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CELS Program Summary
November 20-21, 2009
Start End Room 107 'in II) Room1 Room 7 Room 101 Room 103 Room 118/120
I I Room 130 I Room2 I Room 114 Times Times (Courtroom)
Continental Breakfast and Registration Town and Gown
I. 9:45 10:30 Methodology I Methodology 11
II. 10:45 11 :30 Methodology Methodology IVI
11:30 1:00 LunchI I Ill
Town and Gown
Ill. I 1 :00 I 3:00 I Corporate Innovation Law& Law& Attitudes & Capital I I Tax Governance I & Growth Politics I Neuroscience Decision- Punishment
making IV.I 3:15 I 5:15 I International Securities Supreme Courts Experimental Jurors Policing International Law
Corporate Litigation Courts Legal Studies I Law SchoolsI I I I Governance
5:15 7:15 Reception and Poster SessionI I Town and Gown
Town and Gown
I.I 9:00 I 10:20 I Organizational Venture Law& Elections I Experimental Civil Rights Torts Environmental I Property I Form Capital Politics II Legal LawI I
Studies II II. 10:35 12:35 Corporate Financial Law& Elections 11 Judging Victims & Medical Family Law Property II
Governance II Regulation & Politics Ill Witnesses Malpractice I Investor
Protection 12:35 2:25 Lunch and Keynote Speaker I I
Town and Gown
Ill. I 2:25 I 4:25 I CEO Pay I Bankruptcy I Rule of Law I Campaigning & Behavioral Law Criminal Settlement Legal Legal Lobbying & Economics Evidence Profession Origin
IV.I 4:40 I 6:00 I Corporate Rating and Law& Election Administrative Prisons Medical Patents Contracts Governance 111 Advertising Politics IV Audits Law Malpractice II
Financial Products
Friday 8:45-9:45 AM Continental Breakfast and Registration Town and Gown
Friday Methodology I ROOM1
Session I Bernard S. Black Interpreting Did and IV Estimates:
ATE, LA TE, A TET, and All That
9:45 -10 :30 ROOM 107
AM Methodology II
(Courtroom)
Jonathan N. Katz Time-Series, Cross-Section Methods
Session II Methodology Ill ROOM1
10 :45 -11 :30
AM
William Anderson,
Martin T. Wells
Regression Techniques for
Longitudinal Data and Data with
a Large Proportion of Zeros
ROOM 107 Methodology IV
(Courtroom)
Jasjeet S. Sekhon Casual Inference, Matching, and
Regression Discontinuity
Friday 11 :30-1 :00 PM LUNCH Town and Gown
AUTHOR PAPER DISCUSSANT
Session Ill Innovation and Growth Chair: Gillian Hadfield ROOM 7
1 :00 - 3 :00
PM
Stuart J. H. Graham,
Robert P. Merges,
Pamela Samuelson,
Ted M. Sichelman
High Technology Entrepreneurs and
the Patent System: Results of the
2008 Berkeley Patent Survey Kathleen Allen
Anup Agrawal, Accounting Scandals in IPO Firms: David Walker
Tommy Cooper Do Underwriters and VCs Help?
James C. Spindler IPO Underpricing, Disclosure,
and Litigation Risk Kenneth Ayotte
Corporate Governance I Chair: Anh Tran ROOM1
Kose John, Corporate Governance and Financing Ehud Kamar
Lubomir P. Litov Policy: New Evidence
Vair Jason Listokin If You Give Shareholders Power,
Assaf Hamdani Do They Use It? An Empirical Analysis
Stockholder and Bondholder Reactions
Chenyang (Jason) Wei,
David Yermack
to Revelations of Large CEO Inside Debt
Holdings: Arthur Korteweg
An Empirical Analysis
Law and Politics I Chair: Andrew Martin ROOM 101
Jeffrey R. Lax,
Kelly T. Rader
Legal Constraints on Supreme Court
Decision Making: Do Jurisprudential
Regimes Exist?
Kevin Quinn
Tom S. Clark Locating Supreme Court Opinions in
David Law Doctrine Space
The European Court of Justice as an
Engine of Economic Integration:Matthew Gabel,
Reconsidering Evidence that the Charles Cameron Clifford Carrubba
ECJ has Expanded Economic
Exchange in Europe
Friday
Session Ill
1 :00 - 3 :00
PM
(Cont.)
