DAY 1: Thursday, September 17, 2026
Warsaw School of Economics (SGH), Building C, 128 Niepodległości Avenue
9:00-10:30 PARALLEL SESSIONS 1
| Room | Session | Papers | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1A | 1A – Administrative Law | Matthew Makofske Testing the Motivations and Biases of Bureaucrats: Los Angeles County Health Inspectors and Mandatory Disclosure | Emanuel Wittberg, Gissur Erlingsson Sorting Out the Unwanted: Welfare Aversion Strategies, Governance-Induced Migration – and the Perils of Fiscal Decentralisation | Claudine Desrieux Judicial versus Administrative Enforcement |
| 2A | 1B – Employment Law and Discrimination I | Marta Martínez-Matute, Ernesto Rodríguez-Crespo, Nuria Rodríguez-Priego Formal Institutions and the Gendered Labour Market Impact of Governance Quality | Alexander Wulf Funded Silence: The Underrepresentation of LGBTQ+ Research in German Academic Funding | Rahul Sapkal Labour and Product Market Regulations, Contract Labour, and Industrial Accidents in India: Substitutes or Complements? |
| 2B | 1C – Antitrust Law | Robin Vandendriessche, Laurens Vandercruysse, Caroline Buts EU Data Governance Reform and Competition in Digital Services Procurement | Paul Friederiszick The Conglomerate Power Puzzle | Alexander Rasch Discounting Discounts: The (Un-)Intended Effects of Regulating Dark Patterns |
| 2E | 1D – Economics of Crime I | Tim Friehe, Svenja Hippel, Pascal Langenbach Opening the Black Box: How Law Enforcement Design Influences Sanctions, Monitoring, Beliefs, and Violations | Yann Lecorps, Marie Obidzinski, Yves Oytana More Information, Less Reliability? Technological Change and Fact-Finding in Human Rights Investigations | |
| 3A | 1E – LOC Organized Session: New approaches to studying the rule of law (chair: Jarosław Kantorowicz) | Mahdi Khesali, Stefan Voigt, Nadia von Jacobi Culture Matters: On the Distal Determinants of the Rule of Law | Fabio Padovano, Youssoufa Sy Does the subject of the law affect the size of the political legislative cycle? | Kathleen Brown The role of networks in protecting and subverting the rule of law: experimental evidence |
10:30-10:45 COFFEE BREAK (Mezzanine between ground floor and level 1)
10:45-12:15 PARALLEL SESSIONS 2
| Room | Session | Papers | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1A | 2A – Law and Finance | Patrick Corrigan Is Confidential Supervisory Information Material to Investors? Evaluating the Conflict between Banking and Securities Law | Casey Dougal, Irena Hutton, Dan Mosman Leveraged Buyouts and Corporate Litigation Risk | Alessio Pacces Law and economics of controlling shareholder transactions: Lessons from Delaware SB 21 |
| 2A | 2B – Economics of Crime II | Dmitrii Shchetinin From Distant Courts to Local Justice: The Impact of Community Courts on Offenders and Neighbourhoods | Dhaval Dave, Yang Liang San, Joseph Sabia Robots and Crime | Gabriel Domenech-Pascual, Fernando Peinado-Rodriguez Retroactivity in criminal law |
| 2B | 2C – Markets and Allocations | Danisz Okulicz Congested Dynamic Lawyers’ Matching | Juan Sebastián Ivars Designing Managerial Incentives in Competitive Markets | Henrik Sauer, Julian Klix Public Markets for Claims in Litigation |
| 2E | 2D – Behavioral Law and Economics I | Nuno Garoupa, Yijia Lu Judicial Interest Rates: Experimental Evidence | Anastasiia Panicheva Public Support for Secondary Sanctions: Experimental Evidence from the US and China | |
