Empirical Legal Studies Discussion Group
About the Group
The Empirical Legal Studies Discussion Group is a new discussion group, set up in Michaelmas Term 2012. The group is interdisciplinary and broadly focussed on the use of quantitative and qualitative empirical research techniques to address legal questions, particularly techniques and research from the fields of economics and psychology.
Convenors: Paul Troop, Inbar Levy
Senior member: Andrew Higgins
Forthcoming Group Events
June 2013
Friday 7 June 2013 Week 7
- Title to be confirmed
- Speaker: Dr Imogen Goold, Law Faculty, St Anne's College
Oxford Law Faculty Senior Common Room at 12:00
Previous Group Events
May 2013
Friday 17 May 2013
- Assessing the 'Greater Wrong of the Law' - The Statistical Landscape of the English Law of Costs in the era of the Jackson Reforms
- Speaker: Winky So, Exeter College
Oxford Law Faculty Senior Common Room at 12:00
February 2013
Friday 22 February
- Bounded Rationality and the Design of International Law: The Case of Investment Treaties
- Speaker: Dr Lauge Poulsen, Research Fellow, Nuffield College
Oxford Law Faculty Seminar Room D, St Cross Building at 11:30
Wednesday 13 February
- Law in the Real World: the Value of Empirical Research on Law
- Speaker: Professor Martin Partington QC CBE, University of Bristol
Oxford Law Faculty Senior Common Room, Faculty of Law at 11:30
November 2012
Thursday 15 November 2012
- Behavioural Analysis of Civil Procedure Rules: Factors Overload and Interim Remedies Affirmation
- Speaker: Inbar Levy, DPhil Student in Law, University of Oxford
Manor Road Social Sciences Building Seminar Room E, Manor Road Building at 10:00
