Conference on Empirical Legal Studies 2008
Final Program
AT THE STATLER HOTEL
Friday, September 12, 7:30 – 9:00 a.m.
| Registration & Continental Breakfast – Carrier Ballroom Foyer |
Friday 9:00 - 11:00 a.m.
| Author (presenting author in bold) | Paper | Discussant |
| Law and Psychology 1 Chair: Steven Ceci Room: Amphitheatre | ||
| Dan M. Kahan David Hoffman Don Braman | Whose Eyes are You Going to Believe? Scott v. Harris and the Perils of Cognitive Illiberalism | Neal Feigenson |
| Dan Simon Doug Stenstrom Steven J. Read | Adversarial Investigations: An Experiment | Rebecca Hollander-Blumoff |
| Cheryl Boudreau Mathew D. McCubbins* | Competition in the Courtroom: Experiments on Adversarial Competition, | David Dunning |
| Courts & Judges 1 Chair: Gregory Sisk Room: Yale | ||
| Marcus E. Hendershot | From Consent to Advice and Consent: Cyclical Constraints within the District Court | Christopher Zorn |
| Clare Leaver Jordi Blanes i Vidal | Pandering Judges? | Christina Boyd |
| Bert Huang | Measuring Judicial Discretion | Wendy Martinek |
| Medical Malpractice Chair: Jill Horwitz Room: Princeton | ||
| Ronen Avraham Max M. Schanzenbach | The Impact of Tort Reform on Intensity of Treatment: Evidence from the Heart Patients | David Hyman |
| Gia Lee Eric Helland | Bargaining in the Shadow of the Website: Disclosure's Impact on Litigation Behavior | Jennifer Arlen |
| Neil Vidmar Mirya R. Holman Paul Lee | Trends in Medical Malpractice Litigation: Claims Arising from Surgical Treatment | Stephan Landsman |
| CEO Salaries Chair: Fred Tung Room: Pennsylvania | ||
| Antonio Falato | Superstars or Superlemons? Top Executive Pay and Corporate Acquisitions | Kate Litvak |
| Martijn Cremers Yaniv Grinstein | The Market for CEO Talent: Implications for CEO Compensation | Eric Talley |
| Sonali Hazarika Jonathan M. Karpoff Rajarishi Nahata | Earnings Management and Forced CEO Turnover: Empirical Evidence | Yair Listokin* |
| Tax Chair: Nancy Staudt Room: Dartmouth | ||
| Daniel M. Schneider | Use of Judicial Doctrines in Federal Tax Cases Decided by Trial Courts, 1993-2006: | Ahmed Taha |
| Jon Bakija Bradley T. Heim | How Does Charitable Giving Respond to Incentives and Income? Dynamic Panel | Dorothy Brown |
| Lily L. Batchelder Surachai Khitatrakun | Dead or Alive: An Investigation of the Incidence of Estate and Inheritance Taxes | Alex Raskolnikov |
| Securities Regulation 1 Chair: Charles Whitehead Room: Taylor | ||
| Roberta Romano | The Uncertain Future of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act | Robert Thompson |
| Minor Myers | The Decisions of Corporate Special Litigation Committees: An Empirical Investigation | Deborah DeMott* |
| M. Todd Henderson Alan D. Jagolinzer Karl A. Muller | Rule 10b5-1 Trading Plan Disclosure Choice | Anup Agrawal |
| Bankruptcy 1 Chair: Richard Scheelings Room: Columbia | ||
| Amanda E. Dawsey Richard M. Hynes Lawrence M. Ausubel | The Regulation of Non-Judicial Debt Collection and the Consumer's Choice Among | Stephen J. Lubben |
| Koen J.L. Schoors Peter Coussement Bart Leyman | Court-Supervised Restructuring: Pre-Bankruptcy Dynamics, Debt Structure | Joshua Goodman |
| Robert M. Lawless | Who are the Self-Employed in Bankruptcy? | John Armour |
Friday 11:15 a.m. - 1:15 p.m.
