George Mason Law Invites Applications for Law Prof Economics Institute

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The Law & Economics Center at George Mason University Antonin Scalia Law School, invites applications for the Thirty-Fifth Economics Institute for Law Professors and the Seventeenth Law Institute for Economics Professors.

The programs will run concurrently from Sunday, June 1 to Friday, June 13, 2025. They will be held at the Grand Summit Hotel in Park City, Utah.

Upon successful completion of either institute, attendees will receive a $3,000 honorarium.

LAW PROFESSORS:

Thirty-Fifth Economics Institute for Law Professors

The goal of the Economics Institute for Law Professors is to help participants enhance their understanding of economics and broaden their analytical tools in order to introduce greater economic sophistication and policy relevance to their professional work. The time-tested program that launched the LEC in 1974 counts many of today’s leading scholars in law and economics among its five decades of alumni. More than 830 law professors worldwide have attended the LEC’s Economics Institutes. Alumni routinely credit the Institute with providing creative insights into research and teaching, and with facilitating collegial associations.

 

The Economics Institute is carefully designed for those who possess little or no previous formal economics education. It covers basic price theory, with emphasis on the allocative effects of alternative property rights regimes, transaction cost economics, and the application of basic economic theory to a variety of legal issues.

Application: https://cvent.me/oNQ0ez

Agenda: https://cvent.me/OEa0b3

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ECONOMICS PROFESSORS:

Seventeenth Law Institute for Economics Professors

The Law Institute for Economics Professors provides professors with an introduction to basic legal research methods, legal procedures and substantive areas of the law. The time-tested program that launched the LEC in 1974 counts many of today’s leading scholars in law and economics among its five decades of alumni. The objective of the Institute is to help economists bring greater policy relevance to their teaching and scholarship.

The Institute is primarily a course about law, not “Law & Economics”. It is carefully designed to provide academic economists with an overview of the American legal system. The course is directed to scholars with little or no previous legal education; emphasis is placed on those legal issues that are most appropriate for economic analysis.

More than 370 economics and business professors worldwide have attended the Law Institute. Alumni credit the Institute with providing them with insights leading to new research, new courses and new alliances with law and other professors.

Application: https://cvent.me/KYWoed

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Important Details 

1. NO TUITION
2. ATTENDANCE AND PARTICIPATION: Successful completion of the Institute requires attendees to (1) attend all sessions and group meals and (2) to be prepared and actively participate in the discussions. 
3. HONORARIUM: Upon successful completion of the Institute, attendees will be granted a $3,000 honorarium.
4. HOTEL ROOMS: The LEC will make hotel reservations and will pay for rooms.
5. MEALS: The LEC will provide all group meals, including three receptions and dinners, for attendees.
6. TRANSPORTATION: Attendees are responsible for their own transportation arrangements and expenses.
7. ACCEPTANCE: The LEC will evaluate applications as they are received and will accept applicants on a rolling basis.
8. DEPOSIT: In order to confirm their spot in the program, accepted registrants must submit a $1,500 deposit within 30 days of their acceptance into the program. Cancelation of registration after February 1, 2025 will result in forfeiture of the deposit. Attendees that successfully attend the Institute will be refunded the deposit within 30 days after the conclusion of the program.