Call for Papers: THE ANNUAL MEETING OF THE AMERICAN LAW AND ECONOMICS ASSOCIATION

                           CALL FOR PAPERS

               THE ANNUAL MEETING OF THE AMERICAN LAW
                      AND ECONOMICS ASSOCIATION

                           May 16-17, 2008
                            New York City


     AIM:

     The American Law and Economics Association holds each
     spring an annual meeting which brings together researchers
     from law schools, economics departments, business schools,
     and elsewhere to present and discuss current projects on a
     wide range of topics in the field of law and economics.
     During the meeting, sessions on different subjects are held
     in parallel with the goal of enabling the presentation of a
     significant number of papers by a wide range of authors.
     The eighteenth annual meeting of the Association will take
     place this year at Columbia Law School in New York City on
     May 16 and 17, 2008.


     TOPICS:

     The Conference will have one or more sessions in each of
     the following areas of law and economics:

     - Antitrust and Regulated Industries

     - Bankruptcy and Creditors' Rights

     - Behavioral Law and Economics

     - Civil Rights and Discrimination

     - Contracts

     - Commercial Law

     - Corporate Law and Corporate Governance: Policy and Theory

     - Corporate Law and Corporate Governance: Empirical

     - Corporate and Securities Law: Comparative and
       International

     - Securities Regulation, Financial Institutions, and
       Capital Markets Regulation

     - Theory of the Firm, including Non-Profits and
       Governmental Organizations

     - Criminal Law and Enforcement

     - Health Law

     - Family and Gender

     - Intellectual Property

     - International Law, International Trade, and Immigration

     - Labor and Employment Law

     - Law and Development

     - The Legal Process, including Litigation, Procedure,
       Evidence, Courts, and Lawyers

     - Negotiations and Deal-Making

     - Property

     - Environmental Law and Economics

     - Political Economy/Public Choice

     - Public Law/Administrative Law

     - Taxation, Public Finance, and Social Welfare

     - Torts and Compensation Systems


     MORE INFORMATION AND SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS:

     Authors are invited to submit their papers electronically
     at the website of the conference on the Association's
     website:

                    http://www.amlecon.org/

     This website also includes further information about the
     submission process and the meeting, as well as about prior
     meetings of the Association.


     DEADLINE:

     Authors should submit their papers no later than Monday,
     January 28, 2008.
Posted 1/18/08