Posted 4/24/08
CALL FOR PAPERS
THE CANADIAN LAW AND ECONOMICS ASSOCIATION
ANNUAL MEETING
September 26th and 27th, 2008
You are invited to submit a paper for presentation at the
next Annual Meeting of the Canadian Law and Economics
Association on Friday and Saturday, September 26 and 27,
2008, at the Faculty of Law, University of Toronto. This
call is being sent out by e-mail and will go out by post
shortly. If your e-mail address has changed in the past
year, please send your updated coordinates to:
CONTACT: Nadia Gulezko
Email: MAILTO:n.gulezko@utoronto.ca
KEYNOTE SPEAKER:
Professor Bernard Black, Hayden W. Head Regents Chair for
Faculty Excellence Professor of Finance, McCombs School of
Business Co-Director, Center for Law, Business, and
Economics, will be the keynote speaker at this year's
conference.
TOPICS:
As in past years, we are soliciting papers in all areas of
Law and Economics. In addition, there will be a number of
panels focusing on specific topics. The provisional list
of these topics is as follows:
1. Bankruptcy (TBA)
2. Behavioural Law and Economics
(Claire Hill - MAILTO:hillx445@umn.edu)
3. Competition Policy
(Edward Iacobucci - MAILTO:Edward.iacobucci@utoronto.ca)
4. Corporate Finance
(Janis Sarra - MAILTO:sarra@law.ubc.ca)
5. Corporate Governance
(Poonam Puri - MAILTO:ppuri@osgoode.yorku.ca)
6. Corporate Law
(Poonam Puri - MAILTO:ppuri@osgoode.yorku.ca)
7. Crime
(Phil Curry - MAILTO:pcurry@sfu.ca)
8. Environmental Law and Economics
(Andrew Green - MAILTO:a.green@utoronto.ca)
9. Family Law and Economics
(Margaret Brinig - MAILTO:margaret-brinig@uiowa.edu)
10. Intellectual Property
(Ariel Katz - MAILTO:ariel.katz@utoronto.ca)
11. Normative Law and Economics
(Shuba Ghosh - MAILTO:sghosh@mail.smu.edu)
12. Norms
(Claire Hill - MAILTO:hillx445@umn.edu)
13. Regulation of the Legal Profession
(Norman Siebrasse - MAILTO:siebrass@unb.ca)
14. Securities Law
(Anita Anand - MAILTO:anita.anand@utoronto.ca)
15. Taxation
(Ben Alarie - MAILTO:ben.alarie@utoronto.ca)
PAPER SUBMISSION PROCEDURE:
The Canadian Law & Economics Association (CLEA) is working
with Social Science Research Network (SSRN) to provide an
online conference submission and review system for the CLEA
2008 Annual Meeting. The online submission system will
require a small amount of additional effort on your part
but it has substantial benefits for us and the CLEA
overall. Please click on to:
http://hq.ssrn.com/conference=CLEA-2008
and follow the on-line submission instructions. The
deadline for submissions is May 28, 2008.
You may wish to communicate directly with the coordinators
listed above if you have questions or suggestions regarding
the topics, but please submit to:
http://hq.ssrn.com/conference=CLEA-2008
The draft programme will be decided upon in July 2008.
Once your paper has been accepted, you will be required to
register for the conference immediately. Completed papers
will be due by August 15, 2007. Panel moderators will be
indicated on the programme. Accepted papers will be posted
on SSRN with the authors' approval.
REGISTRATION:
Registration information will be sent to all participants
in due course. Please note that the registration fee for
the 2007 CLEA Annual Conference is $200.00 CDN or US. For
students this fee is 30.00 CDN. This covers all conference
materials and meals, including the dinner on Friday
evening. Spouses or partners are welcome to attend the
Friday evening dinner, for a fee of $20.00. Please send
your cheque, made out to the University of Toronto to:
CONTACT: Nadia Gulezko
Faculty of Law
University of Toronto
84 Queen's Park
Toronto, ON M5S 2C5
Please note that members will not be permitted to present
if their registration fee is not paid. Information on
accommodations will be sent with the conference programme
in July. It will also be posted on CLEA's website at:
http://www.canlecon.org
Poonam Puri
President, CLEA
MAILTO:ppuri@osgoode.yorku.ca
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