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HENRY N. BUTLER
Dean and Professor of Law
George Mason University
Antonin Scalia Law School3301 Fairfax Drive
Arlington, VA 22201
703-993-8644
EDUCATION
J.D. University of Miami School of Law, 1982
Ph.D. Economics, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, 1982
M.A. Economics, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, 1979
B.A. Economics, University of Richmond, Virginia, 1977
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
George Mason University Antonin Scalia Law School, Arlington, Virginia
June 2015 – present: Dean and Professor of Law
August 2010 – June 2015: George Mason University Foundation Professor of Law; and
Executive Director, Law & Economics Center
Northwestern University School of Law, Chicago, Illinois
July 2007 – June 2010: Executive Director, Searle Center on Law, Regulation, and Economic
Growth; and Senior Lecturer in Law
The Brookings Institution and AEI-Brookings Joint Center for Regulatory Studies
Washington, DC
January 2003 to June 2008 Director, Judicial Education Program
Chapman University, Orange, California
July 2006 – June 2007: Professor of Law (by Courtesy)
July 2001 – June 2007: James Farley Professor of Economics, The Argyros School of
Business and Economics
July 2001 - February 2002: Dean, The Argyros School of Business and Economics, and
Chairman, Law and Organizational Economics Center
University of Kansas School of Business and School of Law, Lawrence, Kansas
January 1999 - July 2001: Koch Distinguished Professor of Law and Economics
June 1993 – January 1999: Koch Distinguished Teaching Professor of Law and Economics
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October 1993 - July 2001: Director, Law and Organizational Economics Center
January 1995 - January 1996: Director, Lawrence MBA Program
George Mason University School of Law
September 1990 - June 1993: Professor of Law
1988 - 90: Associate Professor
1986 - 88: Assistant Professor
January 1989 - June 1991: Associate Dean and Director, Law and Economics Center
October 1988 - January 1989: Associate Director, Law and Economics Center
University of Chicago Law School
1985 - 1986: John M. Olin Visiting Fellow in Law and Economics
Texas A & M University
1982 - 1986: Assistant Professor of Management, College of Business Administration
COURSES TAUGHT RESEARCH INTERESTS
Antitrust Antitrust
Contracts Corporate Governance
Business Associations Consumer Protection
Banking Regulation Health Care Policy
Corporate Governance and Control Federalism
Economic Foundations of Legal Studies Environmental Policy
Insurance Theory and Regulation
Law and Economics
Law and Accounting
Corporate Finance
Managerial Economics/Organizational Economics
Quantitative Methods for Lawyers
PROFESSIONAL SERVICE
Member, 2019 Commemorative Entrepreneurialism and Innovation Committee, Jamestown-
Yorktown Foundation (2016 to present)
Member, Board of Directors, PERC – The Property & Environmental Research Center, Bozeman,
Montana (2013 to present)
Honorary Member, American College of Business Court Judges (April 2008)
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Member, Legal Advisory Committee, American Enterprise Institute Legal Center for the Public
Interest (2007 - 2009)
Member, Legal Policy Advisory Board, Washington Legal Foundation (2006 – 2010)
Member, Legal Advisory Board, National Legal Center for the Public Interest (2000 - 2007).
Member, Atlantic Legal Foundation Board of Advisors (1999 - present).
Member, Kansas Governor-Elect William Graves’ Health Care Transition Team Task Force
(November 1994 - January 1995).
Chairman, Advisory Committee, George Mason University Center for Economic Education
(1990 - 1993).
Member, Board of Directors, Virginia Council on Economic Education (1990 - 1993).
Member, Editorial Board, Regulation (1989 - 2000).
Member, Advisory Committee, Regulation and Federalism Project, American Enterprise Institute
(1990-1992)
Staff Editor, American Business Law Journal (1985 - 1989).
Occasional referee for Journal of Law & Economics, Journal of Legal Studies, Journal of Political
Economy, Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, Journal of Law, Economics and
Organizations, and Public Choice.
Member, Washington Legal Foundation, Board of Academic Advisors (1987 - 88).
Senior Fellow in Political Economy, Citizens for a Sound Economy (1987 - 89).
PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS
American Law and Economics Association
The Federalist Society
Mont Pelerin Society
Orange County Forum for Corporate Directors (2005-2007)
State Bar of Texas (inactive, admitted 1985)
American Bar Association
American Association for Justice (formerly Association of Trial Lawyers of America)
Virginia State Bar (Associate Member, 2016)
Virginia Bar Association (2016 – )
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PUBLICATIONS
Dissertation
Legal Change in an Interest-Group Perspective: The Demise of Special Corporate
Chartering; Ph.D., Economics, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, 1982; Robert
D. Tollison, Chairman (Doctoral Committee included James M. Buchanan, 1986 Nobel Laureate in
Economics).
Journal Articles
Restricted Distribution Contracts and the Opportunistic Pursuit of Treble Damages, 59 Washington
Law Review 27 (1983).
Vertical Restraints of Trade as Contractual Integration: A Synthesis of Relational Contracting
Theory, Transaction-Cost Economics, and Organizational Theory, 32 Emory Law Journal 1009
(1983) (with Barry D. Baysinger).
Nineteenth-Century Jurisdictional Competition in the Granting of Corporate Privileges, 14 Journal of
Legal Studies 129 (1985).
The Law and Economics of Residential Real Estate Markets in Texas: Regulation and Antitrust
Implications, 36 Baylor Law Review 623 (1984) (with Owen R. Phillips).
The Futility of Antitrust Attacks on Tie-In Sales: An Economic and Legal Analysis, 36 Hastings Law
Journal 173 (1984) (with Owen R. Phillips and Walter J. Lane).
The Role of Corporate Law in the Theory of the Firm, 28 Journal of Law and Economics 179 (1985)
(with Barry D. Baysinger).
Race for the Bottom v. Climb to the Top: The ALl Project and Uniformity in Corporate Law, 10
Journal of Corporation Law 431 (1985) (with Barry D. Baysinger).
Corporate Governance and the Board of Directors: Performance Effects of Changes in Board
Composition, 1 Journal of Law, Economics, and Organization 101 (1985) (with Barry D. Baysinger).
Revolution versus Evolution in Corporation Law: The ALl Project and the Independent Director, 52
George Washington Law Review 557 (1984) (with Barry D. Baysinger).
Antitakeover Amendments, Managerial Entrenchment, and the Contractual Theory of the
Corporation, 71 Virginia Law Review 1257 (1985) (with Barry D. Baysinger).
General Incorporation in Nineteenth Century England: Interaction of Common Law and Legislative
Processes, 6 International Review of Law and Economics 169 (1986).
Modes of Discourse in the Corporate Law Literature: A Reply to Professor Eisenberg, 12 Delaware
Journal of Corporate Law 107 (1987) (with Barry D. Baysinger).
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Introduction: The First Amendment and Federal Securities Regulation (General Editor of the
Symposium), 20 Connecticut Law Review 261 (1988).
Corporation-Specific Anti-Takeover Statutes and the Market for Corporate Charters, Wisconsin Law
Review 365 (1988).
The Myth of Competition in the Dual Banking System, 73 Cornell Law Review 677 (1988) (with
Jonathan R. Macey).
State Anti-Takeover Statutes and the Contract Clause, 57 Cincinnati Law Review 611 (1988) (with
Larry E. Ribstein).
The Competitive Equality Doctrine and the Demise of Intrastate Branching Restrictions, 55
Tennessee Law Review 703 (1988)
The Contractual Theory of the Corporation, 11 George Mason University Law Review 99 (1989)
[reprinted in 31 Corporate Practice Commentator 556 (1990)].
State Takeover Legislation, The Market for Corporate Charters, and the Scope of Federal
Intervention: A Comment on Hitzeman, Indiana's Control Share Acquisition Statute, 27 American
Business Law Review 292 (1989).
Free at Last? The Contractual Theory of the Corporation and the New Maryland Officer-Director
Liability Provisions, 8 University of Baltimore Law Review 352 (1989) (with Larry E. Ribstein).
The Contract Clause and the Corporation, 55 Brooklyn Law Review 767 (1989) (lead article of
symposium issue) [reprinted in 32 Corporate Practice Commentator 269 (1990)] (with Larry E.
Ribstein).
Opting Out of Fiduciary Duties: A Response to the Anti-Contractarians, 65 University of Washington
Law Review 1 (1990) (with Larry E. Ribstein).
The Impact of Recent Banking Regulations on the Market for Corporate Control, 68 Washington
University Law Quarterly 861 (1990) (with J. Brady Dugan).
