2024 LEET Symposium presents: Relational Contracting in the New Industrial Policy

Add to Calendar: Add to Calendar: 2024-11-08 08:30:00 2024-11-08 16:00:00 2024 LEET Symposium presents: Relational Contracting in the New Industrial Policy Event Description We are delighted that Professor Matthew Jennejohn will be our keynote speaker. Jennejohn’s scholarship focuses on the impact of institutions on economic growth, with particular attention to “building equitable institutions for a complex economy.” He is currently the Deputy Director of Strategy in the Office of Strategic Capital at the U.S. Department of Defense, an analyst at Johns Hopkins University’s Applied Physics Laboratory, and the Marion and Rulon Earl Professor of Law at BYU Law School. Earlier, he was the Justin W. D'Atri Visiting Professor of Law, Business & Society at Columbia Law School (Autumn 2019), practiced for five years at Shearman & Sterling in New York, and clerked for (then) Vice Chancellor Leo Strine of the Delaware Court of Chancery. He is a graduate of Columbia Law School, the London School of Economics and Brigham Young University, and grew up attending public schools in Dousman, Wisconsin.   Invited speakers include:   Susan Helper, Case Western Reserve University Economics   Liza Vertinsky, University of Maryland Law School  Lisa Bernstein, University of Chicago Law School  Peter Lee, UC Davis School of Law  Geerte Hessen Amsterdam, General Counsel Lumicks Amsterdam Jorge Contreras, University of Utah School of Law  Josh Whitford, Columbia University Juliet Kostritsky, Case Western Reserve University School of Law John Murray, Associate General Counsel at AbbVie   The 20th century has witnessed the de-verticalization of production and the rise of collaborative agreements in both the biopharma and manufacturing sectors. Prior scholarship has led to a rich inquiry into these collaborations with different explanations for their governance and contracts. Some highlight the agreements for their ability to build trust. Others emphasize the ability of these agreements to bring the efficient benefits of a hierarchy to agreements between firms. Still others rationalize the agreements as a mechanism for institutionalizing learning. This symposium will bring together many of the key scholars in the field to address network contracts and new governance strategies for the innovation sphere. It will also examine network failures.    The 2024 Leet Symposium will be an in-person, all-day symposium for all of the speakers. It will be wonderful to have collegial exchanges over these papers and to continue our conversations over dinner. Non-speakers may be able to attend in person or by live-streaming YouTube, link to be made available the day of the event.  Additional Information Case Western Reserve University School of Law George Gund Hall Room A59, Moot Courtroom 11075 East Blvd., Cleveland, OH 44106 School of Law School of Law America/New_York public