Robert D. Cooter Microsoft Award for scholarship on law and economics

The Microsoft Corporation has funded two research grants of $5,000 to be awarded to the authors of the best research papers presented by young scholars at the ALACDE conference in Brasilia in May 2007. The winners are obligated to use a fraction of the money to attend the annual meeting of ALACDE in May 2008. The remainder of the award should be used to support further academic research and writing. Applicants for the award must meet these restrictions:

• The applicant must be 45 years of age or under at the beginning of the ALACDE conference in Brasilia in 2007.
• The applicant must be a full-time or part-time professor in a university in a Latin American or Caribbean country who is actively engaged in scholarly research.
• The research topic must concern law and economics. Only original research conducted by the applicant will be considered. (A co-author may submit collaborative research, provided that he or she is as much or more integral to the research than the other co-authors.)
• Applicants must submit their research to the ALACDE meeting in Brasilia in 2007, and applicants must be selected to present their research at this meeting. According to ALACDE practice, submissions may be in Spanish, Portuguese, or English.
• The selection will be made by a small committee of scholars on the basis of the written submission and oral presentation at the ALACDE meeting in Brasilia in 2007. The awards committee is especially, but not exclusively, interested in papers on intellectual property and antitrust law.