The 14th annual workshop on Conducting Empirical Legal Scholarship, co-taught by Lee Epstein and Andrew D. Martin, will run from June 15-June 17 at Washington University in St. Louis. The workshop is for law school faculty, lawyers, political science faculty, and graduate students interested in learning about empirical research and how to evaluate empirical work. It provides the formal training necessary to design, conduct, and assess empirical studies, and to use statistical software (Stata) to analyze and manage data.
Participants need no background or knowledge of statistics to enroll in the workshop. Registration is here. For more information, please contact Lee Epstein.
These are some very effective educators.
In two days, they provide law profs with THE (not some, not a little, not with a brief overview, not even with a rudimentary understanding of extremely complex and difficult concepts based on a scant and necessarily truncated presentation, but THE) formal training necessary to design, conduct, and assess empirical studies, and to use statistical software (Stata) to analyze and manage data.
Who said that dabblers dabble? With a JD and this two day workshop, you too will have the formal training to conduct and assess empirical studies!
Such a deal!
Posted by: anon | April 10, 2015 at 03:04 PM
anon:
No need to be rude, and your basic premise is misguided anyway. Lee Epstein and Andrew Martin are extraordinary talents in the field, and they provide accessible yet complex information in an important field. I attended in 2012 and thought it was very well done, and would take any class Epstein or Martin offered. I cant speak for them, but I think both recognize that they are unable to provide complete knowledge, and that is neither the objective nor the only way it could be useful.
Anyway, if you wanted to see someone dabbling in statistics who needs help, see the NY Times this past weekend...
Posted by: Anon | April 10, 2015 at 03:08 PM
Anon
"Anyway, if you wanted to see someone dabbling in statistics who needs help, see the NY Times this past weekend..."
No need to be rude, Anon.
And, you obviously agree that, having attended a two day workshop, you are not qualified, by that reason, to claim that you now possess "the formal training necessary to design, conduct, and assess empirical studies, and to use statistical software (Stata) to analyze and manage data."
Or, do you claim, that any JD, by reason of having attended a two day workshop, could possibly imagine himself to be so qualified, or to so cavalierly refer to himself?
Of course, you will find the question impertinent. Perhaps because you are inured to the all too common nature of this sort of claim. The retort that these words were not meant to be taken literally doesn't really wash in an environment where overblown and self aggrandizing claims are all too common, and where persons totally unqualified in a field of academic study claim to possess the expertise to opine definitively on complex questions.
Posted by: anon | April 10, 2015 at 03:18 PM