Agenda and Papers
Game Theory and the Law
Third Annual Triangle Law and Economics Conference
Thursday, April 30 - 7:30 p.m. -8:30 p.m.
- Drinks at the Washington Duke Inn
Friday, May 1 - All sessions will be held in 2008 MBA Classroom (Classroom A) of the Fuqua School of Business
Session 1: Contracts I (Moderator, John de Figueiredo)
- 9:00am - 9:45am - Omri Ben Shahar -- An Information Theory of Willful Breach (w/ Oren Bar-Gill)
- 9:45am - 10:30am - Mitu Gulati and Barak Richman – Boilerplate Contracts and the Innovation Cycle
- 10:30am - 11:15am - Richard Brooks -- Uncertain Breach of Contract and Efficient Preliminary Remedies (w/ Warren Schwartz)
- 11:15am - 11:30am - Coffee Break
Session 2: Contracts II (Moderator, Scott Baker)
- 11:30am - 12:15pm - David Gilo -- A Market-Based Approach to Consumer Contracts (w/ Ariel Porat)
- 12:00pm -12:45pm - Nataliya Kuribko and Tracy R. Lewis –- Assigning Property Rights to Insure Efficient Exchange and Investment
- 12:45pm - 2:00pm - Lunch
Session 3: Courts and Opinion Writing (Moderator, Ehud Guttel)
- 2:00pm - 2:45pm - Eric Talley and Matthew Spitzer -- Judicial Auditing II: Strategic Information Acquisition and Mixed Judicial Panels
- 2:45pm - 3:30pm - Scott Baker -- Optimal Patent Jurisprudence (w/ Claudio Mezzetti)
- 3:30pm - 4:15pm - Charles Cameron -- Modeling Collegial Courts (3): Judicial Objectives, Opinion Content, Voting and Adjudication Equilibria (w/ Lewis Kornhauser)
- 6:30pm - 9:30pm – Dinner at Tracy Lewis’ home
Saturday: May 2
Session 4: Products Liability (Moderator, Barak Richman)
- 9:00am - 9:45am - Kathy Spier -- Product Safety, Buybacks, and the Post-Sale Duty to Warn
- 9:45am - 10:30am - Andrew Daughety and Jennifer Reinganum -- A Dynamic Model of the Formation of Class Action Lawsuits
- 10:30am - 11:15am - Abe Wickelgren -- Optimal Antitrust Enforcement: Competitor Suits, Entry, and Post-entry Competition (w/ Warren Schwartz)
- 11:15am - 11:30am - Break
- 11:30am - 12:15am - Shmuel Leshem -- Sequential versus Simultaneous Models of Law Enforcement (w/ Avi Tabbach)
- 12:15pm - 1:15pm – Lunch
Roster
- Omri Ben Shahar (Chicago)
- Rick Brooks (Yale)
- Mitu Gulati (Duke)
- Eric Talley (Berkeley)
- Barak Richman (Duke)
- Matthew Spitzer (USC)
- Kathy Spier (Harvard)
- Jennifer Reinganum (Vanderbilt)
- Charles Cameron (Princeton)
- Andrew F. Daughety (Vanderbilt)
- Abe Wickelgren (Northwestern)
- Shmuel Leshem (USC)
- David Gilo (Tel Aviv University)
- Ehud Guttel (Hebrew University)
- Leslie Marx (Duke
- Tracy Lewis (Fuqua School of Business)
- Scott Baker (UNC)
- John de Figueiredo (UCLA)
