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

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 Gotham News, Buzz Feed News, Washington Post, Seattle Times

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

“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
March 18-19, 2022

More information about CELS 2021 here

ELS Blog

Journal of Empirical Legal Studies

Current Issue

Volume 18, Issue 2

June 2021

Featured Articles

“Who Votes Without Identification? Using Individual-Level Administrative Data to Measure the Burden of Strict Voter Identification Laws” by Phoebe Henninger, Marc Meredith, and Michael Morse

“Is “Not Guilty” the Same as “Innocent”? Evidence from SEC Financial Fraud Investigations” by David H. Solomon and Eugene Soltes