Full Schedule

Thursday, Nov. 3

Noon–6 p.m.

Pre-Conference Workshop (by separate registration)

How to Produce Transparent Empirical Research

Friday, Nov. 4

8-9:30 a.m.
Registration and Continental Breakfast

9-10 a.m.
Plenary Session: Journal Editors on Research Transparency

Session I / 10:15 a.m.-12:15 p.m. , Friday, Nov. 4

SESSION I-1   / ADMINISTRATIVE LAW   / WB101

Varieties of Regulatory Regimes and Their Effect on Public Trust in Market Actors
Libby Maman, Yuval Feldman, David Levi-Faur 
Discussant: Amit Haim

Strategic Subdelegation
Brian D. Feinstein, Jennifer Nou  
Discussant: Yuval Feldman

Perceived Algorithmic Legitimacy in the Administrative State
Amit Haim, Dvir Yogev  
Discussant: Brian Feinstein

SESSION I-2 / CORPORATE GOVERNANCE / WB102

Insuring Against Wrongdoing? Socially Responsible Investing by Mutual Funds
Vikramaditya S. Khanna, A. Joseph Warburton  
Discussant: Pedro Matos

The Rise of Anti-Activist Poison Pills
Ofer Eldar, Tanja Kirmse, Michael D. Wittry 
Discussant: John Coates

The Limits of Portfolio Primacy
Roberto Tallarita
Discussant: Scott Hirst

SESSION I-3 / CIVIL PROCEDURE / WB103

An Experimental Examination of the Bias Rationale for Federal Diversity Jurisdiction
Daniel M. Klerman, Jonathan R. Nash  
Discussant: Li Huang

More Talk Less Conflict: Evidence from Requiring Informal Discovery Conferences
Eric Helland, Minjae Yun  
Discussant: Diego Zambrano

SESSION I-4 / METHODOLOGY / WB104

When Should Governments Invest More in Nudging? Revisiting Benartzi et al. (2017)
Avishalom Tor, Jonathan Klick
Discussant: Doron Teichman

Label Bias, Risk Scores, and the Kitchen Sink
Michael Zanger-Tishler, Julian Nyarko, Sharad Goel
Discussant: Talia Gillis

The Trouble with Coarsened Exact Matching
Bernard Black, Parth Lalkiya, Joshua Y. Lerner 
Discussant: Justin McCrary

SESSION I-5   / IMMIGRATION AND CONSTITUTIONAL LAW   / WB105

On Compelling Interests and the Costs of Freedom: Evidence from Sexual Orientation Discrimination by Foster Care Agencies
Netta Barak-Corren, Tamir Berkman  
Discussant: Craig Konnoth

A Data-Driven Analysis of Bond Decisions in the Immigration Courts through the Trump Administration
Amy Semet   
Discussant: Emily Ryo

Judicial Independence in Immigration Courts
Emily Ryo, Ian Peacock  
Discussant: Kevin Cope

SESSION I-6   / BANKRUPTCY 1   / WB126

Secured Credit and Bankruptcy Resolution
Barry E. Adler, Vedran Capkun  
Discussant: Greg Nini

Parental Obligations in Bankruptcy
Belisa Pang  
Discussant: Richard Hynes

A Tale of Two Bankruptcies: Geographic Differences in Bankruptcy Chapter Choice
Nathaniel Pattison, Daniel L. Millimet
Discussant: (none)

SESSION I-7   / INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY   / WB128

Investigating Patent Examination Quality
Jonathan Ashtor
Discussant: (none)

The Cost of Copyright Revisited: Identifying Competition Effects in Small Book Markets
Paul J. Heald   
Discussant: Sepehr Shahshahani

Session II / 1-3 p.m. , Friday, Nov. 4

SESSION II-1   / EMPLOYMENT AND WORKERS   / WB101

Merger Deregulation, Wages, and Inequality: Evidence from the U.S. Banking Industry
Abhay Aneja, Prasad Krishnamurthy
Discussant: Jennifer Shinall

