The Forum's objective is to encourage the work of young scholars by providing experience in the pursuit of scholarship and the nature of the scholarly exchange. Meetings are held each spring, at Yale one year and Stanford the next.

Between twelve and twenty scholars (with one to seven years in teaching and who are not yet tenured) are chosen on ablind basis from among those submitting papers to present. Two senior scholars, not necessarily from Stanford or Yale, comment on each paper. The audience will include the invited young scholars, faculty from the host institutions, and invited guests. The goal is discourse on both the merits of particular papers and on appropriate methodologies for doing work in that genre. We hope that comment and discussion will communicate what counts as good work among successful senior scholars and will also challenge and improve the standards that now exist. The Forum also hopes to increase the sense of community among American legal scholars generally, particularly among new and veteran professors.

Each year the Forum invites submissions on selected topics in public and private law, legal philosophy, and law and humanities—alternating loosely between public law and humanities subjects in one year, and private and dispute resolution law in the next. The focus of the 10th session will be private law and dispute resolution. The topics to be addressed are:

• Bankruptcy
• Remembering the Concept of the Corporation
• Civil Litigation and Dispute Resolution
• Just Negotiation
• The End of Objector Blackmail?
• Contracts
• Rewriting Frankenstein Contracts: Workout Prohibitions in Residential Mortgage-Backed Securities
• Do Liquidated Damages Encourage Efficient Breach? A Psychological Experiment
• Corporate and Securities Law
• Lemon Signaling in Cross-Listing
• The Effect of U.S. Securities Laws on Foreign Companies: The Relationship Between Cross-Listing Premia, U.S. Stock Prices, and U.S Trading Volumes
• Placebo Ethics
• Vicarious Liability for Bad Corporate Governance: Are We Wrong About 10b-5
• Intellectual Property
• In the Shadow of Innovation
• Property Rhetoric and Public Domain
• Claiming Intellectual Property
• Patents, Property and Competition
• Property
• Strategic Spillovers
• The City as a Law and Economic Subject
• Tax
• Hidden Taxes