| Law & Society Chair: Laura Beth Neilsen Room: Princeton | ||
| Tom Tyler Jeffrey Fagan | Legitimacy and Cooperation: Why do People Help the Police Fight | Tracey Meares* |
| Herbert M. Kritzer* Robert E. Drechsel | Reporting Civil Litigation on Local Television News | Neil Vidmar |
| James L. Gibson | 'New-Style' Judicial Campaigns and the Legitimacy of State High Courts: | Dawn Chutkow |
| Criminal Law & Procedure 1: Sentencing Chair: Thomas Cohen Room: Pennsylvania | ||
| Fred Cheesman Nicole L. Waters | Who Gets a Second Chance? An Investigation of Ohio's Blended Juvenile Sentence | Joe Cecil |
| John F. Pfaff | The Myths and Realities of Correctional Severity: Evidence from the | J.J. Prescott |
| Hashem Dezhbakhsh Paul H. Rubin | From the 'Econometrics of Capital Punishment' to the 'Capital Punishment' of | Justin Wolfers |
| Litigation 1 Chair: Randall Kiser Room: Yale | ||
| Christopher R. Drahozal Quentin R. Wittrock | Is There a Flight from Arbitration? | Pauline Kim |
| Paulo Eduardo Alves Silva | Invisible Power: The Brazilian Judicial Bureaucracy - A Study of Cases | Peter Lewisch |
| Yuval Feldman Tom Tyler | Mandated Justice: The Potential Promise and Possible Pitfalls of Mandating | Linda Demaine |
| Law & Psychology 2: Family Law Chair: Cynthia Grant Bowman Room: Dartmouth | ||
| Elizabeth Carol Ahern Thomas D. Lyon Jodi Quas Lindsay Malloy | Non-Maltreated and Maltreated Children's Attitudes about Transgression Secrecy: | Molly Walker-Wilson |
| Eve Brank Lindsey Wylie | Assuming Elder Care Responsibility: Am I a Caregiver? | Elizabeth Peters* |
| Robert MacCoun Ira Mark Ellman Sanford L. Braver | Converting Sentiments to Dollars: Scaling and Incommensurability Problems | Richard Lempert* |
| Corporate Governance 1: Directors Chair: Robert Hockett Room: Amphitheatre | ||
| Anup Agrawal Mark Chen | Boardroom Brawls: An Empirical Analysis of Disputes Involving Directors | Mark Ramseyer |
| Stephen J. Choi* Jill E. Fisch Marcel Kahan | Director Elections and the Influence of Proxy Advisors | Cindy Alexander |
| Ronald W. Masulis H. Shawn Mobbs | Are All Inside Directors the Same? CEO Entrenchment or Board Enhancement | Peter Huang |
| Securities Regulation 2 Chair: Barbara Black Room: Taylor | ||
| Vladimir A. Atanasov Vladimir Ivanov Kate Litvak | The Effect of Litigation on Venture Capitalist Reputation | Charles Whitehead* |
| Douglas J. Cumming | Capital Flows and Hedge Fund Regulation | Henry Hu |
| John Armour Bernard S. Black Brian R. Cheffins Richard C. Nolan | Private Enforcement of Corporate Law: An Empirical Comparison of the US and UK | Robert Thompson |
| Bankruptcy 2 Chair: Zev Eigen Room: Columbia | ||
| Jeremy Bruce Tobacman Paige Marta Skiba | Do Payday Loans Cause Bankruptcy? | Edward Morrison* |
| Bertrand Chopard Jean-Daniel Guigou Agnès Fimayer Régis Blazy | Financial Versus Social Efficiency of Corporate Bankruptcy Law: | Karin Thorburn |
| Adam Levitin Joshua Goodman | Mortgage Market Sensitivity to Bankruptcy Modification | Ronald Mann* |
Friday 1:15 -2:15 p.m.
| Boxed lunch – Carrier Ballroom Foyer |
| Ballroom A: Roundtable discussion on Funding for Empirical Legal Studies Moderator: Michael Heise, Professor, Cornell Law School Thomas Cohen, Bureau of Justice Statistics Ann Gallagher, Senior Research Scientist, Law School Admission Council Susan Haire, Program Director, Law and Social Science Program, National Science Foundation |
Friday 2:15 - 4:15 p.m.
