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About 100 people gathered at the event sponsored by the HLS American Constitution Society to hear HLS Professors Jon Hanson, Morton Horwitz, Frank Michelman and Joseph Singer and Boston College Law Professor Kent Greenfield discuss what they saw as the political biases of law and economics and the different ways in which progressives can navigate them...
Responding to the panel’s title question, Hanson said, “Absolutely not...in the same sense that a flying fish is not an oxymoron...
...Hanson explained the metaphor by saying, “In the same way that fish were not built for flying, law and economics was not built to reach progressive conclusions...
...Hanson listed several biases that he said skew the practice of law and economics toward “pro-commercial, pro-corporate” interests because conservative ideas “are profitable and worth subsidizing” to those interest...
Despite that bias, Hanson said, it is still possible for law and economics theory to be used to reach progressive conclusions, in the same way as it is possible for fish to occasionally leap out of water and appear...