Second Conference on Empirical Legal Studies in

Europe

Conference Thursday 31 May through 1 June 2018

Empirical Training Workshop 30 May 2018

University of Leuven

Faculty of Law

Tiensestraat 41

Leuven, Belgium

Empirical Legal Studies

Already well established in the United States, empirical legal studies are becoming an important part

of European legal scholarship. Empirical legal research seeks to explain how legal rules emerge from

social interactions and shape social outcomes. In the age of Big Data, there is also the hope that new

data science techniques such as machine learning and text-mining will improve legal forecasting, legal

risk analysis and legal knowledge management. Hosted by the KU Leuven and sponsored by the Society

for Empirical Legal Studies (SELS), the FWO and the ERC-funded EUTHORITY Project, this second

Conference on Empirical Legal Studies in Europe (CELSE) brings together researchers from Europe and

beyond who are moving the study of law to this new frontier.

Keynote Speakers

Simon Deakin

Simon Deakin is Professor of Law at the University of Cambridge. He specializes in labour law, private

law, company law and EU law. His research is concerned, more generally, with the relationship

between law and the social sciences, and he contributes regularly to the fields of law and economics,

law and development, and empirical legal studies. He is Director of the Centre for Business Research,

co-Chair of the University's Strategic Research Initiative in Public Policy, and a Fellow of Peterhouse.

He is the author of several books, including Tort Law (7th. ed. with Basil Markesinis and Angus

Johnston, 2012), Labour Law (6th. ed. 2012, with Gillian S. Morris), The Law of the Labour Market:

Industrialization, Employment, and Legal Evolution (2005, with Frank Wilkinson), and Hedge Fund

Activism in Japan: The Limits of Shareholder Primacy (2012, with John Buchanan and Dominic Chai). He

is editor in chief of the Industrial Law Journal and a member of the editorial board of the the Cambridge

Journal of Economics. He is a recipient of the ECGI and Allen & Overy prizes for corporate governance

research. He is currently a principal investigator on two ESRC-funded projects and has recently carried

out contract research for the International Labour Organisation and for the UK government's Foresight

review of the future of British manufacturing.

Christoph Engel

Christoph Engel is founding Director of the Max Planck Institute for Research on Collective Goods. He

is also professor at Bonn University and holds the Chair for Experimental Law and Economics at

Rotterdam Erasmus University. At the intersection of law and experimental economics, his work has

appeared in the Journal of Empirical Legal Studies, the American Law and Economics Review, the

Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, Economics Letters and the Journal of Institutional and

Theoretical Economics.

Justin McCrary

Justin McCrary is Professor of Law at Berkeley School of Law, Faculty Research Fellow at the National

Bureau of Economic Research (Cambridge) and a Fellow of the Criminal Justice Research Institute,

Institute of Legal Studies (Berkeley). He works at the intersection of law and economics. His early

research was on the effect of court-ordered changes to the hiring practices of police departments on

the racial composition of police officers and on crime and arrest patterns. His work has also

investigated the ebb and flow of crime rates over time and across space along with the tradeoffs facing

governments allocating criminal justice dollars to apprehension efforts (e.g., police) and punishment

efforts (e.g., prison). In addition to his research on crime, he has worked on a wide variety of topics,

including education, health, inequality, econometrics, and monetary policy. More recently, he has

become interested in computational economics and in business law, particularly in regard to

corporations, and its intersection with the economics literature on the theory of the firm.

Eric Talley

Eric Talley is the Isidor and Seville Sulzbacher Professor of Law and Co-Director, Millstein Center for Global Markets and Corporate Ownership. He is an expert in the intersection of corporate law, governance, and finance, and he teaches/researches in areas that include corporate law and finance, mergers and acquisitions, quantitative methods, machine learning, contract and commercial law, game theory, and economic analysis of law. Talley has held permanent or visiting appointments at the University of California at Berkeley, University of Southern California, Caltech, University of Chicago; Harvard University; Georgetown University, RAND Graduate School, and Stanford University. He has also taught short courses at the University of New South Wales; the University of Sydney; University of San Diego; Tel Aviv University, the Interdisciplinary Center; University of Zurich; University of Amsterdam; and University of Miami. Talley is a frequent commentator in the national media, and he speaks regularly to corporate boards and regulators on issues pertaining to fiduciary duties, governance, and finance.

