The Annual Conference of the Italian Society for Law and Economics (ISLE)

Abstract

The Italian Society for Law and Economics (ISLE), which is one of the largest associations worldwide investigating this field of research, gathered delegates from various countries for its annual conference held on 13-15 December 2018 at the University of Salento (Lecce, Italy). This short report, included in the JEOD “Conference letter” section, pinpoints and briefly illustrates the most treated topics amongst the 75 paper presentations. These included regulation, with special attention to procurement, crowdfunding and community-driven regulation, labour markets and migration. In addition, the conference letter provides a detailed overview of the three keynote speeches that enriched the conference program and that investigated the topics of ethical behaviour, evolution of institutions as well as meritocracy and distributive inequity.