Second Conference on Empirical Legal Studies in
Europe
Conference Thursday 31 May through 1 June 2018
Empirical Training Workshop 30 May 2018
University of Leuven
Faculty of Law
Tiensestraat 41
Leuven, Belgium
Empirical Legal Studies
Already well established in the United States, empirical legal studies are becoming an important part
of European legal scholarship. Empirical legal research seeks to explain how legal rules emerge from
social interactions and shape social outcomes. In the age of Big Data, there is also the hope that new
data science techniques such as machine learning and text-mining will improve legal forecasting, legal
risk analysis and legal knowledge management. Hosted by the KU Leuven and sponsored by the Society
for Empirical Legal Studies (SELS), the FWO and the ERC-funded EUTHORITY Project, this second
Conference on Empirical Legal Studies in Europe (CELSE) brings together researchers from Europe and
beyond who are moving the study of law to this new frontier.
Keynote Speakers
Simon Deakin
Simon Deakin is Professor of Law at the University of Cambridge. He specializes in labour law, private
law, company law and EU law. His research is concerned, more generally, with the relationship
between law and the social sciences, and he contributes regularly to the fields of law and economics,
law and development, and empirical legal studies. He is Director of the Centre for Business Research,
co-Chair of the University's Strategic Research Initiative in Public Policy, and a Fellow of Peterhouse.
He is the author of several books, including Tort Law (7th. ed. with Basil Markesinis and Angus
Johnston, 2012), Labour Law (6th. ed. 2012, with Gillian S. Morris), The Law of the Labour Market:
Industrialization, Employment, and Legal Evolution (2005, with Frank Wilkinson), and Hedge Fund
Activism in Japan: The Limits of Shareholder Primacy (2012, with John Buchanan and Dominic Chai). He
is editor in chief of the Industrial Law Journal and a member of the editorial board of the the Cambridge
Journal of Economics. He is a recipient of the ECGI and Allen & Overy prizes for corporate governance
research. He is currently a principal investigator on two ESRC-funded projects and has recently carried
out contract research for the International Labour Organisation and for the UK government's Foresight
review of the future of British manufacturing.
Christoph Engel
Christoph Engel is founding Director of the Max Planck Institute for Research on Collective Goods. He
is also professor at Bonn University and holds the Chair for Experimental Law and Economics at
Rotterdam Erasmus University. At the intersection of law and experimental economics, his work has
appeared in the Journal of Empirical Legal Studies, the American Law and Economics Review, the
Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, Economics Letters and the Journal of Institutional and
Theoretical Economics.
Justin McCrary
Justin McCrary is Professor of Law at Berkeley School of Law, Faculty Research Fellow at the National
Bureau of Economic Research (Cambridge) and a Fellow of the Criminal Justice Research Institute,
Institute of Legal Studies (Berkeley). He works at the intersection of law and economics. His early
research was on the effect of court-ordered changes to the hiring practices of police departments on
the racial composition of police officers and on crime and arrest patterns. His work has also
investigated the ebb and flow of crime rates over time and across space along with the tradeoffs facing
governments allocating criminal justice dollars to apprehension efforts (e.g., police) and punishment
efforts (e.g., prison). In addition to his research on crime, he has worked on a wide variety of topics,
including education, health, inequality, econometrics, and monetary policy. More recently, he has
become interested in computational economics and in business law, particularly in regard to
corporations, and its intersection with the economics literature on the theory of the firm.
Eric Talley
Eric Talley is the Isidor and Seville Sulzbacher Professor of Law and Co-Director, Millstein Center for Global Markets and Corporate Ownership. He is an expert in the intersection of corporate law, governance, and finance, and he teaches/researches in areas that include corporate law and finance, mergers and acquisitions, quantitative methods, machine learning, contract and commercial law, game theory, and economic analysis of law. Talley has held permanent or visiting appointments at the University of California at Berkeley, University of Southern California, Caltech, University of Chicago; Harvard University; Georgetown University, RAND Graduate School, and Stanford University. He has also taught short courses at the University of New South Wales; the University of Sydney; University of San Diego; Tel Aviv University, the Interdisciplinary Center; University of Zurich; University of Amsterdam; and University of Miami. Talley is a frequent commentator in the national media, and he speaks regularly to corporate boards and regulators on issues pertaining to fiduciary duties, governance, and finance.
