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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.

2006 Workshop Topics and Papers
2009 2008 2007 2006 2005
Thursday
November 16
Federal Oversight, Local Control, and the Specter of ""Resegregation"" in Southern Schools
by Charles T. Clotfelter, Jacob L. Vigdor and Helen F. Ladd

werl_20061116.pdf
Thursday
November 9
Legitimacy and Cooperation: Why do people help the police fight crime in their communities
by Tom R. Tyler and Jeffery Fagan

werl_20061109.pdf
Thursday
October 19
Lower Court Discretion
by Pauline Kim

werl_20061019.pdf
Thursday
October 12
Securities Litigation and Its Lawyers: Changes During the First Decade AFter the PSLRA
by Stephen J. Choi and Robert B. Thompson

werl_20061012.pdf
Thursday
October 5
Network Analysis and the Law: Measuring the Legal Importance of Supreme Court Precedents
by James H. Fowler, Timothy R. Johnson, James F. Spriggs II, Sangick Jeon, Paul J Wahlbeck

werl_20061005.pdf
Thursday
September 28
Flouting the Law
by Janice Nadler
Texas Law Review, Vol 83:1399

werl_20060928.pdf
Thursday
September 14
The Basis of Citizens' Perceptions of the Criminal Jury: Proceduaral Fairness, Accuracy and Efficiency
by Robert J. MacCoun and Tom R. Tyler
Law and Human Behavior, Vol. 12, No. 3 (Sep. 1988) pp. 333-352

werl_20060914.pdf
Thursday
September 7
More Guns, More Time: Using Add-on Gun Laws to Estimate the Deterrent Effect of Incarceration on Crime
by Davis S. Abrams
8-May-06

werl_20060907.pdf
Tuesday
August 29
Determinants of Firm Workplace Health and Safety and Claims Management Practices
by Terry Thomason and Silvana Pozzebon

werl_20060829.pdf
Tuesday
August 22
Deterrence versus Brutalization: Capital Punishment's Differing Impacts Among States
by Joanna M Shepherd

werl_20060822.pdf
Tuesday
August 15
The Reagan Revolution in the Network of Law
by Frank B. Cross, Thomas A. Smith, Antonio Tomarchio
Jun-06

werl_20060815.pdf
Tuesday
August 1
Does Religion Really Reduce Crime?
by Paul Heaton
University of Chicago

werl_20060801.pdf
Tuesday
June 20
The Impact of Attorney Compensation on the Timing of Settlements
by Eric Helland and Jonathan Klick
25-May-06

werl_20060620.pdf
Tuesday
June 6
The Effect of Ownership Structure on Insurance Company Litigation Strategy
by Dana A. Kerr
Journal of Legal Studies, vol. 34 (January 2005)

werl_20060606.pdf
Tuesday
May 30
Legal Precedent: A Theoretical and Empirical Analysis
by William M. Landes and Richard A. Posner
University of Chicago & National Bueau of Economic Research

werl_20060530.pdf
Tuesday
May 23
Fatal in Theory and Strict in Fact: An Empirical Analysis of Strict Scrutiny in the Federal Courts
by Adam Winkler
UCLA School of Law, Public Law & Legal Theory Research Paper Series, No.06-14

werl_20060523.pdf
Tuesday
May 9
How Did the 2003 Dividend Tax Cut Affect Stock Prices and Corporate Payout Policy?
by Gene Amromin, Paul Harrison, Nellie Liang and Steve Sharpe
Draft, September 26, 2005

werl_20060509.pdf
Wednesday
March 22
(Un)anticipated Effects of Sentencing Reform on the Disparate Treatment of Defendants
by John Wooldredge, Timothy Griffin and Fritz Rauschenberg
39 L. & Soc. Rev. 835 (2005)

werl_20060322.pdf
Monday
February 27
Neither Force Nor Will: How The Court Became Supreme
by Barry Friedman

werl_20060227.pdf
Friday
February 24
Effects of Sentencing Reform the Disparate Treatment of Defendants
Law and Society Review. 39: 835-874.

werl_20060224.pdf
Monday
February 13
Modeling Motivations: Decision-Making on the Argentine Supreme Court
by Gretchen Helmke

werl_20060213.pdf
Monday
January 30
Asymmetries in Exchange Behavior Incorrectly Interpreted as Evidence of Prospect Theory
by Charles R. Plott and Kathryn Zeiler
2005

werl_20060130.pdf
Friday
January 27
(Un)anticipated Effects of Sentencing Reform on the Disparate Treatment of Defendants
by Wooldredge et al
39 L. & Soc. Rev. 835 (2005)

werl_20060127.pdf
Friday
January 20
What We Know and What We Should Know about American Trial Trends
by Schlanger, Margo
2006, draft

werl_20061020.pdf
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