Introduction, A National Conference on Sentencing of the Corporation, 74 Boston University Law
Review 189 (1991).
Regulatory Takings After Lucas, Regulation; The Cato Review of Business and Government, Winter
1993 (3), pp.76-81.
The Political Market for Mandated Health Care Benefits Under the Proposed National Health
Security Act, Kansas Journal of Law and Public Policy, Winter 1993-94, pp. 113-119.
Corporate Governance Speech and the First Amendment, 43 University of Kansas Law Review 163
(1994) (with Larry E. Ribstein).
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Health Care Reform: Perspectives from the Economic Theory of Regulation and the Economic
Theory of Statutory Interpretation, 79 Cornell Law Review 1434 (1995) (with Jonathan R. Macey).
Pollution, Externalities, and the Matching Principle, Yale Law School Symposium; Constructing a
New Federalism, Joint Symposium Issue of the Yale Journal on Regulation and the Yale Law and
Policy Review (1996) (with Jonathan R. Macey).
Why They Give at the Office: Shareholder Welfare and Corporate Philanthropy in the Contractual
Theory of the Corporation, 84 Cornell Law Review 1195 (1999) (with Fred S. McChesney).
Economic Analysis of Labor Markets: A Framework for Analyzing Employment Law Issues, VII
Kansas Journal of Law & Public Policy 1 (1999). Revision of Chapter VIII, Butler, Economic
Analysis for Lawyers (1998) (with Keith W. Chauvin).
The Manne Programs in Economics for Federal Judges, 50 Case Western Reserve Law Review 351
(1999).
On the “Delawarization of Bankruptcy” Debate, 52 Emory Law Journal 1309 (Fall 2003) (with Barry
Adler).
Smith v. Van Gorkom, Jurisdictional Competition, and the Role of Random Mutations in the
Evolution of Corporate Law, 45 Washburn Law Review 267 (2006)
A Defense of Common Law Environmentalism: The Discovery of Better Environmental Policy, 58
Case Western Reserve Law Review 705 (2008)
The Single-License Solution, Regulation 35-42 (Winter 2008-2009) (with Larry E. Ribstein) (longer
version available at Northwestern Law & Econ Research Paper No. 08-10; U Illinois Law &
Economics Research Paper No. LE08-015. Available at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=1134792)
Reforming State Consumer Protection Liability: An Economic Approach, 2010 Colum. Bus. L. Rev.
1 (with Jason S. Johnston)
Policy Reversal on Reserve Payments: Why The Courts Should Not Follow the Department of
Justice’s New Position on Reverse Payment Settlements, 96 Iowa Law Review 57 (2010) (with
Jeffrey Jarosch)
Are State Consumer Protection Acts Really Little FTC Acts? 63 Florida Law Review (2011)(with
Joshua Wright)
Activating Actavis: Economic Issues in Applying the Rule of Reason to Reverse Payment
Settlements, 15 Minnesota Journal of Law, Science & Technology (2014)(with Sumanth Addanki)
Sue, Settle, and Shut Out the States: Destroying the Environmental Benefits of Cooperative
Federalism, 37 Harvard Journal of Law & Public Policy 579 (2014)(with Nathanial J. Harris)
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REMS-Restricted Drug Distribution Programs and Refusals to Deal – An Antitrust Analysis, 67
Florida Law Review __ (2015)
Books
The Legal Environment of Business; Government Regulation and Public Policy Analysis (Cincinnati:
South-Western Publishing Company, 1987).
The Corporation and the Constitution (Washington: AEI Press, 1995) (with Larry E. Ribstein).
Economic Analysis for Lawyers (Durham: Carolina Academic Press, 1998)
Economic Analysis for Lawyers, Second Edition (Durham: Carolina Academic Press, 2006)(with
Christopher Drahozal).
Economic Analysis for Lawyers, Third Edition (Durham: Carolina Academic Press, 2014 (with
Christopher Drahozal and Joanna Shepherd Bailey)
The Sarbanes-Oxley Debacle: What We’ve Learned, How to Fix It (Washington: AEI Press,
2006)(with Larry E. Ribstein).
Monographs, Book Chapters, and Other Publications
“State Petitions for a Balanced Budget Constitutional Convention: A Descriptive Essay on the
Political Economy of the Article V Process,” in P. Mink, ed., The Article V Convention Process
(Washington: National Legal Center for the Public Interest, 1987).