Conference Venue

KU Leuven Faculty of Law, Valk College, Tiensestraat 41, 3000 Leuven. The Faculty of Law can be

accessed from both Tiensestraat 41 (look for the big entry gate) and Ladeuze Square 30 (to the left of

Chapter Four Café). More information below and on www.CELSE2018.com.

Registration

The Registration Desk is located on ground floor (level 00) of the Nieuwe Valk (DV3) building.

Lunch

At 12:00 in ALMA, Tiensestraat 115 in Leuven, a two-minute walk from the Conference venue (see map

below). Remember to bring and show the badge you will receive at the Registration Desk.

Dinner

Dinner is at 19:00, on 31 May at the Faculty Club, Groot Begijnhof 14 in Leuven, and on 1 June at the

Irish College, Janseniusstraat 1 in Leuven. The Faculty Club is a 15-minute walk from the Conference

venue and is located next to the Begijnhof Hotel. The Irish College is a ten-minute walk from the

Conference venue.

Internet Access

Upon registration you will receive the login details of your campusroam visitor account. You can also

access the internet via eduroam with your institution’s login details.

Information Desk

There are two information desks, one in the Nieuwe Valk (DV3) building (level 00, same as Registration

Desk) and the other in the Oude Valk (DV1) at the entrance of the Zeger van Hee Room.

Getting to and from Leuven

Leuven is most easily reached by regular train service from Brussels International Airport or Brussels-

Midi station. The train ride to Brussels International Airport takes approximately 15-minute. Count 25

minutes to get from Leuven station to Brussels-Midi. More information on directions and travelling on

www.CELSE2018.com.

Getting Around Leuven

Leuven is small and pedestrian-friendly. So you easily get around on foot. In case your hotel is located

outside the city centre, many bus lines serve the bus stop closest to the Conference venue (Rector de

Somerplein).

CELSE 2018 Conference Locations

Information on directions from CELSE 2018 to lunch and dinner locations on

www.CELSE2018.com.

Faculty of Law, ALMA, Faculty Club, Irish College and Begijnhof Hotel

Faculty of Law – Valk College

Organizing Committee:

Arthur Dyevre (KU Leuven) Gijs van Dijck (Maastricht University) Ben Depoorter (UGhent) Wim Marneffe (UHasselt) Giuseppe Dari-Mattiacci (University of Amsterdam)

Programme Committee:

Giuseppe Dari-Mattiacci (University of Amsterdam) Jennifer Arlen (NYU) Arthur Dyevre (KU Leuven) Ben Depoorter (UGhent) Wim Marneffe (UHasselt) Gijs van Dijck (Maastricht University)

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) Thomas Gschwend (Mannheim) Chris Hanretty (Royal Holloway) Eric Talley (Columbia Law School)

Reviewers

We are thankful to the reviewers who make CELSE great.

Sofia Amaral-Garcia (Hasselt University and KU Leuven); Ronen Avraham (Tel Aviv University and

University of Texas at Austin); Stefan Bechtold (ETH); Catrien Bijleveld (VU Amsterdam); Robin

Christmann (Leibniz FH School of Business); Lucia Dalla Pellegrina (Bocconi University); Ben Depoorter

(UC Hastings and Ghent University); Evan Dudley (Queen’s University); Gijs van Dijck (Maastricht

University); Arthur Dyevre (KU Leuven); Jared A. Ellias (UC Hastings); Christoph Engel (Max Planck

Institute for Research on Collective Goods); Andreas Engert (Universität Mannheim); Marco Fabbri

(Erasmus University Rotterdam); Victor Fleischer (University of San Diego); Jens Frankenreiter (Max

Planck Institute for Research on Collective Goods); Nuno Garoupa (Texas A&M University); Alexander

Peter Groh (EM Lyon Business School); Thomas Gschwend (Universität Mannheim); Chris Hanretty

(Royal Holloway University of London); Eric A. Helland (Claremont McKenna College); David A. Hoffman

(University of Pennsylvania); Jonathan Klick (University of Pennsylvania); Nicolas Lampach (KU Leuven);

Yu-Hsin Lin (City University of Hong Kong); Wim Marneffe (Hasselt University); Julieta Marotta

(Maastricht University); Giovanni Mastrobuoni, (Collegio Carlo Alberto and University of Essex); Harald

Merckelbach (Maastricht University); José Luis Castro-Montero (Universidad Andina Simon Bolivar);

Anthony Niblett (University of Toronto); Alessio Maria Pacces (Erasmus University Rotterdam); Niels

Petersen (Universität Münster); J.J. Prescott (University of Michigan); Navajyoti Samanta (University of

Sheffield); Marcel GH Schaper (Maastricht University); Mathias M. Siems (Durham University); Fabien

Tarissan (CNRS); Tess Wilkinson-Ryan (University of Pennsylvania).

