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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.

2007 Workshop Topics and Papers
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Wednesday
December 12
Psychological Aspects Of Retributive Justice
by Kevin M. Carlsmith and John M. Darley

werl_20071212.pdf
Wednesday
November 28
Institutional Legitimacy, Court-Curbing and Judicial Review: The Separation of Powers and Constitutional Interpretation
by Tom S. Clark

werl_20071128.pdf
Wednesday
November 7
Congress, the Supreme Court and Judicial Review: Testing a Constitutional Separation of Powers Model
by Jeffrey Segal, Chad Westerland, Stefanie A. Lindquist

werl_20071107.pdf
Wednesday
October 17
From Competition to Competence? Theory and Experiments Regarding Deliberation and Citizen Learning
by Cheryl Boudreau and Mathew D. McCubbins

werl_20071017.pdf
Wednesday
October 3
Trading Votes for Reasoning: Covering in Judicial Opinions
by Stephen J. Choi and G. Mitu Gulati

werl_20071003.pdf
Wednesday
September 26
Supreme Court Nominations, Legitimacy Theory, and the American Public: A Dynamic Test of the Theory of Positivity Bias
by James L. Gibson and Gregory A. Caldeira

werl_20070926.pdf
Friday
September 21
Racial Discrimination Among NBA Referees
by Joseph Price and Justin Wolfers
National Bureau of Economic Research

werl_20070921.pdf
Wednesday
September 12
Computer Models for Legal Prediction
by Kevin D. Ashley and Stefanie Bruninghaus

werl_20070912.pdf
Wednesday
September 5
Reviewing the Sentencing Guidelines: Judicial Politics, Empirical Evidence, and Reform
by Max Schazenbach and Emerson H. Tiller
Northwestern University Public Law and Legal Theory Series (no. 07-17)

werl_20070905.pdf
Tuesday
August 14
Trial Outcomes and Demographics: Is There a Bronx Effect?
by Theodore Eisenberg and Martin T. Wells

werl_20070814.pdf
Commentary: Trial Outcomes and Demographics: Easy Assumptions Versus Hard Evidence
by Michael J. Saks

werl_20070814a.pdf
Tuesday
August 7
Finger to the Wind: The Influence of Retention Politics on Judges' Decisions
by Joanna M. Shepherd

werl_20070807.pdf
Tuesday
July 17
A Revealed Preference Ranking of U.S. Colleges and Universities
by Christopher Avery, Mark Glickman, Caroline Hoxby, and Andrew Metrick

werl_20070717.pdf
Tuesday
July 10
Should We Pay Federal Circuit Judges More (or Less)?
by Scott Baker
Scott Baker is a Professor of Law, UNC Chapel Hill, School of Law

werl_20070710.pdf
Tuesday
July 3
Comparable Preference Estimates across Time and Institutions for the Court, Congress, and Presidency
by Michael A. Bailey

werl_20070703.pdf
Tuesday
June 26
Are all 'Legal Dollars' Created Equal?
by Yuval Feldman & Doron Teichman

werl_20070626.pdf
Tuesday
June 19
Testing Social Dominance: Is Support for Capitalism and Opposition to Income Redistribution Driven by Racism and Intolerance?
by Jim Lindren

werl_20070619.pdf
Tuesday
June 12
Forgotten Racial Equality: Implicit Bias, Decision-Making and Misremembering
by Justin D. Levinson

werl_20070612.pdf
Tuesday
June 5
Legal Process, Legal Realism and the Strategic Political Effects of Procedural Rules
by Frank B. Cross

werl_20070605.pdf
Tuesday
May 29
Should Legal Empiricists Go Bayesian
by Jeff Strnad

werl_20070529.pdf
Tuesday
May 8
Knowing About Courts
by James L. Gibson & Gregory A Caldeira

werl_20070508.pdf
Wednesday
April 25
From the Asylum to the Prison: Rethinking the Incarceration Revolution
by Brian E. Harcourt
Part II: State Level Analysis

werl_20070425.pdf
Wednesday
April 4
EEOC NSF Grant Discussion

werl_20070404.pdf
Wednesday
March 28
The Effect of Court-Ordered Hirinig Quotas on the Composition and Quality of Police
by Justin McCrary
NBER Working Paper Series

werl_20070328.pdf
Wednesday
February 28
Lower Court Defiance of (Compliance with) the U.S. Supreme Court
by Chad Westerland, Jeffrey A. Segal, Lee Epstein, Scott Comparato & Charles M. Cameron

werl_20070228.pdf
Wednesday
February 21
The Structure of Legal Rules and the Analysis of Judicial Decisions
by Jonathan P. Kastellec
Columbia University

werl_20070221.pdf
Thursday
February 15
The Logic of the Survey Experiment Reexamined
by Gaines & Kuklinski
just out in Political Analysis

werl_20070215.pdf
Wednesday
January 31
Accountability and Coercion: Is Justice Blind When It Runs for Office?
by Gregory A. Huber (Yale) and Sanford C. Gordon (NYU)
American Journal of Political Science, Vol. 48, No. 2. (Apr., 2004), pp. 247-263.

werl_20070131.pdf
Wednesday
January 24
Can We Ignore Case Selection When We Study Judicial Politics?
by Kastellec, Jonathan P. and Lax, Jeffrey R.
December 15, 2006

werl_20070124.pdf
Wednesday
January 17
An Empirical Study of Public Defender Effectiveness: Self-Selection by the "Marginally Indigent"
by Paul H. Rubin & Joanna M. Shepherd
3 Ohio St. J. Crim. L. 223

werl_20070117.pdf
Thursday
January 11
(Un)anticipated Effects of Sentencing Reform on the Disparate Treatment of Defendants
by John Wooldredge, Timothy Griffin, Fritz Rauschenberg
39 Law & Society Review 835 (2005)

werl_20070111.pdf
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