Conference Venue
KU Leuven Faculty of Law, Valk College, Tiensestraat 41, 3000 Leuven. The Faculty of Law can be
accessed from both Tiensestraat 41 (look for the big entry gate) and Ladeuze Square 30 (to the left of
Chapter Four Café). More information below and on www.CELSE2018.com.
Registration
The Registration Desk is located on ground floor (level 00) of the Nieuwe Valk (DV3) building.
Lunch
At 12:00 in ALMA, Tiensestraat 115 in Leuven, a two-minute walk from the Conference venue (see map
below). Remember to bring and show the badge you will receive at the Registration Desk.
Dinner
Dinner is at 19:00, on 31 May at the Faculty Club, Groot Begijnhof 14 in Leuven, and on 1 June at the
Irish College, Janseniusstraat 1 in Leuven. The Faculty Club is a 15-minute walk from the Conference
venue and is located next to the Begijnhof Hotel. The Irish College is a ten-minute walk from the
Conference venue.
Internet Access
Upon registration you will receive the login details of your campusroam visitor account. You can also
access the internet via eduroam with your institution’s login details.
Information Desk
There are two information desks, one in the Nieuwe Valk (DV3) building (level 00, same as Registration
Desk) and the other in the Oude Valk (DV1) at the entrance of the Zeger van Hee Room.
Getting to and from Leuven
Leuven is most easily reached by regular train service from Brussels International Airport or Brussels-
Midi station. The train ride to Brussels International Airport takes approximately 15-minute. Count 25
minutes to get from Leuven station to Brussels-Midi. More information on directions and travelling on
www.CELSE2018.com.
Getting Around Leuven
Leuven is small and pedestrian-friendly. So you easily get around on foot. In case your hotel is located
outside the city centre, many bus lines serve the bus stop closest to the Conference venue (Rector de
Somerplein).
CELSE 2018 Conference Locations
Information on directions from CELSE 2018 to lunch and dinner locations on
www.CELSE2018.com.
Faculty of Law, ALMA, Faculty Club, Irish College and Begijnhof Hotel
Faculty of Law – Valk College
Organizing Committee:
Arthur Dyevre (KU Leuven) Gijs van Dijck (Maastricht University) Ben Depoorter (UGhent) Wim Marneffe (UHasselt) Giuseppe Dari-Mattiacci (University of Amsterdam)
Programme Committee:
Giuseppe Dari-Mattiacci (University of Amsterdam) Jennifer Arlen (NYU) Arthur Dyevre (KU Leuven) Ben Depoorter (UGhent) Wim Marneffe (UHasselt) Gijs van Dijck (Maastricht University)
Christoph Engel (Max Planck Institute for Research on Collective Goods) Chris Hanretty (University of East Anglia) Eric Helland (Claremont McKenna College) Roberto Galbiati (OSC-CNRS and Sciences Po) Nuno Garoupa (Texas A&M University School of Law) Jonathan Klick (University of Pennsylvania Law School) Thomas Gschwend (Mannheim) Chris Hanretty (Royal Holloway) Eric Talley (Columbia Law School)
Reviewers
We are thankful to the reviewers who make CELSE great.
Sofia Amaral-Garcia (Hasselt University and KU Leuven); Ronen Avraham (Tel Aviv University and
University of Texas at Austin); Stefan Bechtold (ETH); Catrien Bijleveld (VU Amsterdam); Robin
Christmann (Leibniz FH School of Business); Lucia Dalla Pellegrina (Bocconi University); Ben Depoorter
(UC Hastings and Ghent University); Evan Dudley (Queen’s University); Gijs van Dijck (Maastricht
University); Arthur Dyevre (KU Leuven); Jared A. Ellias (UC Hastings); Christoph Engel (Max Planck
Institute for Research on Collective Goods); Andreas Engert (Universität Mannheim); Marco Fabbri
(Erasmus University Rotterdam); Victor Fleischer (University of San Diego); Jens Frankenreiter (Max
Planck Institute for Research on Collective Goods); Nuno Garoupa (Texas A&M University); Alexander
Peter Groh (EM Lyon Business School); Thomas Gschwend (Universität Mannheim); Chris Hanretty
(Royal Holloway University of London); Eric A. Helland (Claremont McKenna College); David A. Hoffman
(University of Pennsylvania); Jonathan Klick (University of Pennsylvania); Nicolas Lampach (KU Leuven);
Yu-Hsin Lin (City University of Hong Kong); Wim Marneffe (Hasselt University); Julieta Marotta
(Maastricht University); Giovanni Mastrobuoni, (Collegio Carlo Alberto and University of Essex); Harald
Merckelbach (Maastricht University); José Luis Castro-Montero (Universidad Andina Simon Bolivar);
Anthony Niblett (University of Toronto); Alessio Maria Pacces (Erasmus University Rotterdam); Niels
Petersen (Universität Münster); J.J. Prescott (University of Michigan); Navajyoti Samanta (University of
Sheffield); Marcel GH Schaper (Maastricht University); Mathias M. Siems (Durham University); Fabien
Tarissan (CNRS); Tess Wilkinson-Ryan (University of Pennsylvania).
