In order to demonstrate the growing internationalisation of empirical law, the 3rd Conference on Empirical Legal Studies in Europe (CELSE) will take place from 11 to 12 June 2020 at the University of Oslo. Recent meta-research suggests that empirical lawyers can do much more to increase the credibility of their work. The SEELS 2022 workshop addresses the credibility crisis and methods for conducting credible research and developing meta-research programmes. We will also reflect, as a group, on steps our field could take to improve and maintain its credibility. Presenters include Bobby Bartlett, Jason Chin, Jonah Gelbach, Eric Helland, Scott Hirst, William Hubbard, Brian Nosek, Adriana Robertson, Paige Skiba, Holger Spamman, Megan Stevenson, Eric Talley and Kathy Zeiler. If you would like to present new empirical work on law or order, please prepare a detailed summary (about 500 to 1000 words) describing the topic, the hypothesis tested, the methods you want to use and whether you expect to be able to share the results at the conference. Send your detailed abstract and an up-to-date CV to Prof. Jane Bambauer before 30 November 2019 (contact details click here). We will prefer projects with experimental methods given this year`s theme. We will also give preference to PhD students and junior faculty members. Candidates selected to apply will receive boarding accommodation in Tucson.

“In order to better cope with the various disruptions of the pandemic, the conference organizers have extended the deadline for the call for papers until October 31, 2021. Curtis teaches courses in corporate law, securities and venture capital. CELS brings together researchers from a variety of fields, including law, economics, political science, psychology, statistics, sociology, history and policy analysis. Contributions are selected through a peer review process and each is assigned an individual speaker. CELS invites you to undertake empirical work covering all areas of empirical law. Authors are encouraged to submit work in progress; However, submissions must be completed draft documents containing key findings. Submitted papers must also be unpublished (and should be published at the time of the conference). The document submission portal will open on August 1, 2021. The registration deadline is October 17, 2021. The organizers of the conference expressly welcome proposals from: “PhD students and graduates of doctoral programs. Participants from countries of the South and under-represented communities are particularly encouraged to apply.

Paper proposals must be submitted to the conference organizers by June 1, 2021. Further information specific to the conference can be found (here); Those who wish to contact the conference organizers directly can send an email to: TAU.junior.scholars@gmail.com winner of the CELS Theodore Eisenberg Poster Award 2017: Greg Buchak, “The Mechanisms of Reputation in Extra-Lawful Enforcement”. Poster Buchak here. Buchak Paper here. Update: Due to the pandemic, the conference has been postponed to November 4-5, 2022. Finally, the conference organizers have adopted an “optimistic” hypothesis and are currently expecting a traditional, “personal” conference. However, they also note that “covid-19 will dominate our lives until November 2021″,” but the format of the conference workshop will turn into a “hybrid-virtual” format. Hotels: It`s likely to be a crowded weekend in Charlottesville, so please book your hotel early by following the Hotels tab on the conference website. Empirical research is facing a crisis of credibility. Empirical areas are beginning to impose requirements on researchers, such as mandatory disclosures regarding funding, conflicts of interest, data, analysis scripts and other documents, pre-registration, and justification of sample size. Several publishers of empirical legal studies have formally adopted such requirements.

The conference presents contributions that conduct empirical and experimental research on legal issues in all areas of empirical jurisprudence. Articles, selected through a peer review process, are presented in panels that are assigned to commenters for each article and have opportunities for discussion with the public. Scope: CeLS will review empirical work covering all areas of empirical jurisprudence. Authors are encouraged to submit work in progress; However, submissions must be complete drafts that contain key findings. Submitted papers must be unpublished (and should be published at the time of the conference). If accepted, authors will have the opportunity to submit a revised draft for presentation and discussion prior to the conference. Please note that accepted contributions will be made available to all conference participants. Given the growing global presence of empirical legal studies, I am pleased to announce that the 15th Annual Conference on Empirical Legal Studies (CELS) of the Society for Empirical Legal Studies is being organized by the University of Toronto`s Faculty of Law, October 2-3, 2020 in Toronto, Canada, and Professor Albert Yoon. Anthony Niblett and Andrew Green.

More information on the call for papers will follow shortly. As already mentioned (here and here), CELS “2020”, which has been postponed from March 18 to 19, 2022, is planning another in-person conference at the University of Toronto (Canada). At the same time, conference organizers note: “We are of course monitoring the progress of the COVID-19 pandemic and the Delta variant. At this time, we hope that the conference will proceed as planned. However, if the Society for Empirical Legal Studies (SELS) deems it necessary to change the plans, we will notify you as soon as possible. The Annual Conferences on Empirical Legal Studies (CELS) were launched in 2006 in response to the growing level of empirical research in law schools and elsewhere. It has already taken place at the University of Texas (2006), NYU (2007), Cornell Law School (2008), USC (2009), Yale (2010), Northwestern (2011) and Stanford (2012), Penn (2013), UC Berkeley (2014), Washington University School of Law in St. Louis (2015), Duke University Law School (2016), Cornell Law School (2017), University of Michigan Law School (2018), Claremont McKenna College (2019), and is planned for the Toronto Faculty of Law (2021) with the generous support of the host school. Conference registration costs $195 ($55 for students) and includes breakfast and lunch, as well as Friday evenings. An additional fee of $45 is required to attend the Pre-Conference Workshops on November 3 and an additional fee of $95 to attend the conference dinner with keynote speaker Anne-Marie Slaughter on Friday evening.