2/4-6/11 Empirical Legal Scholarship Course

Northwestern University School of Law Empirical Scholarship Workshop LogoOn 4-6 February 2011, Conducting Empirical Legal Scholarship Workshop:  The Advanced Course will take place at the Northwestern University School of Law in Chicago.   Sponsored by the Northwestern University School of Law and Washington University School of Law, this $850 Course is designed for law school faculty and librarians who have some experience with empirical legal research and an understanding of elementary statistics.   Course presenters will be Lee Epstein, Henry Wade Rogers Professor at Northwestern University, and a fellow of the American Academy of Political and Social Science and American Academy of Arts and Science, as well as Andrew Martin, Professor of Law and Political Science, and Director of the Center for Empirical Research in the Law, at Washington University.   Course topics will include multiple regression, presenting results from non-linear models, data visualization and graphics, and matching methods for casual inference.   For additional information, consult the Course brochure and/or Web site.