- Recipient of three-year, $100,000 grant from the National Science Foundation to research a book on private commercial law.
- Co-organizer of a Conference: Empirical Commercial Law, to be held at the University of Michigan Law School and published in the Michigan Law Review.
- Co-organizer of a Conference: Law, Economics and Social Norms, held at the University of Pennsylvania School of Law (Spring, 1996) and published in the University of Pennsylvania Law Review.
- Co-organizer and co-editor of a Symposium: The Internet and Legal Theory, to be held at the IIT-Chicago Kent School of Law (March, 1998) to be published in the Chicago-Kent Law Review.
- Co-organizer of a Conference: Formalism Revisited, held at the University of Chicago Law School (Feb. 1999) and published in the University of Chicago Law Review.
- Co- Organizer, Symposium on Corporate Law, held at the University of Chicago Law School, (Feb. 2002)
- Chair, Association of American Law Schools, Section on Law and Economics (1997-98); Chair Section on Contracts (2010-2011)
- Editorial Board, SSRN Contracts and Commercial Law Abstracts (1998-present)
- American Law and Economics Association, Board Member (1999-2001)
