Conference report: 5th Lucerne Law and Economics Conference

elni Review ◽  
2016 ◽  
pp. 90-90
Author(s):  
Lynn Gummow
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Law And Economics ◽  
Environmental Law ◽  
Conference Report ◽  
The United States ◽  
Law School ◽  
Environmental Challenges ◽  
The University

This paper reports on the 5th Lucerne Law and Economics Conference that took place at the University of Lucerne, Switzerland on the 15th and 16th of April, 2016. The conference, on the topic of “Environmental Law and Economics”, was organized by Prof. Dr. Klaus Mathis, in partnership with Prof. Bruce Huber from Notre Dame University Law School. With the ever-increasing pressure to tackle environmental challenges, the interest in this conference was substantial, with participants from all over Europe and the United States.

Book Reviews

2010 ◽  
Vol 48 (4) ◽  
pp. 1051-1053
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Law And Economics ◽  
The United States ◽  
The European Union ◽  
Regulatory Oversight ◽  
Industrial Economics ◽  
Law And Technology ◽  
Economic Perspectives ◽  
The University

Joacim Tag of Research Institute of Industrial Economics reviews “Antitrust and Regulation in the EU and US: Legal and Economic Perspectives” by Francois Leveque, Howard Shelanski, Francois Leveque, Howard Shelanski,. The EconLit Abstract of the reviewed work begins “Seven papers, originally presented at the “Balancing Antitrust and Regulation in Network Industries: Evolving Approaches in Europe and the United States” conference jointly organized by CERNA and the Berkeley Center for Law and Technology and held in Paris in January 2006, address various aspects of the evolving balance between antitrust and regulation in the European Union and the United States. Papers discuss synthetic competition (Douglas H. Ginsburg); European competition policy and regulation--differences, overlap, and contraints (John Temple Lang); contrasting legal solutions and the comparability of EU and U.S. experiences (Pierre Larouche); modeling an antitrust regulator for telecoms (James B. Speta); rethinking merger remedies--toward a harmonization of regulatory oversight with antitrust merger review (Philip J. Weiser); market power in U.S. and EU electricity generation (Richard Gilbert and David Newbery); and mobile call termination--a tale of two-sided markets (Tommaso Valletti). Leveque is Professor of Law and Economics at Ecole des mines de Paris. Shelanski is Professor of Law in the School of Law at the University of California, Berkeley. Index.”

scholarly journals The Work of the Commercial Courts.

1921 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 6-20 ◽  
Author(s):  
T. E. Scrutton
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
The United States ◽  
Law School ◽  
Law Students ◽  
Prodigal Son ◽  
Legal Subject ◽  
The Law ◽  
To Come ◽  
The University ◽  
Commercial Courts

During the last Long Vacation—which I am afraid, by the way, will be the last long vacation—I Was just about starting out to indulge in a pastime which a don of the rival, but much inferior, university has described as “putting little balls into little holes with instruments singularly unadapted for the purpose” when a letter was put into my hand with an American stamp and a United States postmark. I opened it hastily and glanced at it, and gathered the impression that some unknown society in the United States was inviting me to proceed there in the month of November to deliver an address on some legal subject. I was flattered and puzzled. I threw the letter on the table and went out to indulge in the aforesaid pastime. It was not till I got home and read the letter carefully that I discovered what it was all about. I gathered that your Downing Professor, who prefers to spend his holiday in a dry climate—a bone-dry climate—was conveying to me the request of the University Law Society that I should come back to my old university and my old college and speak to the law students, and I was very much flattered and grateful. I felt a little, however, like the Prodigal Son, for I thought that for the Cambridge Law Society and the Law School of Cambridge to invite a man who had paid little attention to them while he was up, to come and address them, was heaping coals of fire upon his head.

scholarly journals AN INTRODUCTION TO EXPLORING LAW, DISABILITY, AND THE CHALLENGE OF EQUALITY IN CANADA AND THE UNITED STATES: PAPERS FROM THE BERKELEY SYMPOSIUM

2015 ◽  
Vol 32 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Laverne Jacobs
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
The United States ◽  
Law School ◽  
University Of California ◽  
Access To Justice ◽  
Great Pleasure ◽  
Persons With Disabilities ◽  
Special Collection ◽  
Berkeley Symposium ◽  
The University

It brings me great pleasure to write this Introduction to Exploring Law, Disability, and the Challenge of Equality in Canada and the United States. This special collection of articles in the Windsor Yearbook of Access to Justice [WYAJ] stems from a symposium of the same name held at the Berkeley Law School at the University of California on 5 December 2014. Writing this introduction allows me to bring together my identities as a law and disability scholar, the principal organizer and convener of the Berkeley Symposium, and editor-in-chief of the WYAJ.In these roles, I have had the opportunity to engage with this set of articles and their authors in a distinct way – from the early versions of these articles through to the final peer-reviewed publications. The Berkeley Symposium is the first conference, of which we are aware, to bring together scholars and experts from both Canada and the United States to present research and exchange ideas on equality issues affecting persons with disabilities in both countries.1 Each academic was invited to write about an equality issue of their choice that is of contemporary concern to persons with disabilities, and to focus on Canada, the United States,or both, at their  option. The result is a set of articles that is simultaneously introspective and comparative.

scholarly journals Adolf Sprudzs: In Memoriam

2004 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 73-74
Author(s):  
Judith Wright
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
World War Ii ◽  
International Law ◽  
The United States ◽  
Law School ◽  
University Of Chicago ◽  
World War ◽  
Distinguished Career ◽  
In Memoriam ◽  
The University

Adolf Sprudzs had a long and distinguished career as a foreign and international law librarian at the University of Chicago Law School, where he developed one of the premier foreign and international law collections in the United States. He was a leader among a generation of foreign and international law librarians who emigrated to the United States after World War II and were responsible for the collections and expertise that now exist in this country.

