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Conference Announcement: CELS at USC

By Lawrence Solum

Fourth Annual Conference on Empirical Legal Studies
USC Gould School of Law
November 20 & 21, 2009
Call for Papers (Submission Deadline: 15 July 2009)

The Fourth Annual Conference on Empirical Legal Studies will be held at the USC Gould School of Law in Los Angeles, California on Friday, November 20 and Saturday, November 21, 2009. The meeting is the annual conference of the Society for Empirical Legal Studies (SELS). It will feature original empirical and experimental legal scholarship by leading scholars from diverse fields.

Papers for the conference should be submitted no later than July 15, 2009. Information and instructions on how to submit a paper online are available at: http://law.usc.edu/cels/submissions.cfm

Comprehensive information about the conference -- including information about registration, paper submission, travel, and hotels -- is available at: http://law.usc.edu/cels/

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 organized by USC Gould School of Law. Daniel Klerman and Mathew McCubbins chair this year's Organizing Committee, which includes Gillian Hadfield, Thomas Lyon, Dan Simon, and Matthew Spitzer. The SELS Board of Directors are Jennifer Arlen (NYU), Bernard Black (University of Texas), Shari Seidman Diamond (Northwestern), Theodore Eisenberg (Cornell), Dame Hazel Genn (University College London), Valerie Hans (Cornell), Michael Heise (Cornell), Daniel Klerman (USC), Mathew McCubbins (UC San Diego & USC), Geoffrey Miller (NYU), Jeffrey Rachlinski (Cornell), and Roberta Romano (Yale).

General inquiries concerning the 2009 conference program should be directed to the conference organizers at: cels2009@law.usc.edu

If you have other questions you may contact:

Mira Dalpe or Marie Cleaves
USC Gould School of Law
(213) 821-1239 or (213)740-3841
cels2009@law.usc.edu

Full post as published by Legal Theory Blog on May 26, 2009 (boomark / email).