AUTHOR
Capital Punishment
Mona Lynch
Craig Haney
Barbara O'Brien,
Chen Hu,
Samuel R. Gross
Franklin E. Zimring
Jeffrey Fagan,
David T. Johnson
Attitudes and Decision-making
Dan M. Kahan
Nicholas J. Schweitzer, Michael
J. Saks,
David Lavis-McMahon
Avishalom Tor,
Oren Gazal-Ayal,
Stephen M. Garcia
Law and Neuroscience
Christopher L. Asplund,
Joshua Buckholtz,
Paul E. Dux, John C. Gore
Owen D. Jones, Rene Marois,
David H. Zald
Oliver R. Goodenough
Paul J.Zak
Tax
Dhammika Dharmapala,
C. Fritz Foley,
Kristin J. Forbes
Lilian V. Faulhaber,
Daniel Martin Katz,
Michael J. Bommarito I I
Sagit Leviner,
Kyle Richison
PAPER
Chair: Rebecca Sandefur
The Exceptionalism of the White Male
Capital Juror: Race and Sentencing in a
Mock Jury Experiment
Estimating the Probability of False
Conviction for Criminal Defendants Who are
Sentenced to Death
Executions, Deterrence and Homicide:
A Tale of Two Cities
Chair: Dawn McQuiston
Culture, Cognition, and Consent: Who
Perceives What, and Why, in
'Acquaintance Rape' Cases
Is the Rule of Law a Law of Rules? Judgments
of Rule of Law Violations
Fairness and the Willingness to Accept Plea
Bargain Offers
Chair: Mark Turner
The Neural Correlates of Third-Party
Punishment
Strategic Mechanisms, Functional Modeling
and Experimental Design in Neurolaw
The Physiology of Moral Sentiments
Chair: Scott Altman
Watch What I Do, Not What I Say: The
Unintended Consequences of the Homeland
Investment Act
A Tale of Two Codes: An Empirical Analysis of
the Jurisprudence of the United States Tax
Court (1990-2008)
The Role Paid Preparers Play in Taxpayer
Compliance in the United States: An Empirical
Investigation with Policy Implications
DISCUSSANT
ROOM 130
Shari Seidman Diamond
Richard John
David Abrams
ROOM 107
Phoebe C. Ellsworth
Stephan Landsman
Joshua Fischman
ROOM 103
Isabelle Brocas
Mark Turner
Cheryl Boudreau
ROOM 114
Edward Kleinbard
James Spriggs
Theodore Seto
Friday
Session IV
3 :15 - 5:15
PM
AUTHOR
International Corporate
Governance
Kate Litvak
Ryan T. Ball, Luzi Hail,
Florin P. Vasvari
Reena Aggarwal, lsil Erel,
Miguel A. Ferreira,
Pedro P. Matos
Securities Litigation
Michael D. Klausner
Stephen J. Choi,
Adam Pritchard
Jonah B. Gelbach,
Eric A. Helland,
Jonathan Klick
International Law
Joseph W. Doherty,
Richard H. Steinberg
Alan Tauber
Mostafa Beshkar
Policing
Andrea Cann Chandrasekher
Amanda B. Geller,
Jeffrey Fagan
Katherine M. Knight Tuttle
PAPER
Chair: Bruce Kobayashi
The Relationship Among U.S. Securities Laws,
Cross-Listing Premia,
and Trading Volumes
Equity Cross-Listings in the U.S. and
the Price of Debt
Does Governance Travel Around the World?
Evidence from Institutional Investors
Chair: Ahmed Taha
Are Securities Class Actions
'Supplemental' to SEC Enforcement?
An Empirical Analysis
The Supreme Court's Impact on Securities
Class Actions: An Empirical Assessment of
Tellabs
Does Dura Matter? Loss Causation
and the Implications of
Dura Pharmaceuticals v. Broudo
Chair: Keren Weinshall Margel
An Empirical Study of ICTY and ICTR
Sentencing: Doctrine Versus Practice
Explaining Decision-Making by
Supreme Court Justices in Cases
Involving International Law
Estimating a Model of Settlement Bargaining in
the World Trade Organization
Chair: Jan Leighley
The Effect of Order-Maintenance Policing on
Serious and Non-Serious Crime: Evidence
from a Quasi-Experiment
Doubling Down on Pot: Marijuana, Race and
the New Disorder in New York City Street
Policing
Implicit Racial Attitudes and Law Enforcement
Shooting Decisions
DISCUSSANT
ROOM1
Vair Listokin
Oguzhan Ozbas
Holger Spamann
ROOM7
Adam C. Pritchard
Charles Silver
Alicia J. Davis
ROOM2
Kim Buchanan
Emerson Tiller
Mark Van Boening
ROOM 130
Paul Heaton
Robert MacCoun
Samuel Gross
Friday
Session IV
3 :15 - 5:15
PM
(Cont.)
