WORKSHOP: Collaborative Research: A Workshop on the Normative Implications of Empirical Research in Law and Courts

一个跨学科的研讨会将系统地探讨来自法律、法院和判决的经验研究的许多见解如何对政策和机构应该如何设计和执行产生直接的规范影响。这次研讨会将汇集领先的经验主义研究人员，并将集中讨论法律和法院中的广泛主题。研究法律和法院的经验主义政治学家并不总是让相关政策制定者了解他们的工作。然而，对司法程序背景的当代研究已经产生了许多可能对决策有用的见解。指导研讨会的问题是：如何使用这些经验发现来判断司法程序、机构和政策应该如何设计、运作和执行？PIS将从这次研讨会中编写一本经编辑的卷，在一个可能对政策制定者有用的框架内传播研究。研讨会的学术价值在于参与跨学科领域建设，这将突出学术、实证研究如何与更广泛的政策辩论直接相关。研讨会的更广泛影响将是展示实证研究如何与政策制定者和公众直接相关。通过适当的传播，它可以促进高效率和高成效的司法机构和程序。研讨会将汇集真正多样化和跨学科的学者组合，包括高级和初级男性和女性，一些来自博士授予部门，一些来自学士院校。

An interdisciplinary workshop will systematically probe how the many insights from the empirical study of law, courts, and judging have direct normative implications concerning how policy and institutions ought to be designed and executed. This workshop will bring together leading empirical researchers and will focus on a breadth of topics in law and courts. Empirical political scientists who study law and courts have not always made their work accessible to relevant policymakers. However, contemporary research on the context of the judicial process has produced numerous insights that could be useful in policymaking. The question guiding the workshop is: How can these empirical findings be used to make judgments about how judicial processes, institutions, and policies ought to be designed, operated, and executed? The PIs will produce an edited volume from this workshop that will disseminate research in a framework that could prove useful to policymakers. The workshop's intellectual merit rests in engaging in interdisciplinary field-building that will highlight how academic, empirical research can be directly relevant to broader policy debates. The workshop's broader impact would be in demonstrating how empirical research is directly relevant to policymakers and the public. With appropriate dissemination, it could contribute to efficient and effective judicial institutions and processes. The workshop will bring together a truly diverse and interdisciplinary mix of scholars, including senior and junior men and women, some from Ph.D. granting departments and some from B.A. institutions.