30 May 2018: Empirical Training Workshop
When
What
9.00-9.30 Registration, Nieuwe Valk, DV3 01.07
9.30-11.00 Basic Statistics for Lawyers with Dr. Sofia Amaral-Garcia
(UHasselt and KU Leuven)
11.00-11.30 Break
11.30-13.00 Introduction to R Statistical Language for Lawyers with
Dr. Nicolas Lampach (KU Leuven) and Dr. Sofia Amaral-
Garcia (KU Leuven)
13.00-14.30 Break
14.30-16.00
Experimental Methods with Prof. Jennifer Arlen (NYU)
16.00-16.30 Break
16.30-18.00 Introduction to Webscrapping and Text-Mining for
Lawyers with Dr. Nicolas Lampach (KU Leuven)
19.00-20.00 Welcome Beer Tasting Stadhuis (Historical Town Hall)
Grote Markt 9 in Leuven
Conference Programme Overview – 31 May 2018
When
What
8.30-9.00 Registration, Coffee and Cookies
9.00-10.00 Keynote session with Justin McCrary (University of California at Berkeley)– Better Together: Sampling and Measurement Plans Zeger van Hee Room
10.00-10.15 Break 10.15-12.00 Parallel Sessions I 12.00-13.30 Lunch at ALMA 13.30-15.15 Parallel Sessions II 15.15-15.30 Coffee Break 15.30-17.15 Parallel Sessions III 17.15-17.30 Break
17.30-18.30 Keynote Session with Christoph Engel (Max Planck Institute for Public Goods) – Experimental Comparative Law Zeger van Hee Room
19.00 Drinks and Dinner at Faculty Club
Conference Programme Overview - 1 June 2018
When What 8.30-9.00 Registration, Coffee and Cookies
9.00-10.00 Keynote session with Simon Deakin (Cambridge University) – Legal Complexity: Theory, Models and Measurement Zeger van Hee Room
10.00-10.15 Break 10.15-12.00 Parallel Sessions IV
12.00-13.30 Lunch at ALMA
13.30-15.15 Parallel Sessions V 15.15-15.30 Coffee Break
15.30-17.15
Parallel Sessions VI
17.15-17.30 Break
17.30-18.30 Keynote Session with Eric Talley (Columbia Law School) – Climate Risk: Who’s Disclosing, and Who Should Be? Zege van Hee Room
19.00 Drinks and Dinner at Irish College
CONFERENCE ON EMPIRICAL LEGAL STUDIES IN EUROPE
31 MAY 2018
8:30-9:00 Registration, coffee and cookies, Nieuwe Valk (DV3) 00.
9:00-10:00
Keynote Session: Justin McCrary, Better Together – Sampling and Measurement Plans (introduced by Sofia Amaral-Garcia)
Zeger van Hee Room (Oude Valk)
10:00-10:15
Break
Parallel Sessions I1 31 May 10:15-12:00 Courts & Judges I Nieuwe Valk DV3 01.32 Chair: Nuno Garoupa Estimating Judicial Ideal Points in a Bidimensional Court Lucia Dalla Pellegrina, Nuno Garoupa, Marian Gili Discussant: Robin Christmann The Role of Precedents on Court Delay: Evidence from a Civil Law Country Michael Berlemann, Robin Christmann
Discussant: Nuno Garoupa
Administrative Law Nieuwe Valk DV3 01.10 Chair: Yoan Hermstrüwer Debarment and Collusion in Procurement Auctions Claudia Cerrone, Yoan Hermstrüwer, Pedro Brito Robalo
Discussant: Marcel Garz
Cartels in the European Union, Antitrust Action, and Public Attention Marcel Garz, Sabrina Maass Discussant: Andrew Samuel Does Market Power Encourage Audit Compliance? Theory and Evidence Andrew Samuel, Jeremy S. Schwartz Discussant: Yoan Hermstrüwer
