The Center for law and the Economy provides programming for both law students and the broader Tulane community on regulation of economic activity.
Regulation and Coordination Workshop Series
Each term, four or five visiting scholars will present works-in-progress on regulation of economic activity, broadly construed. A limited number of law students and other graduate students may enroll in workshop for credit, but the author presentations will be open to students who are not formally enrolled in the workshop.
Participants in the Fall 2019 Regulation and Coordination Workshop Series include:
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Robert Anderson (Pepperdine School of Law) — A Property Theory of Corporate Law
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Patrick Button (Tulane University, Economics) — Do Stronger Employment Discrimination Protections Decrease Reliance on Social Security Disability Insurance? Evidence from the Social Security Reforms
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Brad Areheart (University of Tennessee College of Law) — Organizational Justice and Antidiscrimination
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Wendy Greene (Drexel University School of Law) — DNA-Based Race?
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Stephanie Bornstein (University of Florida Levin College of Law) — Disclosing Discrimination
Participants in the Spring 2020 series include:
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Robert Prilmeier (Tulane University, A.B. Freeman School of Business)
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Alena Allen (University of Memphis Cecil C. Humphreys School of Law)
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Michael Heise (Cornell Law School)
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Carliss Chatman (Washington & Lee University School of Law)
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Julian Arato (Brooklyn Law School)
The Regulation and Coordination Workshop Series homepage provides additional information on previous and upcoming speakers.
Law & Economics of the Regulatory State
This course is designed to introduce undergraduates to the law and economics of the regulatory state and the challenges to governance posed by the regulatory state. Students will be expected to develop an understanding of key legal principles as well as to apply economic analysis to legal rules. For each of the topics, a discussion of legal principles will be paired with the relevant economic analysis. The first part of the course treats classic topics of law and economics. The aim here is to provide the key foundational material in contracts, torts, property, and administrative procedures. The questions to be addressed are the specifics of the legal rules and their impact on economic efficiency and welfare, broadly defined. These tools are necessary in order to understand why there may need to be further government regulation. The second part focuses on administrative law and the regulatory state. It will focus on why laws are written so as to permit action for regulatory agencies; the procedures that agencies and courts follow for regulations; and the limits of regulatory authority. There will be a careful look at case studies illustrating these principles.
