Law & Development Blogtag:typepad.com,2003:weblog-14292172009-07-13T12:09:02-04:00A Member of the Law Professor Blogs NetworkTypePadLawAndDevelopmentBloghttp://feedburner.google.comForthcoming location changetag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341bfae553ef01157108ff0d970c2009-07-13T12:09:02-04:002009-07-13T12:09:02-04:00The Law and Development blog is moving! Our new url will be http://lawdevelopment.blogspot.com/ We hope you will redirect your links to that spot. We have a terrific online symposium on law and development in the works--it should be posted later...Tom GinsburgAsian Law and Society Meeting, Hong Kong, Feb. 2010tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341bfae553ef011571ddf16b970b2009-07-08T19:28:47-04:002009-07-08T19:28:47-04:00Because this blog sometimes focuses on East Asian issues, I wanted to call your attention to the Inaugural East Asian Law and Society Conference, to be held on the theme of Changing Socio-Legal Landscapes in East Asia: Common Trends and...Tom GinsburgLatin American Competition Law and Policytag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341bfae553ef011571acfa36970b2009-07-03T06:33:21-04:002009-07-03T06:33:21-04:00Posted by D. Daniel Sokol In what is the most important book on the topic to date, Eleanor Fox (NYU - Law) and Daniel Sokol (University of Florida - Law) have edited the forthcoming Latin American Competition Law and Policy....Tom GinsburgExporting Knowledge Through Technical Assistance and Capacity Buildingtag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341bfae553ef011570a314d9970c2009-07-01T06:24:25-04:002009-07-01T06:24:25-04:00Posted by D. Daniel Sokol I have a new working paper with Kyle Steigert (Wisconsin Agriculture and Applied Economics) titled Exporting Knowledge Through Technical Assistance and Capacity Building. You can download it on SSRN. ABSTRACT: With a significant increase in...Tom GinsburgUpdate on Law and Development Blog Symposiumtag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341bfae553ef011570a307c8970c2009-07-01T06:19:22-04:002009-07-01T06:19:22-04:00Posted by D. Daniel Sokol We have good news to announce regarding our Blog Symposium. We are teaming with the Northwestern Law Review's online arm, the Northwestern Colloquy, to bring you our blog symposium. What this means is that to...Tom GinsburgThe Future of Law and Developmenttag:typepad.com,2003:post-681160072009-06-15T06:56:04-04:002009-06-15T06:56:04-04:00Posted by D. Daniel Sokol We are happy to announce a blog symposium on The Future of Law and Development coming soon. There are many different conceptions of what "law" and "development" mean, let alone what "law and development" mean,...Tom GinsburgExporting Knowledge Through Technical Assistance and Capacity Buildingtag:typepad.com,2003:post-679578932009-06-10T16:48:43-04:002009-06-10T16:48:52-04:00Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Let me plug my own recent work that I just uploaded onto SSRN - Exporting Knowledge Through Technical Assistance and Capacity Building. ABSTRACT: With a significant increase in the number of countries with antitrust laws,...Tom GinsburgOn the Limits of Legal Originstag:typepad.com,2003:post-666146712009-05-10T17:50:59-04:002009-05-10T17:50:59-04:00Posted by D. Daniel Sokol One way to get at the limitations of the LLSV legal origins literature is to undertake a series of case studies that show the nuance of the different factors that affect economic growth. The problem...Tom GinsburgNortheast Universities Development Consortium (NEUDC) Conference on Development Economicstag:typepad.com,2003:post-664899572009-05-07T06:20:48-04:002009-05-07T06:20:48-04:00Posted by D. Daniel Sokol CALL FOR PAPERS 2009 NEUDC CONFERENCE Tufts University, Medford, MA November 7-8, 2009 The 2009 Northeast Universities Development Consortium (NEUDC) Conference is a major forum in development economics. NEUDC has organized annual conferences in development...Tom GinsburgIntroductiontag:typepad.com,2003:post-664899132009-05-07T06:18:09-04:002009-05-07T06:18:09-04:00Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Thank you Tom for the warm introduction. I will blog in the coming weeks about the future of law and development and some emerging issues in law and development in my own field of antitrust....Tom GinsburgSokol on board...tag:typepad.com,2003:post-664466592009-05-06T10:24:56-04:002009-05-06T10:24:56-04:00We are pleased to have a new blogger join our ranks: Daniel Sokol of the University of Florida. Daniel is one of the country’s leading young competition law scholar and is also very engaged in law and development issues, having...Tom GinsburgNew paper by Greenetag:typepad.com,2003:post-660420032009-04-26T17:39:26-04:002009-04-26T17:39:26-04:00Norman L. Greene of Schoeman, Updike and Kaufman in New York has recently published an interesting article entitled Perspectives from the Study of International Development and the Rule of Law: Are There Lessons for the Reform of Judicial Selection in...Tom GinsburgJuries as an anti-corruption devicetag:typepad.com,2003:post-655790772009-04-17T01:09:24-04:002009-04-17T01:09:24-04:00Brent White (Arizona) has a fascinating new paper here on the case for juries in emerging democracies. His case study is Mongolia, one of my favorite countries. The piece critically summarizes some of the latest approaches in rule of law...Tom GinsburgNew work by La Porta and Shleifer on informal economytag:typepad.com,2003:post-655244452009-04-15T21:54:02-04:002009-04-15T21:54:02-04:00Professors La Porta and Shleifer have a new paper on "The Unofficial Economy and Economic Development" available here. An abstract follows: In developing countries, informal firms (those that are not registered with the government) account for about half of all...Tom GinsburgAsian Forum on Constitutional Lawtag:typepad.com,2003:post-651524572009-04-06T18:00:54-04:002009-04-06T18:00:54-04:00This may be of interest to some blog readers... Calling for Paper Abstract Submission Dear colleagues and friends, The Third Asian Forum for Constitutional Law 2009 is now calling for paper submissions. You are cordially invited to submit your paper...Tom Ginsburg