At the request of the CELS 2025 conference co-organizers, David Hyman, Neel Sukhatme, and Josh Teitelbaum, I am delighted to pass along the following information:
Conference on Empirical Legal Studies
24-25 October 2025
Call For papers
The 2025 Conference on Empirical Legal Studies (CELS) is now accepting submissions. CELS will consider empirical papers spanning all areas of empirical legal studies. Authors are encouraged to submit works-in-progress; however, submissions should be completed drafts that include principal results. Submitted papers must be unpublished (and expected to be unpublished at the time of the conference).
The paper submission deadline is Friday, June 20, 2025 (11:59 PM Eastern Daylight Time). There is no charge for submissions.
To submit a paper, please visit www.cels2025.com. We encourage preregistration of all experiments, and we encourage all authors to make their data, scripts, and code publicly available upon publication to the extent your methodology permits. We welcome replication studies and papers that develop and demonstrate empirical methods.
Papers are selected through a peer-review process. If accepted, authors will have an opportunity to submit a revised draft prior to the conference for presentation and discussion. Discussion at the conference includes assigned commentators and audience questions. Accepted papers will be made available to all conference participants. Acceptance of a paper or poster constitutes the presenting author’s agreement to be a commentator on another paper at the conference.
The 19th Annual Conference on Empirical Legal Studies (CELS) will be held on 24-25 October 2025, at Georgetown University Law Center in Washington, D.C. For more conference information click here; conference organizers can be contacted at: [email protected].
CELS 2025 is co-sponsored by Georgetown Law and the SELS.
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