Thought that a quiet day (President’s day) might be a good time to tell folks about the Empirical Legal Studies Blog

Authors include Carolyn Shapiro at Chicago Kent, Christopher Zorn at Penn State, David Stras at Univ of Minn, Dawn Chutkow at Cornell, Frank Cross at Univ of Texas, Michael Heise at Conrell, Sara Benesh at the Univ of Wisc., Thoedore Eisenberg at Cornell, William Ford at John Marshall, and William Henderson at Indiana.

Recent posts include:

One on a study of arbitration

In An Empirical Study of Employment Arbitration: Case Outcomes and Processes, 8 Journal of Empirical Legal Studies 1 (2011), Alexander Colvin analyzes thousand of arbitration outcomes and finds a low employee win rate (21.4 percent), finds strong evidence of a repeat player effect in which employee win rates and award amounts are significantly lower where the employer is involved in multiple arbitration cases, and finds evidence of a significant repeat-employer-arbitrator pairing effect that is adverse to employees.

This has obvious implications on legal issues relating to much arbitration.  Richard Moorhead has blogged on this and another study and their implication for fairness of mandatory artitration.

Another post is on the upcoming “Quant [quantitative] Boot Camp for Law Profs”  Something we need to do in the court and legal aid leadership worlds too.

Another is on Jim Greiner’s HLAB Paper.

A good blog to watch.