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Meetings
Each semester, we hold 3-5 lab meetings. All are welcome!
- Mon, Oct 18Zoom MeetingOct 18, 2021, 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM EDTZoom MeetingBrian Sheppard (Seton Hall), Andrew Moshirnia (Monash University), and Charles Sullivan (Seton Hall) will present "A Law Is a Law. Or Is It?"
- Mon, Oct 04Zoom MeetingOct 04, 2021, 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM EDTZoom MeetingLevin Güver and Markus Kneer (Zurich) will present "Causation and Norms"
- Mon, Sep 13Zoom MeetingSep 13, 2021, 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM EDTZoom MeetingNeele Engelmann (University of Göttingen) and Michael R. Waldmann (University of Göttingen) will present "A causal proximity effect in moral judgment"
- Mon, May 03Zoom MeetingMay 03, 2021, 3:00 PM – 4:00 PM EDTZoom MeetingAlice Liefgreen and Lara Kirfel will present "What If (and Why): How people perceive counterfactual explanations of automated decisions".
- Mon, Apr 12Zoom MeetingApr 12, 2021, 3:00 PM – 4:00 PM EDTZoom MeetingMara Revkin (Georgetown Law) and Kristen Kao (Gothenburg) will present "How Does Punishment Affect Reintegration? Evidence from Islamic State "Collaborators" In Iraq"
- Mon, Mar 08Zoom MeetingMar 08, 2021, 3:00 PM – 4:00 PM ESTZoom MeetingA central debate in general jurisprudence, between Lon Fuller and H.L.A. Hart, concerned whether or not the concept of law, and derivatively its application, is intrinsically linked to morality. Ivar Hannikainen presents experiments about how ordinary people think about these questions.
- Mon, Feb 08Zoom MeetingFeb 08, 2021, 3:00 PM – 4:00 PM ESTZoom MeetingProfessor James Macleod (Brooklyn Law) will present new experimental work on the expressive effects of tort law.
- Mon, Dec 07Zoom MeetingDec 07, 2020, 3:00 PM – 4:00 PM ESTZoom MeetingMany pages have been written about competing legal theories: natural law vs. positivism, formalism vs. realism, originalism vs. living constitutionalism. But what do most law professors actually believe? Eric Martínez (MIT) presents a new project that begins to answer this question.
- Mon, Nov 02Zoom MeetingNov 02, 2020, 3:00 PM – 4:00 PMZoom MeetingFDA policy forbids blood banks from accepting blood from men who have had sex with other men (MSM) in the past three months. Are laypeople more tolerant of donations from MSM who engage in HIV preventive behaviors? Prof. Doron Dorfman presents an experiment that uncovers very surprising results!
- Mon, Oct 05Zoom MeetingOct 05, 2020, 3:00 PM – 4:00 PMZoom MeetingLegal theorists have argued that punishment is communicative. But what, empirically, is punishment's message? James Dunlea (Columbia) presents research (w/ Larisa Heiphetz) on children's and adults' inferences about what punishment signals about someone's past and who they will be in the future.
- Mon, Sep 21Zoom MeetingSep 21, 2020, 3:00 PM – 4:00 PMZoom MeetingModern textualism increasingly focuses on determining the "ordinary meaning" of statutes. Can experimental methods help in this effort? Profs. Kevin Tobia and John Mikhail will present experiments suggesting that "ordinary meaning" is more complicated than it first seems.
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