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: William Henderson of Indiana University; Jason Czarnezki of Vermont Law School; 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 • Blawg 100 • Economics
Recent Posts from Empirical Legal Studies
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Law School 4.0: Are Law Schools Relevant to the Future of Law?
Paul Lippe, a well-known Silicon Valley GC and founder of Legal OnRamp (LOR), recently posted an essay on the Am Law Daily that essentially argues that law schools, at least in their present form, are…
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Updated Judicial Common Space Scores
here. Courtesy of Profs. Lee Epstein, Andrew Martin, Jeff Segal, and Chad Westerland. JCS attempt to provide preference estimates for Supreme Court justices that are directly comparable to preference measures of Courts of Appeals judges,…
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The End of an Era: the Bi-Modal Distribution for the Class of 2008
NALP has just posted its entry-level starting salary for class of 2008--i.e., the lawyers who started their jobs just as Bear Sterns and Lehman Bros unraveled and the credit markets completely froze up. Of the…
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Dependent Data
A nice--albeit somewhat technical--paper (here) underscores an all-too common challenge in empirical legal studies: The perils of serial correlation and the threat it poses to independence assumptions in models. An excerpted abstract follows. "In a…
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ECJ Database
Alec Stone Sweet and Thomas Brunell have posted three data bases, on the activities of the European Court of Justice, and the adjudication of EU law, under Articles 226 (infringement proceedings - brought by the…
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Call For Papers: SELS 2009
The Fourth Annual Conference on Empirical Legal Studies will be held at the USC Gould School of Law in Los Angeles, California on Friday, November 20 and Saturday, November 21, 2009. The conference will feature…
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Northwestern Continues to Build Group of Empirical Scholars
To: The Northwestern Law Community From: David Van Zandt Re: Bernard Black and Katherine Litvak to Join Northwestern Law I am pleased to announce that Bernard Black and Katherine Litvak have accepted offers to join…
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Pace Environmental Law Review Announces Shift to Peer-Review
An Announcement from Pace: Established in 1982, PELR was one of the first scholarly environmental law journals. As of August 1, 2009, Pace Environmental Law Review (PELR) will use a new Peer Review process to…
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Call for Papers for "Law Firm Evolution: Brave New World or Business as Usual?"
[posted by Bill Henderson] The Center for the Study of the Legal Profession at Georgetown University Law Center has issued a call for paper for a March 2010 conference. The topic could not be more…
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When do Presidents Choose "Extreme" Nominees?
One of the questions being pondered this summer by the left side of the legal blogosphere is whether President Obama was wise to choose as his first Supreme Court nominee the apparently more cautious Sonia…