George Mason Law & Economics Center Workshop on the Law & Political Economy Project from Saturday, March 15 through Monday, March 17, 2025 in Destin, Florida
Description
The Henry G. Manne Program in Law & Economics Studies, a division of the Law & Economics Center (masonlec.org) at George Mason University Antonin Scalia Law School, invites applications for the Workshop on the Law & Political Economy Project on Saturday, March 15 – Monday, March 17, 2025 at the Henderson Beach Resort in Destin, Florida.
The application can be found at the following link: https://cvent.me/LYVAYG
This LEC workshop is a two-and-a-half-day program that will evaluate the challenges the LPE Project makes to the findings and utility of law and economics scholarship and the challenges it makes to the basic tenets of free markets and capitalism. An excerpt from Yale’s LPE Project website (https://lpeproject.org/about/), demonstrates that it seeks to promote scholarship that is highly critical of markets, capitalism, and classical liberal values. Does abundance obtain only by adherence to a paradigm that sets the conditions for human flourishing through following basic tenets of free markets, capitalism, the rule of law, individual freedom, equality of economic opportunity, and neutral resolution of disputes, enforcement of rights, and recognition of private ordering from an independent judiciary? Or, are these institutions and principles instead roadblocks to progress and flourishing, as the growing LPE Project maintains?
No prior knowledge of, or familiarity with, the LPE Project is required to apply. Indeed, the workshop is designed to help introduce scholars to this debate, with preference given to those not already engaged in it. The only requirements are an interest to learn more about these subjects and a desire to use that knowledge in the discourse within the larger academic community—through writing, speaking, or adjusting teaching based on what is learned.
This is a lecture-based program. Across 3 days, 5 75-minute sessions will include dynamic presentations on issues raised by the LPE Project with time for questions and participant engagement. Participants will receive a $2,000 honorarium upon successful completion of the Workshop.
Instructors will be leading scholars from across the country who have recently researched these issues. Mostly, these lecturers will be drawn from the group of authors who produced original research during the LEC’s Research Roundtable on the Emerging Law & Political Economy Movement. Authors from this roundtable will present their papers and participants will be encouraged to ask questions and engage in a discussion around the topics. (To clarify, we are seeking workshop participants only. This is not a call for instructors.)
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No Tuition; Hotel Rooms and Group Breakfasts are Provided
There is no tuition for the Workshop, and room and board are covered by the LEC.
Participants are responsible for their own travel expenses to and from the Workshop, as well as incidental expenses and individual meals.
Honorarium:
Participants will receive a $2,000 honorarium upon successful completion of the Workshop.
Application Process and Acceptance:
Applications should be submitted online through the following link: https://cvent.me/LYVAYG.
The LEC will evaluate applications as they are received with acceptances on a rolling basis; and we will continue to consider applications until the program is fully subscribed.
Venue:
Henderson Beach Resort
200 Henderson Resort Way
Destin, FL 32541
LEC staff will make all room reservations. If you have any special needs, please contact the LEC staff first.
Travel:
Participants are responsible for their own transportation arrangement and expenses to and from the Workshop. The closest major airports are Destin - Fort Walton Beach (VPS) (20.8 miles) and Pensacola International Airport (PNS) (75.6 miles). Additionally, Northwest Florida Beaches International Airport (ECP) is 50 miles away.
Questions:
If you have any questions, please contact Gwendolyn Watson at gwatson4@gmu.edu or 703.993.8388.
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The LEC’s Henry G. Manne Program in Law & Economics Studies promotes law and economics scholarship by funding faculty research, convening research roundtables, and hosting policy-relevant academic workshops and conferences.
Established in 2010 to honor the legacy of Henry G. Manne – legendary former Dean of the Antonin Scalia Law School, founder of the Law & Economics Center, and one of the founding fathers of the law and economics movement – the program seeks to improve the quality of legal scholarship by offering educational workshops on important and topical areas of study.
Since its founding, the LEC’s workshops and research roundtables have included more than 10,000 participants from 543 academic institutions. In addition to its core constituency of academics, Manne Program events also attract attendance from the policy community, including economists and lawyers from federal agencies, Capitol Hill, state government offices, and the non-profit and for-profit research sectors.
