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LEGAL & ECONOMIC ANALYSIS. PUBLIC POLICY IMPACT. HENRY G. MANNE PROGRAM IN LAW & ECONOMICS STUDIES PUBLIC POLICY CONFERENCE ON THE LAW & ECONOMICS OF PRIVACY AND DATA SECURITY June 19, 2013 George Mason University School of Law Arlington, Virginia
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LEGAL & ECONOMIC ANALYSIS. PUBLIC POLICY IMPACT.
HENRY G. MANNE PROGR AM
IN LAW & ECONOMICS S TUDIES
PUBLIC POLICY CONFERENCE ON THE LAW & ECONOMICS OF PRIVACY AND DATA SECURITY June 19, 2013 George Mason University
School of Law
Arlington, Virginia
LAW & ECONOMICS CENTER, GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF LAW Public Policy Conference on The Law & Economics of Privacy & Data Security Wednesday, June 19, 2013
Agenda
Wednesday, June 19, 2013 Sessions held at George Mason University Founders Hall Auditorium 8:00 – 8:40 am Breakfast, Founders Hall Multipurpose Room 8:40 – 8:45 am Welcome
Henry N. Butler, George Mason University Foundation Professor of Law, George Mason
University School of Law, and Executive Director, Law & Economics Center James C. Cooper, Director, Research and Policy, Law & Economics Center and Lecturer
in Law, George Mason University School of Law 8:45 – 10:15 am Panel 1: Privacy & Data Security: Substitutes and Complements
Christopher S. Yoo, John H. Chestnut Professor of Law, Communication, and Computer
& Information Science and Director, Center for Technology, Innovation & Competition, University of Pennsylvania Law School Jim Halpert, Partner, DLA Piper Woodrow N. Hartzog, Assistant Professor of Law, Cumberland School of Law, Samford
University Anna H. Davis, Attorney Advisor to Commissioner Maureen Ohlhausen, Federal Trade
Commission Stephen M. Ruckman, Director, Internet Privacy Unit, Office of the Attorney General of
Maryland Moderator: Daniel W. Caprio, Jr., Senior Strategic Advisor and Independent Consultant,
McKenna, Long & Aldridge LLP 10:30 am – 12:00 pm Panel 2: Privacy Tradeoffs: What Do We Know?
Sasha Romanosky, Microsoft Research Fellow, Information law Institute, New York
University School of Law Adam Thierer, Senior Research Fellow, Mercatus Center at George Mason University Lorrie F. Cranor, Associate Professor, Institute for Software Research, Carnegie Mellon
University and Director, CyLab Usable Privacy and Security Laboratory Jonathan Klick, Professor of Law, University of Pennsylvania Law School Moderator: Catherine E. Tucker, Mark Hyman, Jr. Career Development Professor and
Associate Professor of Marketing, MIT Sloan School of Management
Wednesday, June 19, 2013 continued
12:00 – 1:30 pm Luncheon, Founders Hall Multipurpose Room
Luncheon Discussion: Privacy and the First Amendment Marc J. Blitz, Professor of Law, Oklahoma City University School of Law Kevin Bankston, Senior Counsel and Director of CDT Free Expression Project, Center
for Democracy & Technology
Moderator: James C. Cooper, Director, Research and Policy, Law & Economics Center
and Lecturer in Law, George Mason University School of Law 1:30 – 3:00 pm Panel 3: Privacy & Data Security Law, Harm, and Unfairness
James C. Cooper, Director, Research and Policy, Law & Economics Center and Lecturer
in Law, George Mason University School of Law J. Howard Beales III, Professor of Strategic Management and Public Policy, The George
Washington University School of Business Paul Ohm, Associate Professor of Law, University of Colorado School of Law Ryan Kriger, Assistant Attorney General, State of Vermont Office of the Attorney General
Moderator: Thomas M. Lenard, President and Senior Fellow, Technology Policy Institute 3:15 – 4:45 pm Panel 4: Privacy and Competition: The Role of Privacy in Antitrust Analysis and
How Privacy Regulation Affects Competition Randal C. Picker, Leffmann Professor of Commercial Law, The University of Chicago
Law School and Senior Fellow, The Computation Institute of The University of Chicago and Argonne National Laboratory Paul H. Rubin, Samuel Candler Dobbs Professor of Economics, Emory University Frank A. Pasquale, Schering-Plough Professor in Health Care Regulation and
Enforcement, Seton Hall University School of Law Tara Isa Koslov, Deputy Director, Office of Policy Planning, Federal Trade Commission
Moderator: James C. Cooper, Director, Research and Policy, Law & Economics Center
and Lecturer in Law, George Mason University School of Law 4:45 pm Adjourn
Speaker Biographies Kevin Bankston Senior Counsel and Director, Free Expression Project
Center for Democracy and Technology
1634 Eye Street, NW, #1100
Washington, DC 20006
Phone: 202.637.9800
Kevin Bankston is senior counsel and director of the Free Expression Project at the Center for Democracy &
Technology, a Washington, DC-based non-profit organization dedicated to promoting democratic values and
constitutional liberties in the digital age. Prior to joining CDT in February 2012, he was a senior staff attorney for the
Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) specializing in free speech and privacy law with a focus on government
surveillance, Internet privacy, and location privacy. At EFF, he regularly litigated issues surrounding location privacy
and electronic surveillance, and was a lead counsel in EFF’s lawsuits against the National Security Agency and AT&T
challenging the legality of the NSA’s warrantless wiretapping program. From 2003-05, he was EFF's Equal Justice
Works/Bruce J. Ennis Fellow, studying the impact of post-9/11 anti-terrorism surveillance initiatives on online privacy
and free expression. Before joining EFF, he was the Justice William J. Brennan First Amendment Fellow for the
American Civil Liberties Union, where he litigated Internet-related free speech cases.
He received his JD in 2001 from the University of Southern California and his undergraduate degree from the
University of Texas.
J. Howard Beales III Professor of Strategic Management and Public Policy
School of Business
The George Washington University
Funger Hall, Suite 615
Washington, DC 20052
Phone: 202.994.4760
Howard Beales teaches in the school of business at The George Washington University, where he has been since
1988. His research interests include a wide variety of consumer protection regulatory issues, including privacy, law
and economics, and the regulation of advertising. He has published numerous articles addressing these issues in
academic journals.
From 2001 through 2004, Dr. Beales served as the director of the bureau of consumer protection at the Federal
Trade Commission. In that capacity, he was instrumental in redirecting the FTC’s privacy agenda to focus on the
consequences of the use and misuse of consumer information. During his tenure, the Commission proposed,
promulgated, and implemented the national Do Not Call Registry. He also worked with Congress and the
Administration to develop and implement the Fair and Accurate Credit Transactions Act of 2003, and testified before
Congress on numerous occasions. His aggressive law enforcement program produced the largest redress orders in
FTC history and attacked high volume frauds promoted through heavy television advertising.
