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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.

2005 Workshop Topics and Papers
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Friday
December 9
A Note on the Censoring Problem in Empirical Case-outcome Studies
by Michael O. Finkelstein, Bruce Levin, Ian M. McKeague, and Wei-Yann Tsai

werl_20051209.pdf
Friday
December 2
Jurisdiction Stripping: Ideology, Institutional Concerns, and Congressional Control of the Court
by Dawn Chutnow

werl_20051202.pdf
Friday
November 4
Strategic Judging Under the United States Sentencing Guidelines: Positive Political Theory and Evidence
by Max Schanzenbach and Emerson H. Tiller

werl_20051104.pdf
Wednesday
October 26
Do Institutions Really Matter? Assessing the Impact of State Judicial Structures on Citizen Litigiousness
by Jeff Yates, Holley Tankersley, and Paul Brace

werl_20051026.pdf
Wednesday
October 19
Tort Reform and Accidental Deaths
by Paul H. Rubin and Joanna M. Shepherd

werl_20051019.pdf
Friday
September 30
Student Quality as Measured by LSAT Scores: Migration Patterns in the U.S. News Rankings Era
by William D. Henderson and Andrew P. Morriss
2005

werl_20050930.pdf
Friday
September 16
The Effects of Seeking Punitive Damages on the Processing of Tort Claims
by Thomas Eaton, David Mustard and Susette Talarico
2005, Journal of Legal Studies. 34: 343-369

werl_20050916.pdf
Friday
September 2
The Empirical Case for Specific Performance: Evidence from the Tyson-IBP Litigation
by Yair Listokin
2005, Working paper

werl_20050902.pdf
Monday
August 22
Preliminary research proposal
by Pauline Kim
No related exhibits
Monday
August 15
Strategic Decision Making in Federal District Courts: Evidence from Securities Fraud Actions
by Michael A. Perino
2005, St. John's University School of Law, Legal Studies Research Paper Series, Paper 05-013

werl_20050815.pdf
Monday
August 1
Civil Rights Injunctions Over Time: A Case Study of Jail and Prison Court Orders
by Margo Schlanger
2005

werl_20050801.pdf
Monday
July 25
Strategic Plaintiffs and Ideological Judges in Telecommunications Litigation
by John M.P. De Figueiredo
Journal of Law, Economics, and Organization, forthcoming

werl_20050725.pdf
Monday
July 18
Do Institutions Matter? The Impact of the Lead Plaintiff Provision of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act.
by Stephen J. Choi, Jill E. Fisch, and A. C. Pritchard
New York University Law and Economics Research Paper Series. Working Paper No. 04-08.

werl_20050718.pdf
Monday
July 11
Discrimination, Legal Costs and Reputational Costs
by Bradford, William D.
November 30, 2004, SSRN: 679622

werl_20050711.pdf
Monday
June 20
Jury Sentencing in Non-Capital Cases: Comparing Severity and Variance with Judicial Sentences in Two States
by Nancy King and Rosevelt Noble

werl_20050620.pdf
Monday
June 13
Evaluating the Role of Brown vs. Board of Education in School Equalization, Desegregation, and the Income of African Americans
by Orley Ashenfelter, William J. Collins, Albert Yoon
SSRN #11394

werl_20050613.pdf
Friday
May 27
Apologies and Settlement Levers
by Jennifer K. Robbennolt

werl_20050527.pdf
Friday
May 6
Why Affirmative Action Does Not Cause Black Students to Fail the Bar
by Ho, Daniel E.
2005, Yale Law Journal, Vol. 114 (2005, forthcoming)

werl_20050506a.pdf
Evaluating Affirmative Action in American Law Schools: Does Attending a Better Law School Cause Black Students to Fail the Bar?
by Ho, Daniel E.
2005, Working paper

werl_20050506.pdf
Friday
April 29
Does Affirmative Action Reduce the Number of Black Lawyers?
by Ian Ayres & Richard Brooks
Forthcoming Stanford Law Review

werl_20050429.pdf
Friday
April 8
Stability, Not Crisis: Medical Malpractice Claim Outcomes in Texas, 1988-2002
by Bernard Black, Charles Silver, David A. Hyman, William M. Sage
March 2005, forthcoming, 2 Journal of Empirical Legal Studies (2005)

werl_20050408.pdf
Friday
April 1
Federal Oversight, Local Control, and the Specter of ""Resegregation"" in Southern Schools
by Charles T. Clotfelter, Helen F. Ladd, and Jacob L. Vigdor
NBER Working Paper 11086

werl_20050401.pdf
Friday
March 25
Research presentation on the federal death penalty
by Kathie Barnes
No related exhibits
Friday
March 18
Test a Case On Its Own Terms: An Examination of Taxpayer Lawsuits
by Matthew M. Schneider
2005, Working paper

werl_20050318a.pdf
Examining Judicial Independence: The Case of the Customs Court
by Scott Hendrickson
2005, Working paper

werl_20050318.pdf
Friday
March 4
The Politicization of State Judicial Elections: The Effects of New-Style Campaigns on State Court Legitimacy
by James L. Gibson
Working paper

werl_20050304.pdf
Friday
February 25
The Effect of Judicial Expediency on Attorney Fees in Class Actions
by lland, Eric and Klick, Jonathan
December 17, 2004, FSU College of Law, Public Law Research Paper No. 138; FSU College of Law, Law and Economics Paper No. 05-07

werl_20050225.pdf
Friday
February 18
Racial and Sex Disparities in Prison Sentences: The Effect of District Level Judicial Demographics
by Max Schanzenbach
34 J. Leg. Stud. 57 (2005)

werl_20050218.pdf
Friday
February 4
Are Non-Profit Firms Simply For-Profits in Disguise? Evidence from Executive Compensation in the Nursing Home
by Anup Malani & Albert H. Choi
SSRN 617362.

werl_20050204.pdf
Friday
January 28
Organizational Meeting
No related exhibits
Friday
January 21
The Dynamics of Criminal Behavior: Evidence from Weather Shocks
by Brian Jacob, Lars Lefgren, and Enrico Moretti
NBER Working Paper 10739

werl_20050121.pdf
Friday
January 14
The Effect of Automobile Insurance and Accident Liability Laws on Traffic Fatalities
by Alma Cohen & Rajeev Dehejia
47 J. L. & Econ. 357 (2004)

werl_20050114.pdf
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