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.
2024 – 2025 Schedule
The Workshop meets biweekly from 4:10 pm – 5:40 pm (ET) in Room 121.
Fall 2024
September 12
Yiqing Xu
Stanford University
"Decentralized Propaganda in the Era of Digital Media: The Massive Presence of the Chinese State on Douyin"
September 26
Raymond Kleunder
Harvard Business School
"The Effect of Medical Debt Relief: Evidence from Two Randomized Experiments"1
October 10
Elliot Ash
ETH Zürich Center for Law & Economics
"Judging Disparities: Recidivism Risk, Image Motives, and In-Group Bias on Wisconsin Criminal Courts"2
October 24
Kyle Rozema ("John Hart Ely Fellowship Lecture on Professional Responsibility")
Northwestern University
"Occupational Licensing and Labor Market Mobility: Evidence from the Legal Profession"3
November 14
Nathaniel Hendren (Joint with Legal Theory Workshop)
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
"A Welfare Analysis of Policies Impacting Climate Change"4
November 21
Francis Lee
Princeton University
"A Case for Congress: Shared Power for a Divided Society"
Spring 2025
January 30
Eleanor Wilking
Cornell Law School
"Leave the Data, Take the Money? Hard Choices in Platform Regulation, Understood through Airbnb"5
February 13
Rohini Pande
Yale University
"Can Reducing Information Frictions Strengthen State Capacity? Experimental Evidence from a Very Large Public Works Program"6
February 27
Martin Schmalz
University of Oxford
(joint with the Bert W. Wasserman Workshop in Law and Finance)
"Market-Based Incentives for Optimal Audit Quality"7
March 13
James Hines
University of Michigan
"Banks and Tax-exempt Debt Arbitrage"8
March 27
Cailin Slattery
Berkeley Haas
"Consolidation and Political Influence in the Auto Retail Industry"9
April 10
Koichiro Ito
University of Chicago