Events of Note

2026 Brazil Global Conference on Empirical Legal Studies

June 8–10, 2026, in São Paulo, Brazil

For more information, click here.

European Society for Empirical Legal Studies (ESELS) –

ESELS 2026 Conference Report

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 22, 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 3
September 2026

“Judicial Decision-Making in Free Exercise Cases: The Effect of Legal Standards, Judge Party, and Shared Religion”
Jonathan Hensley

“Sentencing in the Shadow of Promotion: The Impacts of Circuit Court Nomination on Federal Judges”
Nicholas Goldrosen