Paid Sick Leave's Payoff
Jennifer Bennett Shinall   
Discussant: Prasad Krishnamurthy

Deadlines Versus Continuous Incentive Systems: Evidence from the Patent Office
Michael D. Frakes, Melissa F. Wasserman
Discussant: Jonathan Ashtor

SESSION II-2   / COURTS AND JUDGING 1   / WB102

Trading Diversity? Judicial Diversity and Case Outcomes in Federal Courts
Ryan Copus, Ryan Hubert, Paige Pellaton 
Discussant: Keren Weinshall

Judging Fast or Slow: The Effects of Reduced Caseload on Gender- and Ethnic-Based Disparities in Case Outcomes
Keren Weinshall, Tamar Kricheli Katz  
Discussant: Kevin Cope

The Right to Counsel: Criminal Prosecution in 19th Century London
Bryan C. McCannon, Zach Porreca
Discussant: Darryl Brown

SESSION II-3   / SECURITIES LAW   / WB103

Empirical Foundations of the Iron Law of Financial Regulation | Appendix
Roberta Romano   
Discussant: Paul Mahoney

IPO Underpricing: A Tale of a Different 1920s
Jie Gan, Paul Mahoney, Jianping Mei 
Discussant: Matt Jennejohn

The Business of Securities Class Action Lawyering
Stephen J. Choi, Jessica M. Erickson, A.C. Pritchard
Discussant: Adam Badawi

SESSION II-4   / CRIMINAL AND POLICING 1   / WB104

The Impact of Financial Sanctions: Regression Discontinuity Evidence from Driver Responsibility Fee Programs
Keith Finlay, Matthew Gross, Elizabeth Luh, Michael Mueller-Smith
Discussant: Sarit Weisburd

The Driving Implications of a Company Car Benefit
Sarit Weisburd   
Discussant: Andrew Hayashi

Why Does Right-to-Carry Cause Violent Crime to Increase?
John J. Donohue, Samuel V. Cai, Matthew V. Bondy, Philip J. Cook
Discussant: Brandon Garrett

SESSION II-5   / FINANCE AND DEBT   / WB105

The Effect of ESG-motivated Turnover on Firm Distress Risk

Daewoung Choi, Yong Kyu Gam, Min Jung Kang, Hojong Shin
Discussant: Cherie Metcalf

The Loan Market Response to Dropdown and Uptier Transactions
Vincent S.J. Buccola, Greg Nini
Discussant: Richard Hynes

SESSION II-6   / PRIVACY   / WB126

Do Data Breach Notification Laws Work?
Aniket Kesari   
Discussant: Brad Greenwood

The Paradox of Privacy Regulation: How Law Meant to Protect Privacy Can Erode It
ChristopherJon Sprigman, Stephan Tontrup  
Discussant: Tom Haley

Do US State Breach Notification Laws Decrease Firm Data Breaches?
Brad N. Greenwood, Paul M. Vaaler
Discussant: Aniket Kesari

Session III / 3:15-5:15 p.m. , Friday, Nov. 4

SESSION III-1   / CONSTITUTIONAL LAW   / WB101

The Cost of the Culture Wars
Brady Earley   
Discussant: Dane Thorley

Testing the Application and Boundaries of the “Fighting Words” Doctrine: A Randomized Survey Experiment
Erin Cranor, Dane Thorley
Discussant: Brady Earley

Experimental Studies on the Normative Force of Law
Kevin Cope
Discussant: Greg Mitchell

SESSION III-2   / PUBLIC HEALTH AND MEDICINE 1   / WB102

Paid Medical Malpractice Claims: How Strongly Does the Past Predict the Future?
Kowsar Yousefi, Bernard Black, and David A. Hyman
Discussant: Sofia Amaral-Garcia

The Effects of Price Transparency and No-Debt-Collection Policies: A Randomized Vignette Experiment
Wendy Epstein, Christopher Robertson, Hansoo Ko 
Discussant: Cherie Metcalf

