Empirical Legal Studies

Organized by Professor James Lindgren

SPRING 2005

January 18
Max Schanzenbach, Assistant Professor of Law, Northwestern University;
Emerson Tiller, Stanford Clinton Senior Research Professor of Law, Northwestern University
"Strategic Judging Under the United States Sentencing Guidelines: Instrument Choice Theory and Evidence"

January 25
Fred McChesney, Class of 1967 James B. Haddad Professor of Law, Northwestern University;
Richard S. Higgins, Director, Law and Economics Consulting Group
"Why Wonder Bread Lost No Dough: Materiality, Settlements and the FTC's Ad Substantiation Program"

February 8
Robert Sitkoff, Associate Professor of Law, Northwestern University;
Max Schanzenbach, Assistant Professor of Law, Northwestern University
"The Economic Effects of State Laws Abolishing the Rule Against Perpetuities"

February 15
Laura Beth Nielsen, Research Fellow, American Bar Foundation
"Rights and Realities: A Sociological Model of Employment Discrimination Claiming"

March 1
Margaret Brinig, William G. Hammond Distinguished Professor of Law, University of Iowa
"The Effect of Change in Child Custody Standards"

March 29
Hon. Richard Posner, U.S. Court of Appeals for the 7th Circuit; Senior Lecturer, University of Chicago;
William Landes, Clifton R. Musser Professor of Law and Economics, University of Chicago
"An Economic and Empirical Analysis of Presidential Pardons"

April 12 (tentative)
James Heckman, Henry Schultz Distinguished Service Professor in Economics, University of Chicago
"Labor Market Discrimination and Racial Differences in Pre-Market Factors"

FALL 2003

September 18
Randy Roth, Associate Professor of History, Ohio State University
"American Homicide"

October 2
John Monahan, Henry L. and Grace Doherty Charitable Foundation Professor of Law, University of Virginia
"Risk and Race: Violence Forecasting and the Civil/Criminal Distinction"

October 16
Robert MacCoun, Professor of Law and Public Policy, University of California at Berkeley
"The Varieties of Marijuana Prohibition: Do Laws Influence Drug Use?"

October 30
Gary Wells, Professor of Psychology, Iowa State University
"Eyewitness Identification: Using Science to Improve Justice". Second Paper

November 13
Gregory Caldeira, University Chaired Professor of Political Science, Ohio State University
"The New Deal and Supreme Court in the Court of Public Opinion"

December 2
Lisa Bernstein, Wilson-Dickinson Professor of Law and Co-Director, Institute for Civil Justice, University of Chicago
"Custom in the Courts: The Flawed Evidentiary Basis of Article 2's Incorporation Strategy"