AUTHOR
Law Schools
Paul Oyer,
Scott Schaefer
Ming M. Zhu
Marjorie M. Shultz,
Sheldon Zedeck
Supreme Courts
Daniel E. Ho,
Kevin M. Quinn
Gregory A. Caldeira,
John (Jack) R. Wright
Nuno M. Gagroupa,
Veronica Grembi,
Shirley Ching-ping Lin
Jurors
Cynthia G. Lee
Jerry Kang,
Nilanjana Dasgupta,
Kumar Yogeeswaran,
Gary Blasi
Erin York Cornwell,
Valerie P. Hans
Courts
Jeff L. Yates, Paul Brace,
Brent D. Boyea
Thomas H. Cohen
Brian T. Fitzpatrick
Experimental Legal Studies I
Isabelle Brocas,
Juan D. Carrillo,
Thomas R. Palfrey
Kevin M. Esterling,
David Lazer,
Michael A. Neblo
Cheryl Boudreau,
Mathew D. McCubbins,
Daniel B. Rodriguez,
Nicholas Weller
PAPER
Chair: Michele Destefano Beardslee
The Returns to Attending a
Prestigious Law School
Racing to the Top: An Empirical Study of the
Effect of Race in Entry-Level Law School Hiring
Predicting Lawyer Effectiveness: A New
Assessment for Use in Law School Admission
Decisions
Chair: Clifford Carrubba
Did a Switch in Time Save Nine?
Organized Interests Before the Supreme Court:
Setting the Agenda, 1968-1990
Explaining Constitutional Review in New
Democracies: The Case of Taiwan
Chair: Jeb Barnes
Twelve Merry Men? Confronting the Legend
of the Robin Hood Jury
Are Ideal Litigators White? Measuring the Myth
of Colorblindness
Contextualizing Jury Participation: Case-, Jury-,
and Juror-Level Predictors of Participation in
Jury Deliberations
Chair: Gregory Keating
Judges, Litigants and the Design of Courts
When is the Verdict or Judgment Final?:
An Examination of Post Trial
Activity in Civil Litigation
Class Action Settlements and Their Fee
Awards
Chair: Paul J. Zak
Information Gatekeepers: Theory and
Experimental Evidence
Explaining the Diffusion of Web-Based
Communication Technology among
Congressional Offices: A Natural Experiment
Using State Delegations
Opting in or Opting Out The Conditions for
Developing Consensus
DISCUSSANT
ROOM 114
Richard Sander
Katherine Barnes
Gillian Hadfield
ROOM 101
Jasjeet Sekhon
Anthony Bertelli
Lydia Brashear Tiede
ROOM 107
(Courtroom)
Jeb Barnes
Jeremy Horowitz
Andrea Jones-Rooy
ROOM 103
Daniel Mazmanian
Gregory Keating
Deborah Hensler
ROOM 118/120
Michael Bommarito
Paul J. Zak
Oliver Goodenouogh
&
Friday 5:15-7:15 PM Reception & Poster Session Town and Gown
Friday
5:15 - 7:15
PM
Reception
Poster
Session
POSTER SESSION
Poster Session: Corporate and Securities Law Town and Gown
Quinn Curtis Agency Costs and the Price Effects of Corporate Litigation
David C. Cicero,
Modupe Babajide Wintoki, Do Firms Adjust to a Target Board Structure?