| Litigation 2 Chair: Tina Nabatchi Room: Taylor | ||
| Michael G. Faure N.J. Philipsen | Fees for Claim Settlement in the Field of Personal Injury: Empirical Evidence | Bert Kritzer* |
| Pauline T. Kim | Deliberation and Strategy on the United States Courts of Appeals: | Katherine Barnes |
| Nancy Christine Staudt | If Major Wars Affect (Judicial) Fiscal Policy, How & Why? | Bob Green* |
| Corporate Governance 2 Chair: Kate Litvak Room: Yale | ||
| Ronald W. Masulis Cong Wang Fei Xie | Agency Problems at Dual-Class Companies | Fred Tung |
| Jens C. Dammann Matthias Schundein | Where are Limited Liability Companies Formed? An Empirical Analysis | Roberta Romano |
| Haresh Sapra Ajay Subramanian Krishnamurthy Subramanian | Corporate Governance and Innovation: Theory and Evidence | Robert Hockett |
| International & Comparative Law Chair: Jens Ohlin Room: Columbia | ||
| Galit A. Sarfaty* | Why Culture Matters in International Institutions: The Marginality of Human Rights | Chantal Thomas |
| Asif Efrat | Regulating Rifles: International Control of the Small Arms Trade | Susan Franck* |
| John Hagan Sanja Kutnjak Ivkovich* | The Political Economy of Genocide Intervention: Structural Conditionality, Collective Command Responsibility, and the Former Yugoslavia | Muna Ndulo |
| Securities Regulation 3 Chair: Peter Huang Room: Princeton | ||
| Mahendrarajah Nimalendran Lori Sue Walsh Cindy R. Alexander | The Informational Value of U.S. Securities Registration: Evidence from Secondary Public Offerings | Merritt Fox |
| Sean J. Griffith Tom Baker | How the Merits Matter: D&O Insurance and Securities Settlements | Peter Oh |
| Alicia Davis Evans | Are Investors' Gains and Losses from Securities Fraud Equal Over Time? | Daniel E. Ho |
| Law and Finance Chair: Josh Teitelbaum Room: Pennsylvania | ||
| Cecile Carpentier Douglas J. Cumming Jean-Marc Suret | The Value of Capital Market Regulation and Certification: | Bernard S. Black |
| Viral V. Acharya Yakov Amihud Lubomir P. Litov | Creditor Rights and Corporate Risk-Taking | M. Todd Henderson |
| Yaxuan Qi Lukas Roth John K. Wald | Political Rights and the Cost of Debt | Tim Swanson |
| Criminal Law & Procedure 2: The Death Penalty Chair: Stephen Garvey Room: Amphitheatre | ||
| Katherine Y. Barnes David Sloss* Stephen C. Thaman | Life and Death Decisions: Prosecutorial Discretion and Capital | Sheri Lynn Johnson* |
| John Blume Sheri Lynn Johnson Ted Eisenberg Valerie P. Hans | The Death Penalty in Delaware | Mona Lynch |
| Daniel L. Chen John J. Horton | The Deterrent Effect of Death Penalty: Evidence from British Commutations | Jeffrey Fagan |
| Property and Contracts Chair: Emily Sherwin Room: Dartmouth | ||
| Yun-chien Chang | An Empirical Study of Takings Compensation Settlements: | Jeremy Blumenthal |
| Eric A. Kades | A Positive Theory of Eminent Domain | Eduardo Peñalver |
| Claudia M. Landeo Kathryn Spier | Naked Exclusion: An Experimental Study of Contracts with Externalities | David Hoffman |
Friday 4:30 - 5:50 p.m.
