CELS 2009
Announcement & Call for Papers
The Fourth Annual Conference on Empirical Legal Studies will be held at the USC Gould School of Law in Los Angeles, California on Friday, November 20 and Saturday, November 21, 2009. The conference will feature original empirical and experimental legal scholarship by leading scholars from a diverse range of fields.
The deadline for submission of papers was August 3. The submission period is now closed. The CELS Organizing Committee is now reviewing submissions and putting together the program. The tentative program should be available by early September.
The conference's objectives are:
- to encourage and develop empirical and experimental scholarship on legal issues by providing scholars with an opportunity to present and discuss their work with an interdisciplinary group of people interested in the empirical study of law; and
- to stimulate ongoing conversations among scholars in law, economics, political science, demographics, finance, psychology, sociology, and other disciplines.
The conference's audience will include paper presenters, commentators, and other attendees, and will include many of the nation's leading empirical legal scholars. The goal is productive discourse on both particular papers and appropriate methodologies. We especially encourage submissions from junior scholars. We welcome submissions of papers in all areas of empirical and experimental legal scholarship. You are welcome to register for and attend the conference whether or not you submit a paper and whether or not your paper is accepted.
We aim to webcast many panels live on each day and to keep a copy of these webcasts available on USC’s servers for one week following the conference. We’re also planning to hold additional panels, corresponding to the webcasts for each area of legal study, at the conclusion of Saturday’s meeting, during which a panel chair will relay questions from the internet audience to the panelists who participated in the webcast presentations. Faculty at several foreign universities will be invited to follow the webcasts and to submit questions. If your school or department would like to participate over te internet, please e-mail the organizers at cels2009@law.usc.edu.
USC Organizing Committee members:
Dan Klerman (Co-President)
Mat McCubbins (Co--President)
Gillian Hadfield
Tom Lyon
Dan Simon
Matt Spitzer