Book Reviews

2014 ◽  
Vol 52 (3) ◽  
pp. 866-867
Keyword(s):  
Law And Economics ◽  
Selection Effect ◽  
The United States ◽  
Law School ◽  
Market Model ◽  
Empirical Literature ◽  
Professor Emeritus ◽  
University Of Chicago ◽  
Senior Lecturer ◽  
The University

Presents a unified theory of judicial decision making in the American legal system based on a labor market model. Discusses a realistic theory of judicial behavior; the previous empirical literature; the Supreme Court; the courts of appeals; the district courts and the selection effect; dissents and dissent aversion; the questioning of lawyers at oral argument; and the auditioners. Epstein is Provost Professor of Law and Political Science and Rader Family Trustee Chair in Law at the University of Southern California. Landes is Clifton R. Musser Professor Emeritus of Law and Economics at the University of Chicago Law School. Posner is Circuit Judge with the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit and Senior Lecturer at the University of Chicago Law School.

Book Reviews

2015 ◽  
Vol 53 (4) ◽  
pp. 1036-1039
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
The United States ◽  
Law School ◽  
Legal Tender ◽  
University Of Georgia ◽  
Standard Work ◽  
Monetary System ◽  
Cato Institute ◽  
History Of ◽  
The University

Christine Desan of Harvard Law School reviews “Constitutional Money: A Review of the Supreme Court's Monetary Decisions”, by Richard H. Timberlake. The Econlit abstract of this book begins: “Reviews ten U.S. Supreme Court cases and decisions that dealt with monetary laws and presents a summary history of monetary events and policies as they were affected by the Court's decisions. Discusses the current condition of monetary affairs in the United States; the emergence of money in civilized societies; the bimetallic monetary system and appearance of a national bank; McCulloch v. Maryland, 1819; Congress's power ““to coin money and regulate the value thereof …”; Craig v. Missouri, 1830; Briscoe v. The Bank of the Commonwealth of Kentucky, 1837; federal government issues of Treasury notes and greenbacks; the track of the legal tender bills through Congress; Bronson v. Rodes, 1868; Veazie Bank v. Fenno, 1869; Hepburn v. Griswold, 1870—the legal tender issue; Knox v. Lee and Parker v. Davis—reversal of Hepburn; monetary affairs in the United States, 1871–83; the third legal tender case—Juilliard v. Greenman, 1884; commentaries on the legal tender decisions—the issue of sovereignty; other commentaries on the legal tender cases; the (Gold) Currency Act of 1900 and monetary affairs in the United States before 1914; the Federal Reserve System, 1914–29; the Great Contraction, 1929–33; gold—where did it go, and why didn't the gold standard work?; the Gold Clause cases, 1934–35; gold and monetary affairs in the twentieth century; and a constitutional monetary system. Timberlake is Emeritus Professor of Economics at the University of Georgia and Adjunct Scholar at the Cato Institute.”

Thinking About Scots Law

1996 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 3-24 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alan Rodger
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
British Empire ◽  
United States Of America ◽  
Case Law ◽  
The United States ◽  
Memorial Lecture ◽  
University Of Edinburgh ◽  
The University

This article is the revised text of the first W A Wilson Memorial Lecture, given in the Playfair Library, Old College, in the University of Edinburgh, on 17 May 1995. It considers various visions of Scots law as a whole, arguing that it is now a system based as much upon case law and precedent as upon principle, and that its departure from the Civilian tradition in the nineteenth century was part of a general European trend. An additional factor shaping the attitudes of Scots lawyers from the later nineteenth century on was a tendency to see themselves as part of a larger Englishspeaking family of lawyers within the British Empire and the United States of America.

‘A Routh O’ Auld Nick-Nackets’ – the antiquarian collection of John Rae

2015 ◽  
Vol 36-37 (1) ◽  
pp. 163-183
Author(s):  
Paul Taylor
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Social Context ◽  
Moral Education ◽  
The United States ◽  
Representative Case ◽  
National Museums ◽  
The Individual ◽  
The University

John Rae, a Scottish antiquarian collector and spirit merchant, played a highly prominent role in the local natural history societies and exhibitions of nineteenth-century Aberdeen. While he modestly described his collection of archaeological lithics and other artefacts, principally drawn from Aberdeenshire but including some items from as far afield as the United States, as a mere ‘routh o’ auld nick-nackets' (abundance of old knick-knacks), a contemporary singled it out as ‘the best known in private hands' (Daily Free Press 4/5/91). After Rae's death, Glasgow Museums, National Museums Scotland, the University of Aberdeen Museum and the Pitt Rivers Museum in Oxford, as well as numerous individual private collectors, purchased items from the collection. Making use of historical and archive materials to explore the individual biography of Rae and his collection, this article examines how Rae's collecting and other antiquarian activities represent and mirror wider developments in both the ‘amateur’ antiquarianism carried out by Rae and his fellow collectors for reasons of self-improvement and moral education, and the ‘professional’ antiquarianism of the museums which purchased his artefacts. Considered in its wider nineteenth-century context, this is a representative case study of the early development of archaeology in the wider intellectual, scientific and social context of the era.

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