Dr. Beales also worked at the FTC from 1977 to 1987, as a staff economist, assistant to the director of the bureau of
consumer protection, associate director for policy and evaluation, and acting deputy director.
In 1987-88, he was the chief of the human resources and housing branch of the Office of Information and Regulatory
Affairs in the Office of Management and Budget.
Howard Beales received his PhD in economics from the University of Chicago in 1978. He graduated magna cum
laude from Georgetown University with a BA in Economics in 1972.
Marc J. Blitz Professor of Law
Oklahoma City University School of Law
2501 North Blackwelder
Oklahoma City, OK 73106
Phone: 405.208.5177
Marc Jonathan Blitz’s scholarship focuses on constitutional protection for freedom of thought and freedom of
expression, privacy, and national security law – and especially on how of each of these areas of law applies to
emerging technologies. He has written articles on how privacy and First Amendment law should apply to public video
surveillance, biometric identification methods, virtual reality technology and library Internet systems.
As an attorney at Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr in Washington DC, his work focused on telecommunications,
privacy law, computer law, intellectual property, constitutional law and anti-terrorism security measures. While
working in Washington, he was also one of the reporters for The Constitution Project’s Liberty and Security Initiative,
and was one of the drafters of its Guidelines for Public Video Surveillance. Since 2006, he has also worked closely
with the Memorial Institute for the Prevention of Terrorism (MIPT) in Oklahoma City to organize symposia and other
events on the legal framework for counterterrorism. He has frequently served as a television or radio commentator
on constitutional law, privacy law and national security law, and has participated in panel discussions on these
subjects held by the Department of Homeland Security and by The Constitution Project and Georgetown University
Law Center.
He was voted Professor of the Year by the Merit Scholars at the Law School in 2007 and was also the recipient in
2007 of a Priddy fellowship in which he explored the use of art and technology in teaching.
He also has substantial experience in Alternative Dispute Resolution, having worked as an ombudsperson for the
University of Chicago, an arbitrator for the Better Business Bureau, and a mediator with the Center for Conflict
Resolution and in United States Postal Service’s REDRESS program. Among the subjects he teaches at Oklahoma
City University School of Law is law of alternative dispute resolution.
He has waited, across several reincarnations, for the Chicago Cubs to win the World Series.
Professor Blitz received his PhD in political science from The University of Chicago, his JD from The University of
Chicago Law School, and his BA from Harvard University.
Daniel W. Caprio, Jr. Senior Strategic Advisor and Independent Consultant
McKenna, Long & Aldridge LLP
1900 K Street, NW
Washington, DC 20006
Phone: 202.496.7348
Dan Caprio brings over 25 years of experience on legal and policy issues involving the convergence of internet,
telecommunications, and technology. He has substantial knowledge and experience in the areas of privacy, cyber
security, information security, and the Internet of Things, a term used when everyday objects are connected to the
Internet. Mr. Caprio works with clients to define and capitalize on public policy strategies in the United States and
Europe.
From 2004 to 2006, Mr. Caprio served as chief privacy officer and deputy assistant secretary for technology policy at
the US Department of Commerce (DoC) where he advised the Secretary of Commerce and the White House on
technology policy and privacy protection. While at the DoC, he oversaw activities related to the development and
implementation of federal privacy laws, policies, and practices. He served as chairman of the DoC Radio Frequency
Identification (RFID) working group and co-chairman of the Federal RFID interagency working group.
In 2011, Mr. Caprio was appointed to advise the Secretary of Commerce and United States Trade Representative on
information and communications technologies and electronic commerce matters. From 2007 through 2011, Mr.
Caprio advised the Secretary of Homeland Security on data privacy matters. In 2010, Mr. Caprio was appointed as a
transatlantic subject matter expert to advise the European Commission on the Internet of Things.
James C. Cooper Director, Research and Policy, Law & Economics Center
Lecturer in Law, George Mason University School of Law
3301 Fairfax Drive, Room 433E
Arlington, VA 22201
Phone: 703.993.9582
James C. Cooper is director of research and policy at the Law & Economics Center at George Mason University
School of Law, where he also teaches Economic Foundations of Legal Studies. Prior to joining the Law & Economics
Center, he spent several years at the Federal Trade Commission, most recently as an advisor to Commissioner
William Kovacic. Cooper also worked in the FTC’s Office of Policy Planning, where he last served as acting director.
Prior to joining the FTC, James was an associate in the antitrust group at Crowell & Moring LLP in Washington, DC.
Dr. Cooper has taught law and economics at Johns Hopkins University, and his research has appeared in
publications including the Antitrust Law Journal, International Journal of Industrial Organization, Boston University
Law Review, International Review of Law and Economics and Journal of Regulatory Economics.
James Cooper has a PhD in economics from Emory University and a JD from George Mason University School of
Law, where he was a Levy Fellow.
Lorrie F. Cranor Associate Professor of Computer Science
Associate Professor of Engineering and Public Policy
Carnegie Mellon University
500 Forbes Avenue, CIC 2207
Pittsburgh, PA 15213
Phone: 412.268.7534
Lorrie Faith Cranor is an associate professor of computer science and of engineering and public policy at Carnegie
Mellon University where she is director of the CyLab Usable Privacy and Security Laboratory (CUPS) and co-director
of the MSIT-Privacy Engineering masters program. She is also a co-founder of Wombat Security Technologies, Inc.
She has authored over 100 research papers on online privacy, usable security, phishing, spam, electronic voting,
anonymous publishing, and other topics. She has played a key role in building the usable privacy and security
research community, having co-edited the seminal book Security and Usability (O'Reilly 2005) and founded the
Symposium On Usable Privacy and Security (SOUPS). She also chaired the Platform for Privacy Preferences Project
(P3P) Specification Working Group at the W3C and authored the book Web Privacy with P3P (O'Reilly 2002). She
has served on a number of boards, including the Electronic Frontier Foundation Board of Directors, and on the
editorial boards of several journals. In 2003 she was named one of the top 100 innovators 35 or younger by
Technology Review magazine. She was previously a researcher at AT&T-Labs Research and taught in the Stern
School of Business at New York University.
Dr. Cranor received her doctorate degree in engineering & policy from Washington University in St. Louis in 1996.
She also holds an undergraduate degree and two masters degrees from Washington University. While in graduate
school she helped found Crossroads, the ACM Student Magazine, and served as the publication's editor-in-chief for
two years.
Anna H. Davis Attorney Advisor
Federal Trade Commission
600 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW
Washington, DC 20580
Phone: 202.326.3207
Anna Davis is an attorney advisor to Maureen K. Ohlhausen, Commissioner at the US Federal Trade Commission.
