Association of American Law Schools
2001 Annual Meeting
Wednesday, January 3, 2001 - Saturday, January 6, 2001
San Francisco, California
Saturday, January 6, 2001
10:30 a.m.–12:15 p.m.

Continental Ballroom 4
Hilton San Francisco and Towers
Ballroom Level


Joint Program of Sections on Law and the Social Sciences and Scholarship
Michael Heise, Case Western Reserve University, and Chair, Section on Law and the Social Sciences
John Choon Yoo, University of California at Berkeley, and Chair and Program Chair, Section on Scholarship

New Approaches to Empirical Legal Research

Moderator:

John Choon Yoo, University of California at Berkeley

Speakers:
Frank B. Cross, The University of Texas
Tracey E. George, University of Missouri, Columbia
Michael Heise, Case Western Reserve University
James Lindgren, Northwestern University


Legal scholarship continues to become more interdisciplinary. This tend has partly fueled a dramatic increase in empirical legal research. However, many law professors are untrained in empirical methodologies and unaware of how such methodologies can enhance legal scholarship.

This program is designed to achieve two complementary goals. First, panelists will present results of their empirical legal research projects. Second, panelists will also discuss how empirical methodologies assisted their research, how to approach and structure empirical research projects, and well as possible avenues for future empirical legal research.

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