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Members of the Washington University community interested in attending WERL should contact the organizer. In Spring 2007, WERL is being organized by Professor Margo Schlanger ( email ). The seminar will be held weekly at a time and place to be announced (mostly Wednesdays or Thursdays at 3pm).

The reading materials and agenda items for the weekly WERL meetings are posted here. Many of the PDF files are encrypted due to copyright restrictions, and are thus only available to WERL participants.

2008 Workshop Topics and Papers
2008 2007 2006 2005
Tuesday
September 9
An Empirical Analysis of the Confirmation Hearings of the Justices of the Rehnquist Natural Court
by Jason J. Czarnezki, William K. Ford & Lori A. Ringhand
Const. Comm. 2007

werl_20080812.pdf
Tuesday
August 12
Lawyers of the Right: Networks and Organization
by Anthony Paid, Ann Southworth, and John P. Heinz
Law and Social Inquiry

werl_20080812.pdf
Tuesday
July 29
Lawyers of the Right: Networks and Organization
by Anthony Paid, Ann Southworth, and John P. Heinz
Law and Social Inquiry

werl_20080729.pdf
Tuesday
July 22
The Role of Societal Benefits and Fairness Concerns Among Decision Makers and Decision Recipients
by Larry Heuer, Steven Penrod, and Ayelet Kattan

werl_20080722.pdf
Tuesday
July 15
Refugee Roulette: Disparities in Asylum Adjudication
by Jaya Ramji-Nogales, Andrew I. Schoenholtz, and Phillip G. Schrag
Stanford Law Review

werl_20080715.pdf
Tuesday
June 24
Do Sex Offender Registration and Notification Laws Affect Criminal Behavior
by J.J. Prescott and Jonah E. Rockoff

werl_20080624.pdf
Tuesday
May 27
Judges' Political Orientations and the Selection of Disputes for Litigation
by Ahmed Taha

werl_20080527.pdf
Tuesday
May 20
The Right to Silence Helps the Innocent: A Game-Theoretic Analysis of the Fifth Amendment Privilege
by Daniel J. Seidmann and Alex Stein

werl_20080520.pdf
Monday
May 19
Introduction to Game Theory: Slides
by Randy Calvert

werl_20080519.pdf
Tuesday
May 13
Hustle and Flow: A Social Network Analysis of the American Federal Judiciary
by Daniel M. Katz and Derek K. Stafford

werl_20080513.pdf
Wednesday
April 9
Gender Bias in Power Relationships: Evidence from Police Traffic Stops
by Garrick Blalock, Jed DeVaro, Stephanie Leventhal, and Daniel H. Simon

werl_20080409.pdf
Wednesday
April 2
Divided We Quarrel: The Politics of Congressional Investigations, 1947-2004
by Matthew M. Dull and David C.W. Parker

werl_20080402.pdf
Wednesday
March 26
The Conditional Effects of Ideology and Institutional Structure on Judicial Voting in State Supreme Courts
by Paul Brace, Jeff Yates, and Bent D. Boyea

werl_20080326.pdf
Wednesday
March 5
The Market Penalty for Mutual Fund Scandals
by Stephen Choi and Marcel Kahan

werl_20080305.pdf
Wednesday
February 27
Sentencing Guidelines and Judicial Discretion
by Shawn D. Bushway, Emily G. Owens, and Anne M. Piehl

werl_20080227.pdf
Wednesday
February 6
Measuring Deviations from Expected Voting Patterns on Collegial Courts
by Paul H. Edelman, David Klien, Stefanie A. Lindquist

werl_20080116.pdf
Wednesday
January 9
Employee capitalism or corporate socialism? Broad-based employee stock ownership
by E. Han Kim and Paige Ouimet

werl_20080109.pdf
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