Effect of Financial Incentives on Hospital-Cardiologist Integration and Cardiac Test Location
Andy Ye Yuan, Ali Moghtaderi, Timea Viragh, David Magid, Qian Luo, Bernard Black
Discussant: Benjamin McMichael

SESSION III-3   / CORPORATE LAW: DIVERSITY AND DISCRIMINATION   / WB103

Funding Nonprofit Diversity and Innovation
Atinuke Adediran, Yaron Nili  
Discussant: Julia Mahoney

New Evidence on Board Diversity
Michal Barzuza, David C. Smith
Discussant: Vikramaditya Khanna

Sex and Startups
Jens Frankenreiter, Talia Gillis, Eric Talley,  
Discussant: Michal Barzuza

SESSION III-4   / CONTRACTS 1 / WB104

Procurement and Infrastructure Costs
Zachary Liscow, Will Nober, Cailin Slattery  
Discussant: Rich Schragger

Norm-Based Enforcement of Promises
Nathan Atkinson, Rebecca Stone, Alexander Stremitzer
Discussant: Monika Leszczynska

 Side Letter Governance
Elisabeth de Fontenay, Yaron Nili
Discussant: George Geis

SESSION III-5   / COMPARATIVE LAW   / WB105

Do Militant Democracy Provisions Protect Democracy?
Adam Chilton, Mila Versteeg  
Discussant: Sidak Yntiso

Evidence of Caste-Class Discrimination from a Conjoint Analysis of Law Enforcement Officers
Margaret Boittin, Rachel Fisher, Cecilia Hyunjung Mo
Discussant: Jennifer Shinall

Why Does Patrimonialism Persist? Authoritarian Legacies and Judicial Selection in Mexico, 1917-2017
Julio Rios-Figueroa, Mariano Sanchez-Talanquer  
Discussant: Nuno Garoupa

SESSION III-6   / LAW AND FINANCE   / WB126

A Fractional Solution to a Stock Market Mystery
Robert P. Bartlett, Justin McCrary, Maureen O'Hara 
Discussant: Cathy Hwang

Noisy Factors in Law
Adriana Z. Robertson, Mikhail Simutin, Pat Akey
Discussant: David Chapman

Corporate Discrimination, Competition, and Shareholder Wealth
Casey Dougal, Thomas P. Griffin, Irena Hutton
Discussant: Eric Talley

THEODORE EISENBERG POSTER SESSION AND RECEPTION
5:15-6:30 p.m., Friday, Nov. 4

Algorithmic Policing
Ranae Jabri   

Appellate Roulette: Are Like Criminal Appeals Treated Alike?
Corey Yung   

Assessing The Fit of Waiting Period Restrictions on Gun Purchases
EJ Morera, K. Alexander Adams, George A. Mocsary

Common Lender, Ex-Banker Director, and Corporate Investment
Kentaro Asai, Thao Hoang, Takeshi Yamada

Common Ownership and Corporate Social Responsibility: Evidence from the Blackrock-BGI Merger
Kenneth Khoo   

Contract Interpretation: A Macro View
Farshad Ghodoosi, Tal Kastner  

Crypto-Markets and U.S.-Led Enforcement: Investor Reaction to the SEC and the CFTC
Yulia Guseva-Schnol, Irena Hutton, Hang Miao 

Disclose or Not? A Survey Experiment on Informed Consent and Medical Artificial Intelligence
Hai Jin Park   

Does the IL Curriculum Make a Difference?
David A. Hyman, Jing Liu, Joshua Teitelbaum

Estimating the Perceived Threat Threshold for Acting in Self Defense: A Signal Detection Theory Approach
Aili Qiao, Matthew Baucum, Richard S. John

Fair Cross-Sections and Unknown Demographics: Assessing the Use of Inferred Race Based on U.S. Census Data to Measure Disparities
Miriam Hamilton   

Felony Financial Disenfranchisement
Neel U. Sukhatme, Alexander Billy, Gaurav Bagwe 

