Events of Note

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

The Nineteenth Annual Conference on Empirical Legal Studies will be held October 24-25, 2025 at Georgetown University Law Center in Washington, D.C.

For more information, click here (coming soon).

2025 CELS Co-Presidents
David Hyman
Neel U. Sukhatme
Joshua C. Teitelbaum

ELS Blog

Current Issue

Volume 21, Issue 4
December 2024

“Paying for performance? Attorneys’ fees in fraud class actions”
Stephen J. Choi, Jessica M. Erickson, A. C. Pritchard

“The limits of diplomacy by treaty: Evidence from China’s
bilateral investment treaty program”
Adam Chilton, Weijia Rao