| Employment Law Chair: Rafael Pardo Room: Pennsylvania | ||
| Alison Morantz | Rethinking the Great Compromise: What Happens When Large Companies | Zev Eigen |
| Samuel Estreicher Kristina Yost | Measuring the Value of Class and Collective Action Employment Settlements: | Stewart Schwab* |
| Intellectual Property Chair: Brett Frischmann Room: Dartmouth | ||
| Paul J. Heald | Testing the Over- and Under-Exploitation Hypotheses: | Jay Kesan |
| Dave Schwartz | Practice Makes Perfect? An Empirical Study of Claim Construction Reversal | Oskar Liivak |
| Criminal Law & Procedure 3 Chair: John Blume Room: Yale | ||
| Thomas H. Cohen | Commercial Surety Bail and the Problem of Missed Court Appearances | Sanja Kutnjak Ivkovich* |
| David S. Abrams Albert Yoon | Understanding High Skill Worker Productivity Using Random Case Assignment | Robert L. Nelson |
| Empirical Studies of Gender 1 Chair: Molly Walker Wilson Room: Princeton | ||
| Malcolm M. Feeley Hadar Aviram | Where Have All the Women Gone? The Decline of Women in the Criminal Justice Process | Sherry Colb |
| Brian Rowe | Gender Bias in the Enforcement of Traffic Laws: Evidence Based | Alexia Brunet |
| Legal Profession Chair: Bert Kritzer Room: Columbia | ||
| Katherine Y. Barnes Elizabeth Ellen Mertz Sandy Longworth | Is it Fair? Law Professors' Perceptions of Tenure | Jennifer Robbennolt* |
| William D. Henderson Arthur S. Alderson | The Changing Economic Geography of Large U.S. Law Firms | Brad Wendel |
| Corporate Governance 3 Chair: Roberta Romano Room: Taylor | ||
| Helen M. Bowers William R. Latham Bogdan Nedanov | Does Legally Mandating Independence of Advisers Improve Merger | Vladimir Atanasov |
| Andrew Ellul Marco Pagano Fausto Panunzi | Inheritance Law and Investment in Family Firms | Erica Gorga |
| Bankruptcy 3 Chair: Florencia Marotta-Wurgler Room: Amphitheatre | ||
| Stephen J. Lubben | The Types of Chapter 11 Cases | Richard Hynes |
| Raphael W. Bostic Patricia Ann McCoy Anthony N. Pennington-Cross Susan M. Wachter Kathleen Engel* | The Impact of State Anti-Predatory Lending Laws: Policy Implications and Insights | Michael Waldman* |
Friday 6:00 – 7:00 p.m.
Poster Session Reception – Terrace Lounge & Restaurant
| Author | Paper |
| Ronald Jay Allen Alexia Brunet | To Tow or Not to Tow: The Deterrence Effect of a Municipal Ordinance |
| Rafael I. Pardo Michelle R. Lacey | Anatomy of an Adversary Proceeding: An Empirical Study of Undue Hardship Discharge Litigation |
| John Hagedoorn Geerte Hesen | Contractual Complexity and the Cognitive Load of R&D Alliance Contracts |
| Shmuel I. Becher Esther Unger-Aviram | Myth and Reality in Consumer Contracting Behavior |
| Edward K. Cheng | Specialist Judges |
| Jonathan P. Kastellec | Panel Composition and Voting on the U.S. Courts of Appeals Over Time |
| Daniel Martin Katz Derek K. Stafford | Hustle and Flow: A Social Network Analysis of the American Federal Judiciary |
| Pamela C. Corley Artemus Ward Amy Steigerwalt | Deciding to Agree: Explaining Consensual Behavior on the United States Supreme Court |
| Jennifer Barnes Bowie | Do Federal Circuit Courts of Appeals Judges Fear Reversal from the Supreme Court? |
| Yonatan Lupu James H. Fowler | Where Do Legal Opinions Come from? Strategic Opinion Writing on the Supreme Court |
| Lisa Blomgren Bingham Tina Nabatchi Jeffrey M. Senger Michael Scott Jackman | Dispute Resolution and the Vanishing Trial: Comparing Federal Government Litigation and ADR Outcomes |
| Jay P. Kesan Andres Gallo | Pondering the Politics of Private Procedures: The Case of ICANN |
| Donna M. Gitter | Should the United States Designate Specialist Patent Trial Judges? |
| Peter B. Oh | Lifting v. Piercing |
| Robert Hume | Judicial Oversight of the Implementation of Federal Administrative Cases: What Happens |
