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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

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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

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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.