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ANNOUNCEMENT | Sunday, March 1, 2009
Enrollment Begins for the Conducting Empirical Legal Scholarship Workshop
The Conducting Empirical Legal Scholarship workshop is for law school and social science faculty interested in learning about empirical research. Leading empirical scholars Lee Epstein and Andrew D. Martin will teach the workshop, which provides the formal training necessary to design, conduct, and assess empirical studies, and to use statistical software (Stata) to analyze and manage data. Participants need no background or knowledge of statistics to enroll in the workshop. Topics to be covered include research design, sampling, measurement, descriptive statistics, inferential statistics, and linear regression.
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ANNOUNCEMENT | Tuesday, September 16, 2008
Assistant Web Developer Sought
CERL seeks to hire a capable and energetic web developer to contribute to the growing body of Center-built research initiatives. If you are such a person or know of one, we'd love to chat.
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ANNOUNCEMENT | Tuesday, April 1, 2008
Political Science and Law Expert to Join Faculty
David Law of the University of San Diego School of Law and the Department of Political Science at the University of California, San Diego, will be joining the Washington University Law faculty this summer as a professor of law, with an additional appointment in the Department of Political Science in Arts & Sciences. His teaching and scholarship focus on law and political science, comparative public law, and constitutional theory.
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ANNOUNCEMENT | Thursday, October 25, 2007
C++ Programmer sought
This project consists of updating the existing code to the updated version of the Scythe Statistical Library, version 1.0.2, and optimizing the existing C++ code.
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ANNOUNCEMENT | Thursday, October 11, 2007
The Clearinghouse Initiative seeks a Project Director
Margo Schlanger, creator of the Civil Rights Litigation Clearinghouse, seeks a Project Director to oversee the substantive affairs of this special collection.
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ANNOUNCEMENT | Monday, September 3, 2007
Martin & Quinn research featured in UK Financial Times
A recent news article in the UK Financial Times newspaper, entitled “Man vs. machine - How computers routed the experts” by Ian Ayres, featured the research of professors Andrew Martin and Kevin Quinn. The article describes how by using just a few variables concerning the politics of a case, it is possible to predict how US Supreme Court justices would vote. A detailed demonstration is citied in the article showing how their flow charts, outperformed the opinions of 83 legal experts – esteemed law professors, practitioners and pundits predicting 75 per cent of the court’s affirm/reverse results correctly, while the legal experts collectively got only 59.1 per cent right. View the article.
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ANNOUNCEMENT | Thursday, August 16, 2007
CERL begins search for an Assistant Web Developer
CERL seeks to hire a capable and energetic web developer to contribute to the growing body of Center-built research initiatives. If you are such a person or know of one, we'd love to chat.
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ANNOUNCEMENT | Monday, July 23, 2007
CERL names 2007-2008 Fellow
Delia Bailey, a recent Ph.D. in Social Sciences from the California Institute of Technology joined CERL as a post-doctoral fellow on July 1. Dr. Bailey is an expert in American elections and political methodology. She will be working on a project focused on the election of judges and prosecutors.
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ANNOUNCEMENT | Tuesday, January 23, 2007
CERL begins search for 2007-2008 Post-Doctoral Fellow
The Center for Empirical Research in the Law at the Washington University School of Law ( site ) is offering a one-year postdoctoral fellowship for scholars with Ph.D.s in political science, economics, psychology, sociology, statistics, or other social sciences with interests in empirical legal scholarship.
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ANNOUNCEMENT | Tuesday, August 15, 2006
Civil Rights Litigation Clearinghouse website debuts
The Center for Empirical Research in the Law debuts their first major sponsored project, the Civil Rights Litigation Clearinghouse. Assisting Margo Schlanger, the mind behind the clearinghouse, CERL worked to create a data collection and dissemination system to facilitate the coding of upwards of ten thousand legal documents into a searchable record of civil rights cases in America.
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ANNOUNCEMENT | Saturday, July 1, 2006
New Law Research Center Established
The Washington University School of Law announced the creation of a new Center for Empirical Research in the Law. The center has been established to enhance empirical legal scholarship at the Washington University School of Law, as well as throughout the University and the legal academy. The center will also provide support and training on empirical legal research to students and colleagues.
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