| Aman Liev McLeod | The Red-Blue Divide on the Bench: An Examination of the Effects of Selection Systems on |
| Zev Eigen | The Devil in the Details: The Interrelationship among Citizenship, Rule of Law and Form-Adhesive Contracts |
| Shauhin A. Talesh | The Legislature, 'Lemons,' and Legal Endogeneity: How Manufacturers Force Consumers |
| Baillie Aaron | The Effect of Race-Crime Typicality on Judicial Sentencing Decisions |
| Mihir A. Desai Dhammika Dharmapala | Taxes and Portfolio Choice: Evidence from JGTRRA's Treatment of International Dividends |
| Thomas A. Eaton David B. Mustard | Tort Litigation in Georgia : 2004-06 |
| Thomas Brennan | Cash-Flow and Market Response to Repatriation |
| Jill Gross Barbara Black | When Perception Changes Reality: An Empirical Study of Investors' |
| Elizabeth Nowicki | Reverse Termination Fee Provisions in Acquisition Agreements |
| Thomas Straub Georges A. Cavalier | Mergers and Acquisitions Comparative Economic Analysis of Laws: France vs USA |
7:00 - 9:00 p.m. Dinner - The Carrier Ballroom
Welcoming Remarks: Stewart J. Schwab, The Allan R. Tessler Dean and Professor of Law, Cornell Law School
Keynote Speaker: Lee Epstein, Henry Wade Rogers Professor, Northwestern University (Introduced by Valerie Hans, Professor, Cornell Law School)
Title: "Exxon Shipping, Footnote 17"
AT THE STATLER HOTEL
Saturday, September 13, 7:30 – 9:00 a.m.
| Continental Breakfast – Carrier Ballroom Foyer |
Saturday 8:00 – 9:00 a.m.
| Ballroom A: Breakfast roundtable discussion among directors of empirical legal studies efforts in law schools; all conference participants are welcome to attend. |
| Moderator: Valerie Hans, Professor, Cornell Law School Participants: Joseph Doherty, Director, Empirical Research Group, UCLA School of Law Jeffrey Rachlinski, Director, Empirical Legal Studies, Cornell Law School Pauline Kim & Margo Schlanger, Center for Empirical Research in the Law, Washington University in St. Louis School of Law |
Saturday 9:00 - 11:00 a.m.
| Author (presenting author in bold) | Paper | Discussant |
| The U.S. Supreme Court Chair: Robert Hume Room: Pennsylvania | ||
| Gregory A. Caldeira John R. Wright Christopher J. Zorn | A Unified Model of Supreme Court Voting | Josh Chafetz |
| Jeffrey R. Lax Kelly T. Radar | Bargaining Power on the Supreme Court | Stephanie Lindquist |
| Jeff L. Yates Elizabeth Coggins | The Intersection of Judicial Attitudes and Litigant Selection Theories: | Kevin Clermont* |
| Litigation 3 Chair: Jennifer Arlen Room: Princeton | ||
| Steven Garber Michael Greenberg Hilary Rhodes xiaohui zhuo John L. Adams | Do Non-Economic Damages Caps and Attorney Fee Limits Reduce Access | Catherine Sharkey* |
| David A. Hyman Bernard S. Black Charles M. Silver | The Effects of Pretrial Process Reform: Evidence from Texas Medical Malpractice Cases | Jill Horwitz |
| Maximo Langer Joseph W. Doherty | Why did the Managerial Reforms at the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia not Achieve their Purpose? The Bureaucratization Effect in Procedural and Judicial Reform | Muna Ndulo |
| Law & Psychology 3 Chair: Jennifer Robbennolt Room: Yale | ||
| Ilya Beylin Anup Malani | Finding Love in the Wreckage: Estimating Spousal Altruism with | John Darley |
| Elizabeth Mullen Janice Nadler | Moral Spillovers: The Effect of Moral Violations on Deviant Behavior | Valerie Reyna |
| Mary R. Rose Shari S. Diamond Kimberly M. Baker | Goffman on the Jury: Real Jurors' Attention to the 'Off Stage' of Trials | Kevin Jon Heller |
| Criminal Law & Procedure 4: Deterrence Chair: John Pfaff Room: Dartmouth | ||
| Robert MacCoun Rosalie Liccardo Pacula Jamie F. Chriqui Katherine M. Harris Peter H. Reuter | Do Citizens Know Whether Their State Has Decriminalized Marijuana? | Tom Tyler |