1 Presenting authors’ names in bold.
Contract Law I Oude Valk Zeger van Hee Chair: Eric Helland Stickiness of Contractual Gaps: Explaining the Lack of Forum Selection Clauses in Commercial Agreements Julian Nyarko Discussant: John Jennejohn Disrupting Relational Contracts Matthew Jennejohn Discussant: Julian Nyarko Optimal Contract Design in the Wild: Rigidity and Control in Collective Bargaining Elliott Ash, W. Bentley MacLeod, Suresh Naidu
Discussant: Eric Helland
Law and Finance I Nieuwe Valk DV3 01.02 Chair: Aras Canipek Do State-Owned Enterprises Have Worse Corporate Governance? An Empirical Study of Corporate Practices in China Yu-Hsin Lin, Yun-chien Chang
Discussant: Re-Jin Guo
The Effect of Creditor Rights on Capital Structure, Investment, and Risk: Evidence from a Natural Experiment Aras Canipek, Axel H. Kind, Sabine Wende
Discussant: Yu-Hsin Lin
Labor Power, Earnings Opacity and Firm Valuation Re-Jin Guo Discussant: Aras Capinek Law, Text Mining and Network Analysis Nieuwe Valk DV3 01.07 Chair: Michael Livermore The Network of Law Reviews: Citation Cartels, Scientific Communities, and Journal Rankings Oren Perez, Judit Bar-Ilan, Reuven Cohen, Nir Schreiber
Discussant: Jens Frankenreiter
Structure and Content in the United States Code Keith Carlson, Faraz Dadgostari, Michael A. Livermore, Daniel Rockmore
Discussant: Oren Perez
Writing Style and Legal Traditions - a Quantitative Investigation of the Stylistic Features of the Case Law of the
European Court of Justice
Jens Frankenreiter
Discussant: Michael Livermore
12:00-13:30
Lunch at ALMA, Tiensestraat 115.
Conference Programme – Parallel Sessions II2 31 May, 13:30-15:15 Criminal Justice I Nieuwe Valk DV3 01.07 Chair: Brandon L. Garrett Experience with Punishment and Specific Deterrence: Evidence from Speeding Tickets Libor Dusek, Christian Traxler
Discussant: Eliott Ash
The Confidence Inflation Problem: What Factors Impact How Jurors Weigh Eyewitness Evidence Brandon L. Garrett, Chad Dodson, Karen Kafadar, Alice Liu
Discussant: Libor Dusek
Your True Colors: Crime, Race and Colorblindness Revisited Itay Ravid
Discussant: Brandon L. Garrett
Corporate Law & Governance I Nieuwe Valk DV3 01.10 Chair: Zinian Zhang Government in Possession in Chinese Corporate Reorganizations Zinian Zhang
Discussant: Lennart Ulrich
Takeover Protection and Firm Value Christian Andres, Martin Jacob, Lennart Ulrich
Discussant: Zinian Zhang
Litigation I Nieuwe Valk DV3 01.02 Chair: Yun-chien Chang Pain and Suffering Damages in Complex Human Rights Cases: An Empirical Analysis Under the European Convention of Human Rights Tilmann Altwicker, Szilvia Altwicker-Hamori, Daniel Gerber, Anne Peters
Discussant: Matthias Goldmann
Procedural Efficiency of the Taiwan Courts: An Empirical Analysis With Comparison to U.S. Federal Courts Yun-chien Chang, William H. J. Hubbard
Discussant: Tilmann Altwicker
Public Interests in Sovereign Debt Litigation: An Empirical Analysis Matthias Goldmann, Grygoriy Pustovit
