Annual Manne Forum Helps Faculty Refine Research

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On August 25, Scalia Law School hosted its 13th Annual Manne Faculty Forum, sponsored by the Law & Economics Center (LEC). The Manne Forum allows junior Scalia Law faculty a unique opportunity to workshop their latest works in progress with two official commentators, one scholar invited from another University, and one scholar from within the Scalia Law community — and a roundtable of additional discussants gathered from the Scalia Law faculty. The authors use the comments they receive to refine their research and improve their papers before submitting them for publication. The Manne Forum is named in honor of Henry G. Manne, the founder of the LEC in 1974 and the Dean at Scalia Law from 1986-1997.

This year's Manne Forum featured one paper from Professor Weijia Rao, “The Collateral Consequences of International Agreements: Evidence from Bilateral Investment Treaties.” The official commentators were Rachel Brewster, the Jeffrey and Bettysue Hughes Professor of Law, Duke University School of Law, and Bruce H. Kobayashi, the Paige V. and Henry N. Butler Chair in Law and Economics, George Mason University Antonin Scalia Law School.

The other paper at this year’s Manne Forum came from Professor Yijia Lu on “Managing Crowding Out: How Lawmakers can Avoid Unintended Incentive Effects.” The official commentators for Professor Lu’s paper were Tess Wilkinson-Ryan, Professor of Law and Psychology, University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School, and J. Shahar Dillbary, Professor of Law and Associate Dean for Faculty Research, George Mason University Antonin Scalia Law School.

More than a dozen Scalia Law faculty members joined as discussants.