“Recent Cases Affecting Tender Offers, Employee Benefits, and Banking,” in Henry N. Butler, W.A.
Fischel, and William E. Kovacic, Significant Business Decisions of the Supreme Court's 1986-87
Term (Washington: Washington Legal Foundation, 1988).
“The Securities and Exchange Commission,” in Charles L. Heatherly and Burton Y. Pines, eds.,
Mandate for Leadership III; Policy Strategies for the 1990's (Washington: The Heritage Foundation,
1988). [Abbreviated version published as "Can the SEC Change?," The Corporate Board, May/June
1989.]
Beyond the FSLIC Bailout; Long- Term Solutions to the Crisis in Federal Deposit Insurance,
Heritage Backgrounder, (March 1989).
“Strengthening Intellectual Property Protections for U.S. Firms,” in Abbott B. Lipsky, Jr.,
Technology, Trade and World Competition; Protecting Intellectual Property with Trade Sanctions
35- 78 (1990).
“Rent Seeking, Global Budgets, and the Managed-Competition Cartel,” in Robert B. Helms, ed.,
Health Policy Reform; Competition and Controls (AEI, 1993), pp. 101-141.
Unhealthy Alliances: Bureaucrats, Interest Groups, and Politicians, American Enterprise Institute
Special Regulatory Issues Monograph, 1994.
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Using Federalism to Improve Environmental Policy (Washington: AEI Press, 1996) (with Jonathan
R. Macey).
“Environmental Regulation, Political Incentives, and Federalism”, in Terry L. Anderson and P.J.
Hill, eds., Water Marketing: The Next Generation (1996) (with Jonathan R. Macey).
“Corporate Boards of Directors,” in Peter Newman, ed. The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics
and the Law (London: Macmillan Reference, Ltd., 1998).
“Sarbanes-Oxley: Does it Really Restore Trust?”, in R. William Ide, ed., Ensuring the
Competitiveness of American Business: Restoring the Proper Regulatory and Enforcement Balance
(National Legal Center for the Public Interest, 2005).
“On My Mind – Where Was SOX?,” Forbes, December 22, 2008, p. 28 (with Larry E. Ribstein)
“Empowering Shareholders: It’s Time for Say on SOX,” Legal Backgrounder, Washington Legal
Foundation, February 13, 2009 (with Larry E. Ribstein)
“Introduction” and Editor of Volume 1, “The Economics of Corporations and Corporate Law,” The
Collected Works of Henry G. Manne (General Editor, Fred S. McChesney)(2009).
“Legal Process and the Discovery of Better Policies for Fostering Innovation and Growth,” (with
Larry E. Ribstein), Chapter 19 in The Kauffman Task Force on Law, Innovation, and Growth,
RULES FOR GROWTH: Promoting Innovation and Growth Through Legal Reform (2011).
Book Review
Review of Richard A. Epstein, Bargaining with the State (1993), 82 Public Choice 190-93 (1995).
PRESENTATIONS
“The Expanding Role of the United States Supreme Court Regarding Energy and Environmental
Disputes,” Panelist, 65th Annual Oil & Gas Law Conference, Houston, Texas, February 20, 2014.
“The Case for Business Courts: Specialization, Productivity, Predictability, and Judicial
Compensation,” University of Florida Chapter – Federalist Society, February 20, 2012; Quinnipiac
Chapter – Federalist Society, March 27, 2013.
“Law & Economics,” Annual Meeting, Education Section, Office of the Attorney General of
Virginia, Fairfax, Virginia, October 28, 2011.
“Law & Economics,” Judicial Conference of Virginia, Roanoke, Virginia, May 10, 2011.
“Why the Economic Analysis of Law is Important,” Wisconsin Judicial College, Milwaukee,
Wisconsin, November 4, 2009
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“Economic Impact of Regulation by Litigation,” Philanthropy Roundtable program on A Stimulus
That Works: Strategies for Boosting Entrepreneurship, The Kauffman Foundation, Kansas City,
Missouri, May 14, 2009
“The Single-License Solution to Insurance Reform,” CATO State Health Policy Summit, Scottsdale,
Arizona; January 9, 2009;University of Florida School of Law, Federalist Society, January 22, 2009;
National Association of Mutual Insurance Companies, National Policy Summit, Washington, DC,
January 28, 2009.