Discussant: Yun-chien Chang
2 Presenting authors’ names in bold.
Law & Psychology Oude Valk Zeger van Hee Chair: Marco Fabbri Does the Endowment Effect Prevail When Traders Act Strategically? Stephan Tontrup
Discussant: Christian Thöni
How Institutions Shape Preferences: Experimental Evidence from a Large-Scale Property Rights Reform Implemented as Randomized Control-Trial Marco Fabbri
Discussant: Stephan Tontrup
Debiasing Redistribution Choices Subject to the Political Self-Serving Bias Bruno Deffains, Romain Espinosa, Christian Thöni
Discussant: Marco Fabbri
Courts & Judges II Nieuwe Valk DV3 01.24 Chair: Philip Schroeder The Mechanism of Judicial Selection in Russia: Between Meritocracy and Nepotism Aryna Dzmitryieva
Discussant: Thomas Gschwend
Scaling Lower Court Opinions Christian Arnold, Benjamin Engst, Thomas Gschwend
Discussant: Philip Schroeder
Law & Society Nieuwe Valk DV3 01.32 Chair: Kyle Rozema The Disadvantage of Treating the Judicial System As a Magic Wand Lessons from Voices Julieta Marotta
Discussant: Scott Barkowski
Good Cop, Bad Cop: An Analysis of Chicago Civilian Allegations of Police Misconduct Kyle Rozema, Max M. Schanzenbach
Discussant: Julieta Marotta
In Sickness and in Health: The Influence of State and Federal Health Insurance Coverage Mandates on Marriage of Young Adults in the USA Scott Barkowski, Joanne Song McLaughlin
Discussant: Kyle Rozema
Constitutional and Administrative Law Nieuwe Valk DV3 01.08 Chair: Richard Michael Kirkham
The Function of Judicial Review: A Systematic Analysis Richard Michael Kirkham, Elizabeth O'Loughlin Discussant: Janez Šušteršič
A Conceptual Framework and an Empirical Methodology for Measuring Judicial Ideology in “The Case of the Slovenian Constitutional Court” Matej Avbelj, Janez Šušteršič
Discussant: Richard Michael Kirkham
15:15-15:30
Coffee Break – Nieuwe Valk (DV3) 00
Conference Programme – Parallel Sessions III3 31 May, 15:30-17:15 Contract Law II Oude Valk Zeger van Hee Chair: Roeseanna Sommers Fool Me Once, Shame on Me: How Consumers and Lawyers Perceive the Fine Print in Deception Cases Meirav Furth-Matzkin, Roseanna Sommers
Discussant: Ori Katz
Lawyers, Law Firms, and the Production of Legal Information Adam B. Badawi Discussant: Arthur Dyevre
Enforced Performance vs. Damages: An Empirical Study Leon Yehuda Anidjar, Eyal Zamir, Ori Katz
Discussant: Roeseanna Sommers
International and Comparative Law Nieuwe Valk DV3 01.02 Chair: Vera Shikhelman Outcome Bias and Expertise in Investigations of Military Actions Under International Humanitarian Law Tomer Broude, Inbar Levy
Discussant: Mathias Siems
Access to Justice in the United Nations Human Rights Committee Vera Shikhelman
Discussant: Inbar Levy
What Determines National Convergence of EU Law? Measuring the Implementation of Consumer Sales Law Catalina Goanta, Mathias Siems Discussant: Vera Shikhelman
3 Presenting authors’ names in bold.
Intellectual Property Nieuwe Valk DV3 01.32 Chair: Paul J. Heald Copyright Reversion to Authors (and the Rosetta Effect): An Empirical Study of Reappearing Books Paul J. Heald
Discussant: Rok Spruk
What 5 Billion Regressions Say About the Effects of Transaction Costs on the Propensity to Patent? Some Firm Level Evidence Rok Spruk, Mitja Kovac
Discussant: Paul J. Heald
Law & Finance II Nieuwe Valk DV3 01.24 Chair: Vladimir A Atanasov The Market Reaction to Changes in Disclosure of Related-Party Transaction Rules Vladimir A. Atanasov, Adrian Pop, Diana Pop
Discussant: Jordan Neyland
Star-Crossed: The Dark Side of Star Analyst Coverage in Acquisitions Jordan Neyland, Gil Aharoni, Bryan Lim, Lubomir P. Litov
Discussant: Vladimir A Atanasov
Courts & Judges III Nieuwe Valk DV3 01.07 Chair: Roee Sarel Courting the Public? The Use of Social Media by International Courts Pablo Barbera, Zuzanna Godzimirska, Juan Mayoral
Discussant: Malcolm Langford
Delegation at the U.S. Federal Appellate Courts: The Power to Remand as a Double-Edged Sword Roee Sarel, Melanie Demirtas
Discussant: Sebastian Sternberg
Why Do Courts Craft Vague Decisions? Evidence from a Comparative Study of Constitutional Court Rulings in Germany and France Using Quantitative Text Analysis. Sebastian Sternberg
Discussant: Roee Sarel
17:15-17:30
Snacks and refreshments – Nieuwe Valk (DV3) 00
17:30-18:30
Keynote Session: Christoph Engel, Experimental Comparative Law (introduced by Arthur Dyevre)
Zeger van Hee Room (Oude Valk)
19:00
Dinner at Faculty Club, Groot Begijnhof 14
CONFERENCE ON EMPIRICAL LEGAL STUDIES IN EUROPE
1 JUNE 2018
8:30-9:00 Registration, coffee and cookies, Nieuwe Valk (DV3) 00.
