The University of San Diego School of Law hosts the inaugural Law and PPE (Politics, Philosophy, and Economics) Workshop today (Friday, March 27, 2026). The workshop brings together legal scholars (including several tax professors) whose work treats philosophy and economics as complementary rather than competitive approaches to legal questions.

The program features five papers with paired discussants:

• Michael Gilbert (Virginia), “Distribution and Social Preferences,” with discussant Nicholas Almendares (Indiana)
• Brookes Brown (Toronto), “A New Framework for Fair Play: Beyond Acceptance, Benefit, and Predation,” with discussant Yuan Yuan (UC San Diego)
• Matthew Adler (Duke), “Prioritarianism, Animals, and Dual Aggregation,” with discussant Michael Livermore (Virginia)
• Prasad Krishnamurthy (Berkeley), “Forgiving Student Loans: Progressivity, Inequality, and Welfare,” with discussant Lewis Kornhauser (NYU)
• Miranda Fleischer (USD), “Equality of Opportunity and the Case for a Universal Child Allowance,” with discussant Alex Raskolnikov (Columbia)

The workshop is organized by Adam Kern (USD), Andrew Hayashi (Virginia), and Rebecca Stone (UCLA).