Second Annual Conference on Empirical Legal Studies
New York University Law School
9-10 November 2007
Announcement & Call for Papers
Submission Deadline Extended to July 5, 2007
The Second Annual Conference on Empirical Legal Studies will be held at New York University School of Law in New York. The conference will feature original empirical and experimental legal scholarship by leading scholars from a diverse range of fields. Last year’s conference had approximately 230 participants and more than 85 presented papers. We expect that this year’s conference will be at least as large.
The conference will start at 9:00 a.m. on Friday November 9, 2007. Paper presentations will conclude at 1:15 p.m. on Saturday November 10 in order to allow participants to return home that afternoon. For those staying on, there will be two methodology discussion sessions (one introductory and one advanced) from 2:30 to 4:00 p.m. and a reception from 6:00 to 8:00 p.m. on Saturday.
To accommodate people around the July 4 holiday, the organizers have extended the submission deadline to July 5, 2007. Details about submissions are included below.
There is a conference fee of $60 ($30 for students). This fee covers all activities including meals and refreshments. It also covers a one-year membership in the Society for Empirical Legal Studies (SELS) as well as a one-year subscription to the Journal of Empirical Legal Studies (JELS) (students paying the discounted fee will receive only the on-line version). Given the size of the conference, we cannot reimburse expenses (except for some presenters with special needs, as discussed below).
Scholars whose papers are accepted for presentation at the conference will be invited (but not required) to submit the work for possible publication in JELS. In addition, the JELS editors expect to publish abstracts of all presented papers (including poster session papers) in the special issue (with author consent).
Paper Submission Instructions
To submit a paper for consideration for the Conference, please go to:
If you are not a registered SSRN user, you will need to create a login to SSRN. Please follow the submission instructions on this page.
If you have problems submitting through this on-line system, please contact User Support at 877-SSRNHELP (toll free 877-777-6435 or Usersupport@ssrn.com, outside of the US call 00+1+585+4428170.
Please submit a paper, including an abstract, and specify the topic(s) for which you are submitting the paper (limit two topics). The paper need not be a final draft, but it must show your initial results. You must specify at least one topic for your submission to be complete. There is no specific form for submitted papers.
One author can submit more than one paper, but one person can present only one paper. If you are an author of more than one submitted paper, please email geoffrey.miller@nyu.edu and jennifer.arlen@nyu.edu and indicate who would present which paper if more than one is accepted. All papers will be refereed.
To be eligible for submission, the paper must still be at a revisable stage (neither published nor so close to publication that significant changes are not feasible) by the date of the conference.
We expect to notify authors about acceptances by approximately August 15, 2007. The number of accepted papers and the panel subjects will depend on the number, quality, and subject areas of the submitted papers. Papers will be accepted in two categories: for presentation in panels and for the poster session.
You are welcome to register for and attend the conference whether or not you submit a paper and whether or not your paper is accepted.
Registration information:
On-line registration is available on the conference Web Site: http://www.law.nyu.edu/cels
Society for Empirical Legal Studies
The conference is an annual event of the Society for Empirical Legal Studies (SELS). Payment of the registration fee automatically entitles the registrant to a one-year membership in SELS and a subscription to JELS.
For information about the Society for Empirical Legal Studies please see: http://www.blackwellpublishing
Reimbursement for presenters:
Funding for this conference is limited, and much of it will pay for meals and other expenses. Therefore as a general matter we cannot reimburse expenses.
However, we currently expect to be able to offer financial support to out-of-town paper presenters who inform us that they have attempted without success to obtain funding from their home institutions. For such paper presenters we anticipate being able to reimburse for expenses (not otherwise reimbursed), up to the following: (a) $1,000 for participants from countries other than the U.S. and Canada; (b) $800 for participants from more than 300 miles from New York; and (c) $500 for participants from less than 300 miles from New York. Presenters must attend the entire conference to receive reimbursement and must request reimbursement by October 9, 2007 and confirm that they are unable to obtain reimbursement from other sources.
Conference organizers:
The conference is jointly organized by Cornell Law School, NYU School of Law and the University of Texas School of Law. The 2008 Conference will be held at Cornell Law School, respectively.
The conference organizers are: Jennifer Arlen (NYU), Bernard Black (Texas), Theodore Eisenberg (Cornell), Michael Heise (Cornell) and Geoffrey Miller (NYU).
For more information:
General inquiries concerning the 2007 Conference should be sent to:
Jennifer Arlen or Geoffrey Miller
New York University Law School
Logistical inquiries should be directed to:
Jerome Miller
212-992-8821