John M. Olin Program in Law and Economics
Overview
With a generous gift from the John M. Olin Foundation, Stanford Law School initiated the John M. Olin Program in Law and Economics in 1987. The program supports faculty and student research, issues working papers, holds seminars and lunch discussions, and awards student fellowships in law and economics to matriculating Stanford students at the law school or in graduate programs at Stanford University.
The John M. Olin Program plays a very active role in the Law School—and more generally in the university—in promoting interest in the law and economics movement. Since the beginning of the Olin Program, 75 distinguished scholars from throughout the United States have come to Stanford to give presentations to the Law and Economics Seminar, 257 working papers have been distributed through the Olin Program Working paper series.
Closely connected to the John M. Olin Program is the Stanford Program in the Law and Economics of Intellectual Property and Antitrust, created in 2009 with a gift from the Microsoft Corporation to encourage research on antitrust and intellectual property policy. This new program is affiliated with Microsoft's Technology-Academics-Policy (TAP) website, which can be accessed by clicking on the following TAP icon:
Publications
- Joseph Bankman, A Gas Tax Makes the Most Sense for California, San Jose Mercury News, August 11, 2009, pg. A9.
- Ken Scott and John Taylor, It's Worth the Trouble to Value Toxic Assets, Wall Street Journal, August 1, 2009, pg. A10.
- Ronald J. Gilson, Breaking Bankers? Korea Times, December 25, 2009.
- Eric A. Posner and Alan O. Sykes, Economic Foundations of the Law of the Sea, Chicago and Stanford John M. Olin Law & Economics Working Paper no. 504 (2d series) (December 2009).
- Ronald J. Gilson, Locating Innovation: The Endogeneity of Technology, Organizational Structure and Financial Contracting, Stanford Law and Economics Olin Working Paper, No. 377 / Columbia Law and Economics Working Paper, No. 353 (November 2009).
Faculty
- Joseph Bankman
- Ralph M. Parsons Professor of Law and Business
- jbankman@stanford.edu
- 650 725.3825
- G. Marcus Cole
- Wm. Benjamin Scott and Luna M. Scott Professor of Law
- gmcole@stanford.edu
- 650 723.0615
- Richard Craswell
- William F. Baxter-Visa International Professor of Law
- rcraswel@stanford.edu
- 650 725.8542
- Robert M. Daines
- Pritzker Professor of Law and Business
- 650 736.2684
- Ronald J. Gilson
- Charles J. Meyers Professor of Law and Business
- rgilson@stanford.edu
- 650 723.0614
- Paul Goldstein
- Stella W. and Ira S. Lillick Professor of Law
- paulgold@stanford.edu
- 650 723.0313
- Joseph A. Grundfest
- W. A. Franke Professor of Law and Business
- grundfest@stanford.edu
- 650 723.0458
- Michael Klausner
- Nancy and Charles Munger Professor of Business and Professor of Law
- klausner@stanford.edu
- 650 723.6433
- Mark A. Lemley
- William H. Neukom Professor of Law
- mlemley@law.stanford.edu
- 650 723.4605
- Alison D. Morantz
- Associate Professor of Law and John A. Wilson Distinguished Faculty Scholar
- amorantz@law.stanford.edu
- 650 725.5256
- A. Mitchell Polinsky
- Josephine Scott Crocker Professor of Law and Economics
- polinsky@stanford.edu
- 650 723.0886
- Kenneth E. Scott
- Ralph M. Parsons Professor of Law and Business, Emeritus
- kenscott@stanford.edu
- 650 723.3070
- Jeff Strnad
- Charles A. Beardsley Professor of Law
- jstrnad@stanford.edu
- 650 723.9674
- Alan O. Sykes
- Professor of Law
- asykes@stanford.edu
- 650 724.0178
Program Contacts
- A. Mitchell Polinsky
- Director
- polinsky@stanford.edu
- 650 723.0886
- Jackie Del Barrio
- Associate Director, Program Group
- jdelbarrio@law.stanford.edu
- 650 725.8753
Events
- Dennis Carlton (Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago)
- February 18, 2010 from 4:15 pm - 5:45 pm
- Appropriate Antitrust Policy Towards Single-Firm Conduct: Extraction vs. Extension
- Benjamin Roin (Harvard Law School)
- March 4, 2010 from 4:15 pm - 5:45 pm
- "Drug Patent Length"
Recorded & Past Events
February 2010
January 2010
November 2009
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Rock Center for Corporate Governance Faculty Lunch with Anat Admati and Paul Pfleiderer
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Omri Ben-Shahar (University of Chicago Law School)
October 2009
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Henry Smith (Harvard Law School)
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Jonathan Baker (Chief Economist, Federal Communications Commission; on leave, Washington College of Law, American University)
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Justin McCrary (School of Law, University of California, Berkeley)
November 2008
October 2008
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Alon Klement (Radzyner School of Law, Interdisciplinary Center Herzliya, Israel; visiting Columbia Law School)
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Justin Wolfers (Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania)
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Joshua Wright (George Mason University Law School; visiting University of Texas Law School)
November 2007
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Law and Economics Seminar: Anup Mulani (University of Chicago Law School)
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(CANCELLED) Law and Economics Seminar: Jonathan Macey (Yale Law School)
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Law and Economics Seminar: Michael Meurer (Boston University Law School)
September 2007
April 2007
March 2007
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Law and Economic Seminar:
Joni Hersch and Kip Viscusi (School of Law and Department of Economics, Vanderbilt University)
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Law and Economic Seminar:
Reinier Kraakman, Harvard Law School
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Law and Economic Seminar:
John Donohue, Yale Law School
February 2007
Contact Information
- John M. Olin Program in Law and Economics
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Crown Quadrangle
559 Nathan Abbott Way
Stanford, CA 94305-8610 - polinsky@stanford.edu
- 650 723.0886