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Monday, October 28, 2024

Call For Papers: The Law And Economics Of Wealth Management And Transmission

Call For Papers

Call for papersThe Global Wealth Management Project at George Mason University Antonin Scalia Law School is delighted to announce the receipt of a grant from the American College of Trust and Estate Counsel (ACTEC) Foundation to host a one-day academic symposium on Friday September 26, 2025, on the theme "The Law and Economics of Wealth Management and Transmission." Here is the symposium description:

The symposium theme is "The Law and Economics of Wealth Management and Transmission."  The theme is deliberately broad. First, law and economics refers to the economic analysis of law in its widest sense. It embraces positive and normative approaches as well as rational-choice and behavioral approaches. 

Much scholarship in law and economics examines the effect of legal rules on behavior, yet law and economics also includes the study of the political economy of legislation and legislative processes, as well as the study of law and finance. For purposes of this symposium, law and economics is a large tent. The symposium is open to many different kinds of scholarly research at the intersection of economics and law, including theoretical papers, case studies, empirical analyses, and experimental investigations.

Second, wealth management and transmission encompasses all aspects of the management and gratuitous transfer of property. This includes topics in the law of probate and nonprobate transfers (including the law governing pensions and life insurance), the law of trusts, the law of philanthropy, elder law, and relevant tax law. All such topics are welcome.

The symposium will be held in person at the Antonin Scalia Law School in Arlington, Virginia.  We do not plan a Zoom option.

The keynote address will be given by Professor James R. Hines Jr., the L. Hart Wright Collegiate Professor of Law and the Richard A. Musgrave Collegiate Professor of Economics at the University of Michigan. He is a past president of the American Law and Economics Association.

The symposium papers and the keynote address/paper will be published in the George Mason Law Review. Papers will have a word limit of 10,000 words including footnotes. Drafts of the papers will be due the first week in September 2025.

The ACTEC grant provides reimbursement for the speakers' round-trip economy airfare, ground transportation, and meals. Lunch will be provided at the symposium, and there will be a symposium dinner for the speakers, likely the evening before. If a paper is co-authored, the ACTEC grant will reimburse expenses for one of the authors.

If you would like to present a paper at the symposium, please send a proposed title and brief abstract to Thomas Gallanis by this December 15.

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