The Journal of Law and Socio-Economics
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Section on Socio-Economics
Association of American Law Schools
2008 Annual Meeting Program:
Section on Socio-Economics
Annual Meeting Program
Thursday, January 3, 2008
New York City
(Co-Sponsored by the Sections on Jurisprudence, Minority Groups,
Poverty Law, and Women in Legal Education)
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Hon. Guido Calabresi
2nd Circuit Court of Appeals
Co-Chair Section on Socio-Economics
“Adam Smith Was a Socio-Economist”
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The Editorial Board of The Journal of Law and Socio-Economics (JLSE)
consists of Morris Altman (University of Saskatchewan, Editor of
The Journal of Socio Economics), Robert Ashford (Syracuse University),
Robert Cooter (University of California - Berkeley), Lynne Dallas
(University of San Diego), Richard Hattwick, (Western Illinois
University, Founding Editor of the Journal of Socio-Economics),
Jeffrey Harrison (University of Florida), Edward Rubin (University of
Pennsylvania), Thomas Ulen (University of Illinois), and Charles Whalen
(Business Week).
The journal is intended not only for specialists, but also for generalists
interested in improving legal education and higher education.
Volume 1996 contains
1. a definition of socio-economics endorsed by over one hundred
twenty law teachers from fifty member schools of the Association
of American Law Schools (AALS)
2. the inaugural Forum held in San Antonio in January 1996 that publicly
launched the law and socio-economics movement:
Socio-Economics: What is its Place in Law Teaching?
Each succeeding volume will set forth the programs, presentations and
commentary offered on Socio-Economics at the Annual Meeting of Association
of American Law Schools (AALS), AALS Members Schools, and other venues.
Anyone who participated in such an event is invited to submit electronically
their edited outlines, papers, presentations and commentary.
Additional commentary from others is welcome.
(See submission instructions below)
Volume 1997 Socio-Economics and Communitarianism Compared (1997, Washington DC)
Volume 1998 Paradigms of Economic Thought (1998, San Francisco)
Berkeley Conference on Socio-Economics and Binary Economics
(1998, Berkeley)
Volume 1999 The Socio-Economic Alternative in Teaching (1999, New Orleans)
Tulane Conference on Socio-Economics and Binary Economics
(1999, New Orleans)
Volume 2000 Positive, Moral and Ethical Dimensions of Socio-Economics
(2000, Washington DC)
Georgetown Conference on Socio-Economics (2000 Washington, DC)
Volume 2001 Socio-Economics and Other Schools of Thought (2001, San Francisco)
The Berkeley Conference on Socio-Economics (2001, Berkeley)
Volume 2002 Socio-Economics and Law Teaching (2002, New Orleans)
Volume 2003 Teaching Socio-Economics in Global Context (pdf)
Volume 2005 Socio-Economics, Culture, Biology, Economic and More (pdf)
Volume 2006 Socio-Economics - A Distinct School of Thought(pdf)