30 May 2018: Empirical Training Workshop

When

What

9.00-9.30 Registration, Nieuwe Valk, DV3 01.07

9.30-11.00 Basic Statistics for Lawyers with Dr. Sofia Amaral-Garcia

(UHasselt and KU Leuven)

11.00-11.30 Break

11.30-13.00 Introduction to R Statistical Language for Lawyers with

Dr. Nicolas Lampach (KU Leuven) and Dr. Sofia Amaral-

Garcia (KU Leuven)

13.00-14.30 Break

14.30-16.00

Experimental Methods with Prof. Jennifer Arlen (NYU)

16.00-16.30 Break

16.30-18.00 Introduction to Webscrapping and Text-Mining for

Lawyers with Dr. Nicolas Lampach (KU Leuven)

19.00-20.00 Welcome Beer Tasting Stadhuis (Historical Town Hall)

Grote Markt 9 in Leuven

Conference Programme Overview – 31 May 2018

When

What

8.30-9.00 Registration, Coffee and Cookies

9.00-10.00 Keynote session with Justin McCrary (University of California at Berkeley)– Better Together: Sampling and Measurement Plans Zeger van Hee Room

10.00-10.15 Break 10.15-12.00 Parallel Sessions I 12.00-13.30 Lunch at ALMA 13.30-15.15 Parallel Sessions II 15.15-15.30 Coffee Break 15.30-17.15 Parallel Sessions III 17.15-17.30 Break

17.30-18.30 Keynote Session with Christoph Engel (Max Planck Institute for Public Goods) – Experimental Comparative Law Zeger van Hee Room

19.00 Drinks and Dinner at Faculty Club

Conference Programme Overview - 1 June 2018

When What 8.30-9.00 Registration, Coffee and Cookies

9.00-10.00 Keynote session with Simon Deakin (Cambridge University) – Legal Complexity: Theory, Models and Measurement Zeger van Hee Room

10.00-10.15 Break 10.15-12.00 Parallel Sessions IV

12.00-13.30 Lunch at ALMA

13.30-15.15 Parallel Sessions V 15.15-15.30 Coffee Break

15.30-17.15

Parallel Sessions VI

17.15-17.30 Break

17.30-18.30 Keynote Session with Eric Talley (Columbia Law School) – Climate Risk: Who’s Disclosing, and Who Should Be? Zege van Hee Room

19.00 Drinks and Dinner at Irish College

CONFERENCE ON EMPIRICAL LEGAL STUDIES IN EUROPE

31 MAY 2018

8:30-9:00 Registration, coffee and cookies, Nieuwe Valk (DV3) 00.

9:00-10:00

Keynote Session: Justin McCrary, Better Together – Sampling and Measurement Plans (introduced by Sofia Amaral-Garcia)

Zeger van Hee Room (Oude Valk)

10:00-10:15

Break

Parallel Sessions I1 31 May 10:15-12:00 Courts & Judges I Nieuwe Valk DV3 01.32 Chair: Nuno Garoupa Estimating Judicial Ideal Points in a Bidimensional Court Lucia Dalla Pellegrina, Nuno Garoupa, Marian Gili Discussant: Robin Christmann The Role of Precedents on Court Delay: Evidence from a Civil Law Country Michael Berlemann, Robin Christmann

Discussant: Nuno Garoupa

Administrative Law Nieuwe Valk DV3 01.10 Chair: Yoan Hermstrüwer Debarment and Collusion in Procurement Auctions Claudia Cerrone, Yoan Hermstrüwer, Pedro Brito Robalo

