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) –
Annual Conference in Toulouse

The Conference Report is now available. For more information, click here.

European Society for Empirical Legal Studies (ESELS) –
Empirical Perspectives on European Law

January 22-23, 2026;
Umeå University, Sweden

Abstract Submission Deadline:
September 1, 2025

For more information, click here.

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

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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