This weekend was the annual meeting of the American Law & Economics Association (ALEA). It was a two-day conference at Harvard Law School, with five concurrent panels of three presenters for each time slot. Although the topics ranged from plea bargains to family law to referees in the NBA, there was almost always a bankruptcy or contracts panel taking place. (I knew I was on the right track because the sessions I wanted to see were all in the same room. I got to know Pound 102 quite well.)
I saw too many presentations to recount all of them, so I’ll summarize briefly three papers I think will be of particular interest to Credit Slips readers.