Seminar on the Law & Political Economy Project

Frederick Tung will attend the Antonin Scalia Law School’s Law & Economics Center Seminar on the Law & Political Economy Project from October 20-23 in San Diego, CA.

The Law & Economics Center has launched a series of programs to examine what has been named the “Law & Political Economy Project” (LPE) by its founders at Yale Law School. The LEC programs will evaluate the challenges the LPE Project makes to the findings and utility of law and economics scholarship and the challenges it makes to the basic tenets of free markets and capitalism.

One new format in this series is the LEC’s Seminar on the Law & Political Economy Project, for which we have planned two iterations that will welcome 15 academic scholars at each. Participants will engage in roundtable discussions grounded on a diverse set of readings from, and in discourse with, the LPE Project and its network of scholars.

One underlying question: Does abundance obtain only by adherence to a paradigm that sets the conditions for human flourishing through following basic tenets of free markets, capitalism, the rule of law, individual freedom, equality of economic opportunity, and neutral resolution of disputes, enforcement of rights, and recognition of private ordering from an independent judiciary? Or, are these institutions and principles instead roadblocks to progress and flourishing, as the growing LPE Project maintains?