Discussant: Marcel Garz

Cartels in the European Union, Antitrust Action, and Public Attention Marcel Garz, Sabrina Maass Discussant: Andrew Samuel Does Market Power Encourage Audit Compliance? Theory and Evidence Andrew Samuel, Jeremy S. Schwartz Discussant: Yoan Hermstrüwer

1 Presenting authors’ names in bold.

Contract Law I Oude Valk Zeger van Hee Chair: Eric Helland Stickiness of Contractual Gaps: Explaining the Lack of Forum Selection Clauses in Commercial Agreements Julian Nyarko Discussant: John Jennejohn Disrupting Relational Contracts Matthew Jennejohn Discussant: Julian Nyarko Optimal Contract Design in the Wild: Rigidity and Control in Collective Bargaining Elliott Ash, W. Bentley MacLeod, Suresh Naidu

Discussant: Eric Helland

Law and Finance I Nieuwe Valk DV3 01.02 Chair: Aras Canipek Do State-Owned Enterprises Have Worse Corporate Governance? An Empirical Study of Corporate Practices in China Yu-Hsin Lin, Yun-chien Chang

Discussant: Re-Jin Guo

The Effect of Creditor Rights on Capital Structure, Investment, and Risk: Evidence from a Natural Experiment Aras Canipek, Axel H. Kind, Sabine Wende

Discussant: Yu-Hsin Lin

Labor Power, Earnings Opacity and Firm Valuation Re-Jin Guo Discussant: Aras Capinek Law, Text Mining and Network Analysis Nieuwe Valk DV3 01.07 Chair: Michael Livermore The Network of Law Reviews: Citation Cartels, Scientific Communities, and Journal Rankings Oren Perez, Judit Bar-Ilan, Reuven Cohen, Nir Schreiber

Discussant: Jens Frankenreiter

Structure and Content in the United States Code Keith Carlson, Faraz Dadgostari, Michael A. Livermore, Daniel Rockmore

Discussant: Oren Perez

Writing Style and Legal Traditions - a Quantitative Investigation of the Stylistic Features of the Case Law of the

European Court of Justice

Jens Frankenreiter

Discussant: Michael Livermore

12:00-13:30

Lunch at ALMA, Tiensestraat 115.

Conference Programme – Parallel Sessions II2 31 May, 13:30-15:15 Criminal Justice I Nieuwe Valk DV3 01.07 Chair: Brandon L. Garrett Experience with Punishment and Specific Deterrence: Evidence from Speeding Tickets Libor Dusek, Christian Traxler

Discussant: Eliott Ash

The Confidence Inflation Problem: What Factors Impact How Jurors Weigh Eyewitness Evidence Brandon L. Garrett, Chad Dodson, Karen Kafadar, Alice Liu

Discussant: Libor Dusek

Your True Colors: Crime, Race and Colorblindness Revisited Itay Ravid

Discussant: Brandon L. Garrett

Corporate Law & Governance I Nieuwe Valk DV3 01.10 Chair: Zinian Zhang Government in Possession in Chinese Corporate Reorganizations Zinian Zhang

Discussant: Lennart Ulrich

Takeover Protection and Firm Value Christian Andres, Martin Jacob, Lennart Ulrich

Discussant: Zinian Zhang

Litigation I Nieuwe Valk DV3 01.02 Chair: Yun-chien Chang Pain and Suffering Damages in Complex Human Rights Cases: An Empirical Analysis Under the European Convention of Human Rights Tilmann Altwicker, Szilvia Altwicker-Hamori, Daniel Gerber, Anne Peters

Discussant: Matthias Goldmann

Procedural Efficiency of the Taiwan Courts: An Empirical Analysis With Comparison to U.S. Federal Courts Yun-chien Chang, William H. J. Hubbard

Discussant: Tilmann Altwicker

Public Interests in Sovereign Debt Litigation: An Empirical Analysis Matthias Goldmann, Grygoriy Pustovit

Discussant: Yun-chien Chang

2 Presenting authors’ names in bold.

Law & Psychology Oude Valk Zeger van Hee Chair: Marco Fabbri Does the Endowment Effect Prevail When Traders Act Strategically? Stephan Tontrup

Discussant: Christian Thöni

How Institutions Shape Preferences: Experimental Evidence from a Large-Scale Property Rights Reform Implemented as Randomized Control-Trial Marco Fabbri

