Events of Note

Asian Law and Society Association (ALSA) Distinguished Article Award 2025

Winner: Ching-fang Hsu, Ivan Kan-hsueh Chiang, and Yun-chien Chang, Lawyers’ Legal Aid Participation: A Qualitative and Quantitative Analysis, Journal of Empirical Legal Studies 21(2)

European Society for Empirical Legal Studies (ESELS) –

ESELS Annual Conference

June 18-19, 2026 in Ljubljana, Slovenia

Call for submissions: click here.

Deadline: Feb 15, 2026

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

Marc Galanter, “The Vanishing Trial: An Examination of Trials and Related Matters in Federal and State Courts” JELS 1:3, New Jersey Law Journal

Varun Magesh, et al., “Hallucination-Free? Assessing the Reliability of Leading AI Legal Research Tools” JELS 22:2, FedScoop

Cree Jones, Preston Lloyd, “Killing as Capital: Perverse Effects of Truce Negotiations on Gang Violence in El Salvador” JELS 22:1, Insight Crime

John J. Donohue, “Right-to-Carry Laws and Violent Crime: A Comprehensive Assessment Using Panel Data and a State-Level Synthetic Control Analysis” JELS 16:2, HuffPost

Varun Magesh, et al., “Hallucination-Free? Assessing the Reliability of Leading AI Legal Research Tools” JELS 22:2, Stanford Law School Podcasts

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

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

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Volume 22, Issue 4
December 2025

“No Adjudication”
Charlotte S. Alexander, Nathan Dahlberg, Alexandra D. Lahav, Peter Siegelman

“Chapter 13 Outcomes”
Richard M. Hynes, Nathaniel Pattison