Prior to returning to the FTC in April 2012, Ms. Davis worked 10 years at the Commission, heading up the Office of
Congressional Relations (2001 – 06), and the Office of Public Affairs (1987 – 89) and working as an attorney in the
Division of Advertising Practices (1986 – 87). From 2006 to 2012, she was the Executive Director for Government
Relations at the National Board for Professional Teaching Standards.
Ms. Davis earned her juris doctorate from Georgetown University Law Center and her bachelor of arts from Scripps
College.
Jim Halpert Partner
DLA Piper
500 Eighth Street, NW
Washington, DC 20004
Phone: 202.799.4441
Jim Halpert is a partner in the Communications, E-Commerce and Privacy practice of DLA Piper.
Mr. Halpert counsels technology and content companies on a broad range of legal issues concerning new
technologies, including intellectual property protection, content regulation and First Amendment law, privacy, cyber-
security, government surveillance, Internet gambling, Internet jurisdiction, telecommunications regulation, on-line
contract formation, and marketing. His counseling practice includes advising a wide range of companies regarding
privacy and computer security issues, and advising copyright owners, ISPs, and equipment manufacturers
regarding IP infringement and copy protection technology strategies.
Mr. Halpert has represented and counseled Fortune 500 and smaller companies on a broad range of privacy issues,
including information management, data transfer, data security, government regulation of marketing practices, the
privacy practices of network operators and websites, communications companies, email spam, and disclosure of
customer information in response to government surveillance requests. For example, he has counseled clients
regarding responses to more than one hundred data security breaches.
Mr. Halpert is deeply involved in the evolution of new law in the technology area, and draws on this experience to
provide strategic advice to clients both about where the law is today, and how it is likely to evolve in the future. He
has helped draft many of the federal laws that govern e-commerce and use of the Internet. These include the Digital
Millennium Copyright Act, the CAN-SPAM Act, USA Patriot Act, Children's Online Privacy Protection Act, and
Communications Decency Act. Representing a coalition of Fortune 500 companies, Mr. Halpert has helped to draft
most of the state data security, security breach notification, and state spyware laws and many of the recent state
spam laws, as well as California’s online privacy law. Mr. Halpert has also been involved in drafting and negotiating
provisions in a variety of international treaty provisions affecting e-commerce, including the Council of Europe
Cybercrime Convention, and portions of the IP protection provisions in the US-Singapore and US-Chile Free Trade
Agreements.
Mr. Halpert represents clients in technology litigation in the federal courts, including in Internet copyright, First
Amendment, privacy, and spam cases, and has written numerous appellate briefs. He is active in FTC, FCC, and
other agency proceedings related to the Internet in areas such as intellectual property protection, cyber-security, and
privacy protection.
Mr. Halpert received his JD from Harvard Law School, cum laude, his DEA from École de Hautes Etudes en Sciences
Sociales / École Normale Supérieure, and his BA from Yale University, magna cum laude.
Woodrow N. Hartzog Assistant Professor of Law
Cumberland School of Law
Samford University
800 Lakeshore Drive
Birmingham, AL 35229
Phone: 205.726.4327
Woodrow Hartzog joined the Cumberland faculty in 2011. He is also an affiliate scholar at the Center for Internet and
Society at Stanford Law School. Professor Hartzog holds a PhD in mass communication from the University of North
Carolina at Chapel Hill, an LLM in intellectual property from The George Washington University Law School, a JD
from the Cumberland School of Law at Samford University, and a BA from Samford University.
Professor Hartzog writes in the area of privacy law, online communication, human-computer interaction, and
electronic agreements. His work has been or is scheduled to be published in law reviews and peer-reviewed
publications such as the California Law Review, Georgia Law Review, American University Law Review, Temple Law
Review, First Monday, and Communication Law and Policy.
Before joining the faculty at Cumberland, Professor Hartzog worked as a trademark attorney at the United States
Patent and Trademark Office in Alexandria, Virginia and as an associate attorney at Burr & Forman LLP in
Birmingham, Alabama. He has also served as a clerk for the Electronic Privacy Information Center in Washington DC
and was a Roy H. Park Fellow and instructor of record at the school of journalism and mass communication at the
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Professor Hartzog previously taught as an adjunct professor in the
department of journalism and mass communications at Samford University.
Jonathan Klick Professor of Law
University of Pennsylvania Law School
3501 Sansom Street, Silverman 135
Philadelphia, PA 19104
Phone: 217.746.3455
Jonathan Klick’s work focuses on identifying the causal effects of laws and regulations on individual behavior using
cutting-edge econometric tools. Specific topics addressed by Klick’s work include the relationship between abortion
access and risky sex, the health behaviors of diabetics, the effect of police on crime, addiction as rational choice, how
liability exposure affects the labor market for physicians, as well as a host of other issues. His scholarship has been
published in numerous peer-reviewed economics journals, including The Journal of Economic Perspectives, The
Journal of Law & Economics, The Journal of Law, Economics, and Organization, and The Journal of Legal Studies.
He has also published papers in The Stanford Law Review, The Columbia Law Review, and The University of
Chicago Law Review. His four sons think he is the funniest person in the world, while his wife will only commit to him
being in the top five. He previously worked as a cashier at the Modell’s Sporting Goods store in the King of Prussia
Mall.
Professor Klick received his JD from George Mason University School of Law, his PhD in economics from George
Mason University, his MS from the University of Maryland, and his BS from Villanova University.
Tara Isa Koslov Deputy Director, Office of Policy Planning
Federal Trade Commission
600 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW
Washington, DC 20580
Phone: 202.326.2386
Tara Isa Koslov is the Deputy Director of the Office of Policy Planning at the Federal Trade Commission, a position
she has held since March 2011. Previously, Ms. Koslov has also served the FTC as an Attorney Advisor and Staff
Attorney in the BC Mergers 2 Division. Prior to her FTC career, Ms. Koslov was an associate at the law firm of Vinson
& Elkins. Ms. Koslov is also active in the American Bar Association, serving as a member of the Advisory Board on
Section Reserves and a member of the Nominating Committee, both of the ABA’s Antitrust Section.
Ms. Koslov’s publications include “Competition Advocacy at the Federal Trade Commission: Recent Developments
Build on Past Successes” in Competition Policy International (2012) and “Section 2 in a Web 2.0 World: An Expanded
Vision of Relevant Product Markets” in the Antitrust Law Journal (2010).
Ms. Koslov received her JD, cum laude, from Harvard Law School and her AB, magna cum laude, from Brown
University, where she was a member of Phi Beta Kappa.
