Events of Note

2026 Brazil Global Conference on Empirical Legal Studies

June 8–10, 2026, in São Paulo, Brazil

For more information, click here.

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

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

Conferences

2026 Annual Conference on Empirical Legal Studies (CELS)

Northwestern University Pritzker School of Law

October 2-3, 2026

Co-Presidents:
Stephanie Didwania, Kyle Rozema, and David Schwartz

Click here to view the conference website.

Call for Papers:
The paper submission deadline is June 12, 2026 (11:59 PM Central Daylight Time). There is no charge for submissions.

Click here to submit a paper. We welcome replication studies and papers that develop and demonstrate empirical methods.

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Current Issue

Volume 23, Issue 2
June 2026

“An Assessment of Racial Disparities in Pretrial Decision-Making Using Misclassification Models”
Kimberly A. Hochstedler Webb, Sarah A. Riley, Martin T. Wells

“Crime, Punishment, and Expectations”
Mohammad H. Rahmati, David A. Hyman