Tina Yang
David I. Walker Evolving Executive Equity Compensation and the
Limits of Optimal Contracting
Eliezer M. Fich,
Anh L. Tran, Ralph A. Walkling On the Importance of Golden Parachutes
Poster Session: Crime Town and Gown
Justin Mccrary Assessing the Crime Impact of Sexually Violent Predator Laws
Hadar Aviram Perceiving and Reporting Domestic Violence Incidents
Annick M. Persinger in Unconventional Settings: A Vignette Survey Study
Libor Dusek, Responses to More Severe Punishment in the Courtroom:
Fusako Tsuchimoto Evidence from Truth-in-Sentencing Laws
Poster Session: Law and Politics Town and Gown
Robert Anderson IV Distinguishing Judges: An Empirical
Ranking of Judicial Quality in the U.S. Court of Appeals
Maeve P. Carey Dodging Conflict: The Supreme Court Under Threat from Congress
Eileen McDonagh, Empowering Democratic Citizenship: The Welfare State as Constitutional
Michael Tolley Rights and Government Spending
Benedikt Goderis, Human Rights Violations after 9/11 and the
Mila Versteeg Role of Constitutional Constraints
Menachem Hofnung, Judicial Setbacks, Material Gains: Terror Litigation at the Israeli HCJ
Keren Weinshall Margel
Jennifer L. Merolla, Polluting the Reservoir: Conditions of Threat and Support
Elizabeth J. Zechmeister, for Democracy in Mexico and the United States
Travis Coan
Renomination of Judicial Nominees to the Darryn C. Beckstrom
U.S. District Court and U.S. Court of Appeals
Poster Session: Law and Psychology Town and Gown
Gail S. Goodman,
Stephanie D. Block,
Daisy A. Segovia, Adults' Abilities to Discern Children's True and False Memories
Jennifer M. Schaaf,
Kristen Weede Alexander,
Donna Shestowsky
Beyond Disclosure: An Emirical Investigation of Unbiased Christopher T. Robertson
Advice as the Key to Protecting Laypersons
Jeffrey J. Rachlinski,
Chris Guthrie, Context Effects in Judicial Decision Making
Andrew J. Wistrich
Dan Simon, Doug Stenstrom, Partisanship and Prosecutorial Decision Making: An Experiment
Stephen J. Read
&
Friday 5:15-7:15 PM Reception & Poster Session Town and Gown
Friday POSTER SESSION
5:15 - 7:15 Poster Session: Litigation and Damages Town and Gown
PM
Reception
Charles N.W. Keckler Cy Pres and Its Predators Poster
Session (Cont.)
Seth Seabury, Do Caps on Damage Awards Crowd Out
Nicholas M. Pace Judicial Oversight of Civil Jury Verdicts?
Judicial Expenditures and Access to Justice: Paul Heaton, Eric A. Helland
Evidence from Auto Injuries
Theodore Eisenberg,
Michael Heise, The Decision to Award Punitive Damages: An Empirical Study
Nicole L. Waters,
Martin T. Wells
Poster Session: Precedent and Networks Town and Gown
Are Citations of Precedent Merely Ex Post Justifications Anthony Niblett
of Extra-Legal Decisions?
Daniel M. Katz,
Joshua Gubler, Reproduction of Hierachy? A Social Network Analysis
Jon Zeiner, of the American Law Professoriate
Eric A. Provins,
Eitan M. lngall
Ryan C. Black, The Depreciation of Precedent on the U.S. Supreme Court
James F. Spriggs II
Michael J. Bommarito II,
Jon Zeiner, Distance Measures for Dynamic Citation Networks
Daniel M. Katz,
John H. Fowler
Poster Session: Regulation, R&D and Development Town and Gown
Do Legal Origins Help to Explain International Differences Josef Montag
in Gender-Income Ratio?
Terra Lawson-Remer Security of Property Rights for Whom?
Stark Contrasts: The Impact of Prohibiting Physician Self-Referrals Brian Chen
on the Prevalence of Overtreatment in Health Care
John Hagedoorn, Contractual Complexity of R&D Alliances - A Two-Dimensional
Geerte Hesen Analysis of the Determinants of Contractual Complexity
Saturday
Sesssion I
9:00 -10 :20
AM
Saturday 7:30-9:00 AM
AUTHOR
Organizational Form
Timothy W. Guinnane,
Jean-Laurent Rosenthal
Bruce H. Kobayashi,
Larry E. Ribstein
Venture Capital
Sonali Hazarika,
Rajarishi Nahata,
Kishore Tandon
Brian J. Broughman,
Jesse M. Fried
Elections I
D. James Greiner,
Kevin M. Quinn
Jan E. Leighley,
Jonathan Nagler
Civil Rights
Calvin Morrill
Joanna C. Schwartz
Environmental Law
Paulina Oliva
Wendy E. Wagner,
Katherine Y. Barnes,
Lisa K. Peters
Continental Breakfast and Registration Town and Gown
PAPER DISCUSSANT
Chair: Roberta Romano ROOM1
Making Do with Imperfect Law:
Small Firms in France and Larry E. Ribstein
Germany 1890-1935
Jurisdictional Competition for Limited Jens Dammann
Liability Companies
Chair: Kate Litvak ROOM7
Success in Global Venture Capital
Investing: Do Institutional and Cultural Duke Bristow
Differences Matter?
Do VCs Use Inside Financing to Tom Chang
Dilute Founders?
