Research Methodology Courses in Law Schools

As a follow-up to Jason’s post about teaching empiricism, it could be a helpful service of the ELS Blog to compile a list of the research methodology courses taught within law schools. Naturally, traditional legal research courses do not count for these purposes. (We don’t need a list of 180 first-year legal research courses, even if they really are empirical.)

Anyone who would like to help along the process of compiling this list can post a comment or e-mail me directly (wford@uchicago.edu), preferably with a link to a course description or even a syllabus. Since course catalogs do not always reflect what is actually being taught, these responses would be of great help in figuring out what is really going on within the law schools. I’ll post the list sometime soon and update it as needed.

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[Ron Wright]

Wake Forest just started offering a survey course, "Analytical Methods for Lawyers," based on the casebook by Jackson, Kaplow, Shavell, Viscusi, and Cope. A team of four faculty members teaches the course, and it includes units on game theory, accounting, finance, and (most relevant for ELS purposes) statistical analysis.