Lowell Milken Institute Sponsors Tax Policy and Public Finance Colloquium duRing the SPRing SeMeSteR, the Lowell Milken Institute for Business Law and Policy sponsored the Tax Policy and Public Finance Colloquium, a series of seminars on a variety of tax-related topics ranging from how tax models work to how to modernize the property tax. This year’s speakers included: Joshua D. Blank, New York University School of Law; Itai Grinberg, Georgetown Law Center; Mitchell Kane, New York University School of Law; Sarah Lawsky, UC Irvine School of Law; Yair Listokin, Yale Law School; Roberta Mann, University of Oregon Law School; Day Manoli, UCLA Department of Economics; Alex Raskolnikov, Columbia Law School; Darien Shanske, UC Hastings College of the Law; and Nancy Staudt, USC Gould School of Law. Professors Jason Oh and Jason Oh
Kirk Stark
Kirk Stark organized the series.
Workshops Address Topics in Law and Economics the loWell Milken inStitute foR buSineSS laW and Policy, along with the law school’s Center for Law and Economics, sponsored a series of seminars at which speakers presented their works-in-progress in the broad area of law and economics. Workshop topics ranged from an analysis of civil versus common law notions of property to the economic impacts of eminent domain. This year’s speakers included: Ronen Avraham, University of Texas at Austin School of Law; Daniel Chen, ETH Zurich; Zev Eigen, Northwestern University School of Law; Christoph Engel, Max-Planck-Institute for the Research on Collective Goods; Ezra Friedman, Northwestern University School of Law; Fernando Gomez, New York University School of Law and Universitat Pompeu Fabra; Allison Hoffman, UCLA School of Law; Richard Holden, University of New South Wales; Claudia Landeo, Yale Law School; Jonathan Masur, University of Chicago Law School; Justin McCrary, UC Berkeley School of Law; Robert E. Scott, Columbia Law School; Henry Smith, Harvard Law School; and Eric Talley, UC Berkeley School of Law. The workshops are organized by UCLA Law Professors Mark Grady and Alexander Stremitzer.
Mark Grady
UCLA Law Hosts Regional Round of National Negotiation Competition in febRuaRy, the law school hosted the Western Regional Round of the Fourth Annual Transactional LawMeetSM, the premier “moot court” experience for students interested in transactional practice. Two teams of UCLA Law students represented the law school, and Rodrigo Bustamante ’13, John de Perczel ’14 and Naoko Watanabe ’14 won Best Draft on behalf of Butler Diagnostics, one of the partners to the mock negotiation. The competition requires students to work in teams to draft a transactional agreement and to negotiate its provisions with other student teams. Teams are judged by a panel of experts from practice, and this year’s challenge involved the negotiation of an amendment to a Stock Purchase Agreement to address adverse events that occurred subsequent to the execution of the agreement. Teams represented either Butler Diagnostics or American Medical Laboratories. While the competition is in its fourth year, this was the second year that regional meets were held. The UCLA Law meet hosted teams from nine other law schools including UC Davis, the University of Colorado, the University of Southern California and the University of Washington.
Alexander Stremitzer
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