Chair: Lynn Vavreck ROOM 103
Exit Polling and Racial Bloc Voting:
Combining Individual-Level and Jeffrey Lewis
R x C Ecological Data
Electoral Laws and Turnout: 1972-2008 Lynn Vavreck
ROOM 107 Chair: Thomas Griffith
(Courtroom)
Legal Mobilization in U.S. Schools:
The Paradoxes of Race and Laura Gomez
Rights Among Youth
Myths and Mechanics of Deterrence:
Litigation, Information, Thomas Griffith
and Decision-Making
Chair: David Stras ROOM2
Environmental Regulations
and Corruption: Automobile David Stras
Emissions in Mexico City
Air Toxics in the Board Room:
An Empirical Study of EPA's Hazardous Dean Lueck
Air Pollutant Rules
AUTHOR PAPER DISCUSSANT
Saturday
Sesssion I
9:00 -10 :20
AM
(Cont.)
Law and Politics II
Ryan J. Owens,
Ryan C. Black
David S. Law,
David T. Zaring
Property I
Stanislav Markus
Ryan Bubb
Experimental Legal Studies II
Richard R. W. Brooks,
Claudia M. Landeo,
Kathryn E. Spier
Kristoffel Grechenig,
Andreas Nicklitsch,
Christian Thoeni
Torts
Neil Vidmar,
Mirya R. Holman
Chair: Nathan Monroe
Estimating the Policy Preferences of
United States Courts of Appeals Judges
Law Versus Ideology:
The Supreme Court and
the Use of Legislative History
Chair: John Strauss
Secure Property as a Bottom-Up Process:
Firms, Stakeholders, and
Predators in Weak States
States, Law, and Property Rights
in West Africa
Chair: Mathew McCubbins
Trigger Happy or Gun Shy:
Dissolving Common-Value
Partnerships with Texas Shootouts
Punishment Despite
Reasonable Doubt -
A Public Goods Experiment
with Uncertainty over Contributions
Chair: Paul Heaton
The Frequency, Predictability
and Proportionality of
Punitive Damages in State Courts
ROOM 101
Chris Den Hartog
Jeffrey Lax
ROOM 114
Jefferey Sellers
Harold Demsetz
ROOM 118/120
Mathew Mccubbins
Brad LeVeck
ROOM 130
Theodore Eisenberg
Community Characteristics and Tort Law:
Issa Kohler-Hausmann The Importance of County Demographics Michael Heise
and Inequality to Tort Trial Outcomes
Saturday
Session II
10 :35 -12:35
PM
AUTHOR
Corporate Governance II
Modupe Babajide Wintoki,
James S. Linck,
Jeffry M. Netter
Martijin Cremers,
Allen Ferrell
Lucian A. Bebchuk,
Ehud Kamar
Financial Regulation and
Investor Protection
Ludovic Moreau
Cindy R. Alexander,
Kathleen Weiss Hanley
Ashwini K. Agrawal
Family Law
I. Glenn Cohen,
Daniel L. Chen
Alma Cohen,
Rajeev H. Dehejia,
Dmitri Romanov
Marjorie B. McElroy
Judging
Timothy R. Johnson,
Ryan Black,
Justin Wedeking
Rachel Dioso-Villa
Max M. Schanzenbach,
Joshua B. Fischman
Elections II
Christopher R. Berry,
Jacob E. Gersen
Jasjeet S. Sekhon,
Rocio Titiunik
Daniel Hopkins
PAPER
Chair: Rajarishi Nahata
Endogeneity and the Dynamics
of Corporate Governance
Thirty Years of Corporate Governance:
Firm Valuation & Stock Returns
Bundling and Entrenchment
Chair: Mark Weinstein
Regulatory Versus Informational Value of Bond
Ratings: Hints from History
Regulatory Monitoring Under the Sarbanes-
Oxley Act
The Impact of Investor Protection Law
on Corporate Policy: Evidence from
the Blue Sky Laws
Chair: Jonah Gelbach
Trading Off Reproductive Technology and
Adoption: Do IVF Subsidies Decrease Adoption
Rates?
Financial Incentives and Fertility
The Dimensions of Divorce Laws: Waiting
Times, No-Fault and Unilateral Divorce Laws
Chair: Jeffrey Staton
Oral Arguments and the Process of Coalition
Formation on the U.S. Supreme Court
Fire in the Hole: Empirical Testing of a
Pro-Government/Anti-Plaintiff Bias in the
Admissibility of Scientific Experts in
Criminal and Civil Cases
Do Standards of Review Matter?
The Case of Federal Criminal Sentencing
Chair: Marisa Abrajano
The Timing of Elections
Redistricting and the Personal Vote:
When Natural Experiments are Neither
Natural Nor Experiments
Language Access and Initiative Outcomes: Did
the Voting Rights Act Reduce
Support for Bilingual Education?
