Subject: Law & Economics Colloquium for Friday, Nov. 13: Zachary Liscow
From: Brian Galle <[email-masked]>
To: Law Faculty and Visitors <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 10 Nov 2015 02:15:01 +0000

Greetings, colleagues.  This Friday the colloquium welcomes Zachary Liscow.  Zach is currently a law clerk for the Hon. Stephen Williams of the D.C. Circuit, and reportedly in possession of offers of employment at a few law schools you've probably heard of.   His talk this week asks "Should Law Be Efficient?"  That is, there are important strands in the cost-benefit analysis literature, and in torts, among others, that argue that legal rules and regulations should not take account of their own distributive consequences, but instead should leave that task to the tax system.  Zach shows empirically that the tax system does not actually effectuate the redistributive goals that CBA theorists assume it will, and explores the implications for administrative law, torts, and other areas.

Important note for GULC faculty: there will be no evaluation form of any kind that you'll need to fill out after this talk.

As usual, we'll meet at noon in Hotung 2001.  The paper is attached.

-BDG

Brian D. Galle
Professor of Law
Georgetown University Law Center
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