040612 SE Recent Developments in the Economics of Public Law (MA) (2014S)

4.00 ECTS (2.00 SWS), SPL 4 - Wirtschaftswissenschaften

Continuous assessment of course work

Seminar im Programm "European Master of Law and Economics" unter ERASMUS MUNDUS. Teilnehmer der Universität wien müssen die Vorlesung und das PS REcht und Ökonomie im wintersemester erfolgreich besucht haben.
Interessierte Studierende wenden sich bitte an Prof. Wolfgang Weigel

Registration/Deregistration

Note: The time of your registration within the registration period has no effect on the allocation of places (no first come, first served).

Registration is open from Mo 17.02.2014 09:00 to Tu 25.02.2014 16:00
Deregistration possible until Fr 14.03.2014 23:59

Details

max. 10 participants

Language: English

Lecturers

Classes (iCal) - next class is marked with N

Thursday 26.06. 14:30 - 17:30 Seminarraum 3 Oskar-Morgenstern-Platz 1 1.Stock

Information

Aims, contents and method of the course

Together with Professor DDr.Peter Lewisch, Department of Criminal Law, Faculty of Law

Preliminary: Being part of the ERASMUS MUNDUS Program European Master of Law and Economics-EMLE this seminar will start after the arrival of the students after Easter.

This Seminar will deal with selected topics which are presented by guest speakers as well as heads of the seminar. Among them are the benefits of labor market regulation, the failures of the Coase theorem in practice, the emergence of behavioral law and economics, the economics of aided suicide.
Students will be invited to write comments on presentations of their choice

Assessment and permitted materials

One written comment on one of the papers
Presetation of core ideas of master thesis
Bonus points for active participation

Minimum requirements and assessment criteria

Students will become familiar with scholarly work and state of the art research so that they can see the applicability and flexibility of the law and economics approach for analysis. Moreover they also improve their critical perception of the approach.
Towards the end of the seminar students are themselves asked to proof their skills by presenting the core ideas of their master theses

Examination topics

Lectures and discussions during seminar sessions, writing comments and presenting own research

Reading list

To be circulated in March

Association in the course directory

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