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When: March 3-4, 2022
Where: Boston University School of Law
Papers
The Assessment Gap: Racial Inequalities in Property Taxation
Carlos Avenancio-Leon (UCSD) & Troup Howard (David Eccles School of Business, University of Utah)
Discussants:
Francis Wong (National Bureau of Economic Research)
Pat McCoy (Boston College)
The Debt Relief Project
Stephanie Ben-Ishai (Osgoode Hall Law School - York University) & Sheisha Kulkarni (University of Virginia’s McIntire School of Commerce)
Discussants:
Andrea Boyack (Washburn University)
James Greiner (Harvard Law)
Mispriority of Information: A Theory of Manipulation
Omri Ben-Shahar (University of Chicago) & Oren Bar-Gill (Harvard University)
Discussants:
Daniela Caruso (Boston University)
David Vladeck (Georgetown Law)
Mobility Matters: Where Higher Education Meets Transportation
Kate Elengold (UNC School of Law)
Discussants:
Anjali Mahendra (World Resources Institute)
Chris Peterson (University of Utah)
Credit Scoring Duality
Pamela Foohey (Cardozo School of Law) & Sara S. Greene (Duke Law School)
Discussants:
Nikita Aggarwal (University of Oxford)
Cassandra Havard (University of Baltimore Law School)
Retail Race Discrimination
Meirav Furth-Matzkin (UCLA)
Discussants:
Jim Carr (Housing Finance and Urban Policy Expert)
Florencia Marotta-Wurgler (NYU)
Incomplete Contracts and Future Data Usage
Talia Gillis (Columbia University), Jens Frankenreiter (Washington University in St. Louis) & Dan Svirsky (Uber)
Discussants:
Greg Klass (Georgetown Law)
Ari Waldman (Northeastern University School of Law)
Zero-Profit Price Gouging
Richard Hynes & John Duffy (University of Virginia School of Law)
Discussants:
Michael MacKenzie (Antitrust Division, Massachusetts Office of the Attorney General)
Michael Salinger (Boston University, Questrom School of Management)
An Economic Case for Public Banking
Prasad Krishnamurthy (U.C. Berkeley School of Law)
Discussants:
Mehrsa Baradaran (UC Irvine)
Christine Desan (Harvard Law)
Discriminatory Debt Discharge
Nicole Langston (Boston College Law School)
Discussants:
Mechele Dickerson (University of Texas)
Saule Omarova (Cornell Law School)
Do Credit Policies Differentially Affect Racial Groups? Evidence from the Mortgage Market
Brittany Lewis (Indiana University Bloomington)
Discussants:
Keith Ericson (Boston University, Questrom School of Management)
Catherine Wilson (Nebraska College of Law)
Confronting Deep Uncertainty In Regulatory Science: Contaminated Lettuce and the Elusive Quest for Food Safety
Timothy Lytton (Georgia State University College of Law)
Discussants:
Emily Broad Leib (Harvard Law)
Tammi Etheridge (Elon University School of Law)
Legacy Switches: A Proposal to Protect Privacy, Security, Competition, and the Environment from the Internet of Things
Paul Ohm & Nathaniel Kim (Georgetown University Law Center)
Discussants:
Elettra Bietti (Harvard Law)
Nikolas Guggenberger (Yale Law School)
Get out of My Mind! Towards a Theory of Mental Costs in Consumer Law & Policy
Przemysław Pałka (Jagiellonian University in Krakow, Poland)
Discussants:
Sarah Dadush (Rutgers Law)
Ella Corren (Berkeley Law)
How Does the Elimination of State Aid to For-Profit Colleges Affect Enrollment? Evidence from California's Reforms
Ryan Sakoda (University of Iowa), Shayak Sarkar (UC Davis) & Oded Gurantz (University of Missouri)
Discussants:
Dalié Jiménez (UC Irvine)
Persis Yu (Student Borrower Protection Center)
Greenwashing and the First Amendment
Amanda Shanor & Sarah Light (University of Pennsylvania)
Discussants:
James Nelson (University of Houston)
Rebecca Tushnet (Harvard Law)
The Consequences of Online Lending: Evidence from Payday Loans
Paige Skiba & Paige Anders (Vanderbilt University)
Discussants:
Howell Jackson (Harvard Law)
Nathalie Martin (University of New Mexico)
Eviction and Poverty in American Cities
Daniel Tannenbaum (University of Nebraska), Rob Collinson (Notre Dame), John Eric Humphries (Yale University), Nick Mader (University of Chicago), Davin Reed (Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia) & Winnie van Dijk (Harvard University)
Discussants:
Rashmi Dyal-Chand (Northeastern University School of Law)
Kevin Lang (Boston University, Dept. of Economics)
Organizing Committee
Kathleen Engel (Suffolk University)
Ted Mermin (UC Berkeley)
Manisha Padi (UC Berkeley)
Rory Van Loo (Boston University)
Lauren Willis (Loyola Marymount University)
Questions?
Feel free to contact Rory Van Loo (vanloo@bu.edu), Ted Mermin (tmermin@law.berkeley.edu), and/or conference logistics coordinators Ben Hiebert (ben.hiebert@law.berkeley.edu) and Elizabeth Clancey (mackelle@bu.edu)