Law, Economics, and Politics Center

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Mission and Vision

The Law, Economics, and Politics Center (LEAP) at Berkeley Law brings together faculty and students from Law, Economics, Political Science, the Goldman School of Public Policy, the Haas School of Business, and elsewhere on UC Berkeley’s campus. Its goal is to further interdisciplinary scholarship, ideas, and discussion in these areas with a particular emphasis on law, government, and policy.


Events:

Cooter-Rubinfeld Lecture(s) & The LEAP Graduate Student Fellows Conference(s)


Cooter-Rubinfeld Lecture

Guido Imbens, Stanford: Causality in Data Science

 Mon, January 29, 2024, 12pm to 2pm PT | Booth Auditorium

 

LEAP Graduate Student Fellows Conference

 Fri, April 12, 2024, 8am to 5pm PT | Warren Room


 LEAP Graduate Student Fellows Conference

 Fri, Apr 14, 2023 |Program 2023| Warren Room

 

Cooter-Rubinfeld Lecture

Jason Furman, Harvard: Not Too Hot, Not Too Cold: Lessons from the Last Two Economic Crises

 Fri, Sept 16, 2022

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 LEAP Graduate Student Fellows Conference

 Fri, Apr 8, 2022 | Program 2022| Warren Room

 

Law, Economics & Business Workshop, LAW 216-LEC-001

 Fall 2022 Monday(s), 12- 2p.m | Berkeley Law Room 140 

 

 LEAP Graduate Student Fellows Conference

 Fri, Apr 16, 2021 | Program 2021 | Warren Room

 

Cooter-Rubinfeld Lecture

Joseph Stiglitz, Columbia: Discounting, the Social Cost of Carbon, and Tools and Policies to Manage Climate Change

 Mon, Mar 1, 2021

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Cooter-Rubinfeld Lecture

Enrico Moretti, UC Berkeley: Inequality from Geography

 Thur, Nov 12, 2020

 

Cooter-Rubinfeld Lecture

Emmanuel Saez, UC Berkeley: The Triumph of Injustice

 Thur, Mar 5, 2020

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 Text Analysis in Law Conference

 Thur, Feb 6 – Sat, Feb 8, 2020 Program 2020

 

Cooter-Rubinfeld Lecture

John Donohue, Stanford: The Move to Guns Everywhere

 Thur, Feb 6, 2020

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