The 5th Annual Conference on Empirical Legal Studies (CELS) will be held at Yale Law School Nov. 5 – Nov. 6, 2010. The conference, which is the annual meeting of the Society for Empirical Legal Studies (SELS), will feature original empirical and experimental legal scholarship by leading scholars from a diverse range of fields, including law, economics, political science, demographics, finance, psychology, and sociology. The scholars will present their papers at multiple panel sessions throughout each day, and each presentation will be followed by discussion. In addition to the paper sessions, there will be a poster session and quantitative methods sessions.
The submission period for papers begins Jan. 1, 2010, and ends July 2, 2010. The CELS Organizing Committee will review submissions and send out acceptance notices on Sept. 1, 2010. Submissions of papers in all areas of empirical and experimental legal scholarship are invited. Papers from junior scholars are especially encouraged.
As in the past, there will be a program to help defray the cost of attending for presenters travelling from schools without budgets to cover conference expenses. Applications will be taken in September 2010.
More information and online registration will be available soon on the CELS 2010 website. mw
