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
Powerpoint for Lecture | Video of Lecture | Flyer for Lecture
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
PowerPoint for Lecture |Video of Lecture| Flyer for Lecture
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
Powerpoint for Lecture |Video of Lecture| Flyer for Lecture
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