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''An SFI workshop sponsored by the Kauffman Foundation''

== Thursday, March 19 ==

'''Introduction'''

'''8:45-9:00'''		Introduction to SFI, Geoffrey West, (President and Distinguished Professor, Santa Fe Institute)

'''9:00-9:15''' 	Introduction Jenna Bednar (University of Michigan), David Krakauer (Santa Fe Institute), and Jessica Flack (Santa Fe Institute)

'''9:15-9:30'''       Welcome from Kauffman Foundation representatives


'''History and Complexity of Legal Systems'''

'''9:30-10:00''' 		Henry Wright (Santa Fe Institute/University of Michigan), TBA

'''10:15-10:45''' 		Dan Klerman (University of Southern California), ''Jurisdictional Competition and the Evolution of the Common Law''

'''10:45-11:00''' 		Coffee Break

'''11:00-11:30''' 		Daria Roithmayr (University of Southern California), ''Why Racial Inequality Persists: A Lock-In Model''

'''11:30 - 12:00''' 		Session Wrap-up & Discussion

'''12:00-1:00''' 		Lunch


'''Self Organizing Laws & Legal Evolution''' 

'''1:00-1:30''' 		Jenna Bednar (University of Michigan), ''The Interdependence of Rules: Institutional Path Dependence''

'''1:30-2:00''' 		Richard McAdams (University of Chicago), ''The Focal Point Theory of Law and the Co-Evolution of Law and Custom''

'''2:00-2:30'''		Break

'''2:30-3:00''' 		Daniel Katz (University of Michigan),'' The Emergence of Scaling, the Development of Community Structure and its Implications for the "Evolution" of the Common Law''

'''3:00-4:00'''		Session Wrap-up & Discussion


'''Cognitive and Biological Models'''

'''4:00-4:30''' 		Michael Gazzaniga (University of California-Santa Barbara), ''The MacArthur Foundation Program in Neuroscience and the Law''

'''4:30-5:00''' 		David Krakauer (Santa Fe Institute), ''TBA''

'''5:00-6:00''' 		Session Wrap-up & Discussion

'''7:00'''		Dinner at The Coyote Café, 132 W. Water Street (505) 983-1615



== Friday, March 20 ==

'''Regulation and Robustness'''

'''9:00-9:30am'''		Jessica Flack (Santa Fe Institute), ''Robustness Mechanisms and Conflict Management in Biological Systems''

'''9:30-10:00''' 		Eric Talley (University of California-Berkeley/Harvard University), ''On the Equilibrium of Law and Preferences''

'''10:00-10:30'''		Break

'''10:30-11:00''' 		Ronald Gilson (Stanford University), ''TBA''

'''11:00-11:30''' 		Marc Berejka  (Microsoft), ''Adaptive Regulation''

'''11:30-12:00'''		Session Wrap-up & Discussion

'''12:00-1:00'''	 	Lunch


'''Alternatives to Legal Order'''

'''1:00-1:30pm'''		John Clippinger (Harvard Law School), ''Interdisciplinary Concepts for Legal Systems''

'''1:30-2:00'''		Gillian Hadfield (University of Southern California), ''Can Simpler Law be Stable?''

'''2:00-2:30''' 		Coffee Break

'''2:30-3:00'''	 	Donald Wittman (University of California), ''Behavior When a Legal System is Either Absent or Costly: A Brief Introduction''

'''3:00-3:30'''	 	Session Wrap-up & Discussion

'''3:30-4:30'''	 	Dan Rockmore (Santa Fe Institute/Dartmouth College) and Kauffman representatives to offer wrap up on meeting

'''7:00'''			Dinner at Luminaria, 211 Old Santa Fe Trail (505) 984-7915