Draft Schedule
Conference on Empirical Legal Studies 2008
AT THE STATLER HOTEL
Friday 7:30 – 9:00 a.m.
| Continental Breakfast & Registration – Ballroom Foyer |
Friday 9:00 - 11:00 a.m.
| Author (presenting author in bold) | Paper | Discussant |
| Law and Psychology 1 | ||
| 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, Juror Sophistication, and Decision Difficulty | David Dunning |
| Courts & Judges 1 | ||
| Marcus E. Hendershot | From Consent to Advice and Consent: Cyclical Constraints within the District Court Appointment Process. | Christopher Zorn |
| Clare Leaver Jordi Blanes i Vidal | Pandering Judges? | Chris Boyd |
| Bert Huang | Measuring Judicial Discretion | Wendy Martinek |
| Medical Malpractice 1 | ||
| 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 in Physicians' Offices | Stephan Landsman |
| CEO Salaries | ||
| 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 | Jon Macey |
| Sonali Hazarika Jonathan M. Karpoff Rajarishi Nahata | Earnings Management and Forced CEO Turnover: Empirical Evidence | Yair Listokin |
| Tax | ||
| Daniel M. Schneider | Use of Judicial Doctrines in Federal Tax Cases Decided by Trial Courts, 1993-2006: A Quantitative Assessment | Ahmed Taha |
| Jon Bakija Bradley T. Heim | How Does Charitable Giving Respond to Incentives and Income? Dynamic Panel Estimates Accounting for Predictable Changes in Taxation | 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 | ||
| 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 | ||
| Amanda E. Dawsey Richard M. Hynes Lawrence M. Ausubel | The Regulation of Non-Judicial Debt Collection and the Consumer's Choice Among Repayment, Bankruptcy and Informal Bankruptcy | Stephen J. Lubben |
| Koen J.L. Schoors Peter Coussement Bart Leyman | Court-Supervised Restructuring: Pre-Bankruptcy Dynamics, Debt Structure and Debt Rescheduling | Joshua Goodman |
| Robert M. Lawless | Who are the Self-Employed in Bankruptcy? | John Armour |
Friday 11:15 a.m. - 1:15 p.m.
| Author | Paper | Discussant |
| Law & Society | ||
| Tom Tyler Jeffrey Fagan | Legitimacy and Cooperation: Why do People Help the Police Fight Crime in their Communities? | Tracey Meares |
| Herbert M. Kritzer Robert E. Drechel | Reporting Civil Litigation on Local Television News | Neil Vidmar |
| James L. Gibson | 'New-Style' Judicial Campaigns and the Legitimacy of State High Courts: Results from a National Survey | Dawn Chutkow |
| Criminal Law & Procedure 1: Sentencing | ||
| 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 National Corrections Reporting Program on Sentencing Practices | J.J. Prescott |
| Hashem Dezhbakhsh Paul H. Rubin | From the 'Econometrics of Capital Punishment' to the 'Capital Punishment' of Econometrics: On the Use and Abuse of Sensitivity Analysis | Justin Wolfers |
| Litigation 1 | ||
| Christopher R. Drahozal Quentin R. Wittrock | Is There a Flight from Arbitration? | Marc Galanter |
| Paulo Eduardo Alves Silva | Invisible Power: The Brazilian Judicial Bureaucracy - A Study of Cases in Registry Offices | Peter Lewisch |
| Yuval Feldman Tom Tyler | Mandated Justice: The Potential Promise and Possible Pitfalls of Mandating Procedural Justice | Linda Demaine |
| Law & Psychology 2: Family Law | ||
| Elizabeth Carol Ahern Thomas D. Lyon Jodi Quas Lindsay Malloy | Non-Maltreated and Maltreated Children's Attitudes about Transgression Secrecy: Parents vs. Strangers | 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 in the Evaluation of Child Support Payments | Richard Lempert |
| Corporate Governance 1: Directors | ||
| 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 | ||
| 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 | ||
| 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: The French Dilemma? | Karin Thorburn |
| Adam Levitin Joshua Goodman | Mortgage Market Sensitivity to Bankruptcy Modification | Ronald Mann |
Friday 1:15 -2:15 p.m.
| Lunch [buffet or box lunches] |
| Roundtable discussion on Funding for Empirical Legal Studies |
Friday 2:15 - 4:15 p.m.