“Assessing the FTC’s Consumer Protection Mission – How to Deal with State Consumer Protection
Acts,” The FTC at 100, U.S. Federal Trade Commission Hearing, Northwestern University School of
Law, October 25, 2008.
“A Jurisdictional Competition Approach to Insurance Regulatory Reform,” Searle Research
Symposium on Insurance Markets and Regulation, Northwestern University School of Law, April 15,
2008.
“Consumer Harm Acts? An Economic Analysis of State Consumer Protection Acts,” Faculty
Workshop, Case Western Reserve University School of Law, September 17, 2007; University of
Iowa School of Law, Student Chapter, The Federalist Society. October 31, 2007; Second Annual
Judicial Symposium on Civil Justice Issues, Brookings Judicial Education Program, November 11,
2007.
“Introduction to Law & Economics,” Delaware Annual Judicial Conference. Rehoboth Beach,
Delaware, October 5, 2007.
“Common Law Environmentalism and the Discovery of Better Environmental Policy,” Workshop,
PERC – Property and Environment Research Center, Bozeman, Montana, August 3, 2007.
“SOX, Criminal Sanctions, and the Ineffectiveness of Cajoling by Regulators,” Integrated Risk
Management and Corporate Governance, Loyola University Chicago, April 20, 2007.
“Smith v. Van Gorkom, Jurisdictional Competition, and The Role of Random Mutations in the
Evolution of Corporation Law,” Smith v. Van Gorkom – Twenty Years Later, Washburn University
Law School Symposium, Business and Transaction Law Center, September 30, 2005.
“SOX and Shareholders: Where’s the Benefit?” Orange County Forum for Corporate Directors,
Executive Preview: Experiences with 404 Compliance – What Have We Learned?, Costa Mesa,
California, June 2, 2005; The General Counsel Conference, “Ensuring the Competitiveness of
American Business: Restoring the Proper Regulatory and Enforcement Balance,” National Legal
Center for the Public Interest, Washington, D.C., May 11, 2005.
“SOX and Shareholders” for The Directors Roundtable, “Challenges Facing Boards of Directors:
Key Issues in SEC Disclosure and Enforcement,” Newport Beach, California, April 22, 2005.
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“Private Equity and Organizational Structure,” Uncorporation: A New Age?, conference sponsored
by the University of Illinois College of Law, Chicago, April 23, 2004.
“ ‘There’s No Tellin’ Where The Money Went’ – Is This Stuff Really Law and Economics?” Indiana
Judicial College, Indianapolis, April 22, 2004.
“On the ‘Delawarization of Bankruptcy’ Debate”, Thrower Symposium, Emory University School of
Law, February 20, 2003 (with Barry Adler).
“Economic Thinking and the Methodology of Law & Economics,” Appellate Judges Division,
American Bar Association Judicial Division, San Diego, California, February 1, 2000.
“Law & Economics,” Ohio Common Pleas Judges Association, Columbus, December 2, 1999.
“Law & Economics,” American Judges Association, 1999 Annual Conference, Cleveland, Ohio,
October, 11, 1999.
“Economic Thinking and the Methodology of Law & Economics,” Michigan Judicial Institute: 1999
Annual Conference of Court of Appeals, Circuit, and Probate Judges, Grand Rapids, August 17,
1999.
“Law & Economics,” Iowa Judicial Institute, Des Moines, August 5 and 6, 1999.
“The Future of the Law and Economics Movement: From the Ivory Tower to the County
Courthouse,” The Manhattan Institute's Center for Legal Policy Luncheon Forum, New York City,
February 3, 1999.
“A Critique of the Team Production Theory of Corporate Philanthropy,” Cornell Law School
Conference on Corporate Social Responsibility, New York City, November 6, 1998.
“How Understanding Economics, Accounting and Finance Concepts Can Promote Truth, Justice and
Predictability in Your Courtroom,” Arizona Judicial College, Flagstaff, Arizona, June 9, 1998.
“The Law of Unintended Consequences,” Keynote Address, 1998 Herbert W. Walton Bench-Bar
Conference of the Johnson County Bar Association, Overland Park, Kansas, April 1, 1998.
“Federalism and the Environment,” Cornell Law School, January 29, 1998 (with Jonathan R.
Macey).
