The American Law and Economics Association (ALEA), a United States organization founded in 1991, is focused on the advancement of
economic understanding of law, and related areas of
public policy and regulation. It promotes research in
law and economics. The organization's official journal is the ''
American Law and Economics Review'', established in 1999.
History
In January 1990, a meeting of scholars was convened by
George Mason University Law School
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dean,
Henry Manne
Henry G. Manne (May 10, 1928 – January 17, 2015) was an American writer and academic, considered a founder of the law and economics discipline. He was Dean Emeritus of the George Mason University School of Law.
Born in New Orleans, Louisiana, M ...
, to discuss organizing a professional organization.
The association was formally co-founded by
George Priest
George L. Priest (born November 24, 1947) is an American legal scholar specializing in antitrust law. Priest has taught at the Yale Law School since 1981, where he is the Edward J. Phelps Professor of Law and Economics and Director of the John M ...
,
A. Mitchell Polinsky, and
Steven Shavell, each of whom served a term as president during the ensuing decade.
A growing acceptance of legal and economic perspectives by judges, practitioners, and policy-makers became evident in the creation of parallel associations in Australia,
Europe, Latin America, and Canada.
Notable members
The founding board of directors was composed of representatives of major universities, including Berkeley, Emory, USC, Columbia, Harvard, Georgetown and MIT.
In addition to
Henry Manne, and the three formal founders,
Priest,
Polinsky, and
Shavell, each of whom served a term as president during the ensuing decade; other notable members include:
*
Orley Ashenfelter
Orley Clark Ashenfelter (born October 18, 1942) is an American economist and the Joseph Douglas Green 1895 Professor of Economics at Princeton University. His areas of specialization include labor economics, econometrics, and law and economics. H ...
founding co-
editor-in-chief, ''American Law and Economics Review''
["Richard A. Posner"]
University of Chicago Law School, Retrieved October 18, 2022.
*
Robert Cooter, among those convened by Henry Manne prior to formation of ALEA, was elected as a founding board member, and served as its president for 1994
*
Robert C. Ellickson, 2000 president
*
John J. Donohue III 2011 president
*
Gillian Hadfield, board member
"American Law and Economics Association Twenty-Fourth Annual Meeting May 8-9, 2014"
American Law and Economics Association, 2014, page 2. Retrieved October 17, 2022.
* Oliver Hart, 2006 president
* Richard Posner, founding co- editor-in-chief, ''American Law and Economics Review''[
* ]Roland Kirstein
Roland Kirstein (born ) is a German economist and professor of Business Administration at the Otto-von-Guericke-University in Magdeburg, Germany.
Biography
Roland Kirstein was born Schröder in Bremen, Germany. He studied economics and law at ...
* William M. Landes, 1992 president
* Bruce M. Owen
* Ariel Porat, former board member; president of Tel Aviv University
* Harold See
Harold Frend See, Jr. (born November 7, 1943) is a legal scholar and was an associate justice of the Alabama Supreme Court from 1997 to 2009. The son of Harold F. See, Sr., and Corinne See, he was born at the Great Lakes Naval Training Center in ...
* Michael Trebilcock, 2002 president
See also
* Regional and international law and economics associations
References
External links
Official website
Organizations established in 1991
Legal organizations based in the United States
Business and finance professional associations
Economics societies
Law-related professional associations
Law-related learned societies
1991 establishments in the United States
Law and economics
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