Category Archives: Empirical Legal Studies

Empirical Research Projects – Funding, Support

The Searle Civil Justice Institute (SCJI) at George Mason University School of Law is seeking proposals for empirical research projects that will result in publishable-quality and policy-relevant reports. The SCJI…

Capital Requirements for Financial Firms – Cleveland, OH

The Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland invites submissions for a two-day conference on issues related to capital requirements for financial firms, to be held in Cleveland, Ohio, on April 12-13,…

Call for Papers: Changing Faces in Legal Thinking: Revisiting Legal Methodologies – Ithaca, NY

The graduate students at Cornell University Law School will be hosting the Eighth Cornell Law School Inter-University Graduate Student Conference April 13 & 14th, 2012 in Ithaca, NY. The theme…

Sex Trafficking in the U.S.: Researching Vulnerable Populations – Corvallis, OR

Oregon State University hosts Sex Trafficking in the U.S.: Researching Vulnerable Populations 2012 Interdisciplinary Conference Feb. 17-18, 2012. A public lecture precedes the conference on Feb. 16. The deadline for…

Historicizing Routines – Wilmington, DE

The Center for the History of Business, Technology, and Society at the Hagley Museum and Library in Wilmington, Delaware and the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania present Historicizing…

Credit Scoring and Credit Reporting – Boston, MA

Suffolk Law School and the National Consumer Law Center are convening a Research Symposium on Credit Scoring and Credit Reporting in Boston on June 6-7, 2012. Paper proposals are due…

Conducting Empirical Legal Scholarship – Los Angeles, CA

The University of Southern California Law School will be hosting the 11th Annual Conducting Empirical Legal Scholarship Workshop on May 23 – 25, 2012. The workshop is for law school…

Sentencing – Portland, OR

The National Association of Sentencing Commissions holds its annual meeting July 31 – Aug. 2, 2011. Sessions include Restorative Justice, Cost-Benefit Analysis in Criminal Justice, Efforts to Control Prison Populations…

Forensic Inference Statistics – Seattle, WA

The University of Washington School of Law and the University of Washington Department of Biostatistics (School of Public Health) host the 8th International Conference on Forensic Inference Statistics July 18-21,…

Causal Inference Workshops – Chicago, IL

Northwestern Law School is holding two separate Causal Inference workshops this summer. The workshops are sponsored by Northwestern University, University of Southern California, and the Society for Empirical Legal Studies….