5/23-25/12 Empirical Legal Scholarship Workshop

Time is running out for you to register for the 11th Annual Conducting Empirical Legal Scholarship Workshop.  The Workshop will be held 23-25 May 2012 at the University of Southern California  Gould School of Law, and the registration deadline is 5/11/12.  Sponsored by USC Law and Washington University School of Law, the Workshop is designed for law school faculty, political science faculty, and graduate students interested in learning how “to design, conduct, and assess empirical studies, as well as use statistical software to analyze and manage data.”  The Workshop requires a laptop, but participants do not need a background in statistics.  The $850 registration fee includes all Workshop materials, temporary access to STATA software, and several meals.  Workshop teachers will be Lee Epstein, Provost Professor and Rader Family Trustee Chair in Law and Political Sciences, USC; and Andrew D. Martin, Professor of Law and Political Science and Director of the Center for Empirical Research in the Law, Washington University.   For additional information, and to register, consult the Workshop Web site.