9:00-10:00
Keynote Session: Simon Deakin, Legal Complexity: Theory, Models and Measurement (introduced by Gijs van Dijck)
Zeger van Hee Room (Oude Valk)
10:00-10:15
Break
Conference Programme – Parallel Sessions IV4 1 June 10:15-12:00 Torts Nieuwe Valk DV3 01.25 Chair: Samantha Bielen I Am Sorry (and Therefore Liable)’: On the Detrimental Effect of Non-Monetary Relief Gijs van Dijck
Discussant: Chris Reinders Folmer
The Resolution Process and the Timing of Settlement of Medical Malpractice Claims Samantha Bielen, Peter Grajzl, Wim Marneffe
Discussant: Gijs van Dijck
Rethinking Apology in Tort Litigation Deficiencies in Comprehensiveness Undermine Remedial Effectiveness Chris Reinders Folmer, Peter Mascini, Joost Leunissen
Discussant: Samantha Bielen
Courts & Judges IV Nieuwe Valk DV3 01.32 Chair: Theresa Squatrito International Courts and Public Opinion Malcolm Langford
Discussant: Juan Mayoral
Conceptualizing, Measuring and Mapping the Formal Judicial Independence of International Courts Theresa Squatrito
Discussant: Shay Lavie
Adjusting Legal Standards Shay Lavie, Tal Ganor, Yuval Feldman
Discussant: Theresa Squatrito
4 Presenting authors’ names in bold.
Criminal Justice II Nieuwe Valk DV3 01.02 Chair: Vadim Volkov Does Restriction on Sexual Expression Deter Sexual Offenses?: Evidence of a Long-term Effect Hatsuru Morita
Discussant: Sandra Rousseau
The Prosecutor Effects in Trials for Petty Violent Offences in Russia Vadim Volkov
Discussant: Hatsuru Morita
Forfeiture of Illegally Required Gains from Environmental Offenses Carole M. Billiet, Sandra Rousseau
Discussant: Vadim Volkov
Law & Finance III Oude Valk Zeger van Hee Chair: Federico Riganti Shareholders' Rights in Agency's Conflicts: The Updated EU Discipline and the US 'Model' Maria Lucia Passador, Federico Riganti
Discussant: John J. Merrick
Fraud in Open-End Mutual Funds Vladimir A. Atanasov, John J. Merrick, Philipp Schuster
Discussant: Whei Zhang
The Value of Fiduciary Duties: Evidence from En Bloc Sales in Singapore Jianfeng Hu, Kelvin F.K. Low, Wei Zhang
Discussant: Federico Riganti
12:00-13:30
Lunch at ALMA, Tiensestraat 115.
Conference Programme – Parallel Sessions V5 1 June, 13:30-15:15 Contract Law III Nieuwe Valk DV3 01.32 Chair: Meirav Furth-Matzkin Bargaining in the Shadow of the Contract Meirav Furth-Matzkin
Discussant: Jeffrey Manns
Contract Theory and the Delaware Default: Evidence from M&A Transactions Robert Anderson, Jeffrey Manns
