REMINDER 21st Annual Conference (2025) of the Italian Society of Law and Economics - Extended deadline

[Alessandro Melcarne]

Dear EALE friends and colleagues,

Please find below 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 30, 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 30, 2025. Please login to the members’ area to submit a paper or an abstract (https://www.side-isle.it/login).
2. Communication of acceptance: October 15, 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 (Dipartimento di Diritto Privato e Critica del Diritto, Università di Padova), 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 (Università di Padova); 

Treasurer: Maurizio Lisciandra (Università LUMSA).

Further info: segre...@side-isle.it

Alessandro Melcarne

SIDE's Secretary