2025 EALE General Assembly

[EALE announcements]

Dear EALE friends and colleagues,

 

Let me remind you that the next General Assembly of our association will take place on: 

Friday 19 September, 2025 in the afternoon

during our annual conference. 

 

All conference participants are members of the EALE Association and are all kindly invited to participate in the General Assembly.

 

Agenda 

 

Election of two new board members.

 

As announced, Rosa Ferrer will be stepping down from the Board of the Association this year after completing her second term. Josh Teitelbaum is concluding his first term on the Board.

 

Regarding the two open positions, the Board is pleased to nominate Josh Teitelbaum for a second term (2025–2028). Josh is a professor of law at Georgetown University and currently serves as Interim Dean of the Law Center. Throughout his first term, he has been a highly engaged and effective member of the Board. Given his strong contributions and continued commitment, the Board unanimously and enthusiastically supports his re-election.
More information about Josh Teitelbaum can be found on his website:

https://www.law.georgetown.edu/faculty/joshua-c-teitelbaum/

 

The Board is also pleased to nominate Samantha Bielen, Associate Professor at the University of Hasselt. Samantha is an accomplished scholar with an extensive publication record in law and economics, health economics, and criminal justice. In addition to her academic expertise, she brings valuable practical insight and a strong connection to Belgium, where the association is incorporated. The Board is therefore highly supportive of her candidacy.

More information about Samantha Bielen can be found on her website:

https://www.uhasselt.be/en/who-is-who/samantha-bielen

 

If any other EALE member would like to be candidate for the next election, please send me an email (secr...@eale.org) before August 30^th, 2025.

 

 Other items of the general assembly:

• Financial situation of the association
• Legal situation of the association under Belgian law (in particular, the new 2019 Companies and Association code, https://legislation.coop/sites/default/files/2022-11/Belgium_law.pdf)

• Changes to EALE bylaws (to be circulated in due time)

• Next conference(s)

• Other question(s) from the assembly

 

On behalf of the board, we look forward to seeing you in Oslo,

Adi Leibovitch

EALE General Secretary

 

[Giuseppe Di Vita]

Dear EALE friends and colleagues,

please find enclosed the following call for papers 

 

 

 21st Annual Conference (2025) of the Italian Society of Law and Economics

https://www.side-isle.it

University of Catania

Dipartimento di Economia e Impresa

Palazzo delle Scienze

Corso Italia 55 - Catania

 

Submission deadline: September 15, 2025

 

Catania, Italy, 11–13 December 2025

 

 

Applicants can submit either full papers or long abstracts (around 1,000 words). Please login to the members’ area: https://www.side-isle.it/login

The SIDE Conference aims to provide a forum for developing, discussing, and disseminating studies on any topic regarding the Law and Economics (JEL Code: K).

Main topic areas are: Administrative Law and Regulated Industries; Antitrust and Competition Law; Bankruptcy Law, Business Law, Theory of the Firm, Corporate Governance; Behavioural L&E; Comparative L&E, with specific reference to both qualitative and quantitative approaches; Constitutional L&E, Public Choice, Public Finance, and Tax Law; Contracts; Criminal L&E; Economics of Social Norms; Employment Law, Labour Law; Environmental Law; Experimental L&E; Health Law (including Public Health) and Insurance Law; Inequality, Social Justice and Human Rights Law; Intellectual Property, Cyber law and Privacy; International L&E; Judicial Behaviour and Legal Profession; L&E of Non-Profit Organizations; Law and Finance; Litigation Process and Law Enforcement; Philosophical and Methodological Foundations of L&E (including History of Thought); Property Law; Torts; Transaction Cost Economics, and Economics of Institutions; Varieties of Capitalism.

The set-up of the conference is highly interdisciplinary and open to all rigorous scientific methodologies. Moreover, the SIDE conference wants to encourage young scholars’ contributions and consolidate relationships among European centres of Law and Economics.

Keynote speakers are:

o Francesco Parisi (University of Minnesota & University of Bologna)

o Paige Marta Skiba (Vanderbilt University)

Two selected papers may appear in a special issue of the European Journal of Law and Economics (https://link.springer.com/journal/10657).

In the submission form, you will be asked to indicate whether you are eligible for the 2025 Brenno Galli Award for best young scholar”. To qualify for the award, the presenter must have obtained her/his PhD not earlier than December 2023.

Conference fees, including SIDE membership and social dinner are:

1. Student fee*: €100
2. Regular fee (until October 30, 2025): €180.
3. Regular fee (after October 30, 2025): €220.

 

* Doctoral student and post-docs without a tenure or tenure-track position.

 

Summary of important dates:

1. Submission deadline: September 15, 2025. Please login to the members’ area to submit a paper or an abstract (https://www.side-isle.it/login).
2. Communication of acceptance: September 30, 2025 (expected).
3. Early-bird fee deadline: October 30, 2025.
4. Registration deadline: November 30, 2025.
5. Conference dates: December 11-13, 2025.

 

Scientific committee: Roberto Cellini (Dipartimento Economia e Impresa, Università degli Studi di Catania), Giuseppe Di Vita (Dipartimento Economia e Impresa, Università degli Studi di Catania), Alessandro Melcarne (EconomiX, Université Paris Nanterre), Giovanni Ramello (Dipartimento di Economia e Statistica, Università di Torino)

Local organizing committee: Giuseppe Di Vita (Dipartimento Economia e Impresa, Università degli Studi di Catania), Paolo Lorenzo Ferrara (Dipartimento di Economia, Università degli Studi di Pescara "G. d'Annunzio" of Chieti-Pescara, Alessandra Patti (Dipartimento Economia e Impresa, Università degli Studi di Catania).

SIDE Board: Giuseppe Bellantuono (Università di Trento), Filippo Belloc (Università di Siena), Giuseppe di Vita (Università di Catania), Marco Faillo (Università di Trento), Massimiliano Granieri (Università di Brescia), Roberta Lombardi (Università del Piemonte Orientale), Maria Rosaria Maugeri (Università di Catania), Stefania Ottone (Università di Torino), Giovanni Ramello (Università di Torino) and Giovanni Tuzet (Università “L. Bocconi”).

President: Giovanni Ramello (Università di Torino);

Secretary: Alessandro Melcarne (Université Paris Nanterre); Treasurer: Maurizio Lisciandra (Università LUMSA).

Further info: segre...@side-isle.it

 

Prof. Giuseppe Di Vita

 

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Dr. Giuseppe Di Vita

Full Professor in Economics

University of Catania

Department of Economics and Business

Corso Italia n. 55

95129 Catania

Italy

E-mail: gdi...@lex.unict.it