Identifying Communities of Interest
James Syme, Benjamin Nyblade  

Increasing the Pool of Successful Law School Students: The Effect of a Training Program on First-Year Law School Students’ Grades
Heather M. Buzick, Jess Findley, Heidi Legg Burross, Matthew Charles, David M. Klieger, Christopher Robertson

Involuntary IPOs
Heylel-li Biton   

Machine-Learning Comparative Law
Hai-wei Ho, Patrick Chung-Chia Huang, Yun-chien Chang 

MEMCONS: How Contemporaneous Note-Taking Shapes Memory for Conversation
Sarah Brown-Schmidt, Christopher B. Jaeger, Melissa J. Evans, Aaron S. Benjamin

Regulated Human Capital Disclosures
Thomas Bourveau, Maliha Chowdhury, Anthony Le, Ethan Rouen

Relationship Banking and Credit Scores: Evidence from a Natural Experiment
Tali Bank, Nimrod Segev, Maya Shaton

Sentencing Under Legislative Leniency
Ehud Guttel, Adi Leibovitch, Ittai Paldor 

So Much for Plain Language: An Analysis of the Accessibility of United States Federal Laws Over Time
Eric Martínez, Francis Mollica, Edward Gibson 

The Conservative Paradox and the Formation of 5–4 Coalitions
Nicholas Georgakopoulos   

The Determinants of Bilateral Forum Selection
Jonathan Nash   

The Effect of “Them That’s Got Shall Have” Laws on General Election Outcomes
Darren Grant   

The Value of Corporate Political Donations: Evidence from the Capitol Riot
Christopher Poliquin, Young Hou

When Criminal Proceedings Can’t Proceed: Systemic Failures to Appear in Court
Lindsay Graef, Sandra Mayson, Aurélie Ouss, Megan T. Stevenson

CELS Conference Dinner
6:30-8 p.m., Friday, Nov. 4

Caplin Pavilion, UVA Law School (by separate registration only)

Dinner Keynote Speaker: Anne-Marie Slaughter

Slaughter is the Bert G. Kerstetter ’66 University Professor Emerita of Politics and International Affairs at Princeton University, former dean of the Princeton School of Public and International Affairs, and the CEO of New America.

Session IV / 9-11 a.m. , Saturday, Nov. 5

SESSION IV-1   / MERGERS AND DEALS   / WB101

The Lost Promise of Loan Covenants
Cathy Hwang, Yaron Nili, Jeremy McClane
Discussant: Irena Hutton

The Value of M&A Drafting
Adam B. Badawi, Elisabeth de Fontenay, Julian Nyarko
Discussant: James Hicks

How Deals Die
Da Lin, Morgan Ricks  
Discussant: Elisabeth De Fontenay

SESSION IV-2   / PROSECUTION AND SENTENCING   / WB102

Open Prosecution
Brandon Garrett, Elizabeth Gifford, Adele Quigley-McBride, William Crozier, Kevin Dahaghi
Discussant: Lindsay Graef

Arrest, Risk Assessment, and Violent Recidivism in Cases of Domestic Abuse
Dan A. Black, Jeffrey Grogger, Koen Sanders, Tom Kirchmaier
Discussant: John Monahan

Estimating the Impact of the Age of Criminal Majority: Decomposing Multiple Treatments in a Regression Discontinuity Framework
Michael Mueller-Smith, Benjamin Pyle, Caroline Walker 
Discussant: Elizabeth Luh

SESSION IV-3   / LAWYERING   / WB103

The Myth of Lawyer-Statesmen? An Empirical Analysis of General Counsel
Dhruv Aggarwal   
Discussant: Jonathan Zytnick

Professional Discipline and the Labor Market: Evidence from Lawyers
Kyle Rozema   
Discussant: Michael Frakes

Defense Use of Digital Discovery in Criminal Cases
Jenia I. Turner, Michael Braun, Ronald F. Wright
Discussant: Dane Thorley