Ryan Kriger Assistant Attorney General
State of Vermont Office of the Attorney General
109 State Street
Montpelier, VT 05609
Phone: 802.828.3170
Ryan Kriger is an assistant attorney general in the Public Protection Division of the State of Vermont Office of the
Attorney General. There, he Investigates and brings enforcement actions in the areas of antitrust, consumer
protection, data breaches and online privacy. He advises government agencies and legislature on antitrust and
consumer protection issues, and produces and provides workshops and presentations regarding electronic data
security and privacy. He has also taught continuing legal education regarding legal ethics. Substantive areas of
interest include internet, pharmaceutical, retail, and agricultural industries. He is currently focused on online privacy
and assisting Vermont's businesses with data security issues, as well as antitrust and consumer protection
enforcement. Mr. Kriger is also a team member of the Vermont Cyber Security Project, which offers a series of
programs to help protect Vermont’s small businesses and consumers online. The initiatives include "Cyber Safety for
Small Businesses," a series of workshops offered throughout the state of Vermont; the Privacy and Data Security
Round Table, a discussion of legislation that can help protect Vermont consumers and businesses; Scan Vermont,
free penetration testing offered to small businesses by Norwich University; and Weekend Cyber Security Bootcamps,
a series of classes for IT and security professionals offered by Norwich University.
Prior to joining the Vermont Office of the Attorney General, Mr. Kriger was an associate at Labaton Sucharow LLP,
where he specialized in complex antitrust litigation, and at Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman, and Millberg LLP.
Mr. Kriger received his JD from New York University School of Law and his BS (in computer science) and BA (in
English literature) from Rutgers University.
Thomas M. Lenard President and Senior Fellow
Technology Policy Institute
1099 New York Avenue, NW, Suite 520
Washington, DC 20001
Phone: 202.828.4405
Thomas Lenard is president and senior fellow at the Technology Policy Institute. Lenard is the author or coauthor of
numerous books and articles on telecommunications, electricity, antitrust, privacy, e-commerce and other regulatory
issues. His publications include Net Neutrality or Net Neutering: Should Broadband Internet Services Be Regulated?,
The Digital Economy Fact Book, Privacy and the Commercial Use of Personal Information, Competition, Innovation
and the Microsoft Monopoly: Antitrust in the Digital Marketplace, and Deregulating Electricity: The Federal Role.
Before joining the Technology Policy Institute, Lenard was acting president, senior vice president for research and
senior fellow at The Progress & Freedom Foundation. He has served in senior economics positions at the Office of
Management and Budget, the Federal Trade Commission and the Council on Wage and Price Stability, and was a
member of the economics faculty at the University of California, Davis. He is a past president and chairman of the
board of the National Economists Club.
Lenard is a graduate of the University of Wisconsin and holds a PhD in economics from Brown University.
Paul Ohm Associate Professor of Law
University of Colorado Law School
433 Wolf Law Building, 401 UCB
Boulder, CO 80309-0401
Phone: 303.492.0384
Paul Ohm is an associate professor at the University of Colorado Law School. He specializes in information privacy,
computer crime law, intellectual property, and criminal procedure.
In his work, Professor Ohm tries to build new interdisciplinary bridges between law and computer science. Much of
his scholarship focuses on how evolving technology disrupts individual privacy. His article Broken Promises of
Privacy: Responding to the Suprising Failure of Anonymization, 57 UCLA Law Review 1701, has sparked an
international debate about the need to reshape dramatically the way we regulate privacy. He is commonly cited and
quoted by news organizations including the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and NPR. In 2010, he was
awarded the prize for Excellence in Teaching by the students of Colorado Law.
Prior to joining the University of Colorado, Professor Ohm served as an Honors Program trial attorney in the US
Department of Justice's Computer Crime and Intellectual Property Section. Before that, he clerked for Judge Betty
Fletcher of the US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit and Judge Mariana Pfaelzer of the US District Court for the
Central District of California. He earned his law degree from the UCLA School of Law where he served as articles
editor of the UCLA Law Review and received the Benjamin Aaron and Judge Jerry Pacht prizes.
Prior to law school, Professor Ohm worked for several years as a computer programmer and network systems
administrator, and before that, earned undergraduate degrees in computer science and electrical engineering from
Yale University. Even today, he continues to write thousands of lines of python and perl code each year. Professor
Ohm blogs at Freedom to Tinker.
Frank Pasquale Schering-Plough Professor in Health Care
Regulation and Enforcement
Seton Hall University School of Law
One Newark Center, Room 504
Newark, NJ 07102
Phone: 973.642.8485
Professor Pasquale joined Seton Hall after practicing law as an attorney at Arnold & Porter LLP, where his work
included antitrust and intellectual property litigation. His prior experience includes clerking for the Honorable Judge
Kermit Lipez of the US Court of Appeals for the First Circuit and serving as a fellow at the Institute for the Defense of
Competition and Protection of Intellectual Property in Lima, Peru.
During his time at Yale Law School, Professor Pasquale served as a teaching assistant for first year students and as
an editor of the Yale Law and Policy Review and the Yale Symposium on Law, and Technology before graduating
with a JD in 2001. He also served as a student director in the clinical program's Disabilities Clinic, focusing on
advocacy in the health and benefits fields.
Professor Pasquale has focused his scholarship on enriching intellectual property and health law with insights from
economics, philosophy, and social science. His work on search engines has been excerpted in Bellia, Post, &
Berman's Cyberlaw and delivered to a plenary session of the Intellectual Property Scholars Conference; and his work
on retainer medicine was selected for presentation at the St. Louis University Health Law Scholars Workshop.
Professor Pasquale teaches administrative law, intellectual property law, health care finance, and a seminar entitled
Technology, Human Rights, and Equality. He also plans and participates in programs sponsored by the law school's
Gibbons Institute for Law, Science & Technology, and its nationally ranked Health Law & Policy Program. He is the
associate director of the Gibbons Institute.
Professor Pasquale blogs at Concurring Opinions and Madisonian.net, and has guest-blogged at Jurisdynamics. At
the Co-Op, his posts focus on methodology in legal scholarship, health law, and IP. The Madisonian blog has a
technology focus. Along with Gaia Bernstein and Jim Chen, Pasquale organized a virtual symposium at Law &
Technology Theory.
Professor Pasquale has been quoted in The New York Times, San Francisco Chronicle, Los Angeles Times, Boston
Globe, Financial Times, and many other publications. He has appeared on CNN to comment on Google's China
policy. He has been interviewed on internet regulation on David Levine's Hearsay Culture podcast, WNYC's Brian
Lehrer Show, and on National Public Radio's Talk of the Nation.
Professor Pasquale has testified before Congress and before the New York City Broadband Advisory Commission.
