Empirical Legal Studies
"The ELS blog serves as an online forum to discuss and provide links for emerging empirical legal scholarship, provide conference updates, discuss empirical claims that have emerged in public and political discourse, facilitate discussion for guest empirical scholars and assess current empirical findings and methodologies."
Author: Among the authors are the following law professors: Jason Czarnezki of Marquette University; Michael Heise and Theodore Eisenberg of Cornell; William Ford of the University of Chicago; William Henderson of Indiana University; Frank Cross of the University of Texas; David Stras of the University of Minnesota, who also contributes to SCOTUSblog; and Carolyn Shapiro of Chicago-Kent College of Law.
Blawg Related Categories: Law Professors • Legal Theory • Cornell Law School • Illinois Institute of Technology Chicago-Kent College of Law • Indiana University-Bloomington • Marquette University • University of Chicago • University of Minnesota • University of Texas • Law Professor • Economics
Recent Posts from Empirical Legal Studies
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NU Law 2-Year JD Program, Revisited
Over at Leiter's Law School Reports, Brian Leiter has written up a detailed analysis of NU Law's new 2-year JD program. The post includes a link to my earlier lengthy post on the same topic,…
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First International Conference on Empirical Studies of Judicial Systems
Empirical legal studies' influence continues to grow worldwide. The Journal of Empirical Legal Studies and Institutum Jurisprudentiae, a branch of the Academia Sinica, cosponsored the First International Conference on Empirical Studies of Judicial Systems (for…
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Barnett on Heller & Method
Randy Barnett argued in Friday's Wall Street Journal* that District of Columbia v. Heller teaches the importance of interpretive philosophy or method in judicial decision-making and the importance of selecting judges who have the right…
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Network Analysis of Law Clerks and Judges
Over the next couple of weeks I plan to blog about some new research, with a particular focus on unusual techniques or interesting research questions. Several of the research projects I will discuss came to…
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Empirical Literature on Punitive Damages Cited in the Exxon Case
Today’s Supreme Court decision in the Exxon case relies heavily upon the empirical literature to punitive damages to evaluate the availability and scope of punitive damage awards under maritime law. See footnote 13 (citing several…
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Poster Presentation at 2009 AALS Annual Meeting
June 24, 2008 MEMORANDUM To: Law Teachers From: Jane M. La Barbera Re: Poster Presentation at 2009 AALS Annual Meeting You are invited to submit a proposal of a poster presentation for the 2009 AALS…
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NWU Law's 2-Year JD: An Analysis
The blogosphere is abuzz with the announcement of NWU's 2-Year JD (Paul Caron collects relevant links here; the W$J Law Blog also has a post; and Gordon Smith (BYU Law, Conglomerate) just endorsed the move).…
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JELS 5:2 (June 2008)
On behalf of the editors I am pleased to announce that Journal of Empirical Legal Studies (JELS) subscribers (individual or institutional) should have received (or will soon receive) Vol.5, No.2 (June 2008). This issue features…
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ABA's Litigation Research Fund -- RFP
Bruce Green (Fordham) asked that I pass along the following information on a source of funding for relevant research. Note that the description evidences a preference for empirical projects. "The ABA Section of Litigation invites…
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What Not To Do, Part II: Stars...
Natural and social scientists have long had a practice of using asterisks ("stars") to indicate statistical significance in tables. I'll leave aside (for now) the question of whether this is a good practice or a…