SESSION IV-4   / RENTERS AND HOUSEHOLD FINANCE   / WB104

Civil Probation
Nicole Summers   
Discussant: David Hoffman

No Credit: Reproductive Rights and Women's Access to Capital
Jonathan Zandberg, Itay Ravid
Discussant: Nathaniel Pattison

Longer Trips to Court Cause Evictions
David A. Hoffman, Anton Strezhnev  
Discussant: Kyle Rozema

SESSION IV-5   / MUTUAL FUNDS   / WB105

Discretionary Investing by ‘Passive’ S&P 500 Funds
Peter Molk, Adriana Z. Robertson  
Discussant: Rich Evans

Do Mutual Funds Represent Individual Investors? | Appendix
Jonathon Zytnick   
Discussant: Quinn Curtis

Self-Declared Benchmarks and Fund Manager Intent: Cheating or Competing?
Huaizhi Chen, Richard Evans, Yang Sun
Discussant: Adriana Robertson

SESSION IV-6   / TORTS   / WB126

The Credibility Effect: Defamation Law and Audiences
Yonathan Arbel   
Discussant: Mike Gilbert

Liability Reconsidered: Experimental Evidence
J. Shahar Dillbary, Cherie Metcalf, Brock Stoddard 
Discussant: Daewoun Choi

SESSION IV-7   / JUDICIAL DECISION-MAKING   / WB128

Monetary Judges, Out-Of-Court Rewards, and In-Court Behavior: Evidence from an Italian Natural Experiment
Lucia Dalla Pellegrina, Nuno Garoupa, Peter Grajzl 
Discussant: Daniel Klerman

Can Law Students Be Used to Study Judicial Decision-Making Experimentally?
Holger Spamann, Lars Klöhn  
Discussant: Greg Mitchell

Stock Ownership of Federal Judges and its Impact on Corporations
April Knill, Joseph Kindelsperger, Alexei Ovtchinnikov 
Discussant: Eric Helland

Session V / 11:15 a.m.-1:15 p.m., Saturday, Nov. 5 

SESSION V-1   / METHODS IN JUSTICE   / WB101

Does Measurement Error Affect Our Understanding of Crime? General Results and Their Application to the Study of Jails
Richard T. Boylan   
Discussant: Benjamin Pyle

What Drives the Revolving Door? Conviction, Incarceration, and Future Criminal Justice Involvement
Megan Stevenson, Aurelie Ouss, John Eric Humphries, Winnie van Dijk, Kamelia Stavreva
Discussant: Jeffrey Grogger

Biases in Legal Decision Making: Comparing Prosecutors, Defense Attorneys, Law Students, and Laypersons
Doron Teichman, Ilana Ritov, Eyal Zamir
Discussant: JJ Prescott

SESSION V-2   / PUBLIC OPINION AND ELECTIONS   / WB102

The Role of Cable News Hosts in Public Support for Supreme Court Decisions
Scott Boddery, Damon Cann, Laura Moyer, Jeff Yates
Discussant: Jed Stiglitz   

Base Rate Neglect and the Diagnosis of Partisan Gerrymanders: Against Efficiency
Sanford C. Gordon, Sidak Yntiso  
Discussant: Doug Spencer

Do Social Safety Nets Discourage Populism?
Jed Stiglitz   
Discussant: Damon Cann

SESSION V-3   / PSYCHOLOGY   / WB103

In-Person versus Virtual Civil Juries: A Quasi-Experiment
Krystia Reed, Valerie P. Hans, Vivian N. Rotenstein, Valerie F. Reyna, Addison Rodriguez, Rebecca K. Helm
Discussant: John Monahan

Evidence Law’s Blind Spots
James Macleod   
Discussant: Bobbie Spellman

Consent Searches and Underestimation of Compliance: Robustness to Type of Search, Consequences of Search, and Demographic Sample
Roseanna Sommers, Vanessa K. Bohns  
Discussant: Adi Leibovitch