He presented Internet Nondiscrimination Principles for Competition Policy Online before the Task Force on
Competition Policy and Antitrust Laws of the House Committee on the Judiciary, appearing with the General
Counsels of Google, Microsoft, and Yahoo. He appeared with Congressman Bob Goodlatte to discuss Reputation
and Privacy in an Age of Social Networking at the State of the Net West Policy Conference at Santa Clara Law
School.
Randal C. Picker Paul H. and Theo Leffmann Professor of Commercial Law
Senior Fellow, the Computation Institute of the University
of Chicago and Argonne National Laboratory
1111 E. 60th Street, Room 622
Chicago, IL 60637
Phone: 773.702.0864
Randal C. Picker currently teaches classes at The University of Chicago Law School in secured transactions and
antitrust and a seminar on antitrust and intellectual property policy. In prior years, Professor Picker has taught
network industries, bankruptcy, and copyright, Technology, Innovation, and Society; corporate reorganizations,
commercial law, and civil procedure. He has also taught seminars on game theory and the law and The Legal
Infrastructure of High-Tech Industries. In Fall, 2005, he also taught The Legal Infrastructure of Business at the
Graduate School of Business. In Spring 2002, he co-taught a seminar on Enron with Douglas Baird.
Randy Picker graduated from the College of The University of Chicago in 1980, cum laude, with a bachelor of arts in
economics and was elected to Phi Beta Kappa. He then spent two years in the department of economics, where he
was a Friedman Fellow, completing his doctoral course work and exams. He received a masters degree in 1982.
Thereafter, he attended The University of Chicago Law School and graduated in 1985 cum laude. He is a member of
the Order of the Coif. While at the law school, Mr. Picker was an associate editor of the Law Review. After
graduation, Mr. Picker clerked for Judge Richard A. Posner of the US Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit. He
then spent three years with Sidley & Austin in Chicago, where he worked in the areas of debt restructuring and
corporate reorganizations in bankruptcy.
Mr. Picker is a member of the National Bankruptcy Conference and served as project reporter for the Conference’s
Bankruptcy Code Review Project. He is also a commissioner to the National Conference of Commissioners on
Uniform State Laws and served as a member of the drafting committee to revise Article 9 of the Uniform Commercial
Code. He is the author, along with Douglas Baird and Thomas Jackson, of Security Interests in Personal Property:
Cases, Problems and Materials (3rd ed., Foundation Press, 2002). Professor Picker is also the author of Game
Theory and the Law, co-authored with Douglas G. Baird and Robert Gertner.
His recent research has focused on copyright issues, including digital distribution and the digital video recorder
(TiVo); antitrust issues in high-tech industries, including the Microsoft case and the Federal Trade Commission’s case
against Intel and the role of cross-licensing of intellectual property; cyber-security; and telecommunications, including
pieces on the 1996 Telecommunications Act’s unbundling regime and the intersection of antitrust and the 1996 Act.
He has also extended his analysis of game theory and the law by incorporating agent-based computer simulations.
Sasha Romanosky Microsoft Research Fellow
Information Law Instuitute
New York University School of Law
1520 Independence Avenue, NW
Washington, DC 20003
Phone: 415.235.6774
Sasha Romanosky researches topics in cybersecurity, consumer privacy, information policy, applied
microeconomics, and law & economics. He is currently a research fellow in the Information Law Institute at New York
University School of Law. Sasha holds a PhD in public policy and management from Carnegie Mellon University and
a BS in electrical engineering from the University of Calgary, Canada.
Sasha has published in the Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, the Berkeley Technology Law Journal,
coauthored two book chapters and has written other works on information security law and economics. He was a
security professional for over 10 years, predominantly within the financial and e-commerce industries at companies
such as Morgan Stanley and eBay. Sasha holds a CISSP certification and is the co-author of the Common
Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS), an open framework for scoring computer vulnerabilities.
Paul H. Rubin Samuel Candler Dobbs Professor of Economics
Emory University
1602 Fishburne Drive, Rich Building Room 306
Atlanta, GA 30322
Phone: 404.727.6365
Dr. Paul H. Rubin is Samuel Candler Dobbs Professor of Economics at Emory University in Atlanta and editor in chief
of Managerial and Decision Economics. He is a fellow of the Public Choice Society and former vice president of the
Southern Economics Association, and is associated with the American Enterprise Institute, Independent Institute, and
the Technology Policy Institute.
Dr. Rubin has been senior staff economist at President Reagan's Council of Economic Advisers, chief economist at
the US Consumer Product Safety Commission, director of advertising economics at the Federal Trade Commission,
and vice-president of Glassman-Oliver Economic Consultants, Inc., formerly a litigation consulting firm in Washington.
He has taught economics at the University of Georgia, City University of New York, VPI, and The George Washington
University Law School. Dr. Rubin has written or edited eleven books, and published over one hundred and fifty
articles and chapters on economics, law, regulation, and evolution in journals including the American Economic
Review, Journal of Political Economy, Quarterly Journal of Economics, Journal of Legal Studies, Journal of Law and
Economics, the Yale Journal on Regulation, and Human Nature, and he frequently contributes to The Wall Street
Journal and other leading newspapers.
His books include Managing Business Transactions, (Free Press, 1990), Tort Reform by Contract, (AEI, 1993),
Privacy and the Commercial Use of Personal Information, (Kluwer, 2001), with Thomas Lenard, Darwinian Politics:
The Evolutionary Origin of Freedom, (Rutgers University Press, 2002), and The Evolution of Efficient Common Law
(edited), (2007, Elgar). He has consulted widely on litigation related matters and has been an advisor to the
Congressional Budget Office on tort reform.
He has addressed numerous business, professional, government, policy, and academic audiences. Dr. Rubin
received his BA from the University of Cincinnati in 1963, and his PhD from Purdue University in 1970.
Stephen M. Ruckman Assistant Attorney General
Director, Internet Privacy Unit
Office of the Attorney General of Maryland
200 St. Paul Street
20th
Floor
Baltimore, MD 21202
Phone: 410.576.7035
Steve Ruckman is an assistant attorney general in the Executive Division of the Maryland Office of the Attorney
General (OAG) and serves as director of the OAG’s newly-established Internet Privacy Unit. In his role as director,
Mr. Ruckman investigates online operations that threaten consumer privacy, leads enforcement actions against
companies that violate state privacy laws and the Child Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA), and collaborates with
state and federal partners – regulators, advocates, and members of industry – on ways to improve privacy protections
on the Internet.
Mr. Ruckman has worked closely with Attorney General Gansler on a range of matters related to internet privacy, and
is helping Attorney General Gansler with his NAAG Presidential Initiative: “Privacy in the Digital Age,” an intensive
examination of Internet privacy challenges and opportunities.
Mr. Ruckman has experience in every branch of federal government and has also served as a fellow at the Center for
Strategic and International Studies, where he focused on international corruption and governance reform. He is a
graduate of Yale Law School, where he was co-editor-in-chief of the Yale Journal of International Law, and also holds
degrees from Yale Divinity School, the London School of Economics, and Amherst College.