Discussant: Stephan Tontrup

Debiasing Redistribution Choices Subject to the Political Self-Serving Bias Bruno Deffains, Romain Espinosa, Christian Thöni

Discussant: Marco Fabbri

Courts & Judges II Nieuwe Valk DV3 01.24 Chair: Philip Schroeder The Mechanism of Judicial Selection in Russia: Between Meritocracy and Nepotism Aryna Dzmitryieva

Discussant: Thomas Gschwend

Scaling Lower Court Opinions Christian Arnold, Benjamin Engst, Thomas Gschwend

Discussant: Philip Schroeder

Law & Society Nieuwe Valk DV3 01.32 Chair: Kyle Rozema The Disadvantage of Treating the Judicial System As a Magic Wand Lessons from Voices Julieta Marotta

Discussant: Scott Barkowski

Good Cop, Bad Cop: An Analysis of Chicago Civilian Allegations of Police Misconduct Kyle Rozema, Max M. Schanzenbach

Discussant: Julieta Marotta

In Sickness and in Health: The Influence of State and Federal Health Insurance Coverage Mandates on Marriage of Young Adults in the USA Scott Barkowski, Joanne Song McLaughlin

Discussant: Kyle Rozema

Constitutional and Administrative Law Nieuwe Valk DV3 01.08 Chair: Richard Michael Kirkham

The Function of Judicial Review: A Systematic Analysis Richard Michael Kirkham, Elizabeth O'Loughlin Discussant: Janez Šušteršič

A Conceptual Framework and an Empirical Methodology for Measuring Judicial Ideology in “The Case of the Slovenian Constitutional Court” Matej Avbelj, Janez Šušteršič

Discussant: Richard Michael Kirkham

15:15-15:30

Coffee Break – Nieuwe Valk (DV3) 00

Conference Programme – Parallel Sessions III3 31 May, 15:30-17:15 Contract Law II Oude Valk Zeger van Hee Chair: Roeseanna Sommers Fool Me Once, Shame on Me: How Consumers and Lawyers Perceive the Fine Print in Deception Cases Meirav Furth-Matzkin, Roseanna Sommers

Discussant: Ori Katz

Lawyers, Law Firms, and the Production of Legal Information Adam B. Badawi Discussant: Arthur Dyevre

Enforced Performance vs. Damages: An Empirical Study Leon Yehuda Anidjar, Eyal Zamir, Ori Katz

Discussant: Roeseanna Sommers

International and Comparative Law Nieuwe Valk DV3 01.02 Chair: Vera Shikhelman Outcome Bias and Expertise in Investigations of Military Actions Under International Humanitarian Law Tomer Broude, Inbar Levy

Discussant: Mathias Siems

Access to Justice in the United Nations Human Rights Committee Vera Shikhelman

Discussant: Inbar Levy

What Determines National Convergence of EU Law? Measuring the Implementation of Consumer Sales Law Catalina Goanta, Mathias Siems Discussant: Vera Shikhelman

3 Presenting authors’ names in bold.

Intellectual Property Nieuwe Valk DV3 01.32 Chair: Paul J. Heald Copyright Reversion to Authors (and the Rosetta Effect): An Empirical Study of Reappearing Books Paul J. Heald

Discussant: Rok Spruk

What 5 Billion Regressions Say About the Effects of Transaction Costs on the Propensity to Patent? Some Firm Level Evidence Rok Spruk, Mitja Kovac

Discussant: Paul J. Heald

Law & Finance II Nieuwe Valk DV3 01.24 Chair: Vladimir A Atanasov The Market Reaction to Changes in Disclosure of Related-Party Transaction Rules Vladimir A. Atanasov, Adrian Pop, Diana Pop

Discussant: Jordan Neyland

Star-Crossed: The Dark Side of Star Analyst Coverage in Acquisitions Jordan Neyland, Gil Aharoni, Bryan Lim, Lubomir P. Litov

Discussant: Vladimir A Atanasov

Courts & Judges III Nieuwe Valk DV3 01.07 Chair: Roee Sarel Courting the Public? The Use of Social Media by International Courts Pablo Barbera, Zuzanna Godzimirska, Juan Mayoral

Discussant: Malcolm Langford

Delegation at the U.S. Federal Appellate Courts: The Power to Remand as a Double-Edged Sword Roee Sarel, Melanie Demirtas

