The AALS Section on Socio-economics believes that it is time to re-think the basic relationship between law and economics. Economics was introduced into legal scholarship at a tool for conservative political positions in the 1980s. It is time to recapture this valuable branch of modern knowledge and apply it to pressing topics such as climate change, automation and employment, and the relationships between the underregulation of finance, corruption, instability and racial inequality. Participants will explore how a combined legal, economic and social science approach can be productively applied to these topics.
Business meeting at program conclusion.