Discussant: Meirav Furth-Matzkin
5 Presenting authors’ names in bold.
Discrimination & Gender Law Nieuwe Valk DV3 01.02 Chair: Jennifer Bennett Shinall Gender Bias in the Austrian Asylum Court Alejandro Ecker, Martin Haselmayer, Laurenz Ennser-Jedenastik
Discussant: Haggai Porat
Settling in the Shadow of Sex: Gender Bias in Marital Asset Division Jennifer Bennett Shinall
Discussant: Martin Haselmayer
Are all types of discrimination created equal? Tamar Katz, Haggai Porat, Yuval Feldman
Discussant: Jennifer Bennett Shinall
Law & Politics Oude Valk Zeger van Hee Chair: Øyvind Stiansen Competition and Compliance: Electoral Uncertainty and Implementation of Judgments from the International Human Rights Judiciary Øyvind Stiansen Discussant: Nicolas Lampach When Do Courts Decide Strategically? Philipp Schroeder
Discussant: Joan-Josep Vallbé
Judges Without Attributes? The Political Economy of Detention of Deportable Non-Citizens Joan-Josep Vallbé, Markus Gonzalez Beilfuss Discussant: Øyvind Stiansen Courts & Judges V Nieuwe Valk DV3 01.25 Chair: Hanjo Hamann The German Federal Courts Dataset 1950-2018: From Paper Archives to Linked Open Data Hanjo Hamann
Discussant: Tilko Swalve
Carlsruhe's Casino? Inconsistency in the German Federal Court
Tilko Swalve
Discussant: Ayelet Sela
Vanishing Trials, Settlement Judges? What Data on Judicial Procedural Involvement in Civil Litigation Reveals
About the Current Role of Judges
Ayelet Sela, Limor Gabay-Egozi
Discussant: Hanjo Hamann
15:15-15:30
Coffee Break – Nieuwe Valk (DV3) 00
Conference Programme – Parallel Sessions VI6 1 June, 15:30-17:15 Criminal Justice III Nieuwe Valk DV3 01.24 Chair: Dimitriy Skougarevskiy What Do Graduated Sanctions Tell Us About the Functions of the Law: A Case of Drug Crimes Dmitriy Skougarevskiy
Discussant: Iryna Chatsverykova
Does the ‘Family Factor’ Really Matter? Sentencing Offenders in Domestic and Non-Domestic Violence Cases in Russia Iryna Chatsverykova, Vadim Volkov Discussant: Jakuk Drápal The Influence of Court District Characteristics on Sentencing in the Czech Republic Jakub Drápal Discussant: Dimitriy Skougarevskiy Law, Courts and Rules Nieuwe Valk DV3 01.25 Chair: Melisa Yilmaz The Effect of a Change in a Legal Rule Anthony Niblett
Discussant: Patricia Popelier
The Effect of Tax Regulation on Firm Value: A Case for Allowance for Corporate Equity (ACE) Regulation Melisa Yilmaz, Başak Tanyeri, Levent Akdeniz
Discussant: Anthony Niblett
How Courts Decide Federalism Disputes: The Revaluation of Legal Merit in the Jurisprudence of the Belgian Constitutional Court Patricia Popelier, Samantha Bielen
Discussant: Melisa Yilmaz
Law & Machine Learning Oude Valk Zeger van Hee Chair: A.W.F. Boer Classifying Civil Law Cases for Analysing the Impact of Legal Change Roos Slingerland, A.W.F. Boer, Radboud Winkels
Discussant: Masha Medvedeva
Judicial Decisions of the European Court of Human Rights: Looking into the Crystal Ball Masha Medvedeva, Michel Vols, Martijn Wieling
Discussant: Daniel Chen
Algorithms as Prosecutors: Lowering Rearrest Rates Without Disparate Impacts and Identifying Defendant Characteristics “Noisy” to Human Decision-Makers Daniel L. Chen, Elliott Ash, Daniel Amaranto, Lisa Ren