“Economic Methodology, Expert Testimony, and the Judge's Gatekeeper Role under Daubert,”
Jurisprudence Section on “Daubert Revisited,” 50th Anniversary Meeting of the American Academy
of Forensic Sciences, San Francisco, February 11, 1998.
“Combating Junk Economics: The KU Economics Institutes for State Judges,” Luncheon Address,
Jurisprudence Section, 50th Anniversary Meeting of the American Academy of Forensic Sciences,
San Francisco, February 11, 1998.
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“The KU Economics Institutes for State Judges,” Mid-Year Conference of the Conference of Chief
Justices, Indianapolis, Indiana, February 6, 1998.
“Medical Savings Accounts: A Market-Based Solution to Health Care Affordability,” Lecture Two in
a Series of Three Lectures on “Assuring Health Care Access and Affordability in Changing Markets:
The Search for New Solutions” sponsored by the Cecil C. Humphreys School of Law, University of
Memphis, March 29,1995.
“Using Federalism to Improve Environmental Policy,” University of Kansas Schools of Law and
Business, January 26, 1993; University of Toronto Faculty of Law, Law and Economics Workshop,
October 26,1994; University of Michigan Law and Economics Workshop, February 16,1995;
Oklahoma State University Economics Workshop, March 16, 1995.
“Universal Health Insurance and Mandated Benefits,” The Independent Institute Conference on
Health Choices for America: Affordability vs. Bureaucracy, Washington, D.C., September 19, 1994.
“Unhealthy Alliances: Bureaucrats, Interest Groups, and Politicians,” American Enterprise Institute
Conference on Budget and Regulatory Aspects of the Clinton Health Care Plan, Washington, D.C.,
February 22, 1994.
“The Political Economy After Health Care Reform,” AALS Insurance Law Section, on the Clinton
Administration's Health Care Proposals, Orlando, January, 1994.
“The Political Economy of Global Budgeting to Control Health Care Spending,” American
Enterprise Institute Conference on "Regulating Health Care Expenditures: Political and Economic
Issues," Washington, D.C., April 21 & 22, 1993.
“Protecting U.S. Intellectual Property Rights: Substantive Reforms and Procedural Innovations,”
American Enterprise Institute Conference on "Innovation, Intellectual Property, and World
Competition," Washington, D.C., September, 1990.
“Free Speech, Free Enterprise, and RICO,” Cato Institute Conference on “Rico, Rights and the
Constitution,” Washington D.C., October 1989.
“Opting Out of Fiduciary Duties: A Response to the Anti-Contractarians,” faculty workshop,
University of Alabama Department of Economics, Finance and Legal Studies, October 1989.
“The Contract Clause and the Corporation,” First Annual Law and Economics Institute, University of
Connecticut School of Law, Apri1 1989 (with Larry E. Ribstein).
“Corporate Chartering in the EEC: The Prospects for Jurisdictional Competition in 1992,” Seminar,
Center for Study of Public Choice, George Mason University, October 1988.
“The Market Theory of Corporate Organization,” 1988 General Meeting of the Mont Pelerin Society,
Tokyo, Kyoto, Japan, September 1988.
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“State Antitakeover Statutes and the Contract Clause,” American Business Law Association Annual
Meeting, New Orleans, August 1988, and The University of Cincinnati Corporate Law Symposium,
Apri1 1988.
“Economic Liberties and the Corporation,” Heritage Foundation, February 1988.
“The Myth of Competition in the Dual Banking System,” American Business Law Association
Annual Meeting, Philadelphia, August 1987.
“Applications of Public Choice Economics to Corporation Law and Securities Regulation,” Annual
Meeting of American Bar Association, Section of Corporation, Banking and Business Law, St. Louis,
April 1987.
“Antitakeover Amendments, Managerial Entrenchment, and the Contractual Theory of the Firm,”
American Business Law Association Annual Meeting, Portland, Oregon, August 1985.
“The Market for Corporate Charters: Structure, Conduct, and Performance,” Southern Economic
Association Meeting, Atlanta, November 1984.
“Corporate Law and the Theory of the Firm,” Emory University Law and Economics Workshop,
November 1984.
“Nineteenth Century Jurisdictional Competition in the Granting of Corporate Privileges,” Southern
Economic Association Meeting, Washington, November 1983.