For more information regarding this conference or other initiatives of the Law & Economics Center, please visit: http://www.MasonLEC.org
The application can be found at the following link: https://cvent.me/LYVAYG
This LEC workshop is a two-and-a-half-day program that will evaluate the challenges the LPE Project makes to the findings and utility of law and economics scholarship and the challenges it makes to the basic tenets of free markets and capitalism. An excerpt from Yale’s LPE Project website (https://lpeproject.org/about/), demonstrates that it seeks to promote scholarship that is highly critical of markets, capitalism, and classical liberal values. Does abundance obtain only by adherence to a paradigm that sets the conditions for human flourishing through following basic tenets of free markets, capitalism, the rule of law, individual freedom, equality of economic opportunity, and neutral resolution of disputes, enforcement of rights, and recognition of private ordering from an independent judiciary? Or, are these institutions and principles instead roadblocks to progress and flourishing, as the growing LPE Project maintains?
No prior knowledge of, or familiarity with, the LPE Project is required to apply. Indeed, the workshop is designed to help introduce scholars to this debate, with preference given to those not already engaged in it. The only requirements are an interest to learn more about these subjects and a desire to use that knowledge in the discourse within the larger academic community—through writing, speaking, or adjusting teaching based on what is learned.
This is a lecture-based program. Across 3 days, 5 75-minute sessions will include dynamic presentations on issues raised by the LPE Project with time for questions and participant engagement. Participants will receive a $2,000 honorarium upon successful completion of the Workshop.
Instructors will be leading scholars from across the country who have recently researched these issues. Mostly, these lecturers will be drawn from the group of authors who produced original research during the LEC’s Research Roundtable on the Emerging Law & Political Economy Movement. Authors from this roundtable will present their papers and participants will be encouraged to ask questions and engage in a discussion around the topics. (To clarify, we are seeking workshop participants only. This is not a call for instructors.)
* * *
No Tuition; Hotel Rooms and Group Breakfasts are Provided
There is no tuition for the Workshop, and room and board are covered by the LEC.
Participants are responsible for their own travel expenses to and from the Workshop, as well as incidental expenses and individual meals.
Honorarium:
Participants will receive a $2,000 honorarium upon successful completion of the Workshop.
Application Process and Acceptance:
Applications should be submitted online through the following link: https://cvent.me/LYVAYG.
The LEC will evaluate applications as they are received with acceptances on a rolling basis; and we will continue to consider applications until the program is fully subscribed.
Venue:
Henderson Beach Resort
200 Henderson Resort Way
Destin, FL 32541
LEC staff will make all room reservations. If you have any special needs, please contact the LEC staff first.
Travel:
Participants are responsible for their own transportation arrangement and expenses to and from the Workshop. The closest major airports are Destin - Fort Walton Beach (VPS) (20.8 miles) and Pensacola International Airport (PNS) (75.6 miles). Additionally, Northwest Florida Beaches International Airport (ECP) is 50 miles away.
Questions:
If you have any questions, please contact Gwendolyn Watson at gwatson4@gmu.edu or 703.993.8388.
* * *
The LEC’s Henry G. Manne Program in Law & Economics Studies promotes law and economics scholarship by funding faculty research, convening research roundtables, and hosting policy-relevant academic workshops and conferences.
Established in 2010 to honor the legacy of Henry G. Manne – legendary former Dean of the Antonin Scalia Law School, founder of the Law & Economics Center, and one of the founding fathers of the law and economics movement – the program seeks to improve the quality of legal scholarship by offering educational workshops on important and topical areas of study.
Since its founding, the LEC’s workshops and research roundtables have included more than 10,000 participants from 543 academic institutions. In addition to its core constituency of academics, Manne Program events also attract attendance from the policy community, including economists and lawyers from federal agencies, Capitol Hill, state government offices, and the non-profit and for-profit research sectors.
For more information regarding this conference or other initiatives of the Law & Economics Center, please visit: http://www.MasonLEC.org