| 3A | 2E – LOC Organized Session: Political economy of the protection of rights and liberties (chair: Christian Bjørnskov) | Andreas Bergh Formal and informal institutions in the protection of rights and liberties: What exactly is the difference | Niclas Berggren, Christian Bjørnskov Populism, Constitutional Constraints, and Freedom of Expression | Christian Bjørnskov, Niclas Berggren, Jerg Gutmann Does Human Freedom need a Constitutional Foundation? |
12:15-13:15 LUNCH (Mezzanine between ground floor and level i)
13:15-14:45 CONFERENCE OPENING AND KEYNOTE LECTURE – PROF. MACIEJ SZPUNAR: “Legal Challenges of New Technologies“, chair: Jarosław Bełdowski (Auditorium I)
14:45-15:00 COFFEE BREAK (Mezzanine between Ground Floor and Level i)
15:00-16:30 PARALLEL SESSIONS 3
| Room | Session | Papers | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1A | 3A – Employment Law and Discrimination II | Michał Pilc Labour market reforms from the public choice perspective: Reintroducing the theory of groups | Maria Gutierrez, Maribel Saez How to Attract Women to the Top: Female Board Quotas and Leadership Roles | Rahul Suresh Sapkal, Kinchan Chakma Do Employment Protection Laws and Labour Turnover Affect Robot Adoption? Evidence from India |
| 2A | 3B – Corporate Law I | Federico Fornasari The Impact of Golden Power on M&A Activity in the Non‑Financial Private Sector | Tobias Troeger Systematic Stewardship on the Waterbed | Amir Licht Men’s intuition? Female directors and why selection matters |
| 2B | 3C – Platforms and Contracts | Mitja Kleczka Modeling Abuses of Dominance in Digital Platform Ecosystems: Tying and Data Exploitation | Filipa Mota, António Neto The Competitive Effects of Platform Most-Favored-Nation Clauses on Price and Quality | Roy Baharad, Luigi Alberto Franzoni Contract Law for Disagreeing Parties |
| 2E | 3D – Behavioral Law and Economics II | Ronen Gradwohl, Arye Hillman, Rok Spruk Moral Inversion | Dirk Kiesewetter Preferences for Allocating Tax Revenue in Heterogeneous Societies | Luca Baltensperger Unwelcome Offers |
| 3A | 3E – LOC Organized Session: The economics of compliance with constitutions (chair: Niclas Berggren) | Adam Chilton, Mila Versteeg The problem of constitutional rights inflation | Anna Lewczuk-Czerwińska, Katarzyna Metelska-Szaniawska Global diffusion of constitutional (non-)compliance | Jarosław Kantorowicz, Katarzyna Metelska-Szaniawska, Wim Voermans How do people perceive constitutional violations? |
16:30-16:45 COFFEE BREAK
16:45-18:15 PARALLEL SESSIONS 4
| Room | Session | Papers | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1A | 4A – Behavioral Law and Economics III | Marie-Louise Holle, Henrik Lando Fairness and Efficiency in Tort Law: Identifying the Nature of Legal Rationales | Maciej Świtała, Magdalena Grabowska Uncovering the Process of Valuing Non-Pecuniary Damage by the Aggrieved Party: Methodological Framework and Preliminary Findings from a Pilot Study | Rosa Ferrer Targeting Viewers’ Heterogeneous Ad Aversion |
| 2A | 4B – Corporate Law II | Ido Baum Business Organizations and the News Media: The Case for a Sui Generis Approach to Media Corporations | Ioan Sumandea-Simionesc, Oana Stefan, Lucian Bercea Learning or Lobbying? Evidence from Textual Changes in Regulatory Consultations | Fatjon Kaja The Asking Price of Incorporation: State Leverage and the Evolution of Corporate Purpose |
| 2B | 4C – Judges and Juries | Giuseppe Dari-Mattiacci, Lewis Kornhauser Judicial Expertise | Jakub Drapal, Michal Soltes, Emanuel Vespa, Daniel L. Chen Role of Expertise in Consistency in Decision-Making: Experimental Evidence with Public Prosecutors and Law Students | Sahil Chopra Does Judicial Character Matter for Attorneys’ Fees in Securities Class Action |
