21-22 June 2016, University of Amsterdam, Netherlands
Keynote speakers:
Jennifer H. Arlen (NYU Law School)
Ian Ayres (Yale Law School)
Bernard Black (Northwestern University School of Law)
Rens Bod (University of Amsterdam)
Empirical Legal Studies
Paper Submission Deadline (CLOSED): 1 March 2016, 6:00 (CET)
Empirical legal studies are well established in the United States and are now part of the academic mainstream. In Europe, meanwhile, law reviews still rarely feature empirical work and doctrinal analysis continues to dominate legal research and teaching. Yet there is increasing pressure as well as growing demand—from research-funding institutions, policy-makers and legal practitioners—for European academic lawyers to investigate the empirical foundations of their theoretical claims and to explain how legal rules emerge from social interactions and shape social outcomes. Hosted by the University of Amsterdam and sponsored by the Society for Empirical Legal Studies (SELS), the first Conference on Empirical Legal Studies in Europe (CELSE) brings together academics from law and other fields who embrace the empirical turn and seek to develop empirical accounts of law and legal institutions in Europe.
Program - 21 June
When | Where | What |
8.30-9.00 | Central Hall | Registration, Coffee and Muffins |
9.00-10.00 | D1.09 |
Keynote Session with Jennifer H. Arlen (NYU Law School) - Experimental Law and Economics: Self-Debiasing and External Validity - Public Lecture |
10.00-10.15 |
Central Hall | Break |
10.15-12.00 |
Intellectual Property (C2.17) |
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12.00-13.30 | Atrium University Restaurant | Lunch |
13.30-15.15 |
Constitutional Law and Fundamental Rights (C0.23) |
|
15.15-15.30 |
Central Hall | Break |
15.30-16.40 |
Administrative Law (0.23) |
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16.40-17.00 |
Central Hall | Break |
17.00-18.00 | D1.09 |
Keynote Session with Rens Bod (University of Amsterdam) - Digital Legal Studies - Public Lecture |
18.30 | Restaurant NEVA | Drinks and Seated Dinner |
Program - 22 June
When | Where | What |
8.30-9.00 | Central Hall | Registration, Coffee and Muffins |
9.00-10.00 | D1.09 |
Keynote Session with Bernard Black (Northwestern University School of Law) -Bloopers: How Smart People Get Causal Inference Wrong - Public Lecture |
10.00-10.15 |
Central Hall | Break |
10.15-12.00 |
Competition Law (C0.23) |
|
12.00-13.30 |
Atrium University Restaurant | Lunch |
13.30-15.15 |
Torts (C3.17) |
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15.15-15.30 |
Central Hall | Break |
15.30-16.40 |
Conttact and Property Law (C0.23) |
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16.40-17.00 |
Central Hall | Break |
17.00-18.00 | D1.09 |
Keynote Session with Ian Ayres (Yale Law School) - Field Experiments and Law - Public Lecture |
18.30 | Restaurant NEVA | Drinks and Walking Dinner |
Practical Information

Room Conference Venue - University of Amsterdam, Faculty of Law, Oudemanhuispoort 4-6
Oudemanhuispoort 4-61012 CN Amsterdam
Restaurant (Dinner) Venue
Restaurant NEVA
Amstel 51
1018 DR Amsterdam
(See link below)
CELSE registration:
Registration has been closed on June 13th. If you have any inquiries, please contact the secretariat of the Amsterdam Center for Law & Economics at acle@uva.nl
Fee: €250 (including two lunches, two dinners and all coffee breaks)
Visit Paris (SIOE) and Amsterdam (CELSE)
CELSE will take place only a few days after the annual conference of the Society for Intstitutional and Organizational Economics (SIOE), which will be held on June 15-17, 2016 in Paris. Amsterdam is a short train ride from Paris. More information at http://www.sioe.org/conference/2016.
Organizing Committee:
- Giuseppe Dari-Mattiacci (University of Amsterdam)
- Arthur Dyevre (KU Leuven)
- Christoph Engel (Max Planck Institute for Research on Collective Goods)
Program Committee:
- Giuseppe Dari-Mattiacci (University of Amsterdam)
- Arthur Dyevre (KU Leuven)
- 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)
- Giovanni Mastrobuoni (University of Essex)
- Eric Talley (Columbia Law School)
Initial Call for Papers
Please find more information on this conference in the Call for Papers.
The submission deadline for this call has been closed meanwhile.
Hotel Accommodation
Participants are to arrange their own lodging. The following is a selection of hotels in de vicinity of the conference venue.
- Sofitel The Grand *****
Oudezijds Voorburgwal 197, Amsterdam
Website: http://www.thegrand.nl - NH Amsterdam Schiller****
Rembrandtplein 17, Amsterdam
Website: http://www.nh-hotels.nl/hotel/nh-amsterdam-schiller - NH Doelen ****
Nieuwe Doelenstraat 24, Amsterdam
Website: http://www.nh-hotels.com - Hotel Arena ****
's Gravesandestraat 51, Amsterdam
Website http://www.hotelarena.nl - Park Plaza Vondel****
Koninginneweg 34-36, Amsterdam
Website: http://www.parkplaza.com/amsterdam-hotel-nl-1075-cz/netvonde - Le Coin ***
Nieuwe Doelenstraat 5, Amsterdam
Website http: http://www.lecoin.nl - Amsterdam Tropen Hotel***
Linnaeusstraat 2c, Amsterdam
Website http://www.amsterdamtropenhotel.com/en
For further information: http:www.hotels.com. We have made a block-booking at discount rates at NH Schiller Hotel Amsterdam, Hotel Le Coin and the Amsterdam Tropen Hotel. Conference speakers will receive the discount code and further instructions with the paper acceptance message.
Arriving and leaving Amsterdam
Schiphol airport is best reached by regular train service. The 15-minute train ride leaves every 10 to 15 minutes from Amsterdam Central Station, which is a 5-minute taxi ride from the conference venue. It is a 10 minutes walk from the Central Station to the conference venue. A taxi from the conference venue to Schiphol airport would take about 25 minutes.
Public Transport
You can buy train tickets from the yellow machines at the railway station. Some machines take credit cards and/or coins, some machines only take Dutch bank cards. For other types of public transport (bus/metro/tram) you will need an electronic transport card (“ov chip card”). These can be purchased from the machines at most metro stations or at the GVB office at the central station. For more information, visit http://en.gvb.nl/pages/home.aspx. To plan your trip, visit: http://9292.nl/en.
Information
For further inquiries contact the ACLE Office at +31 (0)20 525 4162 or the e-mail address below.