Readings & Class Activities

for

LAW & ECONOMICS


  INTRODUCTION


What Is Law and Economics?

September 10-12


How Do We Evaluate Laws & Legal Institutions?

September 13-20

 M. Radin,  Contested Commodities, Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1996. Chapters 1 & pp. 66-68 of Chapter 5. On E-Reserve as "ECON325 Contested Commodities-Radin"

You will need to decide which criteria you will use for your Final Presentation?  


Yellow diamond What Methods Do We Use to Analyzing Laws and Institutions?

    You will need to use one or more of these methods and statistical techniques that you learned in Econ103 & Econ203 for your Final Presentation.

September 21-October 1

1. Example of Efficiency Analysis--Analyzing the Efficiency of Alternative Laws

2. Examples of Effects Analysis--Analyzing the Effects of Law and Legal Institutions on Behavior

3. Example of Comparative Institutional Analysis --Analyzing the Relative Efficiency of Alternative Institutions (e.g., the free market, rate of return regulation. price caps)

Read one of the following


Alternative Sources of Law, Alternative Legal Systems, etc.

 October 4 -October 5


PROPERTY LAW & AN EXAMPLE OF CASE LAW

Note: There will be no class on October 7

October 6-October 15 


LEGISLATION & ADMINISTRATIVE LAW (Social Welfare Legislation with an Excursion into Tax Law)

October 18-28

  CONTRACTS

November 1-November 4


  LAW AND THE FAMILY

November 8 -November 11


CRIME AND CRIMINAL LAW

November 15-November 22

Seminar Assignment (Due on or before November 23)


  Final Presentations

November 29-December 9

Commentator Assignment  (Due on or before 5PM, December 11)


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