| 2E | 4D – Special Session: Evolution of Law and Economics (chair: Jarosław Bełdowski) | Panelists: Luigi Alberto Franzoni, Fernando Gomez-Pomar, Stefan Voigt What are the different perspectives of Law and Economics in the European Union? How strong is Law and Economics in some states in Europe? Join us to discuss about the past and future of Law and Economics on European soil. | ||
| 3A | 4E – LOC Organized Session: Compliance with constitutions and constitutional design (chair: Anna Lewczuk-Czerwińska) | Anna Lewczuk-Czerwińska, Katarzyna Metelska-Szaniawska, Tymoteusz Mętrak Effects of permanent shifts to constitutional (non-)compliance | Mohammad Hossein Sadeghi Determinants of Constitutional Extensiveness | |
19:30 DINNER – Concept 13 Restaurant
DAY 2: Friday, September 18, 2026
University of Warsaw (UW), Faculty of Law and Administration, 4 Lipowa Street
9:00-10:30 PARALLEL SESSIONS 5
| Room | Session | Papers | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2.3 | 5A – Tort Law I | Urs Schweizer Sharing Restitution Costs in Accordance with Individual Causation | Tim Friehe, Cat Lam Pham Product Liability with Multiproduct Firms | Juan Jose Ganuza Fernandez, Fernando Gomez-Pomar Designing Standards for a Single Market. The 28th Regime and Alternatives |
| 2.4 | 5B – Economics of Crime III | Murat C. Mungan Exculpatory Evidence Disclosure Rules and the Protection of Innocent Defendants | Peter Lewisch, Stefania Ottone, Ferruccio Ponzano Intrinsic Disutility of Punishment: Evidence from a Cross-Country Survey Experiment | |
| 2.8 | 5C – Corporate Law III | Moran Ofir, Joshua Mitts From Iran to Taylor Swift: Informed Trading in Prediction Markets | Antônio José Porto, Lucas Gomes, Marina Palma Copola Stablecoins and the Delimitation of Regulatory Competence Zones Between the Central Bank of Brazil and the Brazilian Securities Commission: A Comparative Law-and-Economics Analysis | Carsten Koenig Individual Liability for Corporate Fines in Competition Law |
| 2.6 | 5D – Special Session: Rethinking teaching Law & Economics: Does our field need its own Core-Econ? (chair: Alessio Pacces) | Panelists: Libor Dusek, Marie Obidzinski, Shay Lavie, Jarosław Bełdowski Is the way we teach Law and Economics stuck in the early tradition? The empirical revolution and modern policy challenges have reshaped our discipline. If we rebuilt the introductory Law and Economics course from scratch today, what would we drop, what would we add? Join us to debate about how to rethink teaching introductory Law and Economics for today’s students. | ||
| 3.8 | 5E – LOC Organized Session: The economics of constitution making and nation building (chair: Jerg Gutmann) | Jerg Gutmann, Jaroslaw Kantorowicz, Katarzyna Metelska-Szaniawska, Stefan Voigt Public Preferences for Constitution-making Processes: A Multi-country Survey Experiment | Monika Koeppl-Turyna Gendered voting after war: Casualties and victimization during nation-building | Jerg Gutmann, Tim Schnelle, Stefan Voigt UN Constitutional Assistance and Constitutional Success |
10:30-11:00 COFFEE BREAK (lobby, level -1)
11:00-12:15 KEYNOTE LECTURE – PROF. W. BENTLEY MACLEOD: “Law and Economics in the Age of Computers – What are the implications of computational complexity for law and economics?”, chair: Jacek Lewkowicz (Auditorium a2, level -1)
12:15-13:15 LUNCH BREAK (lobby, level -1)
13:15 – 14:45 EALE GENERAL ASSEMBLY (auditorium a2, level -1)
14:45-15:15 COFFEE BREAK (lobby, level -1)
15:15-16:45 PARALLEL SESSIONS 6
