Events of Note

2021 CELS-Asia

December 11-13, 2021
Hosted by Academia Sinica
Taipei, Taiwan
More information here
Endogenous Rules, Risk & Legal Institutions Workshop

2022 CELS-Europe

Date TBA
University of Oslo
Hosted by the Forum for Law and Social Science, University of Oslo
Paper submission deadline TBA

News & Announcements

Jean Braucher, Dov Cohen, Robert M. Lawless, “Race, Attorney Influence, and Bankruptcy Chapter Choice” in Forbes

Best Law and Courts American Political Science Association Journal Article
Legal Uniformity in American Courts
Deborah Beim and Kelly Rader

SELS Open Letter to USN&W Reports on Proposed New Ranking Method

Journal Rankings: Google Scholar and Washington and Lee comparison may be found here. ABDC 2019 Journal Quality List A* ranking may be found here. 

Anu Bradford, Adam Chilton, Katerina Linos, and Alexander Weaver, “The Global Dominance of European Competition Law Over American Antitrust Law” in Reuters

John Donohue, Abhay Aneja, and Kyle Weber, “Right-to-Carry Laws and Violent Crime: A Comprehensive Assessment Using Panel Data and a State-Level Synthetic Control Analysis” JELS 16:2 Buzz Feed News

“Judicial Retirements and the Staying Power of U.S. Supreme Court Decisions” by Stuart Minor Benjamin and Georg Vanberg, JELS 13:1 in the Boston Globe, Washington Post

Conferences

RESCHEDULED
Conference on Empirical Legal Studies (CELS)
University of Toronto Law School
Rescheduled for fall 2021
Dates coming soon

More information about CELS 2021 here

ELS Blog

Journal of Empirical Legal Studies

Current Issue

Volume 17, Issue 4

December 2020

Featured Articles

“Filibuster Change and Judicial Appointments” by Jonathan Remy Nash and Joanna Shepherd

“Copyright and Economic Viability: Evidence from the Music Industry” by Kristelia Garcia, James Hicks, and Justin McCrary