The 13th Annual Conducting Empirical Legal Scholarship workshop will take place at the Washington University School of Law in St. Louis June 9 – 11, 2014.
The workshop is for law school faculty, political science faculty, and graduate students interested in learning about empirical research and how to evaluate empirical work. Leading empirical scholars Lee Epstein and Andrew Martin will teach the workshop, which provides the formal training necessary to design, conduct, and assess empirical studies, and to use statistical software (Stata) to analyze and manage data. Participants need no background or knowledge of statistics to enroll in the workshop.
Registration and payment should be received by May 30, 2014.
Lecture topics include research design, theory to observable implications, collecting data, sampling issues, measurement, database management, statistical software, statistical inference, cross-tabulations, and hypothesis testing. im
