It is quite clear by now for anyone who attends the annual ELS conferences or reads JELS recent volumes, that the empirical legal studies scope is indeed global. As part of the global empirical legal studies initiative which was the vision of the late Ted Eisenberg, two main meetings were organized. An inaugural two days meeting, organized by Dawn Chutkow, Michael Heise, and Valerie Hans, was held in London last summer and a second meeting was held during the last CELS conference at Berkeley.
As a continuation of this initiative, in the next few weeks I will serve as a guest blogger at ELS. I will write about some international perspectives on ELS with a natural focus on topics related to the research done in Israel. I hope that with additional bloggers from other countries, a richer, more global, perspective will be presented to both U.S and international readers.
In addition to describing some of the relevant empirical legal research in Israel, in my future posts I plan on discussing the following topics:
- The increasing ability of international legal scholars to publish in the U.S due to empirical legal studies.
- Is empirical legal studies an applied or basic field?
- What is the optimal ratio of empirical legal studies scholars (relative to the number of “other” legal scholars) in a given country?
- Are law professors who are also empirical legal studies scholars more limited in their policy arguments than law professors who are theorists?
- Should empirical legal studies care more about the legal theory or the disciplines from which they borrow their method?
- Who is better suited to serve in behavioral insight team panels? Psychologists, economists or empirical legal studies scholars?
- What would change in behavioral law and economics, if we move from a focus on rationality to the limits of deliberation?
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