Conference: Freedom, Choice and Contracts

Freedom, Choice, and Contracts

October 13-14, 2017, Case Lounge, Columbia Law School

 

Co-sponsored by:

The Office of the Dean and The Center on Contract and Economic Organization at Columbia Law School and by The Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics and The Cegla Center for Interdisciplinary Research of Law at Tel-Aviv University

 

 

Friday, Oct 13

 

8:00-8:45                Breakfast

 

8:45-9:00                Welcome and Introduction

 

9:00-10:45               Panel I

 

                                The Joint-Maximization Theory of American Contract Law 

                                Jody Ponsa Kraus & Robert E. Scott, Columbia Law School

                                Commentator: Florencia Marotta-Wurgler, NYU Law School 

 

                                Contract as Promise: No Regrets

                                Charles Fried, Harvard Law School

                                Commentator: Joseph Raz, Columbia Law School

 

10:45-11:00             Break

 

11:00-12:45             Panel II

 

                                Voluntary Obligation and Contract

                                Aditi Bagchi, Fordham Law School

                                Commentator:  Yitzhak Benbaji, Tel Aviv Faculty of Law

 

                                The Parol Evidence Rule:

                                Wigmore, Consumer Contracts, and the Mechanics of Choice

                                Gregory Klass, Georgetown Law Center

                                Commentator:  Avery Katz, Columbia Law School

 

12:45-2:00               Lunch

 

2:00-4:30                 Panel III

 

                                Choice within the Exchange Structure

                                Richard R.W. Brooks, Columbia Law School

                                Commentator:  Ariel Porat, Tel Aviv University Faculty of Law

 

 

                                On the Optimal Number of Contract Types

                                Clayton P. Gillette, NYU Law School & Oren Bar-Gill, Harvard Law School

                                Commentator:  Albert Choi, Virginia Law School

 

 

                                Contract Law and the Liberalism of Fear

                                Nathan B. Oman, William & Mary Law School

                                Commentator:  Brian Bix, University of Minnesota School of Law

     

6:00-8:00                 Dinner

 

 

Saturday, Oct 14

 

8:30-9:30               Breakfast

 

9:30-12:15             Panel IV

 

                              The Unity and Complexity of Contract Law: General  Principles and

                              TransactionTypes

                              Peter Benson, University of Toronto Faculty of Law

                              Commentator: Ethan Leib, Fordham Law School

 

                              Money Talks: Institutional Investors and Voice in Contract

                              Roy Kreitner, Tel-Aviv University Faculty of Law

                              Commentator: Kathryn Judge, Columbia Law School

 

                              Who Owns What?

                              Daniel Markovits & Alan Schwartz, Yale Law School

                              Commentator: Liam Murphy, NYU Law School

 

 

12:15-1:30             Lunch

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Papers presented at the conference will be published in a forthcoming special issue of TAU Law leading periodical, Theoretical Inquiries in Law.