| Author | Paper | Discussant |
| Litigation 2 | ||
| Michael G. Faure N.J. Philipsen | Fees for Claim Settlement in the Field of Personal Injury: Empirical Evidence from the Netherlands | Bert Kritzer |
| Pauline T. Kim | Deliberation and Strategy on the United States Courts of Appeals: An Empirical Exploration of Panel Effects | Katherine Barnes |
| Nancy Christine Staudt | If Major Wars Affect (Judicial) Fiscal Policy, How & Why? | Edward McCaffery |
| Corporate Governance 2 | ||
| 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 | Federica Pazzaglia |
| International & Comparative Law | ||
| Galit A. Sarfaty | Why Culture Matters in International Institutions: The Marginality of Human Rights at the World Bank | 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 | ||
| Stavros Gadinis | Is Investor Protection SEC's Top Priority? Evidence from Enforcement Against Broker-Dealers | Tom Baker |
| 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? Some Preliminary Evidence | Daniel E. Ho |
| Law and Finance | ||
| Cecile Carpentier Douglas J. Cumming Jean-Marc Suret | The Value of Capital Market Regulation and Certification: IPOs versus Reverse Mergers | TBA |
| 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 & Procedure2: The Death Penalty | ||
| Katherine Y. Barnes David Sloss Stephen C. Thaman | Life and Death Decisions: Prosecutorial Discretion and Capital Punishment in Missouri | 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 During World War I | Jeffrey Fagan |
| Property and Contracts | ||
| Yun-chien Chang | An Empirical Study of Takings Compensation Settlements: New York City 1990 - 2002 | 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.
| Author | Paper | Discussant |
| Employment Law | ||
| Alison Morantz | Rethinking the Great Compromise: What Happens When Large Companies Opt Out of Workers Compensation? | Zev Eigen |
| Samuel Estreicher Kristina Yost | Measuring the Value of Class and Collective Action Employment Settlements: A Preliminary Assessment | Stewart Schwab |
| Intellectual Property | ||
| Paul J. Heald | Testing the Over- and Under-Exploitation Hypotheses: Bestselling Musical Compositions (1913-32) and Their Use in Cinema (1968-2007) | Jay Kesan |
| Dave Schwartz | Practice Makes Perfect? An Empirical Study of Claim Construction Reversal Rates in Patent Cases | Oskar Liivak |
| Criminal Law & Procedure 3 | ||
| Thomas H. Cohen | Commercial Surety Bail and the Problem of Missed Court Appearances and Pretrial Detention | Sanja Kutnjak Ivkovich |
| Brandon L. Garrett J.J. Prescott | Litigation by the Innocent over Time | Nancy J. King |
| Empirical Studies of Gender 1 | ||
| 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 on a New Empirical Test | Alexia Brunet |
| Legal Profession | ||
| 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 4 | ||
| Helen M. Bowers William R. Latham Bogdan Nedanov | Does Legally Mandating Independence of Advisers Improve Merger Outcomes for Shareholders? | Vladimir Atanasov |
| Murali Jagannathan Adam C. Pritchard | Does Delaware Entrench Management? | Martijn Cremers |
| Consumer Debt | ||
| Michael S. Barr Jane K. Dokko Benjamin J. Keys | Borrowing in the Alternative Financial Services Market | Florencia Marotta-Wurgler |
| 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 pm.
