JFLA – Journal of Law, Finance and Accounting (June 23-24, 2026)
Conference Announcement and Call for Paper
JUNE 23 & 24, 2026
UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA
The Journal of Law, Finance, and Accounting (JLFA) is pleased to announce that its 12th conference will be held at the University of Padova (Padova, ITALY) on Tuesday, June 23, and Wednesday, June 24, 2026. The conference is hosted by the Department of Economics and Management (University of Padova), the Faculty of Economics and Management (Free University of Bolzano) the NYU Stern School of Business and the Northwestern Pritzker School of Law.
ABOUT JLFA
JLFA is an interdisciplinary journal sponsored by the Stern School of Business at NYU and the NYU School of Law. It seeks to publish top-quality empirical, theoretical, and policy-oriented scholarship at the intersection of law, finance, and accounting. JLFA is an open-access publication. Articles published on JLFA can be downloaded free of charge from www.jlfaonline.com.
PAPER SUBMISSION PROCEDURE
You are invited to submit original, unpublished papers, not under review elsewhere, for presentation at the conference. Accepted articles will be eligible for expedited review and consideration for publication in JLFA. When choosing papers for presentation at the conference, we will prioritize papers the authors wish to submit to JLFA for consideration for publication. The decision to publish is at the discretion of the editors.
The deadline for submission is Tuesday, April 7, 2026. Please submit papers at the following link and email sara.longo@unibz.it and jr7@stern.nyu.edu
TOPICS
We are interested in research that will be of interest to scholars in more than one of our core disciplines. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
1. The impact of the structure of the legal system, including legal origins, rules, and the legal environment in general, on the evolution of financial contracts, markets, business enterprises, and groups.
2. The impact of legal and market institutions, including accounting, on financial markets and corporate actions, innovation, economic growth, and stability.
3. The coevolution of the legal rules and market institutions that govern financial sector activity, that activity itself, and the nature of the broader economy and financial markets.
4. The regulation, organization, and performance of financial institutions.
5. The relationships between the structure and performance of financial institutions, the performance of these institutions, and the overall performance of financial markets and economies.
6. The interplay between legal rules, accounting regulations, corporate governance, firm performance, cost of equity and debt capital, financial market performance, and economic performance.
7. The political economy of regulation of corporate governance, financial institutions, and financial markets.
THE JFLA EXECUTIVE EDITORS JLFA
Viral Acharya | NYU Stern School of Business
Barry Adler | NYU School of Law
John Armour | Oxford, Law Faculty and Said School of Business
Bernard Black | Northwestern Law School & Kellogg School of Management
Mark DeFond | University of Southern California
Joshua Ronen | NYU Stern School of Business
Stefano Rossi | Bocconi University
SUBMISSION & REGISTRATION INFO
Date of JLFA Conference: June 23-24, 2026
Venue: University of Padua (Padova, Italy)
Deadline Submission of Papers: April 7, 2026
Notification of Acceptance: May 1, 2026
Registration Deadline: June 1, 2026
Applications website: link
Website: http://bzpd-summercamp.events.unibz.it/
THE ORGANIZING COMMITTEE
For questions about the submission process or substantive issues, please get in touch with any organizing committee member.
Amedeo Pugliese | Università degli Studi di Padova (amedeo.pugliese@unipd.it)
Bernard Black | Northwestern University (bblack@kellogg.northwestern.edu)
Camilla Ciappei | Università degli Studi di Padova (camilla.ciappei@unipd.it)
Joshua Ronen | NYU Stern School of Business (jr7@stern.nyu.edu)
Massimiliano Bonacchi | Free University of Bozen-Bolzano (massimiliano.bonacchi@unibz.it)
Marco Ghitti | Università degli Studi di Padova (marco.ghitti@unipd.it)
Sara Longo | Free University of Bozen-Bolzano (sara.longo@unibz.it)