Analysis of Litigation will be hosted by the University of Granada, Spain, on next June 24-25, 2019.

Objectives of the workshop: 
The aim of this meeting is to bring together economists and lawyers to discuss the problems of justice, courts’ functioning and the litigation process. This year, the organizers would like to put particular emphasis on the assessment of the Quality of Justice and its interaction with society and economic activity.
A selection of papers will be considered for publication on a special section of the International Review of Law and Economics.

Topics:
The organizing committee encourages submissions of both theoretical and empirical works, especially in the following topics: Quality of Justice, Quality of Judicial Decisions, Constitutional Courts, Judicial Independence, Judicial Institutions and the Economy, Judicial Performance, Courts’ Organization, Judicial Decision-Making, Litigation Process, Comparative Judicial Systems.

Keynote Lecture:
Will be given by Nuno Garoupa. Associate Dean for Research and Faculty Development & Faculty Director of Graduate Studies. George Mason University.

Scientific Committee:
Alessandro Melcarne, Université Paris Nanterre. France.
Fernando Gómez-Pomar, Pompeu Fabra University. Spain.
Francisco Cabrillo, Complutense University of Madrid. Spain.
Giovanni B. Ramello, University of Eastern Piedmont. Italy.
Giuseppe Di Vita, University of Catania. Italy.
Juan Mora-Sanguinetti, Bank of Spain-Eurosystem. Spain.
Sabela Oubiña, Autonomous University of Madrid. Spain.
Virginia Rosales, University of Granada. Spain.

Local Organizers: Virginia Rosales, Manuel Castilla and Manuel Correa

Important Dates:
•    Submission deadline: April 1, 2019
•    Notification of acceptance: April 24, 2019
•    Registration deadline: May 18, 2019

Details on the event and on the submission procedura are available on this website.

2019 Society for Economic Research on Copyright Issues (SERCI) Annual Congress

The 2019 annual congress of SERCI will be held in Montpellier (France) on Monday 8th and Tuesday 9th of July. The local organisation of the event will be undertaken by Alain Marciano (University of Montpellier).

The Invited SERCI Lecture will be delivered by Zorina Khanhttps://www.bowdoin.edu/ faculty/b/bkhan/ (Economics, Bowdoin College).

There is no registration fee for participation at the SERCI Annual Congress. Proposals for papers to be presented at the congress should be sent as an email attachment to: richard@serci.org. Submissions should be received no later than 21st April 2019.

At the submissions stage, a detailed abstract is sufficient (setting out the issue to be studied, the methods to be used, and, if possible, the likely results), although of course full papers are most welcome. In any case, completed versions of accepted papers will be required by late June 2019. Submissions should clearly state the source of any financial aid supporting the research presented in the paper (apart from any support provided by the home academic institution).

Submissions are encouraged on any topic related to the economics of copyright generally defined. Topics of interest to SERCI include (but are not restricted to) such issues as the efficient level of copyright protection, the causes and effects of copyright piracy, licensing and pricing of copyright protected material, the regulation and efficiency of copyright collectives, the public domain for creative works, cultural economics and the copyright industries, markets for musical works, and labour markets in the creative industries.

A selection of papers from the congress will be published in the December 2019 issue of the Review of Economic Research on Copyright Issues http://www.serci.org/ rerci.php.

Funded PhD Opportunity at Ulster University

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

International Workshop in Law and Economics: Open Innovation

The Centre of Legal Research of Grenoble (Université Grenoble Alpes), and the Grenoble Applied Economics Lab (Université Grenoble Alpes, INRA, CNRS and Grenoble INP) will hold an International Workshop in Law and Economics. Focused on Open Innovation and forms of intellectual property rights (IPRs) and/or contractual arrangements that may enable the sharing of knowledge and innovation, this workshop will be held on June 13-14, 2019, in Grenoble (France).

Topics of interest for submission include, but are not limited to:
– Open source licenses,
– Patent clearinghouses,
– Patent pools,
– IPRs on Digital Goods,
– IPRs on plants,
– IPRs and incentives to innovate.

A special session will be scheduled for doctoral students.

Two keynote lectures will be delivered by the Professors Paul Belleflamme  (CORE, Université catholique de Louvain) and Geertrui Van Overwalle (CiTiP, K.U. Leuven).

A round table will be organized at the end of each day. The first will deal with the role of open innovation in plant breeding and agricultural research, the second will address open innovation in academic research.

Please note that there is no registration fee for the presenting authors.

The deadline for submitting papers is January 15th, 2019.

Notification of acceptance by the Scientific Committee and detailed instructions will be provided to presenting authors by March 15th, 2019.

For further information, please consult the attached Call for Papers or the website : https://workshop.inra.fr/open-innovation

Workshop in Law and Economics, Cairo, Egypt.

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.

6th International Meeting in Law &Economics

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

17th German Law and Economics Association Annual Conference

The German Law and Economics Association (Gesellschaft für Recht und Ökonomik e.V) is honoured to announce that 17th edition of the annual conference will take place on July 11-12, 2019 in Hannover (Leibniz-Fachhochschule – School of Business). The main lecture of the conference “Competition and Cartel Law in the Digital Age” will be delivered by prof. dr. Justus Haucap from the Düsseldorf Institute for Competition Economics and the Heinrich Heine University. The conference fee is 100 €.

The organizers also invite scholars to send scientific articles that will be presented at the conference – the deadline is February 26, 2019,  and decisions about qualifying or rejecting will be forwarded by the end of March. The organizers also provide financial support (partial coverage of costs) for young researchers wishing to take part in the event.

Detailed information on the conference and the rules for sending the publication are available in the information brochure.