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Thursday, April 30, 2026

CELS 2026: Call For Papers

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  Call for Papers Conference on Empirical Legal Studies October 2-3, 2026   The 2026 Conference on Empirical Legal Studies (CELS), co-sponso...
Sunday, April 26, 2026

Experimental Evidence Related to Diversity Jurisdiction's Assumptions

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While first-year law students are taught that the most common justification for federal diversity jurisdiction involves concerns about pot...
Friday, April 17, 2026

In Memoriam: Marc Galanter (1931-2026)

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It is with sadness that I note the recent passing of Prof. Marc Galanter (Wisc.). As Brian Leiter observes ( here ), Professor Galanter'...
Tuesday, April 7, 2026

Data on Plea Offers & Implications for the "Trial Penalty" Hypothesis

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While plea offers (and acceptances)  are ubiquitous in our criminal justice system, empirical research on the plea bargaining process remain...
Friday, March 27, 2026

What Contributes to Patent Opinions' Influence?

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While scholarly efforts to explore reasons for a legal opinion's "influence" are long-standing, a recent paper takes a more fo...
Friday, March 20, 2026

Save the Date: 2026 CELS

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On behalf of the 2026 CELS co-organizers at Northwestern, Stephanie Didwania, Kyle Rozema, and David Schwartz, I am delighted to pass along ...
Thursday, March 12, 2026

2026 Northwestern Main and Advanced Causal Inference Workshops

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A long-time colleague, Bernie Black (Northwestern), asked that I share the following information on his 2026 causal inference workshops. We ...