| Poster Session Reception | |||
| Author | Paper |
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| Ronald Jay Allen Alexia Brunet | To Tow or Not to Tow: The Deterrence Effect of a Municipal Ordinance |
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| Rafael I. Pardo Michelle R. Lacey | Anatomy of an Adversary Proceeding: An Empirical Study of Undue Hardship Discharge Litigation |
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| John Hagedoorn Geerte Hesen | Contractual Complexity and the Cognitive Load of R&D Alliance Contracts |
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| Shmuel I. Becher Esther Unger-Aviram | Myth and Reality in Consumer Contracting Behavior |
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| Edward K. Cheng | Specialist Judges |
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| Johnathan P. Kastellec | Panel Composition and Voting on the U.S. Courts of Appeals Over Time |
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| Daniel Martin Katz Derek K. Stafford | Hustle and Flow: A Social Network Analysis of the American Federal Judiciary |
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| Pamela C. Corley Artemus Ward Amy Steigerwalt | Deciding to Agree: Explaining Consensual Behavior on the United States Supreme Court |
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| Jennifer Barnes Bowie | Do Federal Circuit Courts of Appeals Judges Fear Reversal from the Supreme Court? |
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| Yonatan Lupu James H. Fowler | Where Do Legal Opinions Come from? Strategic Opinion Writing on the Supreme Court |
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| Lisa B. Bingham Tina Nabatchi Jeffrey M. Senger Michael Scott Jackman | Dispute Resolution and the Vanishing Trial: Comparing Federal Government Litigation and ADR Outcomes |
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| Jay P. Kesan Andres Gallo | Pondering the Politics of Private Procedures: The Case of ICANN |
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| Donna M. Gitter | Should the United States Designate Specialist Patent Trial Judges? An Analysis of H.R. 34 in Light of the U.K. Experience |
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| Peter B. Oh | Lifting v. Piercing |
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| Robert Hume | Judicial Oversight of the Implementation of Federal Administrative Cases: What Happens When Decisions Come Back after Remands |
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| Aman Liev McLeod | The Red-Blue Divide on the Bench: An Examination of the Effects of Selection Systems on Partisan Divisions in State Supreme Court Decisions |
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| Zev Eigen | The Devil in the Details: The Interrelationship among Citizenship, Rule of Law and Form-Adhesive Contracts |
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| Shauhin A. Talesh | The Legislature, 'Lemons,' and Legal Endogeneity: How Manufacturers Force Consumers to 'Holster' Consumer Warranty Protection Law 'Weapons' |
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| Baillie Aaron | The Effect of Race-Crime Typicality on Judicial Sentencing Decisions |
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| Mihir A. Desai Dhammika Dharmapala | Taxes and Portfolio Choice: Evidence from JGTRRA's Treatment of International Dividends |
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| Thomas A. Eaton David B. Mustard | Tort Litigation in Georgia: 2004-06 |
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| Thomas Brennan | Cash-Flow and Market Response to Repatriation |
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| Stefano Mengoli Elena Sapienza Federica Pazzaglia | Is it Still Pizza, Spaghetti and Mandolino? On the Evolution of Corporate Ownership in Italy |
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| Jill Gross Barbara Black | When Perception Changes Reality: An Empirical Study of Investors' Views of the Fairness of Securities Arbitration |
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| Elizabeth Nowicki | Reverse Termination Fee Provisions in Acquisition Agreements |
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Friday, September 12, 7:00 - 9:00 pm., Dinner - Statler Ballroom
Keynote Speaker:
Lee Epstein, Henry Wade Rogers Professor
Northwestern University
"Exxon Shipping, Footnote 17"
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AT THE STATLER HOTEL
Saturday, 7:30 – 9:00 a.m.
| Continental Breakfast – Ballroom Foyer |
Saturday, 8:00 – 9:00 a.m.
| Breakfast roundtable discussion among directors of empirical legal studies efforts in law schools; all conference participants are welcome to attend |
| Participants: Valerie Hans (moderator) |
Saturday 9:00 - 11:00 a.m.
| Author | Paper | Discussant |
| The U.S. Supreme Court | ||
| 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: Explaining U.S. Supreme Court Decision Making | Kevin Clermont |
| Medical Malpractice 2 | ||
| Steven Garber Michael Greenberg Hilary Rhodes xiaohui zhuo John L. Adams | Do Non-Economic Damages Caps and Attorney Fee Limits Reduce Access to Justice for Victims of Medical Negligence? | 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 |
| Kathryn Zeiler Charles Silver Tom Baker | Do Insurer Pricing Strategies Explain Medical Malpractice Liability Insurance Premium Fluctuations?: An Empirical Study at the Claim Level | Deborah Hensler |
| Law & Psychology 3 | ||
| Ilya Beylin Anup Malani | Finding Love in the Wreckage: Estimating Spousal Altruism with Data on Fatal Car Accidents | 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 | ||
| Robert MacCoun Rosalie Liccardo Pacula Jamie F. Chriqui Katherine M. Harris Peter H. Reuter | Do Citizens Know Whether Their State Has Decriminalized Marijuana? A Test of the Perceptual Assumption in Deterrence Theory | 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? |
Ed Cheng |
| Courts & Judges 2: Judicial Ideology | ||
| Anna Harvey | What Makes a Judgment 'Liberal'? Coding Bias in the United States Supreme Court Judicial Database | 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 on the U.S. Supreme Court | Pam Corley |
| International Corporate & Securities | ||
| 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 Dispersed Ownership? Evidence from Brazil and Consequences for Emerging Countries | Vikramaditya S. Khanna |
| Money, More or Less | ||
| Michael S. Barr | Financial Services, Savings and Borrowing Among Low- and Moderate-Income Households: Evidence from the Detroit Area Household Financial Services Survey | Geoffrey Miller |
| Scott Hankins Mark L. Hoekstra Paige Marta Skiba | The Road to Easy Street? The Financial Consequences of Winning the Lottery | Robert Frank |
| Stephen J. Lubben | The Types of Chapter 11 Cases | Richard Hynes |
Saturday 11:15 a.m.- 12:35 p.m.
