UPDATE: Conducting Empirical Legal Scholarship Workshop

The 11th Annual Conducting Empirical Legal Scholarship Workshop  at the University of Southern California Gould School of Law May 23 - 25, 2012  The workshop has moved from Chicago to Los Angeles      The Conducting Empirical Legal Scholarship Workshop is designed for law school faculty, political science faculty and graduate students interested in learning about empirical research. Leading empirical scholars Lee Epstein and Andrew Martin teach the workshop and provide the formal training necessary to design, conduct, and assess empirical studies and use statistical software (Stata) to analyze and manage data. Participants need no background or knowledge of statistics to enroll in the workshop.    Click here for more information OR Click here to register  Instructor  Lee Epstein, Provost Professor and Rader Family Trustee Chair in Law and Political Science at University of Southern California, is a leading empirical legal scholar and a Fellow of the American Academy of Political and Social Science and American Academy of Arts and Sciences. She has co-organized and co-led this annual empirical scholarship workshop for the past ten years. Instructor Andrew Martin, Professor of Law and Political Science, and Director of the Center for Empirical Research in the Law at Washington University, specializes in political methodology and has written widely on American political institutions, including the Supreme Court and the Courts of Appeals. He has co-organized and co-taught the empirical scholarship workshop with Professor Epstein for the last ten years. Click here to register  Hotel: Special hotel rate for workshop participants is available at the JW Marriott Hotel, located within the new LA Live complex, right next to the Staples Center. Click here to book your hotel JW Marriott

NOTICE: European Criminal Law Review

Hart Publishing is delighted to announce that they are now distributing the European Criminal Law Review along with C.H.Beck who are based in Germany. 

The European Criminal Law Review is a new journal dedicated to the development of European Criminal Law and the co-operation in criminal matters within the European Union. In these areas the Lisbon Treaty has supposedly brought about the most important changes and also the greatest challenges for the future. It is the journal’s ambition to provide a primary forum for comprehensive discussion and critical analysis of all questions arising in relation to European Criminal Law. It includes articles and relevant material on topics such as:

• The harmonisation of national criminal law in consideration of European legal instruments
• The implementation of the principle of mutual recognition in the area of cooperation in criminal matters and the development towards the creation of a European Public Prosecutor
• The emergence of a balanced European Criminal Policy based on fundamental rights, freedom and democracy with particular reference to the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union and the European Convention on Human Rights

CONTENTS – VOLUME 1. NUMBER 3. 2011

EU Policy to Guarantee Procedural Rights in Criminal Proceedings: an Analysis of the First Steps and a Plea for a Holistic Approach

Taru Spronken