Events of Note

2025 Northwestern Main and Advanced Causal Inference Workshops

We are excited to be holding our 14th annual workshop on Research Design for Causal Inference at Northwestern Law School in Chicago, IL.   

Main Workshop: 
July 28 – August 1, 2025

Advanced Workshop: 
August 3-6, 2025

For information and to register, click here.

European Society for Empirical Legal Studies (ESELS) –
Annual Conference in Toulouse
(June 18-20, 2025)

Our call for submissions is out now (deadline February 15). We also have inspiring keynotes and pre-conference methods workshops.

CRN-54: Law, Society & Psychological Science

For more information, click here.

If you’d like to know more about the LSA and how you can participate in CRN-54
please contact Yael Granot, ygranot@smith.edu.

News & Announcements

Roseanna Sommers, Vanessa K. Bohns, “Consent searches and underestimation of compliance: Robustness to type of search, consequences of search, and demographic sample” JELS 21:1, Cornell Chronicle

John J. Donohue, “An Empirical Evaluation of the Connecticut Death Penalty System Since 1973: Are There Unlawful Racial, Gender, and Geographic Disparities?” JELS 11:4, Pagosa Daily Post

Andy Ye Yuan, Bernard Black, Timea Viragh, David J. Magid, Qian Luo, Ali Moghtaderi, “Effect of financial incentives on hospital-cardiologist integration and cardiac test location” JELS 20:3, Wall Street Journal

Jean Xiao, “Consumer Litigation Funding and Medical Malpractice Litigation: Examining the Effect of Rancman v. Interim Settlement Funding Corporation” JELS 14:4, JD Supra

Bruce D. Spencer, “Estimating the Accuracy of Jury Verdicts” JELS 4:2, Tampa Bay Times

Anna Effenberger, John H. Blume, Martin T. Wells, “Quantifying disparate questioning of Black and White jurors in capital jury selection” JELS 20:3, Cornell Chronicle

Paul J. Heald, “How Copyright Keeps Works Disappeared” JELS 11:4, CEPR

Conferences

The Nineteenth Annual Conference on Empirical Legal Studies will be held October 24-25, 2025 at Georgetown University Law Center in Washington, D.C.

For more information, click here.

2025 CELS Co-Presidents
David Hyman
Neel U. Sukhatme
Joshua C. Teitelbaum

ELS Blog

Current Issue

Volume 22, Issue 2
June 2025

“Hallucination-Free? Assessing the Reliability of Leading AI Legal Research Tools”
Varun Magesh, Faiz Surani, Matthew Dahl, Mirac Suzgun, Christopher D. Manning,
Daniel E. Ho

“Assessing the Conservative Nature of the Supreme Court of Japan via Ideal Point Estimation of Justices”
Hirofumi Miwa