| Emily Greene Owens Shawn D. Bushway | Framing Punishment: A New Look at Deterrence | Kenworthy Bilz |
| J.J. Prescott Jonah E. Rockoff | Do Sex Offender Registration and Notification Laws Affect Criminal Behavior? | Edward Cheng |
| Courts & Judges 2: Judicial Ideology Chair: Jonathan Kastellec Room: Columbia | ||
| Anna Harvey | What Makes a Judgment 'Liberal'? Coding Bias in the United States | Carolyn Shapiro |
| Joshua B. Fischman David S. Law | What Is Judicial Ideology, and How Do We Measure it? | Gregory Sisk |
| Michael Bailey Forrest Maltzman | Does Legal Doctrine Matter? Unpacking Law and Policy Preferences | Pam Corley |
| International Corporate & Securities Chair: Jens Dammann Room: Taylor | ||
| Dhammika Dharmapala Vikramaditya S. Khanna | Corporate Governance, Enforcement, and Firm Value: Evidence from India | Jay Dahya |
| Tim Swanson | On the Looting of Nations | Robert Hockett |
| Erica Gorga | Changing the Paradigm of Stock Ownership: From Concentrated Towards | Vikramaditya S. Khanna |
| Personal Finance Chair: Theodore Eisenberg Room: Amphitheatre | ||
| Michael S. Barr* | Financial Services, Savings and Borrowing Among Low- and Moderate-Income | Geoffrey Miller |
| Scott Hankins Mark L. Hoekstra Paige Marta Skiba | "The Ticket to Easy Street? The Financial Consequences of Winning the Lottery" | Robert Frank* |
| Michael S. Barr Jane K. Dokko Benjamin J. Keys | Borrowing in the Alternative Financial Services Market | Florencia Marotta-Wurgler |
Saturday 11:15 a.m. - 12:35 p.m.
| Empirical Studies of Race Chair: Barbara Holden-Smith Room: Columbia | ||
| Kareem U. Crayton | The Changing Face of the Congressional Black Caucus | Gregory Parks* |
| Jeff L. Yates Andrew B. Whitford | Race in the War on Drugs: The Social Consequences of Presidential Rhetoric | Jeannine Bell |
| Criminal Law & Procedure 5 Chair: Glenn Galbreath Room: Yale | ||
| Brandon L. Garrett J.J. Prescott | Litigation by the Innocent over Time | Nancy J. King |
| Kong-Pin Chen | Does the Type of Criminal Defense Counsel Affect Case Outcomes? A Natural Experiment in Taiwan | Sam Gross* |
| Employment Discrimination Chair: Angela Cornell Room: Pennsylvania | ||
| Laura Beth Nielsen Robert L. Nelson Ryon Lancaster | Uncertain Justice: Litigating Claims of Employment Discrimination in the | Margo Schlanger |
| Sean Farhang | Private Litigants, the Administrative State, and Enforcement of Employment | Elizabeth Hirsh |
| Empirical Research on Rights Chair: Bernie Meyler Room: Dartmouth | ||
| Sharon L. Tennyson Dean Lueck Rick Geddes | Human Capital Accumulation and the Expansion of Women's Property Rights | Cynthia Bowman |
| Jeffrey K. Staton Christopher M. Reenock Marius Radean | Legal Institutions and the Democratic Order | Cheryl Boudreau |
| Corporate Governance 4 Chair: Chris Wonnell Room: Taylor | ||
| Fabrizio Ferri Yonca Ertimur Stephen Stubben | Board of Directors' Responsiveness to Shareholders: Evidence from Shareholder Proposals | Jens Dammann |
| Anita I. Anand Edward M. Iacobucci | An Empirical Examination of the Governance Choices of Income Trusts | Josh Teitelbaum |
| Judicial Interpretation Chair: Edward Cheng Room: Princeton | ||
| David S. Law David T. Zaring | When is Legislative History Used Innocently? | Michael Dorf |
| Anthony Niblett Richard A. Posner Andrei Schleifer | The Evolution of a Legal Rule | Tom Ulen |
| Law and Psychology 4 Chair: David Hoffman Room: Amphitheatre | ||
| Betsey Stevenson Justin Wolfers | Economic Growth and Subjective Well-Being: Reassessing the | Bob Frank* |
| Andrew Wistrich Jeffrey Rachlinski Chris Guthrie | Attribution and Blame Among Trial Judges | Donald Braman |
12:45 – 2:00 p.m.
