April 24, 2008, Regis J. Fallon Lecture Series on Heath and the Law
Clark Havinghurst, Fairness in Health Care: Who Pays? Who Benefits?

Coase Lectures

Several years ago, the Program began a lecture series in honor of Ronald Coase with an eye toward making law and economics more accessible.  The lectures are offered periodically by Program faculty, and convey to a general audience the basic principles of law and economics.

The 2008 Coase Lecture, Slices & Lumps,  was presented by Lee Fennell. It was held on Tuesday, February 19 at 4pm  in the Weymouth Kirkland Courtroom, University of Chicago Law School.

For more information or for special assistance or needs, please contact Marjorie Holme at mholme@uchicago.edu or 773.702.0220.

A list of Coase Lectures to date follows. Many have been published in the Chicago Law and Economics Working Paper Series (where indicated).

1. Alan Sykes, "An Introduction to Regression Analysis" ( WP #20.pdf )
2. William Landes, "The Economic Approach to Litigation"
3. Randal Picker, "An Introduction to Game Theory and the Law" ( WP #22.pdf )
   Some of the material in part 2 b of this essay has been published before in the Law School Alumni Magazine of the University of Chicago . See Randal C. Picker, Law and Economics II: The Sequel, 39 U. Chi. L. School Record 10 (Spring 1993). Much of the analysis contained herein is taken from selected chapters of Douglas G. Baird, Robert H. Gertner, and Randal C. Picker, Game Theory and the Law (Harvard Univ. Press, 1994, paperback 1998). A version almost identical to this essay appeared as the law and economics selection for a symposium on interdisciplinary approaches to the law in the 27 Loyola ( Los Angeles ) University Law Review 127 (1993).
4. Douglas Baird, "The Law and Economics of Contract Damages" (WP #30)
   Geoffrey Miller, "Das Kapital: Solvency Regulation of the American Business Enterprise " ( WP #32.pdf )
5. Richard Craswell, "Freedom of Contract" ( WP #33.pdf )
6. Mark Ramseyer, "Public Choice" ( WP #34.pdf )
7. Kenneth Dam, "Intellectual Property in an Age of Software and Biotechnology" ( WP #35.pdf )
   A later version of this paper was published as "Some Economic Considerations in the Intellectual Property Protection of Software," 24 Journal of Legal Studies 321 (1995).
8. Cass Sunstein, "Social Norms and Social Roles" ( WP #36.pdf )
9. Richard Epstein, "Transaction Costs and Property Rights" ( WP #38.pdf )
10. Frank Easterbrook, "The Economics of Legislation"
11. Richard Posner, "Values and Consequences: An Introduction to Economic Analysis of Law" ( WP #53.pdf )
12. Saul Levmore, "Carrots and Torts"
13. Eric Posner, "Agency Models in Law and Economics" ( WP #92.pdf )
14. Lisa Bernstein, "Private Commercial Law"
15. David A. Weisbach, "Taxes and Torts in the Redistribution of Income," February 19, 2002 ( WP #148.pdf )
16. Ronald H. Coase, "The Present and Future of Law and Economics." A paper version of the lecture is not available. The 2003 Coase Lecture, presented by Ronald H. Coase, is available for viewing on line! (requires Quicktime )
17. Douglas Lichtman, "Irreparable Harms and Irreparable Benefits," January 27, 2004
18. Daniel Fischel, "Markets and Scandals: Enron and Beyond," February 8, 2005
19. Lior Strahilevitz, "Information Asymmetries and the Rights to Exclude," January 24, 2006  based on (WP #264.pdf)
20. Anup Malani, "Culling Chickens," January 23, 2007 (WP #369.pdf)
21. Lee Fennell, 'Slices and Lumps," February 19, 2008 (WP # 395.pfd)