| Author | Paper | Discussant |
| Empirical Studies of Race | ||
| 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: Public Defenders | ||
| Kong-Pin Chen Kuo-Chang Huang
Chang-Ching Lin | Does the Type of Criminal Defense Counsel Affect Case Outcomes? A Natural Experiment in Taiwan | Sam Gross |
| David S. Abrams Albert Yoon | Understanding High Skill Worker Productivity Using Random Case Assignment in a Public Defender's Office | Robert L. Nelson |
| Employment Discrimination | ||
| Laura Beth Nielsen Robert L. Nelson Ryon Lancaster | Uncertain Justice: Litigating Claims of Employment Discrimination in the Contemporary United States | Margo Schlanger |
| Sean Farhang | Private Litigants, the Administrative State, and Enforcement of Employment Discrimination Laws | Elizabeth Hirsh |
| Empirical Research on Rights | ||
| 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 5 | ||
| Andrew Ellul Marco Pagano Fausto Panunzi
| Inheritance Law and Investment in Family Firms | Erica Gorga |
| Anita I. Anand Edward M. Iacobucci | An Empirical Examination of the Governance Choices of Income Trusts | Josh Teitelbaum |
| Judicial Interpretation | ||
| 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 | ||
| Betsey Stevenson Justin Wolfers | Economic Growth and Subjective Well-Being: Reassessing the Easterlin Paradox | Bob Frank |
| Andrew Wistrich Jeffrey Rachlinski Chris Guthrie | Attribution and Blame Among Trial Judges | Donald Braman |
AT THE LAW SCHOOL
Saturday, 12:45 – 2:00 p.m.
| Luncheon – Myron Taylor Hall Courtyard |
Saturday 2:00 - 3:20 p.m.
| Author | Paper | Discussant |
| Media and Telecommunications Law | ||
| 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: A Cautionary Tale from the Era of Price Regulation | Matt Spitzer |
| Judicial Clerks | ||
| 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 6 | ||
| Fabrizio Ferri Yonca Ertimur Stephen Stubben | Board of Directors' Responsiveness to Shareholders: Evidence from Shareholder Proposals | Alicia Davis Evans |
| Dalida Kadyrzhanova Matthew Rhodes-Kropf | Concentrating on Governance | Chris Wonnell |
| Securities Regulation 4: Sarbanes-Oxley | ||
| Mahendrarajah Nimalendran Lori Sue Walsh Cindy R. Alexander | The Informational Value of U.S. Securities Registration: Evidence from Secondary Public Offerings | Merritt Fox |
| Kate Litvak | Defensive Management: Does the Sarbanes-Oxley Act Discourage Corporate Risk-Taking? | TBA |
| Law and Psychology 5 | ||
| 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 | ||
| Levon Barseghyam Jeffrey Prince Josh Teitelbaum | Are Risk Preferences Stable Across Contexts? Evidence from Insurance Data | TBA |
| J. Mark Ramseyer | Talent and Expertise under Universal Health Insurance: The Case of Cosmetic Surgery in Japan | Katheryn Zeiler |
| Empirical Studies of Gender 2 | ||
| Antara Haldar Amrit Amirapu Katharina Pistor | Social Norms, Rule of Law, and Gender Reality | Lynn Mather
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| Alok Kumar Justin Wolfers | Discrimination Against Female CEOs | Nina Walton |
Saturday, 3:30 p.m.
Additional Scholarly Sessions & Recreational Activities
| Author | Paper | Discussant |
| Methodology/Statistical Analysis Panel 1:
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| Optional Methodology/Statistical Analysis Panel 2:
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| Cornell Plantations Walk [details tba] | ||
| Tour of The Johnson Museum [details tba] | ||
| Gorge Walk [details tba] | ||
| Other arranged activities [details tba] | ||
Saturday, September 13, - Myron Taylor Hall Courtyard
6:00 – 7:00 p.m. Wine Tasting Reception
7:00 – 9:00 p.m. Dinosaur Barbecue Dinner