Adam Thierer Senior Research Fellow
Mercatus Center
435 Founders Hall
3301 N. Fairfax Drive, MSN: 5C7
Arlington, VA 22201
Phone: 703.993.4939
Adam Thierer is a senior research fellow at the Mercatus Center at George Mason University with the Technology
Policy Program. His primary research interests are technology, media, Internet, and free speech policy issues, with a
particular focus on online child safety and digital privacy policy issues.
Mr. Thierer has spent almost two decades in the public policy research community. He previously served as president
of the Progress & Freedom Foundation, director of telecommunications studies at the Cato Institute, senior fellow at
the Heritage Foundation, and researcher at the Adam Smith Institute in London.
Mr. Thierer is the author or editor of seven books on diverse topics such as media regulation and child safety issues,
mass media regulation, Internet governance and jurisdiction, intellectual property, regulation of network industries,
and the role of federalism within high-technology markets. He received his BA in journalism and political science at
Indiana University; and his MA in international business management and trade theory at the University of Maryland.
Mr. Thierer has served on several distinguished online safety task forces, including Harvard Law School’s Internet
Safety Technical Task Force, a “Blue Ribbon Working Group” on child safety organized by Common Sense Media,
the iKeepSafe Coalition, and the National Cable & Telecommunications Association, and the National
Telecommunications and Information Administration’s Online Safety and Technology Working Group. He is also an
advisor to the American Legislative Exchange Council’s Telecom & IT Task Force. In 2008, Thierer received the
Family Online Safety Institute’s Award for Outstanding Achievement.
Mr. Thierer blogs at The Technology Liberation Front.
Catherine E. Tucker Douglas Drane Career Development Professor in IT and
Management and Associate Professor of Marketing
MIT Sloan School of Management
100 Main Street, Room E62-533
Cambridge, MA 02142
Phone: 617.252.1499
Professor Catherine Tucker specializes in understanding how the huge amounts of data generated by the ICT
revolution can better guide marketing and advertising decisions. She also thinks about the privacy concerns that such
data raises and how firms and policy makers can best address these privacy concerns. Finally, Professor Tucker has
also done substantial research into how healthcare IT and how the digitization of patient data is transforming the
healthcare sector. She received the NSF CAREER award for her work on digital privacy. She is a faculty research
fellow at the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), and an associate editor at Management Science. She
received her PhD in economics from Stanford University, and is currently the Douglas Drane Career Development
Professor in IT and Management and assistant professor of Marketing at MIT Sloan.
Christopher S. Yoo John H. Chestnut Professor of Law, Communication, and
Computer & Information Science
Director, Center for Technology, Innovation & Competition
University of Pennsylvania Law School
3501 Sansom Street, Golkin 230
Philadelphia, PA 19104
Phone: 215.746.8772
Christopher Yoo is John H. Chestnut Professor of Law, Communication and Computer & Information Science, and
Founding Director, Center for Technology, Innovation, & Competition at the University of Pennsylvania Law School.
He has emerged as one of the nation’s leading authorities on law and technology. His research focuses on how
economic theories of imperfect competition are transforming the regulation of the Internet and other forms of
electronic communications. He has been a leading voice in the “network neutrality” debate that has dominated
Internet policy over the past several years. He is also pursuing research on copyright theory as well as the history of
presidential power. He is the author (with Daniel F. Spulber) of Networks in Telecommunications: Economics and
Law (Cambridge, 2009) and (with Steven G. Calabresi) of The Unitary Executive: Presidential Power from
Washington to Bush (Yale, 2008). Yoo testifies frequently before Congress, the Federal Communications
Commission, and the Federal Trade Commission.
Professor Yoo received his AB from Harvard University, his MBA from UCLA, and his JD from Northwestern
University.
Participant List
Chris Adams Economist Federal Trade Commission 1800 M Street, NW Washington, DC 20580 Phone: 202.326.2592 [email protected]
Lorrie L. Adeyemi Assistant Attorney General Office of the Attorney General of Connecticut 55 Elm Street Hartford, CT 06106 Phone: 860.808.5236 [email protected]
Jordan S. Adler Assistant Attorney General Office of the Attorney General of New York 120 Broadway New York, NY 10271 Phone: 212.416.6307 [email protected]
Nathan J. Aquino Assistant Attorney General Missouri Attorney General’s Office 221 West High Street Jefferson City, MO 65101 Phone: 573.751.0023 [email protected]
William B. Armistead Assistant Attorney General Office of the Attorney General of Florida 107 West Gaines Street, Suite 119 Tallahassee, FL 32399 Phone: 850.414.3805 [email protected]
David Balto Attorney The Law Offices of David Balto 1350 I Street, NW, Suite 850 Washington, DC 20005 Phone: 202.789.5424 [email protected]
Genie N. Barton Vice President & Director, Online Interest-Based Advertising Accountability Program Council of Better Business Bureaus 3033 Wilson Boulevard, Suite 600 Arlington, VA 22201 Phone: 703.247.8344 [email protected]
Richard Belzer President Regulatory Checkbook PO Box 319 Mount Vernon, VA 22121 Phone: 703.780.1850 [email protected]
Ari Blask Research Assistant Information Economy Project 3301 Fairfax Drive Arlington, VA 22201 Phone: 240.676.7746 [email protected]
Joseph Calascione Regulatory Counsel Deutsche Telekom 1020 19th Street, NW, Suite 850 Washington, DC 20036 Phone: 703.282.6014 [email protected]
Diana Carew Economist Progressive Policy Institute 1101 14th Street, NW, Suite 1250 Washington, DC 20002 Phone: 703.412.4880 [email protected]
John Davis Malloy Counsel Washington Lawyers for the Arts 2728 Porter Street, NW, #2 Washington, DC 20008 Phone: 202.686.1439 [email protected]
Beth Delaney Attorney Advisor to Commissioner Wright Federal Trade Commission 600 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW, #H-344 Washington, DC 20580 Phone: 202.326.2903 [email protected]
C. Bryan FitzGerald Deputy Attorney General Office of the Attorney General of Hawaii 425 Queen Street Honolulu, HI 96813 Phone: 808.586.0937 [email protected]
Sasha Freedman Intern Federal Trade Commission 600 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW Washington, DC 20580 Phone: 202.326.2274 [email protected]
Daniel Gilman Attorney Advisor Federal Trade Commission Office of Policy Planning 600 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW Washington, DC 20580 Phone: 202.326.3136 [email protected]