DISCUSSANT
ROOM1
Martin Wells
Rob Daines
Volkan Muslu
ROOM7
Michael Klausner
Roberta Romano
Cindy Alexander
ROOM2
Jonathan Klick
Tiffany Chou
Maria Casanova
ROOM 118/120
Jeffrey Staton
Neil Vidmar
Lydia Tiede
ROOM 103
Nathan Monroe
Daniel Enemark
Marisa Abrajano
Saturday
Session II
10 :35 -12:35
PM
(Cont.)
AUTHOR
Victims and Witnesses
Elizabeth Kellstrand,
Jodi Quas,
Maria Sumaroka,
Steven E. Clark,
Rakel Larson
Robyn Carbone Licht,
Lindsay Erin Wandrey,
Elizabeth C. Ahern,
Alexia Cooper, Megan Sim,
Jodi Quas, Thomas D. Lyon
Jordan D. Matsudaira,
Emily Greene Owens
Medical Malpractice I
David A. Hyman,
Bernard S. Black,
Charles M. Silver
Michael D. Greenberg,
Steven Garber
Ronen Avraham,
Leemore S. Dafny,
Max M. Schanzenbach
Law and Politics Ill
Marcus E. Hendershot
Daniel E. Ho,
Erica L Ross
James F. Spriggs,
David R. Stras
Property II
Yun-chien Chang
Gary D. Libecap,
Dean Lueck
Daniel E. Bogart
PAPER
Chair: Lauren Fasig
Stress, Supportive Interviewing,
and Children's Identification Accuracy
The Effect of Rapport Building and
Putative Confessions Upon Maltreated
and Nonmaltreated Children's
Disclosure of a Minor Transgression
The Economics of Rape:
Will Victims Pay for
Police Involvement?
Chair: Jill Horwitz
The Impact of the 'Duty to Settle' on
Settlement: Evidence from Texas
Patterns of Specialization in
Medical Malpractice Among
Contingency Fee Attorneys
The Impact of Tort Reform on Employer-
Sponsored Health Insurance Premiums
Chair: Nina Walton
Twisted Roots: Cointegrated Explanations
of Transformation within the Federal
Judicial Appointment Process
Did Liberal Justices Invent the
Standing Doctrine? An Empirical Study
of the Evolution of Standing, 1921-2006
Why the Supreme Court Issues
Plurality Opinions
Chair: Terra Lawson-Remer
An Empirical Study of Court-Adjudicated
Takings Compensation in New York City: 1990-
2003
The Demarcation of Land and the Role of
Coordinating Institutions
Did the Glorious Revolution Contribute to the
Transport Revolution? Evidence from
Investment in Roads and Rivers
DISCUSSANT
ROOM 107
(Courtroom)
Steven Penrod
Myrna Raeder
Daniel Chen
ROOM 130
Max Schanzenbach
Herbert Kritzer
John Romley
ROOM 101
Nina Walton
Linda Cohen
Amihai Glazer
ROOM 114
Paige Marta Skiba
Ryan Bubb
Tracy Dennison
Saturday
Session Ill
2:25 - 4:25
PM
12:35-2:25 PM
AUTHOR
CEO Pay
Anup Agrawal, Tareque Nasser
Yonca Ertimur, Volkan Muslu,
Fabrizio Ferri
David A. Maher, Fabrizio Ferri
Bankruptcy
Nellie Liang,
Antonio Falato
Wenli Li, Michelle J. White,
Ning Zhu
Vedran Capkun,
Evren Ors
Settlement
Kong-Pin Chen,
Kuo-Chang Huang,
Chang-Ching Lin
Hilary A. Sigman,
Howard F. Chang
Paul Pecorino,
Mark Van Boening
Rule of Law
Lydia Brashear Tiede,
Daniel B. Rodriguez
Julio Rios-Figueroa,
Jeffrey K. Staton
Sebastian M. Saiegh
Legal Profession
Art Hinshaw,
Jess K. Alberts
Michele Destefano Beardslee,
Ashish Nanda, David Wilkins,
John C. Coates
Lunch and Keynote
Welcome Remarks: Dean Robert Rasmussen
Keynote Speaker: Theodore Eisenberg
PAPER
Chair: Dragon Yongjun Tang
Blockholders on Boards and CEO
Compensation, Turnover and Firm Valuation
Shareholder Activism and CEO Pay
Say on Pay Votes and CEO Compensation:
Evidence from the UK
Chair: Robert Rasmussen
Do Creditor Rights Increase Employment Risk?
Evidence from Debt Covenants
Did Bankruptcy Reform Contribute to the
Mortgage Crisis?