SYMPOSIA AND CONFERENCE PARTICIPATION
Lecturer, “Contract Law,” Northwestern Law Executive LLM Joint Program with Instituto de
Empresa, Madrid, Spain, November 26 to December 5, 2008
Numerous Research Symposia, Research Roundtables, and Public Policy Conferences as Executive
Director of the Searle Center. See Searle Center website for complete listing.
Conference Director, “The Law & Economics of Innovation,” Searle Center Research Roundtable,
December 6-8, 2007.
Conference Director, “The End of the Microsoft Antitrust Case?”, Searle Center Public Policy
Conference, Northwestern University School of Law, November 15-16, 2007.
Conference Director, “Litigation and Tort Reform: Public Policy Implications of Recent Empirical
Studies,” Searle Center Public Policy Conference, Northwestern University School of Law, March
30, 2007.
Discussant, Corporate Governance and Securities Regulation, Searle Center Annual Review of
Regulation, Northwestern University School of Law, Chicago, Illinois, May 4, 2007.
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Program Design and Moderator, “Civil Justice Issues,” West Virginia Spring 2007 Circuit Judges’
Education Conference, Martinsburg, West Virginia, May 3, 2007.
Moderator, Panel Discussion on “Miranda and Corporate Crime,” Chapman University Ninth Annual
Law Review Symposium, “Miranda at 40: Applications in a Post-Enron, Post-9/11 World”, January
26, 2007.
Guest with Chancellor William Chandler III, Delaware Court of Chancery, Dialogue with Jim Doti,
KOCE-TV, January 14, 2007.
Moderator, “Third Annual ISS Certified Directors Institute,” Orange County Forum for Corporate
Directors, November 1 and 2, 2006.
Julian Simon Fellow, PERC – The Property and Environment Research Center, Bozeman, Montana,
Summer 2006.
Moderator, “Second Annual ISS Certified Directors Institute,” Orange County Forum for Corporate
Directors, November 15 and 16, 2005.
Panelist, Chapman University School of Law Federalist Society, Dangerous Liaisons: FEMA, Moral
Hazards, and Human Decisions to Set Up Home or Shop in Risky Places, October 18, 2005.
Conference Participant, “Contracting for the Environment,” Joint Sponsored by PERC – the Center
for Free Market Environmentalism – and the Stanford Graduate School of Business, Emigrant,
Montana, September 18-21, 2003.
Conference Co-Director, “The Legacy of Henry G. Manne: Pioneer in Law & Economics and
Innovator in Legal Education,” Williamsburg, Virginia, May 21 & 22, 1999. Proceedings published
in 50 Case Western Reserve Law Review (1999).
Conference Director, Annual Policy Analysis Conference, University of Kansas Law and
Organizational Economics Center: “Economic Analysis of State Employment Law Issues,” October
1-3, 1998; “Civil Justice Issues for the Next Decade,” September 17-18, 1999.
Conference Director, Annual Appellate Judges and Lawyers Symposium, University of Kansas Law
and Organizational Economics Center: “RESTATEMENT (THIRD) OF TORTS: PRODUCTS
LIABILITY - Is It a Reasonably Safe Product?” June 26-27, 1998; “Scientific Methodology and the
Admissibility of Expert Testimony,” May 13- 15, 1999.
Conference Director, University of Kansas Law and Organizational Economics Center, Economics
Institutes for State Judges, 1995 to 2001.
John M. Olin Visiting Scholar in Law and Economics, Cornell Law School, September, 1994 and
April 1995.
Lecturer, “Economics of Contract Law,” FORMEZ Masters Program, Naples, Italy, May, 1993.
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Conference Director, National Conference on Sentencing of the Corporation, Law and Economics
Center, George Mason University School of Law, Washington, D.C., October 25, 1990.
Conference Director, George Mason University, Law and Economics Center Programs on Economics
for Federal Judges; Economics for Law Professors; Law for Economics Professors; Risk, Injury and
Liability for Federal Judges; Statistical and Quantitative Methods for Federal Judges; Basic Science
for Federal Judges; 1988-1991.
Liberty Fund Conference on “The First Amendment and Federal Securities Regulation,” Arlington,
Virginia, October 1986.
Political Economy Research Center, “Law and Political Economy,” Big Sky, Montana, June-July
1986.
Summer Research Fellow, Liberty Fund/CLS Summer Research Seminar in Law and Political
Economy, New York and Chicago, 1980.
John M. Olin Fellow in Law and Economics, University of Miami Law and Economics Center, 1979-
1982.