Discussant: A.W.F. Boer
6 Presenting authors’ names in bold.
Law & Finance IV Nieuwe Valk DV3 01.32 Chair: Ehud Kamar
The Effect of Minority Veto Rights on Controller Tunneling Jesse M. Fried, Ehud Kamar, Yishay Yafeh
Discussant: Nikolaos T. Artavanis
Tax Evasion, Liquidity Preference, Financial Literacy and Their Role in Strategic Default Nikolaos T. Artavanis, Ioannis Spyridopoulos
Discussant: Nitzan Shilon
Replacing Executive Equity Compensation: The Case for Cash for Long-Term Performance
Nitzan Shilon
Discussant: Ehud Kamar
Access to Justice Nieuwe Valk DV3 01.02 Chair: Wessel Wijtvliet
Contingent Fees and Access to Justice Eric Helland, Daniel M. Klerman
Discussant: Keren Weinshall Margel
Diffusion of Legal Innovations: The Case of Israeli Class Actions
Christoph Engel, Alon Klement, Keren Weinshall Margel
Discussant: Ji Li
Selecting Lawyers the Chinese Way Ji Li, Wei Zhang
Discussant: Wessel Wijtvliet
Litigation and Courts Nieuwe Valk DV3 01.10 Chair: Larissa Bruijn
The Strength of Parties in Administrative Drug Eviction Cases: Are Upperdogs More Likely to Win than
Underdogs?
Larissa Bruijn, Michel Vols
Discussant: Nourit Zimmerman
Judges As Gatekeepers and the Dismaying Shadow of the Law: Courtroom Observation of Judicial Settlement Practices Ayelet Sela, Nourit Zimerman, Michal Alberstein Discussant: Larissa Bruijn
17:15-17:30
Snacks and refreshments – Nieuwe Valk (DV3) 00
17:30-18:30
Keynote Session: Eric Talley, Climate Risk: Who’s Disclosing, and Who Should Be? (introduced by Yun-Chien Chang)
Zeger van Hee Room (Oude Valk)
19:00
Drinks and Dinner at Irish College, Janseniusstraat 1.
Conference Rules
Please take a minute to familiarise yourself with the conference rules.
SESSIONS will last 1 hour and 45 minutes and comprise 3 papers (35 minutes per paper). Sessions with 2 papers will last 70 minutes. If by accident a session has only 1 paper it will last 35 minutes. This is to give participants the possibility to switch session. PRESENTERS are allowed 20 minutes for the presentation itself, followed by 5 minutes for the discussant's comments and 10 minutes for general questions from the audience. Each paper is thus allocated 35 minutes in total. Reactions to the discussant's comments should be very concise (max 1 minute) so as not to encroach on Q&A time. Presenters are requested to bring their presentations on a USB stick to the conference venue even if they have sent it in advance for pre-upload. Note that the presentation will run on a Windows PC and hence KeyNote does not work unless you connect your own MacBook; but please come in early if you intend to do so, and be prepared to deal with the equipment without technical assistance. DISCUSSANTS are only allowed 5 strictly-enforced minutes. The discussion should focus on a couple of key issues and should not be a re-presentation of the paper. The last discussant in each session shall also act as chair. CHAIR (that is, the last discussant in each session) are expected to strictly enforce the schedule
indicated above: 20 minutes for the presentation, 5 minutes for the discussant's comments and 10
minutes for general questions from the audience. Sessions should start and end on time. Please, let
the first presenter start right away, do not take time to do any introduction. We want each slot to run
exactly on time, so that the audience can switch sessions smoothly if desired. There will be warning
cards (5, 2, 0 minutes) in the room. Please use them both with the presenter and with the discussant.
Cut the Q&A as soon as time is up. Additional comments can follow during coffee-breaks. Ask another
discussant to time you during your comments. The bottom line is: be inflexible.
Leuven Centre for Legal Theory and Empirical Jurisprudence
The Leuven Centre for Legal Theory and Empirical Jurisprudence brings together a wide range of theoretical perspectives and research programmes on law and legal practice, including legal philosophy, legisprudence, law and conflict analysis, empirical legal studies and law & economics. Most of the research conducted at the Centre is interdisciplinary and conversant with advances in philosophy, psychology, behavioural economics, statistics, machine learning, data mining and computer-based text analysis.
Tiensestraat 45
Box 3416
3000 Leuven, Belgium
+32 (0) 163 252 07
www.law.kuleuven.be/pub/en/cltej
EUTHORITY PROJECT
The EUTHORITY Project is an ERC-funded research initiative which seeks to advance empirical research
on the European Union legal system and the relations between EU courts and domestic courts across
all EU-28 member states. Hosted by the Centre for Legal Theory and Empirical Jurisprudence,
EUTHORITY brings together an international team of researchers with the aim of systematically
collecting and analyzing data on the domestic courts’ organizational structure, attitudes and positions
towards legal integration.
Tiensestraat 45
3000 Leuven Belgium
+32 (0) 163 768 89
www.euthority.eu