When Congress Says "Pip Your Kerp":
Performance Incentive Plans,
Key Employee Retention Plans and,
Chapter 11 Bankruptcy Resolution
Chair: Bart Kosko
An Empirical Investigation of Settlement &
Litigation - The Case of Taiwan Labor Disputes
An Empirical Analysis of Cost Recovery in
Superfund Cases: Implications for Brownfield
and Joint and Several Liability
Bargaining with Asymmetric Dispute Costs
Chair: Barry Weingast
Explaining the Variance in Federal Immigration
Prosecution: Should National Policy Control a
Largely Local Endeavor
Unpacking the Rule of Law: A Review of
Judicial Independence Measures
Political Institutions and Sovereign Borrowing:
Evidence from Nineteenth-Century Argentina
Chair: Rebecca Sandefur
Doing the Right Thing: An Empirical Study of
Attorney Negotiation Ethics
Hiring Teams from Rivals: Theory and
Evidence on the Evolving Relationships in the
Corporate Legal Market
Town and Gown
DISCUSSANT
ROOM1
Amir Licht
H. Shawn Mobbs
Quinn Curtis
ROOM7
Edward Morrison
Richard Green
James Spindler
ROOM 130
Mostafa Beshkar
Wendy Wagner
Kathryn Zeiler
ROOM 101
Pablo Spiller
Barry Weingast
D. Roderick Kiewiet
ROOM2
Russell Korobkin
Tanina Rostain
C. N.V. Krishnan, Law Firm Reputation and Mergers and John Coates
Ronald W. Masulis Acquisitions
Saturday
Session Ill
2:25 - 4:25
PM
(Cont.)
AUTHOR
Campaigning and Lobbying
James L. Gibson,
Gregory A. Caldeira
Nina Walton,
Nicholas Weller
John M. de Figueiredo,
Charles M. Cameron
Criminal Evidence
Steven E. Clark
Jonathan J. Koehler
Simon A. Cole
Behavioral Law and Economics
Tess Wilkinson-Ryan,
David A. Hoffman
Kenworthey Bilz
Donald Braman,
Dan M. Kahan,
David A. Hoffman
Legal Origin
Holger Spamann
Daniel Berkowitz,
Karen B. Clay
Daniel M. Klerman,
Paul Mahoney,
Holdger Spamann,
Mark Ira Weinstein
PAPER
Chair: Matthew Beckmann
Campaign Support, Conflicts of Interest, and
Judicial Impartiality: Can the Legitimacy of
Courts Be Rescued by Recusals?
Moral Hazard in Campaigns: Do Political
Candidates keep hiring their Consultants?
Endogenous Cost Lobbying: Theory and
Evidence
Chair: Judge Stephanie Domitrovich
Trade-Off in Correct and False Identifications:
Protecting the Innocent is Not Free
The Probative Value of
Forensic Science Evidence
Speaking of Evidence: An Empirical Study
of the Reporting of Forensic
Conclusions in US Criminal Trials
Chair: Gijs Van Dijck
Breach Is For Suckers
Integrity or Deterrence? The Psychology
of the Exclusionary Rule
Some Realism About Punishment Naturalism
Chair: Josef Montag
The Global Cross-Section of
Crime and Punishment
Institutional Hysterisis:
Courts and Politics in
the American States
(Chapters 5 & 6 of a Book Project)
Legal Origin and Economic Growth
DISCUSSANT
ROOM 103
Matthew Beckmann
Craig Burnett
Keith Poole
ROOM 107
(Courtroom)
Michael Saks
John Rolph
Jennifer Mnookin
ROOM 118/120
Lynn Stout
Dan Simon
Lawrence Solan
ROOM 114
Jeffrey Fagan
John Matsusaka
Karen B. Clay
Saturday
Session IV
4:40 - 6:00
PM
AUTHOR
Prisons
Richard T. Boylan,
Naci Mccan
Francesco Drago,
Roberto Galbiati,
Pietro Vertova
Rating and Advertising
Financial Products
John M. Griffin,
Dragon Yongjun Tang
Molly Mercer,
Alan R. Palmiter,
Ahmed E. Taha
Election Audits
Jonathan Katz,
R. Michael Alvarez,
Erin Hartman,
Sarah Hill
Philip B. Stark
Contracts
Yannis Bakos,
Florencia Marotta-Wurgler,
David R. Trossen
Adam B. Badawi
Corporate Governance Ill
H. Shawn Mobbs
Renee B. Adams,
Amir N. Licht,
Lilach Sagiv
PAPER
Chair: Katherine Barnes
Intended and Unintended
Consequences of Prison Reform
Prison Conditions and Recidivism
Chair: Michelle White
Did Subjectivity Play a Role in
CDO Credit Ratings?
