Established in 1984, the Law, Economics, and Organization Workshop is an interdisciplinary workshop that brings to Yale Law School social scientists and legal scholars, generally from other universities, whose research involves a broad range of issues.

For further information please contact Katherine Pothin at [email protected]

Course Requirements

2016-2017 LEO Schedule

Fall 2016

September 8
Paul Romer
New York University Stern School of Business
joint with the Bert W. Wasserman Workshop in Law and Finance
"The Trouble with Macroeconomics"

September 22
Barak Richman
Duke University School of Law
joint with the Bert W. Wasserman Workshop in Law and Finance
“An Autopsy of Cooperation: Diamond Dealers and the Limits of Trust-Based Exchange”

October 6
Michael Frakes
Duke University School of Law 
“Defensive Medicine: Evidence from Military Immunity”(with Jonathan Gruber). 

October 20
Crystal Yang
Harvard Law School
"The Effects of Pre-Trial Detention on Conviction, Future Crime, and Employment: Evidence from Randomly Assigned Judges"  (with Will Dobbie and Jacob Goldin) 

November 3
Michal Barzuza
University of Virginia School of Law
joint with the Bert W. Wasserman Workshop in Law and Finance 
"Board Interlocks and Outside Directors’ Protection" (with Quinn Curtis) 

November 17
Sonja Starr
University of Michigan School of Law
“Ban the Box, Criminal Records, and Statistical Discrimination: A Field Experiment” (with Amanda Agan)

December 1
Roland Fryer 
Harvard University
joint with Legal Theory Workshop and Labor/Public Economics Workshop
"An Empirical Analysis of Racial Differences in Police Use of Force" 
Location: Yale Law School, Faculty Lounge
Time: 4:15-6:00 pm

Spring 2017  

January 19
Cancelled by presenter

February 2
Marcel Kahan
New York University School of Law
joint with the Bert W. Wasserman Workshop in Law and Finance
“Sovereign Debt and Moral Hazard: The Role of Contractual Ambiguity and Asymmetric Information” (with Shmuel Leshem) 

February 16
Nathaniel Baum-Snow
Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto
"Accounting for Central Neighborhood Change, 1980-2010" (with Daniel Hartley) 

March 2
Maya Sen
Harvard Kennedy School
"Influence and Ideology in the American Judiciary: Evidence from Supreme Court Law Clerks" (with Adam Bonica, Adam Chilton, Jacob Goldin and Kyle Rozema)

March 23
Alan Moreira
Yale School of Management
"Volatility Managed Portfolios" (with Tyler Muir) 

April 6
Anne Case
Department of Economics, Princeton University
"Mortality and Morbidity in the 21st Century" (with Angus Deaton)

April 20
John Pfaff
Fordham University School of Law
“Truth in Sentencing Laws and the Limited Role of the Federal Government in Criminal Justice: Evidence From the 1994 Crime Control Act, And What it Means for Today”