SESSION V-4   / PUBLIC HEALTH AND MEDICINE 2   / WB104

Supply-Side Health Policy: The Impact of Scope-of-Practice Laws on Mortality | Appendix
Benjamin J. McMichael   
Discussant: Andy Yuan

Medical Device Companies and Doctors: Do Their Interactions Affect Medical Treatments?
Sofia Amaral-Garcia   
Discussant: David Hyman

The Political Economy of Essential Work
Pamela J. Clouser McCann, Abby K. Wood
Discussant: Wendy Epstein

SESSION V-5   / INTERNATIONAL AND COMPARATIVE   / WB105

Defining the Duty to Consult from Below: Algorithmic Analysis of Indigenous and Minority Claims Before Inquiry Commissions
Ronit Levine-Schnur, Renana Keydar, Noam Maeir 
Discussant: Rafael Alvarado

Casting a Chill: The Impact of ISDS Challenges by Foreign Investors on Domestic Regulation
Mark Maffett, Mario Milone, Weijia Rao
Discussant: Pierre Verdier

The Effects of Bilateral Labor Agreements: Evidence from the Philippines
Adam Chilton, Bartosz Woda  
Discussant: Pierre Verdier

SESSION V-6   / CORPORATE AND ANTITRUST / WB126

Do Independent Boards Harm Employee Safety and Health?
Lixiong Guo, Zhiyan Wang
Discussant: Ian Appel

Testing Political Antitrust: Economic Concentration and Political Advocacy Over Two Decades
Sepehr Shahshahani, Nolan McCarty      
Discussant: Josh Fischman

Recontracting CEO Compensation
Tao Li
Discussant: Roberto Tallarita

Session VI / 2:15-4:15 p.m. , Saturday, Nov. 5

SESSION VI-1   / TAX ENFORCEMENT   / WB101

Tax Base Diversification as an Enforcement Tool
Brian Galle, David Gamage, Yulia Kuchumova 
Discussant: Eleanor Wilking

How the Design of Algorithms for Taxpayer Audits Affects the Distribution of Audited Taxpayers by Race
Hadi Elzayn, Evelyn Smith, Thomas Hertz, Robin Fisher, Daniel E. Ho, Jacob Goldin
Discussant: Megan Stevenson

Does it Matter Who Remits? Evidence from U.S. States’ Voluntary Collection Agreements
Yeliz Kaçamak, Tejaswi Velayudhan, Eleanor Wilking   
Discussant: Brian Galle

SESSION VI-2   / DISCRIMINATION IN LEGAL TRAINING, HIRING, AND DECISION-MAKING   / WB102

Gender Gaps in Legal Education: The Impact of Class Participation Assessments
Kenneth Khoo, Jaclyn Neo  
Discussant: Yonathan Arbel

Xenophobia in Juror Decision Making
Li Huang   
Discussant: Adam Chilton

Race, Gender, Class, or Judicial Fairness: What Matters at the Entry Point of the U.S. Legal Service Market?
Ji Li   
Discussant: Dhruv Aggarwal

Session VI-3   / CONTRACTS 2   / WB103

Regulatory Spillovers: The Case of GDPR
Kevin E. Davis, Florencia Marotta-Wurgler  
Discussant: Stefan Bechtold

Top-Ups and "Telephone"
Kristina Bishop, Matthew Jennejohn, Cree Jones
Discussant: Meirav Furth-Matzkin

SESSION VI-4   / COURTS AND JUDGING 3   / WB104

Framing Effects in Proportionality Analysis: Experimental Evidence
Anne van Aaken, Roee Sarel
Discussant: Roseanna Sommers

Ordinary Meaning and Ordinary People
Kevin Tobia, Brian G. Slocum, Victoria Nourse 
Discussant: Amy Semet

Political Ideology and Judicial Administration: Evidence from the COVID-19 Pandemic
Adam Chilton, Christopher Cotropia, Kyle Rozema, David Schwartz
Discussant: Ryan Copus