Suzanne B. Giorgi Deputy Attorney General Office of the Attorney General of California 1300 I Street Sacramento, CA 95814 Phone: 916.651.2059 [email protected]
David Givens Economist Federal Trade Commission 600 Pennsylvania Ave, NW Washington, DC 20580 Phone: 202.326.3397 [email protected]
Linda D. Grimms Deputy Chief Counsel Oregon Department of Justice 1162 Court Street, NE Salem, OR 97301 Phone: 503.947.4342 [email protected]
Hance Haney Senior Fellow Discovery Institute 3213 Duke Street, #812 Alexandria, VA 22314 Phone: 202.558.7085 [email protected]
Jah-Juin Ho Deputy Attorney General Office of the Attorney General of New Jersey 124 Halsey Street, 5th Floor Newark, NJ 07101 Phone: 973.648.7461 [email protected]
Allan Holmes Director, Technology and Telecommunications Research Bloomberg Government 1101 K Street, NW Washington, DC 20005 Phone: 202.416.3407 [email protected]
Margaret Hu Professor of Law Washington and Lee School of Law Lexington, VA 24450 Phone: 919.613.8569 [email protected]
Thomas E. Irons Deputy Attorney General Office of the Attorney General of Indiana 302 West Washington Street, 5th Floor Indianapolis, IN 46204 Phone: 317.233.9923 [email protected]
Janis Kestenbaum Senior Legal Advisor Federal Trade Commission, Office of the Chair 600 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW Washington, DC 20580 Phone: 202.326.2798 [email protected]
Craig J. Konnoth Deputy Solicitor General Office of the Attorney General of California 455 Golden Gate Avenue, Suite 11000 San Francisco, CA 94102 Phone: 415.703.1617 [email protected]
Abigail L. Kuzma Director and Chief Counsel, Consumer Protection Division Office of the Attorney General of Indiana 302 West Washington Street, 5th Floor Indianapolis, IN 46204 Phone: 317.234.6843 [email protected]
Stephanie Smith Lee Administrator Sunmark Foundation 2606 Lasswade Lane Oakton, VA 22124 Phone: 703.938.4041 [email protected]
Hedda E. Litwin Cyberspace Law Chief Counsel National Association of Attorneys General 2030 M Street, NW Washington, DC 20036 Phone: 202.326.6022 [email protected]
Tyler Lowe Assistant Director, Faculty Division The Federalist Society 1015 18th Street, NW, #425 Washington, DC 20036 Phone: 202.822.8138 [email protected]
Michele S. Lucan Assistant Attorney General Office of the Attorney General of Connecticut 110 Sherman Street Hartford, CT 06105 Phone: 860.808.5400 [email protected]
Robert Mahini Policy Counsel Google, Inc. 1101 New York Avenue, NW, Second Floor Washington, DC 20005 Phone: 202.346.1251 [email protected]
Patrice S. Malloy Senior Assistant Attorney General Office of the Attorney General of Florida 110 SE 6th Street, Ninth Floor Ft. Lauderdale, FL 33301 Phone: 954.712.4600 [email protected]
Kirsten Martin Assistant Professor of Strategic Management and Public Policy The George Washington University 2202 G Sreet, NW Washington, DC 22052 Phone: 301.300.0861 [email protected]
Sean McGilvray Trust & Safety Consultant Wikia 500 Third Street, Suite 405 San Francisco, CA 94125 [email protected]
Adam Miller Supervising Deputy Attorney General California Department of Justice 455 Golden Gate Avenue, Suite 1100 San Francisco, CA 94102 Phone: 415.703.5551 [email protected]
Samantha Morelli Intern, Commissioner Wright Federal Trade Commission 600 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW Washington, DC 20580 Phone: 202.326.3362 [email protected]
Grant G. Moy
Assistant Attorney General Office of the District of Columbia Attorney General 441 4th Street, NW, Suite 650-N Washington, DC 20001 Phone: 202.727.9543 [email protected]
Yen P. Nguyen Deputy Attorney General Office of the Attorney General of California 455 Golden Gate Avenue, Suite 11000 San Francisco, CA 94114 Phone: 510.520.7182 [email protected]
Nuala O'Connor Privacy Leader Amazon 126 C Street, NW Washington, DC 20001 Phone: 202.368.9337 [email protected]
Lyle N. Odendahl Assistant Attorney General Office of the Attorney General of Utah Box 141000 288 North 1460 West Salt Lake City, UT 84114 Phone: 801.538.6878 [email protected]
James F. Odenkirk Assistant Attorney General Office of the Attorney General of Arizona 1275 West Washington Phoenix, AZ 85007 Phone: 602.542.7787 [email protected]
Sarah Oh Research Fellow Information Economy Project George Mason University School of Law Arlington, VA 22201 Phone: 703.996.9162 [email protected]
Rex W. Olsen Section Chief, Health Office of the Attorney General of Utah 288 North 1460 West, 4th Floor P.O.Box 141000 Salt Lake City, UT 84114 Phone: 801.538.9498 [email protected]
Joseph Pomianowski Intern United States Court of Federal Claims 717 Madison Place, NW Washington, DC 20005 Phone: 202.357.6516 [email protected]
Thomas Porter CEO i5 Scientific 615 Emily Lane Chapel Hill, NC 27516 Phone: 919.967.2909 [email protected]
Gwendolyn Price President and CEO KMC Technologies, Inc. 137 National Plaza, Suite 300 National Harbor, MD 20745 Phone: 240.273.3214 [email protected]
Amanda Reeves Partner Latham & Watkins 555 11th Street, NW, Suite 1000 Washington, DC 20004 Phone: 202.637.2183 [email protected]
Michael D. Reisman Assistant Attorney General Office of the Attorney General of New York 120 Broadway New York, NY 10271 Phone: 212.416.6365 [email protected]
William Rinehart Research Fellow TechFreedom 1899 L Street, NW, Suite 1260 Washington, DC 20036 Phone: 202.599.0408 [email protected]
Dimitri Rizek Intern United States Court of Federal Claims 717 Madison Place, NW Washington, DC 20005 Phone: 202.357.6516 [email protected]
Joseph S. Rubin President Rubin Strategies Kensington, MD 20895 Phone: 202.557.4180 [email protected]
Stephen M. Ruckman Director, Internet Privacy Unit Office of the Attorney General of Maryland 200 St. Paul Street, 20th Floor Baltimore, MD 21202 Phone: 410.576.7035 [email protected]
Stacey D. Schesser Deputy Attorney General Office of the Attorney General of California 455 Golden Gate Avenue, Suite 11000 San Francisco, CA 94102 Phone: 415.703.5507 [email protected]
Louis Silversin Economist Federal Trade Commission Bureau of Economics 600 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW Washington, DC 20580 Phone: 202.326.3385 [email protected]
Brent Skorup Research Director, Information Economy Project George Mason University School of Law 3301 Fairfax Drive, Room 349 Arlington, VA 22201 Phone: 703.993.8525 [email protected]
Abigail A. Slater Attorney Advisor Federal Trade Commission 600 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW Washington, DC 20580 Phone: 202.326.3473 [email protected]
Timothy X. Sokas First Assistant Attorney General Office of the Attorney General of Colorado 1300 Broadway, 9th Floor Denver, CO 80203 Phone: 720.508.6696 [email protected]
Ben Sperry Legal Fellow TechFreedom 1899 L Street, NW Washington, DC 20036 Phone: 202.649.0298 [email protected]
Jeff Steele Deputy Attorney General California Department of Justice 1300 I Street, 11th Floor Sacramento, CA 94244 Phone: 916.323.1937 [email protected]
