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." These law professors are “data junkies” not likely to share an anecdote or a theory without a study to back it up. They find and dissect law-related studies that appear in both the mainstream media and legal scholarship, and they also provide details about upcoming conferences in their field.
Author: Among the authors are the following law professors: William Henderson of Indiana University; Jason Czarnezki of Vermont Law School, who also contributes to Vermont2China; Michael Heise and Theodore Eisenberg of Cornell; William Ford of the John Marshall Law School; 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 • John Marshall Law School • University of Minnesota • University of Texas • Vermont Law School • Law Professor • Economics
Recent Posts from Empirical Legal Studies
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Milestones
At some point today our blog will receive visitor number 500,000.
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Supreme Court Database Website
Good news -- the new NSF-funded Supreme Court Database Website is now up and running, and I can't imagine this won't make the database available to thousands more users via its easy-to-use interface. Not only…
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Call For Papers - LSA's Culture, Society, and Intellectual Property CRN
Below is a call for papers from the Culture, Society, and Intellectual Property CRN (Collaborative Research Network No. 14) of the Law and Society Association. The deadline for proposals is November 30, 2009, but earlier…
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Electing Judges
It seems everywhere I turn there is discussion of moving away from electing judges and toward merit selection systems, especially due to presumed negative effects of campaign contributions, and it made me wonder about the…
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Judicial Salaries: An Urgent Need Unmet
The federal judge for whom I clerked, The Honorable D. Brock Hornby, has written this article about federal judical salaries.
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More on Instrumental Variables
According to Richard Nielsen over at the Social Science Statistics Blog, a paper by Angus Deaton (Princeton--Econ.) attempts to: "(1) discount the usefulness of instrumental variables for making causal inferences in development economics and (2)…
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Very Helpful On-Line Resource
Hastie et al. The Elements of Statistical Learning in pdf (here). Brief description and commentary (here).
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Spotlighting Student Work: Lump Sum Settlements and "An Empty Statistic"
In recognition of the growing number of law and graduate students lurking on ELS Blog and in an effort to promote and grow the empirical legal studies field, the ELS Blog editors periodically spotlight promising…
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Atkins' Influence on Death Row Litigation
The Supreme Court's 2002 Atkins decision raised interesting questions amenable to empirical analysis. In An Empirical Look at Atkins vs. Virginia and its Application in Capital Cases, Cornell colleagues (and leading death penalty defense attorneys)…
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Bias in Spaeth Data?
With a hat tip to the Monkey Cage, I thought folks might be interested in taking a look at this paper. I know my fellow editor Carolyn has done some research on the Spaeth data…