About Us
Society for Empirical Legal Studies
The Society for Empirical Legal Studies (SELS) is an international organization of scholars interested in empirical legal studies. The Journal of Empirical Legal Studies (JELS) is the official SELS journal. Every year, SELS sponsors The Conference on Empirical Legal Studies (CELS).
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
Become a Member of 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 cost is $70 ($25 or $35 for students).
SELS Board of Directors:
David S. Abrams
University of Pennsylvania Law School
Jennifer H. Arlen
New York University Law School
Bernard S. Black
Northwestern University Law School
Shari Seidman Diamond
Northwestern University Law School
Theodore Eisenberg
Cornell Law School
Valerie P. Hans
Cornell Law School
Michael Heise
Cornell Law School
Daniel E. Ho
Stanford Law School
Geoffrey P. Miller
New York University Law School
Anne Joseph O'Connell
University of California at Berkeley Boalt Hall Law School
Theodore W. Ruger
University of Pennsylvania Law School
Eric Talley
University of California at Berkeley Boalt Hall Law School
Tess Wilkinson-Ryan
University of Pennsylvania Law School