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Conference Announcement: Empirical Legal Studies at Cornell

By Lawrence Solum

Third Annual Conference on Empirical Legal Studies at Cornell
Cornell Law School
12-13 September 2008
Announcement & Call for Papers (Submission Deadline: 15 April 2008)

The Third Annual Conference on Empirical Legal Studies will be held at the Cornell Law School in Ithaca, New York on Friday, September 12 and Saturday, September 13, 2008. The meeting is the annual conference for the newly-created Society for Empirical Legal Studies (SELS). It will feature original empirical and experimental legal scholarship by leading scholars from a diverse range of fields.

The conference's objectives are: (i) to encourage and develop empirical and experimental scholarship on legal issues by providing scholars with an opportunity to present and discuss their work with an interdisciplinary group of people interested in the empirical study of law; and (ii) to stimulate ongoing conversations among scholars in law, economics, political science, demographics, finance, psychology, sociology, and other disciplines. The conference's audience will include paper presenters, commentators, and other attendees, and will include many of the nation's leading empirical legal scholars. The goal is productive discourse on both particular papers and appropriate methodologies. We especially encourage submissions from junior scholars. We welcome submissions of papers in all areas of empirical and experimental legal scholarship. You are welcome to register for and attend the conference whether or not you submit a paper and whether or not your paper is accepted.

This year's conference is jointly organized by Cornell Law School, NYU School of Law and the University of Texas School of Law. Valerie Hans (Cornell) chairs this year's conference Organizing Committee, which includes Jennifer Arlen (NYU), Bernard Black (Texas), Theodore Eisenberg (Cornell), Gillian Hadfield (USC), Michael Heise (Cornell), Geoffrey Miller (NYU), and Matthew Spitzer (USC).

Comprehensive information about the conference -- including information about registration, paper submission, conference schedule, travel, and hotels -- is available at: http://www.lawschool.cornell.edu/cels2008/

Full post as published by Legal Theory Blog on February 25, 2008 (boomark / email).