Aron, Nan, Barbara Moulton, and Chris Owens. 1992-3. "Economics, Academia, and Corporate Money In America: The 'Law and Economics' Movement." Antitrust Law and Economics Review, 24: 4, pp. 27-42 23: Since 1988, the Olin Foundation alone has donated well over $13 million to further law and economics study. Marcus, Ruth. 1998. "Issues Groups Fund Seminars for Judges; Classes at Resorts Cover Property Rights." Washington Post (9 April): p. A 1. Federal judges are attending expenses-paid, five-day seminars on property rights and the environment at resorts in Montana, sessions underwritten by conservative foundations that are also funding a wave of litigation on those issues in the federal courts. Funding for the seminars, run by a group called the Foundation for Research on Economics and the Environment (FREE). A 1996 FREE list obtained by The Washington Post named 109 judges who have attended, and a listing of the four 1997 programs said one-third of the 900-member federal judiciary has attended or asked to enroll. Four more sessions, with 17 judges each, are scheduled for 1998. The Institute for Law and Economics at George Mason University Law School has for 24 years sponsored one- to two-week seminars for judges on law and economics, held at resorts in Arizona, California and Florida and funded by many of the same foundations that contribute to FREE. Nearly 40 percent of the federal judiciary have attended the seminars.
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