Northwestern Pritzker School of Law held the 20th Annual Conference on Empirical Legal Studies (CELS) in October, and four Emory Law professors had papers presented during this prestigious gathering.  

In a session on Corporate Law and Agency Conflicts, Andrew Jennings, associate professor of law and director of the Carney Center for Business and Transactional Law, presented Everyday Veil Piercing. He also served as discussant in a session on prices and inference.

Geeyoung Min, associate professor of law, presented Litigating Corporate Culture with Dhruv Aggarwal and Albert Choi in a session on The Corporation and Society.

In a session on Measuring Creativity, Meaning, and Quality, Jonathan Nash, Robert Howell Hall Professor, director of Emory Law’s Center on Federalism and Intersystemic Governance, and director of the Emory Center for Law and Social Science, presented Copyright and Creative Collaboration in the Age of Artificial Intelligence a paper he co-authored with Dave Fagundes, professor of law and Christopher Buccafusco.

CELS is an interdisciplinary gathering that draws empirical researchers from across the United States and the world, bringing together scholars in law, economics, political science, psychology, and other fields who are interested in the empirical analysis of law and legal institutions.

This conference is co-sponsored by Northwestern Pritzker Law and the Society for Empirical Legal Studies.

The Conference on Empirical Legal Studies was launched in 2006 to reflect the increasing amount of empirical scholarship within law schools and other institutions. Previous CELS have been held on esteemed campuses such as Cornell Law School, Duke University Law School, Northwestern, NYU, Penn, Stanford, UC Berkeley, Yale, Georgetown and, in 2024, Emory Law.