Regulation and litigation conference.

• Position: Conferences - National Bureau of Economic Research - Frederick Schauer from University of Virginia - Richard Zeckhauser from Harvard University - Joni Hersch from Vanderbilt University - Brief article - Conference notes

The NBER held a conference on "Regulation and Litigation" on September 11-12, 2009. The organizers, NBER Research Associates Daniel Kessler of Stanford University and Andrei Shleifer of Harvard University, chose the following papers for discussion:

* Richard Posner, United States Court of Appeals, "Regulation vs. Litigation: An Analytical Framework"

* Andrei Shleifer, "Efficient Regulation"

* Frederick Schauer, University of Virginia, and Richard Zeckhauser, Harvard University and NBER, "The Trouble with Cases" (NBER Working Paper No. 15279)

* Joni Hersch, Vanderbilt University, and Kip Viscusi, Vanderbilt University and NBER, "Tobacco Regulation through Litigation: The Master Settlement Agreement"

* Philip Cook, Duke University and NBER; Jens Ludwig, University of Chicago and NBER; and Adam Samaha, University of Chicago, "Gun Control after Heller: Litigating against Regulation"

* John Coates, Harvard University, "M&A Break Fees: U.S. Litigation vs. U.K. Regulation"

* Dana Goldman, RAND and NBER; Tomas Philipson, University of Chicago and NBER; and Eric Sun, RAND, "The Effects of...