Discussant: Sebastian Sternberg

Why Do Courts Craft Vague Decisions? Evidence from a Comparative Study of Constitutional Court Rulings in Germany and France Using Quantitative Text Analysis. Sebastian Sternberg

Discussant: Roee Sarel

17:15-17:30

Snacks and refreshments – Nieuwe Valk (DV3) 00

17:30-18:30

Keynote Session: Christoph Engel, Experimental Comparative Law (introduced by Arthur Dyevre)

Zeger van Hee Room (Oude Valk)

19:00

Dinner at Faculty Club, Groot Begijnhof 14

CONFERENCE ON EMPIRICAL LEGAL STUDIES IN EUROPE

1 JUNE 2018

8:30-9:00 Registration, coffee and cookies, Nieuwe Valk (DV3) 00.

9:00-10:00

Keynote Session: Simon Deakin, Legal Complexity: Theory, Models and Measurement (introduced by Gijs van Dijck)

Zeger van Hee Room (Oude Valk)

10:00-10:15

Break

Conference Programme – Parallel Sessions IV4 1 June 10:15-12:00 Torts Nieuwe Valk DV3 01.25 Chair: Samantha Bielen I Am Sorry (and Therefore Liable)’: On the Detrimental Effect of Non-Monetary Relief Gijs van Dijck

Discussant: Chris Reinders Folmer

The Resolution Process and the Timing of Settlement of Medical Malpractice Claims Samantha Bielen, Peter Grajzl, Wim Marneffe

Discussant: Gijs van Dijck

Rethinking Apology in Tort Litigation Deficiencies in Comprehensiveness Undermine Remedial Effectiveness Chris Reinders Folmer, Peter Mascini, Joost Leunissen

Discussant: Samantha Bielen

Courts & Judges IV Nieuwe Valk DV3 01.32 Chair: Theresa Squatrito International Courts and Public Opinion Malcolm Langford

Discussant: Juan Mayoral

Conceptualizing, Measuring and Mapping the Formal Judicial Independence of International Courts Theresa Squatrito

Discussant: Shay Lavie

Adjusting Legal Standards Shay Lavie, Tal Ganor, Yuval Feldman

Discussant: Theresa Squatrito

4 Presenting authors’ names in bold.

Criminal Justice II Nieuwe Valk DV3 01.02 Chair: Vadim Volkov Does Restriction on Sexual Expression Deter Sexual Offenses?: Evidence of a Long-term Effect Hatsuru Morita

Discussant: Sandra Rousseau

The Prosecutor Effects in Trials for Petty Violent Offences in Russia Vadim Volkov

Discussant: Hatsuru Morita

Forfeiture of Illegally Required Gains from Environmental Offenses Carole M. Billiet, Sandra Rousseau

Discussant: Vadim Volkov

Law & Finance III Oude Valk Zeger van Hee Chair: Federico Riganti Shareholders' Rights in Agency's Conflicts: The Updated EU Discipline and the US 'Model' Maria Lucia Passador, Federico Riganti

Discussant: John J. Merrick

Fraud in Open-End Mutual Funds Vladimir A. Atanasov, John J. Merrick, Philipp Schuster

Discussant: Whei Zhang

The Value of Fiduciary Duties: Evidence from En Bloc Sales in Singapore Jianfeng Hu, Kelvin F.K. Low, Wei Zhang

Discussant: Federico Riganti

12:00-13:30

Lunch at ALMA, Tiensestraat 115.

Conference Programme – Parallel Sessions V5 1 June, 13:30-15:15 Contract Law III Nieuwe Valk DV3 01.32 Chair: Meirav Furth-Matzkin Bargaining in the Shadow of the Contract Meirav Furth-Matzkin

Discussant: Jeffrey Manns

Contract Theory and the Delaware Default: Evidence from M&A Transactions Robert Anderson, Jeffrey Manns

Discussant: Meirav Furth-Matzkin

5 Presenting authors’ names in bold.

Discrimination & Gender Law Nieuwe Valk DV3 01.02 Chair: Jennifer Bennett Shinall Gender Bias in the Austrian Asylum Court Alejandro Ecker, Martin Haselmayer, Laurenz Ennser-Jedenastik

Discussant: Haggai Porat

Settling in the Shadow of Sex: Gender Bias in Marital Asset Division Jennifer Bennett Shinall