| Lunch Buffet by Dinosaur BBQ |
| At Cornell Law School - Myron Taylor Hall Courtyard |
AT THE LAW SCHOOL
Saturday 2:00 - 3:20 p.m.
| Author (presenting author in bold) | Paper | Discussant |
| Media and Telecommunications Law Chair: Oskar Liivak Room: MTH 277 | ||
| Daniel E. Ho Kevin M. Quinn | Viewpoint Diversity and Media Consolidation: An Empirical Study | Jon Adler* |
| Babette Boliek | Net Neutrality Regulation in the Mobile Telecommunications Market: | Matt Spitzer |
| Judicial Clerks Chair: Jeffrey Rachlinski Room: MTH 285 | ||
| Royce de Rohan Barondes | Want Your Opinions Questioned or Reversed? Hire a Yale Clerk | Dan Kahan |
| David H. Kaye Joseph L. Gastwirth | Where Have All the Women Gone? The Gender Gap in Supreme Court Clerkships | Bernadette Meyler |
| Corporate Governance 5 Chair: Erica Gorga Room: MTH G85 | ||
| Murali Jagannathan Adam C. Pritchard | Does Delaware Entrench Management? | Martijn Cremers |
| Dalida Kadyrzhanova Matthew Rhodes-Kropf | Concentrating on Governance | Chris Wonnell |
| Securities Regulation 4 Chair: Todd Henderson Room: MTH G90 | ||
| Stavros Gadinis
| Is Investor Protection SEC's Top Priority? Evidence from Enforcement Against Broker-Dealers | William Latham |
| Kate Litvak | Defensive Management: Does the Sarbanes-Oxley Act Discourage Corporate Risk-Taking? | Jon Macey |
| Law and Psychology 5 Chair: Janice Nadler Room: MTH 290 | ||
| Christopher L. Asplund Joshua Buckholtz Paul E. Dux | The Neural Basis of Third-Party Legal Decision-Making | Terry Chorvat |
| Charles J. Brainerd Lilian Nilnitsky Stein R. A. Silveira Gustavo Rohenkohl Valerie F. Reyna | How Does Negative Emotion Cause False Memories? | Carol Krafka |
| Insurance Chair: David Hyman Room: MTH 279 | ||
| Levon Barseghyam Jeffrey Prince Josh Teitelbaum | Are Risk Preferences Stable Across Contexts? Evidence from Insurance Data | Sharon Tennyson |
| J. Mark Ramseyer | Talent and Expertise under Universal Health Insurance: | Katheryn Zeiler |
| Empirical Studies of Gender 2 Chair: Elizabeth Karns Room: MTH 276 | ||
| Antara Haldar Amrit Amirapu Katharina Pistor | Social Norms, Rule of Law, and Gender Reality | Lynn Mather |
| Alok Kumar Justin Wolfers | Discrimination Against Female CEOs | Nina Walton |
Saturday 3:30 – 5:15 p.m.
| Featured Panel on Advancements in Statistics Chair: Ted Eisenberg Room: MTH G90 | |
| Author | Paper |
| William Anderson | An Introduction to Hierarchical Models: Regression Models for Clustered Data |
| Martin Wells | An Introduction to Meta-Analysis: Combining Results Across Studies |
Saturday 3:30 – 5:15 p.m.
| ACTIVITIES |
| Cornell Plantations Walk |
| Gorge Hike at Robert H. Treman State Park |
| Herbert F. Johnson Museum |
| The Commons |
6:00 -7:00 p.m.
| Wine Tasting Reception – Myron Taylor Hall Courtyard Presented by David Sparrow of Sparrow's Fine Wines Featuring Finger Lakes wines |
7:00 – 9:00 p.m.
| Dinner Buffet by Serendipity – Myron Taylor Hall Courtyard |