Worthless Warnings? Testing the
Effectiveness of Disclaimers in
Mutual Fund Advertisements
Chair: Kevin Quinn
Evaluating Random Election Audits
Efficient Post-Election Audits of Multiple
Contests: 2009 California Tests
Chair: Gillian Hadfield
Does Anyone Read the Fine Print? Testing a
Law and Economics Approach to Standard
Form Contracts
Relational Governance and Contract Damages:
Evidence from Franchising
Chair: Donald Scotten
CEOs Under Fire: Pressure from Within:
The Effects of Inside Directors on CEO
Compensation and Turnover
Shareholderism: Board Members' Values and
the Shareholder-Stakeholder Dilemma
DISCUSSANT
ROOM 107
(Courtroom)
Jeffrey Rachlinski
Justin Mccrary
ROOM7
Stephane Rousseau
Geoffrey Miller
ROOM 103
Nicholas Weller
Adam Glynn
ROOM 114
Zev Eigen
Jonathan Klick
ROOM1
Jonah Gelbach
Modupe Wintoki
AUTHOR PAPER DISCUSSANT
Saturday
Session IV
4:40 - 6:00
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(Cont.)
Administrative Law
William N. Eskridge Jr.,
Connor Raso
Michael W. Toffel,
Jodi L. Short
Medical Malpractice II
Michael Frakes
J. Mark Ramseyer
Law and Politics IV
Anthony M. Bertelli,
Peter John
Royce Carroll,
Jeffrey B. Lewis,
James Lo,
Keith T. Poole,
Howard Rosenthal
Patents
Zhen Lei,
Brian D. Wright
Chair: Matthew Spitzer
Supreme Court Application of Deference
Doctrine: Just Another Canon?
Coming Clean and Cleaning Up:
Is Voluntary Self-Reporting a Signal
of Effective Self-Policing?
Chair: Brian Chen
Defensive Medicine and Obstetric Practices
The Effect of Universal Health
Insurance on Malpractice Claims:
The Japanese Experience
Chair: Christopher Berry
Government Checking Government:
How Performance Measures
Expand Distributive Politics
The Structure of Utility in Spatial Models of
Voting
Chair: Dave Fagundes
Why Weak Patents? Rational Ignorance
or Pro-'Customer' Tilt?
ROOM 118/120
Elizabeth Garrett
Simon Wilkie
ROOM 130
Seth A. Seabury
Jennifer Arlen
ROOM 101
Christopher Berry
Andrew Martin
ROOM2
Jonathan Barnett
Albert G. Z. Hu, Patent Rights and Economic Growth: Michael D. Noel
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Friday, November 20 (Continental Breaifast & Registration are 8:45 - 9:45 a. m.)
Morning Departures from Omni Hotel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 : 1 5 a.m. 8 : 3 0 a.m. 8 :45 a.m. 9 : 1 5 a.m.
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Saturday, November 21 (Continental Breakfast runs 7:30 - 9:00 a. m.)
Morning Departures from Omni Hotel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 : 1 5 a.m. 7 : 30 a.m. 7 :45 a.m. 8 : 1 5 a.m. 8 :45 a.m.
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4th Annual Conference on Empirical Legal Studies
Society for Empirical Legal Studies
Chairman: Bernard Black
Co-Presidents: Daniel Klerman and Mathew McCubbins
U.S.C. Organizing Committee: Gillian Hadfield, Daniel Klerman, Thomas Lyon,
Mathew McCubbins, Dan Simon, and Matthew Spitzer
Board of Directors: Jennifer Arlen, Bernard Black, Shari Seidman Diamond , Theodore Eisenberg, Dame Hazel Germ, Valerie Hans, Daniel Klerman, , Mathew McCubbins, Geoffrey Miller, and Roberta Romano
Conference Administrators: Marie Cleaves and Mira Dalpe
Acknowledgements:
The Board Members and the USC Organizing Committee would like to express
gratitude to Dean Robert Rasmussen for enabling the USC Gould School of Law to host the Fourth Annual Conference on Empirical Legal Studies. The Board and Organizing Committee also thank the alumni for their charitable donations
which made this Conference possible. Additionally, the committee recognizes Mira Dalpe, Marie Cleaves and their staff for their hard work on the conference.
The committee also thanks the USC Computing Department for creating the webcast which allows the conference to be viewed by individuals unable to
attend the conference. Lastly, the committee thanks everyone else who contributed to the conference, including reviewers, presenters, discussants, chairs, and attendees.