| Room | Session | Papers | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2.3 | 6A – Constitutional Law and Judges | Giacomo Roma Historical Evolution and Quality of Legislation in Italy | Artyom Jelnov, Maxim Senkov Judicial Reform and the Risk of Democratic Backsliding | Alexander Morell, Aileen Oeberst Do German judges treat people with foreign names differently? A vignette experiment |
| 2.4 | 6B – Civil and Criminal Procedure I | Omer Kimhi, Dalit Gafni Suing City Hall: Class Actions as Private Enforcement of Local Governments – Lessons from Israel | Brishti Guha, Shay Lavie Private Information in Two-Dimensions: The Case of Malicious Plaintiffs | Daniel Klerman, Cherie Metcalf, Jonathan Nash, Diego Zambrano Culture and Private Enforcement of Public Regulation |
| 2.8 | 6C – Organized Session: History of law-and-economic thought (chair: Alain Marciano) | Daniel Nientiedt Hayek’s Twofold Contribution to Law and Economics | Per-Olof Bjuggren Commons, Coase and Williamson on Transactions: Similarities and Differences | Peter Boettke, Rosolino Candela, Alain Marciano Public Choice, Law and Economics, and The Economic Analysis of Law: A Political Economy Reassessment |
| 2.6 | 6D – Special Session: Simplification of EU financial law: practical applications (chair: Jarosław Bełdowski) | Panelists: Christos Gorstos, Tadeusz Białek, Piotr Stolarczyk, Henrik Lando Can theory meet practice? Can academia bring added value to the market? The answers seem obvious, but this time we bring the example of such contribution and we concentrate on the discussion how the bridges may be maintained. Join us to the discussion how the financial law may become more efficient in the European Union. | ||
| 3.8 | 6E – LOC Organized Session: Law, economics, and institutional communication: signals, noise, and political discourse (chair: Jan Fałkowski) | Eliza Hałatek One or Too Many Voices? Introducing the Central Bank Cacophony Index | Joanna Jędrzejewska The Silent Signals of Central Banks: Nonverbal Communication and Monetary Policy | Jan Fałkowski Tracking Populism in Parliamentary Discourse: A Text Mining Analysis of Speeches from the Polish Parliament |
16:45-17:00 COFFEE BREAK (Lobby, level -1)
17:00-18:30 PARALLEL SESSIONS 7
| Room | Session | Papers | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2.3 | 7A – Tort Law II | Roland Kirstein Financing Precaution by Debt or Profit Sharing: The problem of Judgment-proof Entrepreneurs under Strict Liability | Shay Hay, Yotam Kaplan, Omer Pelled, Benjamin Shmueli Efficient Paternity Fraud: A Three-Timeframe Model of Liability and Externalities | |
| 2.4 | 7B – Law and AI | Maciej Świtała Best Interests ex Machina – Explainable Legal Judgement Prediction of Court-Awarded Monthly Child Maintenance Payments Using Machine-Learning Algorithms | Yali Peng Moderating Morality: A Mixed-Effects Analysis of How AI Models Operationalize Legal Values | Ori Katz, Eyal Zamir Law, Justice, and Artificial Intelligence |
| 2.6 | 7C – Civil and Criminal Procedure II | Winand Emons, Severin Lenhard, Francesco Parisi Optional Fee-Shifting | Murat C. Mungan, J. Shahar Dillbary Law Enforcement with Rent Dissipation | |
| 2.8 | 7D – LOC Organized Session: Constitutional amendment and longevity in an economic perspective (chair: Jacek Lewkowicz) | Andrew Young Ackerman’s Majoritarianism versus Buchanan’s Generality: A Comparative Analysis and Implications for Article V | Mauro Arturo Riveira Leon, Vahid Taghvaee Economic Development and Constitutional Flexibility: Analysis of Hyper-Amendment Countries Using a Dynamic Nonlinear Model | Jacek Lewkowicz The determinants of constitutional endurance – a survival analysis |