Society for Empirical Legal Studies
The Society for Empirical Legal Studies
The Society for Empirical Legal Studies (SELS) is an international organization of scholars interested in empirical legal studies, and the Journal of Empirical Legal Studies (JELS) is the official SELS journal.
SELS exists to
• Encourage and develop empirical and experimental scholarship on legal issues
• Stimulate ongoing conversations among scholars in law, economics, political science, criminology, finance, psychology, sociology, health care, and other disciplines
• Convene an annual conference of scholars on empirical legal studies
Join the Society for Empirical Legal Studies
To join the Society for Empirical Legal Studies, please click here. You join the Society by subscribing to the Journal of Empirical Legal Studies. Those who subscribe automatically become members of the Society, and the only way to become a member of the Society is by subscribing to the journal. Membership and subscription costs $60.00 ($25 or $35 for students).
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Call for Papers: Fifth Annual Conference on Empirical Legal Studies (CELS 2010)
Yale Law School, November 5-6, 2010
Submission Deadline July 2, 2010
To submit a paper, please go to http://hq.ssrn.com/conference=CELS-2010
The Fifth Annual Conference on Empirical Legal Studies will be held at Yale Law School. The conference will feature original empirical and experimental legal scholarship by leading scholars from a diverse range of fields.
CELS 2010 Registration information:
To attend the CELS 2010 conference, please follow these simple instructions:
(1) If you are not already a member of SELS, or if you need to renew your membership, click HERE. To register for the conference, you must be a member of SELS. Your membership includes a one-year subscription to the Journal of Empirical Legal Studies. The membership fee does not include registration for the CELS 2010 conference. A regular membership costs $60. Student memberships cost $25 or $35, depending on whether the student subscribes only to the online version of the Journal of Empirical Legal Studies.
(2) To register for the conference, go to http://www.law.yale.edu/news/cels.htm and click on 'Registration.' The conference registration fee is not included in your SELS membership.
For more CELS 2010 conference information:
General inquiries concerning the 2010 Conference should be sent to: CELS.2010@yale.edu
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The SELS Board of Directors consists of:
Jennifer Arlen (NYU Law School)
Bernard Black (University of Texas Law School)
Shari Seidman Diamond (Northwestern University Law School)
Theodore Eisenberg (Cornell Law School)
Dame Hazel Genn (University College London)
Valerie Hans (Cornell Law School)
Michael Heise (Cornell Law School)
Daniel Klerman (USC Gould School of Law)
Mathew McCubbins (University of California San Diego & University of Southern California)
Geoffrey Miller (NYU Law School)
Jeffrey Rachlinski (Cornell Law School)
Roberta Romano (Yale Law School)
CELS 2009 Program Committee
Dan Klerman, Co-President
Mat McCubbins, Co-President
Gillian Hadfield
Tom Lyon
Dan Simon
Matt Spitzer
History of CELS Conferences
The First Annual Conference on Empirical Legal Studies was held at the University of Texas, School of Law in 2006. Selected papers presented at the first conference were published in Volume 4, issue 4 of the Journal of Empirical Legal Studies, available at: http://www.blackwell-synergy.com/toc/jels/4/4
The Second Annual Conference on Empirical Legal Studies was held at the NYU School of Law in 2007. Selected papers presented at the second conference were published in Volume 5, issue 4 of the Journal of Empirical Legal Studies.
The Third Annual Conference on Empirical Legal Studies was held at Cornell University Law School in 2008. Selected papers presented at the third conference will be published in future Volume in the Journal of Empirical Legal Studies.
The Fifth Annual Conference will be held at the Yale Law School in 2010.
