Faculty of Law UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO
Falconer Hall, 84 Queen’s Park -CALL
TorontoFOR
Canada
M5S 2C5
PAPERS
THE CANADIAN LAW AND ECONOMICS ASSOCIATION
Annual Meeting
September 26th and 27th, 2008
REVISED CALL FOR PAPERS
You are invited to submit a paper for presentation at the next Annual Meeting of the Canadian Law and Economics Association on
Friday and Saturday, September 26 and 27, 2008, at the Faculty of Law, University of Toronto. If your e-mail address has changed in
the past year, please send your updated coordinates to Nadia Gulezko at: n.gulezko@utoronto.ca.
Professor Bernard Black, Hayden W. Head Regents Chair for Faculty Excellence Professor of Finance, McCombs School of Business
Co-Director, Center for Law, Business, and Economics, will be the keynote speaker at this year’s conference.
As in past years, we are soliciting papers in all areas of Law and Economics. In addition, there will be a number of panels focusing on
specific topics. The provisional list of these topics is as follows:
1.
Bankruptcy (Benoit Mario Papillon - Benoit-Mario.Papillon@uqtr.ca)
2.
Behavioural Law and Economics (Claire Hill - hillx445@umn.edu)
3.
Competition Policy (Edward Iacobucci – Edward.iacobucci@utoronto.ca)2
4.
Corporate Finance (Janis Sarra – sarra@law.ubc.ca)
5.
Corporate Governance (Poonam Puri - ppuri@osgoode.yorku.ca)
6.
Corporate Law (Poonam Puri - ppuri@osgoode.yorku.ca)
7.
Crime (Phil Curry – pcurry@sfu.ca)
8.
Environmental Law and Economics (Andrew Green - a.green@utoronto.ca)
9.
Family Law and Economics (Margaret Brinig - margaret-brinig@uiowa.edu)
10.
Intellectual Property (Ariel Katz – ariel.katz@utoronto.ca)
11.
Normative Law and Economics (Shuba Ghosh – sghosh@mail.smu.edu)
12.
Norms (Claire Hill -hillx445@umn.edu)
13.
Regulation of the Legal Profession (Norman Siebrasse - siebrass@unb.ca)
14.
Securities Law (Anita Anand – anita.anand@utoronto.ca )
15.
Taxation (Ben Alarie - ben.alarie@utoronto.ca)
The Canadian Law & Economics Association (CLEA) is working with Social Science Research Network (SSRN) to provide an online
conference submission and review system for the CLEA 2008 Annual Meeting. The online submission system will require a small
amount of additional effort on your part but it has substantial benefits for us and the CLEA overall. Please click on to
http://hq.ssrn.com/conference=CLEA-2008 and follow the on-line submission instructions.
The deadline for submissions is JUNE 28, 2008.
You may wish to communicate directly with the coordinators listed above if you have questions or suggestions regarding the topics, but
please submit to to http://hq.ssrn.com/conference=CLEA-2008 . The draft programme will be decided upon in July 2008. Once your
paper has been accepted, you will be required to register for the conference immediately. Completed papers will be due by August 15,
2007. Panel moderators will be indicated on the programme. Accepted papers will be posted on SSRN with the authors’ approval.
Registration information will be sent to all participants in due course. Please note that the registration fee for the 2007 CLEA Annual
Conference is $200.00 CDN or US. For students this fee is 30.00 CDN. This covers all conference materials and meals, including the
dinner on Friday evening. Spouses or partners are welcome to attend the Friday evening dinner, for a fee of $20.00. Please send your
cheque, made out to the University of Toronto to Nadia Gulezko, Faculty of Law, University of Toronto, 84 Queen’s Park, Toronto, ON
M5S 2C5. Please note that members will not be permitted to present if their registration fee is not paid. Information on
accommodations will be sent with the conference programme in July. It will also be posted on CLEA’s website at
http://www.canlecon.org.
Poonam Puri
President, CLEA (ppuri@osgoode.yorku.ca)
The Association web site can be found at: www.canlecon.org