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Cursus: USEMMET
USEMMET
Methodologies of Law and Economics
Cursus informatie
CursuscodeUSEMMET
Studiepunten (EC)5
Cursusdoelen
Learning objectives
After this course, the student is able to:
•      Understand the fundamental differences of a legal and economic perspective on the problem of social organisation;
•      Identify the added value of both an integrated law and economic approach to the problem of social organisation;
•      Apply elementary statistical techniques to existing datasets and to make statistical inferences;
•      Understand basic theories and methods of legal and economic research;
•      Define an interdisciplinary law & economics research question with respect to a societal  problem.
Inhoud
The course ‘methodologies of Law and Economics’ begins with a series of workshops that are concerned with the actual methodologies that are employed within legal and economic approaches and develop specific methodological skills. Students will be able to immediately utilise these skills in the other courses during this term. Students will also become acquainted with fundamentals of applied research methods, including the structural elements of setting up economic experiments. Law students will be introduced to methods in economic analysis and research (will be taught basic game theory, statistical techniques, experimental design) to carry out empirical research. Economics students will be introduced to methods in legal analysis and research (reading and understanding case law, basic legal assessments and argumentation, advocacy).
 
The second part of the course consists of a series of ‘foundational’ sessions that introduce the students to fundamental legal and economic perspectives on the problem of social economic organisation (governance). The purpose of these sessions is to both highlight the potentially deep differences between a legal and an economic perspective and identify how and where a joint legal and economic perspective may be of added value. To do so we will (re)visit some of the fundamental legal and economic approaches and juxtapose the approaches in interactive sessions with the students. Eventually, students will be challenged to develop an interdisciplinary research question that integrates a legal and economic perspective on current governance challenges.

Format
Tutorials

Assessment method
Paper (50%, individual)
Practical assignment (50%, individual). This practical assignment differs for the two subgroups.

In case online access is required for this course and you are not in the position to buy the access code, you are advised to contact the course coordinator for an alternative solution. Please note that access codes are not re-usable meaning that codes from second hand books do not work, as well as access codes from books with a different ISBN number. Separate or spare codes are usually not available.
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