James M. Steinwinder Antitrust Section Chief Office of the Attorney General of Alabama 501 Washington Avenue Montgomery, AL 36130 Phone: 334.353.9171 [email protected]
Gary M. Tan Assistant Attorney General Office of the District of Columbia Attorney General 441 4th Street, NW, Suite 600-S Washington, DC 20001 Phone: 202.727.6241 [email protected]
Lyman C. Taylor Section Chief Office of the Attorney General of Indiana 302 West Washington Street, IGCS 5th Floor Indianapolis, IN 46157 Phone: 317.234.4464 [email protected]
Erica Teichert DC Reporter Law360 860 Broadway, 6th Floor New York, NY 10003 Phone: 571.305.2529 [email protected]
Greg J. Walklin Assistant Attorney General Office of the Attorney General of Nebraska 2115 State Capitol Lincoln, NE 68509 Phone: 402.471.3840 [email protected]
Stephanie Wilkinson Attorney Advisor Federal Trade Commission 600 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW Washington, DC 20580 Phone: 202.326.2084 [email protected]
Philip D. Ziperman Deputy Chief Office of the Attorney General of Maryland 200 St. Paul Place, 16th Floor Baltimore, MD 21202 Phone: 410.576.6374 [email protected]
Henry G. Manne Program in Law & Economics Studies Program Schedule
2013-2014
Public Policy Conference on The Law & Economics of Privacy & Data Security Wednesday, June 19, 2013 George Mason University School of Law
Twenty-Ninth Economics Institute for Law Professors Sunday, July 7 – Friday, July 19, 2013 Park Hyatt Beaver Creek, Avon, Colorado
Fourth Annual Manne Faculty Forum Friday, September 13, 2013 George Mason University School of Law
LEC-PERC Workshop for Law Professors on Environmental Economics Wednesday, October 2 – Sunday, October 6, 2013 Lone Mountain Ranch, Big Sky, MT
LEC-PERC Workshop on Environmental Federalism Thursday, October 17 – Sunday, October 20, 2013 Case Western Reserve University School of Law, Cleveland, OH
Third Annual Henry G. Manne Law & Economics Conference on The Unique Contributions of Armen Alchian, Robert Bork, and James Buchanan to George Mason University School of Law Co-sponsored by the Journal of Law, Economics and Policy Thursday, November 7 – Friday, November 8, 2013 George Mason University School of Law
Research Roundtable on Law’s Information Revolution Thursday, September 19 - Friday, September 20, 2013 George Mason University School of Law
LEC Workshop for Law Professors on Risk, Injury, Liability, and Insurance Thursday, January 30 – Sunday, February 2, 2014 South Florida
Seventeenth Annual Law Review Symposium on Antitrust Law: 100 Years of Competition Policy at the Federal Trade Commission Law Review program co-sponsored by the LEC Thursday, February 13, 2014 George Mason University School of Law
LEC Workshop for Law Professors on Public Choice Thursday, March 20 – Sunday, March 23, 2014 California
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The Law & Economics Center The Law & Economics Center is a national center for research and education that focuses on the timely and
relevant economic analysis of legal and public policy issues confronting our nation. Since its inception in 1974, the LEC has played a critical role as a leader in law and economics research and education. The LEC recognizes both the importance of timely, relevant, and unassailable research on public policy issues as well as the necessity of communicating research findings to those who are directly shaping our country’s public policy discussions. With research divisions devoted to large-scale empirical projects and top quality legal policy analysis and educational arms reaching out to judges, attorneys general, and other policymakers, the LEC is uniquely equipped to positively impact national rhetoric and outcomes.
Overview of Activities
The Mason Judicial Education Program is the nation’s preeminent provider of high-quality and balanced
judicial education seminars that focus on economics, finance, accounting, statistics, and scientific method. The LEC has been offering programs for judges since 1976.
The Henry G. Manne Program on Law & Economics Studies promotes law and economics scholarship
by funding faculty research and hosting policy-relevant research roundtables and academic conferences.
The Searle Civil Justice Institute is a public policy institute devoted to producing timely, analytically
rigorous, and balanced research on important civil justice issues confronting our free enterprise system.
The Mason Attorneys General Education Program offers educational programming for state attorneys
general and their staff attorneys to provide them a broad-based understanding of the economic and public policy issues they encounter in the course of their legal practice.
The Congressional Civil Justice Caucus Academy provides rigorous, balanced education programs on a
range of civil justice issues for the benefit of the general public and members of the US Congress and their staff.
The Henry G. Manne Program in Law & Economics Studies
The Henry G. Manne Program in Law & Economic Studies (Manne Program), a division of the Law & Economics Center at George Mason University School of Law, honors the legacy of Henry G. Manne—Dean Emeritus of George Mason Law School and founder of the Law & Economics Center. Dean Manne was a trailblazer in the development of law and economics, not only as a prominent and influential scholar, but also as an academic entrepreneur. He spurred the development of law and economics into the most influential area of legal scholarship through such academic innovations as “Economics Institutes for Law Professors” and “Law Institutes for Economics Professors.”
Dean Manne's founding of the Law & Economics Center in 1974 was a seminal event in the development of the field of law and economics, today unquestionably the dominant intellectual approach to legal scholarship in the world. But over the years the economic approach that initially characterized this intellectual revolution, based on the theory of private property rights, contractual solutions and market competition, gave way to more fashionable styles in academic economics generally. This meant more emphasis on non-market or statist approaches to legal or policy issues and a heavier emphasis on empirical studies, often as an end in themselves. This led to the neglect or deemphasis of the study of property rights and market processes which had been so successful in the earlier transformation of legal scholarship.
The Law & Economics Center, now led by its Executive Director, Henry N. Butler, has assumed the ambitious goal of reinvigorating Dean Manne's original approach to law and economics and thereby energizing legal scholarship generally. The initial step towards this goal was the revival of the original LEC program to acquaint law professors with market economics. The first of this second series of Economics Institutes for Law Professors was held in July 2012, forty-one years after the historic first Institute.
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