*18th Annual STOREP Conference, June 17-18, 2021. Law and Economics:
History, Institutions, Public Policies*

The 18th Annual STOREP Conference
<http://www.storep.org/wp/18th-annual-storep-online-conference-17-18-june-2021/>
will be held online on June 17-18, 2021, (virtually) hosted by the
Università dell’Insubria, Dipartimento di Economia, Varese. The title of
the Conference is “Law and Economics: History, Institutions, Public
Policies”.

Katharina Pistor (Columbia Law School), a leading scholar on property
rights, comparative law and legal institutions, will join the conference as
the keynote speaker.

Steven Medema (Duke University), a renowned historian of economics whose
research focuses on the interplay between markets and government in the
history of economic ideas, will deliver the 5th “Raffaelli lecture”.



*Call for papers*

The expression “law and economics” refers to a large and diverse body of
ideas and research enterprises at the intersection between economic theory
and the analysis of law.

The name “law and economics” is usually associated with a research trend
that emerged in the 1960s within the Chicago School. This approach goes
from economics to law and consists of the use of economic analysis
(typically microeconomics) to predict the effects of legal rules and
evaluate them from the viewpoint of economic efficiency. The economic
analysis of law concerns not only legislation with immediate economic
relevance, such as antitrust and corporate law, but also legislation
regulating a large variety of non-market activities, such as family matters
and crime.

Another, much broader research line can be traced back to Adam Smith and
other classical economists. It concerns the analysis of the interplay
between government and other institutions with markets. This interplay has
been investigated from the viewpoint of economic theory, the history of
economic ideas, as well as by comparing the effect of different legal
systems and institutions on economic activity (comparative institutional
analysis).

A third research trend is more recent and goes from law to economics. This
trend explores how law shapes and codifies the building concepts of
economic analysis, such as the concept of capital, and what are the
economic effects of this legal coding, e.g., the effects of the legal
definition of capital on inequality.

The 2021 STOREP Annual Conference invites contributions exploring the
different dimensions of law and economics: its history, from the seminal
contributions of Aaron Director, Ronald Coase, Guido Calabresi, Richard
Posner and Gary Becker to more recent developments; the history of
antitrust and corporate law; the analysis of the interplay between
government, other legal institutions, and markets; comparative
institutional analysis and comparative political economy; the effects of
law-and-economics research in shaping economic policies, new legislation,
or court decisions; the legal coding of economic categories; the effects of
legal definitions on economic development, inequality and other major
economic phenomena.

As characteristic of STOREP, the conference aims to explore law and
economics relying on contributions from a variety of viewpoints: history of
economic thought and history of economics; economic history; mainstream,
non-orthodox, and heterodox theoretical approaches; multi- or
inter-disciplinary perspectives.

Proposals of papers in all fields adopting a historical perspective and/or
comparing different approaches to economic issues are also welcome.

STOREP warmly welcomes special sessions jointly organized with other
scientific associations, and invites these latter to submit proposals.

Now an established tradition, the 2021 STOREP Conference will jointly
organize initiatives and special sessions with the Institute for New
Economic Thinking, the “Young Scholars Initiative”, as well as with
students and researchers of the international network “Rethinking
Economics”.

Selected papers on the main topic of the conference will be considered for
publication in the *Review of Political Economy* and *Economia & Lavoro*.



*Proposals submission*

The deadline for abstract and session proposals is March 31, 2021.
Notification of accepted and rejected abstracts and sessions will be sent
by April 15, 2021.

Proposals must be uploaded on the Submission website
<https://editorialexpress.com/conference/STOREP2021> of the conference –
i.e. via web-based software “Conference maker“. To submit, please create an
account, by providing basic contact info and choosing a user ID/password.
If you signed up for a previous conference using Conference Maker, you can
login with your existing user ID and password.

Abstract proposals (with keywords, JEL codes, and affiliation) must not
exceed 400 words. Session proposals should include the abstract of the
three scheduled papers.



*Registration*

May 20, 2021: deadline for submitting full papers and for becoming Members.

There are no registration fees. All participants must become STOREP members
or renew their membership (instructions here
<http://www.storep.org/wp/en/iscrizione-allassociazione/>).



*Young Scholars STOREP Awards*

STOREP provides two Awards of 1000€ each (so as to make it possible to
reward both history-of-economic-thought articles and more policy-oriented
papers) for the best articles presented at the Annual Conference by young
scholars under 40 years of age. All applications, with CV and the final
version of the papers, should be sent to [log in to unmask] no later
than December 15, 2021. Only papers co-authored by no more than 2
researchers, who both meet the requirements for belonging to the “Young”
scholars, are eligible for the Award. Winning recipients of the award in
one of the three preceding rounds cannot apply. Papers must neither have
been published before nor be under review for publication in a scholarly
journal at the time of the conference.



*The conference is sponsored by:*

Università degli Studi dell’Insubria

Fondazione Giovanni Valcavi



*Organizing Committee*

Angela Ambrosino (Università di Torino)

Mario Cedrini (Università di Torino)

Ivan Moscati (Università dell’Insubria)

Luca Congiu (Università dell’Insubria)



*Scientific Committee*

Angela Ambrosino (Università di Torino)

Nicola Giocoli (Università di Pisa)

Ivan Moscati (Università dell’Insubria)

Antonella Palumbo (Università Roma Tre)

Antonella Stirati (Università Roma Tre)
Massimiliano Vatiero (Università di Trento e USI)


*Mario Cedrini*

*STOREP *Secretary
Associazione Italiana per la Storia dell'Economia Politica / Italian
Association for the History of Political Economy

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