Christina Benson, business law professor in the Martha and Spencer Love School of Business, presented a paper at the Academy of Legal Studies in Business (ALSB) conference, held Aug. 4-8 in Denver. Benson’s paper, “US Automotive Industry Bailout Programs: Avoiding WTO Potholes on the Road to Economic Recovery,” is part of a larger project in which she is looking at how US stimulus and bailout programs include provisions that may violate the country’s commitments under World Trade Organization agreements, and whether or not aid to ailing US industries is likely to succeed in making them more globally competitive. Benson’s paper will be published in the 2009 ALSB proceedings.