Conferences

Annual Conference

The Eighth Annual Conference on Empirical Legal Studies (CELS 2013), sponsored by the Society for Empirical Legal Studies will be held in Philadelphia on Friday, October 25 and Saturday, October 26, 2013.

2013 Conference co-Presidents

David S. Abrams
Theodore W. Ruger
Tess Wilkinson-Ryan

2013 CELS Program Committee to be announced

Call for Papers CELS 2013

To submit a paper for consideration, please go to the CELS 2013 Conference Maker page here. There is no charge for submissions. All submissions will be peer-reviewed.

More CELS 2013 Information Here

Register for the 2013 Conference Here

Conference History

The annual Conferences on Empirical Legal Studies (CELS) were launched in 2006, in response to the growing level of empirical scholarship in law schools and elsewhere. It has thus far been held at University of Texas (2006), NYU (2007), Cornell (2008), USC (2009), Yale (2010),  Northwestern (2011), and Stanford (2012), and is scheduled for Penn (2013), UC Berkeley (2014), and Washington University School of Law in St. Louis (2015) in each case with generous support from the host school.

The founding organizers of CELS are Bernie Black (Northwestern), Jennifer Arlen and Geoffrey Miller (NYU), and Ted Eisenberg and Michael Heise (Cornell).

• CELS 2012 at Stanford
• CELS 2011 at Northwestern
• CELS 2010 at Yale
• CELS 2009 at USC
• CELS 2008 at Cornell
• CELS 2007 at NYU
• CELS 2006 at Texas
• CELS Slides: Methods and Econometrics