Discussant: Martin Haselmayer

Are all types of discrimination created equal? Tamar Katz, Haggai Porat, Yuval Feldman

Discussant: Jennifer Bennett Shinall

Law & Politics Oude Valk Zeger van Hee Chair: Øyvind Stiansen Competition and Compliance: Electoral Uncertainty and Implementation of Judgments from the International Human Rights Judiciary Øyvind Stiansen Discussant: Nicolas Lampach When Do Courts Decide Strategically? Philipp Schroeder

Discussant: Joan-Josep Vallbé

Judges Without Attributes? The Political Economy of Detention of Deportable Non-Citizens Joan-Josep Vallbé, Markus Gonzalez Beilfuss Discussant: Øyvind Stiansen Courts & Judges V Nieuwe Valk DV3 01.25 Chair: Hanjo Hamann The German Federal Courts Dataset 1950-2018: From Paper Archives to Linked Open Data Hanjo Hamann

Discussant: Tilko Swalve

Carlsruhe's Casino? Inconsistency in the German Federal Court

Tilko Swalve

Discussant: Ayelet Sela

Vanishing Trials, Settlement Judges? What Data on Judicial Procedural Involvement in Civil Litigation Reveals

About the Current Role of Judges

Ayelet Sela, Limor Gabay-Egozi

Discussant: Hanjo Hamann

15:15-15:30

Coffee Break – Nieuwe Valk (DV3) 00

Conference Programme – Parallel Sessions VI6 1 June, 15:30-17:15 Criminal Justice III Nieuwe Valk DV3 01.24 Chair: Dimitriy Skougarevskiy What Do Graduated Sanctions Tell Us About the Functions of the Law: A Case of Drug Crimes Dmitriy Skougarevskiy

Discussant: Iryna Chatsverykova

Does the ‘Family Factor’ Really Matter? Sentencing Offenders in Domestic and Non-Domestic Violence Cases in Russia Iryna Chatsverykova, Vadim Volkov Discussant: Jakuk Drápal The Influence of Court District Characteristics on Sentencing in the Czech Republic Jakub Drápal Discussant: Dimitriy Skougarevskiy Law, Courts and Rules Nieuwe Valk DV3 01.25 Chair: Melisa Yilmaz The Effect of a Change in a Legal Rule Anthony Niblett

Discussant: Patricia Popelier

The Effect of Tax Regulation on Firm Value: A Case for Allowance for Corporate Equity (ACE) Regulation Melisa Yilmaz, Başak Tanyeri, Levent Akdeniz

Discussant: Anthony Niblett

How Courts Decide Federalism Disputes: The Revaluation of Legal Merit in the Jurisprudence of the Belgian Constitutional Court Patricia Popelier, Samantha Bielen

Discussant: Melisa Yilmaz

Law & Machine Learning Oude Valk Zeger van Hee Chair: A.W.F. Boer Classifying Civil Law Cases for Analysing the Impact of Legal Change Roos Slingerland, A.W.F. Boer, Radboud Winkels

Discussant: Masha Medvedeva

Judicial Decisions of the European Court of Human Rights: Looking into the Crystal Ball Masha Medvedeva, Michel Vols, Martijn Wieling

Discussant: Daniel Chen

Algorithms as Prosecutors: Lowering Rearrest Rates Without Disparate Impacts and Identifying Defendant Characteristics “Noisy” to Human Decision-Makers Daniel L. Chen, Elliott Ash, Daniel Amaranto, Lisa Ren

Discussant: A.W.F. Boer

6 Presenting authors’ names in bold.

Law & Finance IV Nieuwe Valk DV3 01.32 Chair: Ehud Kamar

The Effect of Minority Veto Rights on Controller Tunneling Jesse M. Fried, Ehud Kamar, Yishay Yafeh

Discussant: Nikolaos T. Artavanis

Tax Evasion, Liquidity Preference, Financial Literacy and Their Role in Strategic Default Nikolaos T. Artavanis, Ioannis Spyridopoulos

Discussant: Nitzan Shilon

Replacing Executive Equity Compensation: The Case for Cash for Long-Term Performance

