Program

The Midterm Meeting starts with the Thesis-meeting on Thursday afternoon February 9, followed by the Conference Sessions on Friday, February 10 and closes with the Graduation Ceremony on Saturday February 11, 2012. Click here for a detailed program schedule

Registration & Payment

The MtM Conference is free of charge for current EMLE-students.
Other attendees are invited to pay with credit card. Click here to Pay Online.

Call for Papers

Papers in any field of Law & Economics are welcome to be submitted for presentation at the workshop on Friday, February 10, which is open to all interested researchers. Particularly scholars affiliated with the Program are encouraged to present their work in progress.

Papers can be sent to mtm2012-workshop@UGent.be. Deadline is December 8, 2011.

Workshop Papers

Following papers have been selected for presentation (click on the link to view the abstract) :

• Small Government Anticipated, by Dirk Heine & Giacomo Luchetta
• The Persistent Reelection of Corrupt Politicians in Representative Democracies,
     by Paolo Artvate & Sergio Mittleaender
• Biases in Perception of Judgments, by Oren Gazal & Ronen Perry
• Property Rights, Judicial Independence and Growth, by Stefan Voigt & Jerg Gutmann
• Optimal Liability Design for Small Risks, by Luigi Franzoni
• A L&E Approach to new forms of Immaterial Losses : The Example of Loss of Time,
     by Louis Visscher
• To Fine or to Jail, by Emanuela Carbonara & Laarni Escresa
• Institutional Heterogeneity and the Domestic Sanctions to Cross-Border Acts :
     The Case of Foreign Bribery, by Laarni Escresa & Lucio Picci
• Good Faith Revisited, by Alan Miller & Ronen Perry
• Indeterminacy by Gerrit De Geest
• Rights as Property & Entitlement, by Ben Depoorter & Stephan Tontrup
• Externalities, Property Rights and Environment Protection - A Reappraisal,
     by Wolfgang Weigel
  

 Click here to view the time schedule of the presentations

Workplacement Sessions

During this sessions, scheduled on February 10, 2012, students and graduates from all over the globe will have the opportunity to meet with potential employers. The following Associated Members will present their company (click on the link to view the company description) :

• Babar Law Associates (Pakistan), represented by Bhulam Shabbir Babar
• Covington & Burling LLP (Belgium), represented by Peter Camesasca
• The Joseph von Sonnenfels Center for the Study of Public L&E (Austria),
     represented by Wolfgang Weigel
• Polish Association of Law & Economics (Poland),
     represented by Katazyna Metelska-Szaniawska
• Centre for European Policy Studies (Belgium), represented by Andrea Renda
• Carroll, Burdick & McDonough LLP (Germany), represented by Nicole B. Boehler
• CDC Cartel Damage Claims, represented by Tihana Meic and Ben Bornemann
  

Alumni

Accommodation

Current EMLE students, coming from Bologna & Hamburg, will be hosted in the 'Flandria Hotel' for the first two nights during the Midterm Meeting (Thursday & Friday, February 9 & 10, 2012). Extention of stay is self-organising and at own expense.

Other attendees are invited to contact the hotel of their choice directly.
Special conditions (94.50€ p.n., single room & 111€ p.n., double room, breakfast & tax incl.) have been negotiated with the hotel Ibis Gent Kathedraal, Limburgstraat 2, Ghent.
Accor Booking Email addressed to Kim with reference MTM-2012.

For more information about other hotels, hostels, bed and breakfast, events etc... in Ghent,
one can visit the citywebsite.

Travel Info & Location Map

The Midterm Meeting will be held at two locations nearby the Faculty of Law, namely
'The Aula Academica' and several auditoria situated at the faculty campus.

Organizing Committee

Academic

• Boudewijn Bouckaert (Coordinator)
• Ben Depoorter
• Jef De Mot
  

Administrative

• Nancy Van Nuffel (Secretary)
• Katelijne Verstichel