Empirical Legal Studies

Description

Over at Concurring Opinions, Dave Hoffman's (Temple) interesting post, When is it OK to be 'descriptive'?, has ignited interesting commentary and responses.

Recent Additions to the Stata Instructional Video Collection

While I've discussed the Stata instructional videos previously, recent notable additions to the video collection include a helpful 3-part series on Introduction to Margins. The entire collection of instructional videos can be found here.

Call For Papers--2nd Annual Western Empirical Legal Studies (WELS) Conference at UCLA

Having just returned from another wildly successful CELS, I am delighted to pass along information from Joe Doherty (UCLA) about the 2nd Annual Western Empirical Legal Studies (WELS) Conference at UCLA. Insofar as WELS is consciously pitched to "law and graduate students," I believe it fills an important need and presents a wonderful opportunity for interested students. (Please note the 12.7.2012 proposal deadline.)

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Call for Papers: 2nd Annual Western Empirical Legal Studies (WELS) Conference at UCLA

Proposal Deadline: December 7, 2012.

The UCLA School of Law Empirical Legal Scholars Association (ELSA) is proud to announce the 2nd Annual Western Empirical Legal Studies Conference, to be held at UCLA on March 2, 2013.

WELS is a conference for law and graduate students that provides a unique opportunity for emerging ELS scholars to present their work in front of an audience of peers. The inaugural conference attracted participants from Europe and from seven universities and law schools across the U.S. If you are a professor who has students who might be interested in WELS, please pass this along.

For more information and instructions on submitting an abstract visit the conference website or contact the ELSA staff at: [email protected].

Conducting Empirical Legal Scholarship Workshop, May 22-24, 2013

On Wednesday, May 22, 2013 through Friday, May 24, 2013, Lee Epstein and Andrew Martin will be teaching their annual Conducting Empirical Legal Scholarship workshop. This workshop will be held in Los Angeles, and is co-sponsored by USC Gould School of Law and Washington University Law. There is more information available about the workshop here:

http://law.usc.edu/EmpiricalWorkshop

The Conducting Empirical Legal Scholarship workshop is for law school and social science faculty interested in learning about empirical research. The instructors provide 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. Topics to be covered include research design, sampling, measurement, descriptive statistics, inferential statistics, and linear regression.

CELS 2012

Dan Ho (Stanford) has put together an outstanding Program for this year's conference. Event's begin later this morning with Ted Eisenberg's (Cornell) 10-hour empirical training workshop. Insofar as the Workshop proved quite popular (registration closed quickly due to participant demand), workshops will be planned for future CELS. In addition, Ted is presenting a similar workshop at AALS in January.

Hoffman on CELS 2012

Per tradition, Dave Hoffman (Temple) will blog (here) about CELS 2012.