Nitzan Shilon

Discussant: Ehud Kamar

Access to Justice Nieuwe Valk DV3 01.02 Chair: Wessel Wijtvliet

Contingent Fees and Access to Justice Eric Helland, Daniel M. Klerman

Discussant: Keren Weinshall Margel

Diffusion of Legal Innovations: The Case of Israeli Class Actions

Christoph Engel, Alon Klement, Keren Weinshall Margel

Discussant: Ji Li

Selecting Lawyers the Chinese Way Ji Li, Wei Zhang

Discussant: Wessel Wijtvliet

Litigation and Courts Nieuwe Valk DV3 01.10 Chair: Larissa Bruijn

The Strength of Parties in Administrative Drug Eviction Cases: Are Upperdogs More Likely to Win than

Underdogs?

Larissa Bruijn, Michel Vols

Discussant: Nourit Zimmerman

Judges As Gatekeepers and the Dismaying Shadow of the Law: Courtroom Observation of Judicial Settlement Practices Ayelet Sela, Nourit Zimerman, Michal Alberstein Discussant: Larissa Bruijn

17:15-17:30

Snacks and refreshments – Nieuwe Valk (DV3) 00

17:30-18:30

Keynote Session: Eric Talley, Climate Risk: Who’s Disclosing, and Who Should Be? (introduced by Yun-Chien Chang)

Zeger van Hee Room (Oude Valk)

19:00

Drinks and Dinner at Irish College, Janseniusstraat 1.

Conference Rules

Please take a minute to familiarise yourself with the conference rules.

SESSIONS will last 1 hour and 45 minutes and comprise 3 papers (35 minutes per paper). Sessions with 2 papers will last 70 minutes. If by accident a session has only 1 paper it will last 35 minutes. This is to give participants the possibility to switch session. PRESENTERS are allowed 20 minutes for the presentation itself, followed by 5 minutes for the discussant's comments and 10 minutes for general questions from the audience. Each paper is thus allocated 35 minutes in total. Reactions to the discussant's comments should be very concise (max 1 minute) so as not to encroach on Q&A time. Presenters are requested to bring their presentations on a USB stick to the conference venue even if they have sent it in advance for pre-upload. Note that the presentation will run on a Windows PC and hence KeyNote does not work unless you connect your own MacBook; but please come in early if you intend to do so, and be prepared to deal with the equipment without technical assistance. DISCUSSANTS are only allowed 5 strictly-enforced minutes. The discussion should focus on a couple of key issues and should not be a re-presentation of the paper. The last discussant in each session shall also act as chair. CHAIR (that is, the last discussant in each session) are expected to strictly enforce the schedule

indicated above: 20 minutes for the presentation, 5 minutes for the discussant's comments and 10

minutes for general questions from the audience. Sessions should start and end on time. Please, let

the first presenter start right away, do not take time to do any introduction. We want each slot to run

exactly on time, so that the audience can switch sessions smoothly if desired. There will be warning

cards (5, 2, 0 minutes) in the room. Please use them both with the presenter and with the discussant.

Cut the Q&A as soon as time is up. Additional comments can follow during coffee-breaks. Ask another

discussant to time you during your comments. The bottom line is: be inflexible.

Leuven Centre for Legal Theory and Empirical Jurisprudence

The Leuven Centre for Legal Theory and Empirical Jurisprudence brings together a wide range of theoretical perspectives and research programmes on law and legal practice, including legal philosophy, legisprudence, law and conflict analysis, empirical legal studies and law & economics. Most of the research conducted at the Centre is interdisciplinary and conversant with advances in philosophy, psychology, behavioural economics, statistics, machine learning, data mining and computer-based text analysis.

Tiensestraat 45

Box 3416

3000 Leuven, Belgium

+32 (0) 163 252 07

www.law.kuleuven.be/pub/en/cltej

EUTHORITY PROJECT

The EUTHORITY Project is an ERC-funded research initiative which seeks to advance empirical research

on the European Union legal system and the relations between EU courts and domestic courts across

all EU-28 member states. Hosted by the Centre for Legal Theory and Empirical Jurisprudence,

EUTHORITY brings together an international team of researchers with the aim of systematically

collecting and analyzing data on the domestic courts’ organizational structure, attitudes and positions

towards legal integration.

Tiensestraat 45

3000 Leuven Belgium

+32 (0) 163 768 89

euthority@kuleuven.be

www.euthority.eu