Trust and Empirical Evidence in Law Making and Legal Process

trust and empirical evidence in law making and legal process

jointly hosted by the University of Oxford and Notre Dame Law School

St Catherine’s College (Arumugam top floor) Oxford 19-20, June 2015

FRIDAY 19 JUNE 2015 (afternoon)

Lunch 12.30 – 1.30 pm

SESSION 1: TRUST IN INSTITUTIONS (LAW) 1.30 -3.30 pm

Chair & discussant: Andreas Glöckner (Georg-August-Universität Göttingen)

Are algorithms trustworthy law enforcers? Lessons from Algorithmic Copyright Enforcement (Niva Elkin-Koren & Maayan Perel) Haifa Center for Law & Technology

Inducing trust in the legal system by simplifying procedural rules (Inbar Levy) Hebrew University of Jerusalem

A courtroom experiment on the role of perceived procedural fairness and trust in judges (Liesbeth Hulst, Kees van den Bos, Arno Akkermans, E. Allan Lind) VU University Amsterdam; Utrecht & Duke

In Science We Trust: Wrong Idea in the Wrong Place (Vesco Paskalev) Hull

Coffee break 3.30 pm- 4.00 pm

SESSION 2: TRUST IN MARKETS (ACTORS) 4.00 – 6.00 pm

Chair & discussant: Avishalom Tor (Notre Dame Law School)

The market as negotiation (Rebecca Hollander - Blumhoff and Matthew Bodie) Washington & Saint Louis

Trust and Distrust in Experts: A regulatory trilemma (Oren Perez) Bar-IlanUniversityFacultyofLaw

Trust Me, I Have a Conflict of Interest! Financial advisor and disclosures (Genevieve Helleringer) Essec Paris, Oxford

Payday Lending: Locating the Sources of Trust in an Untrustworthy Industry (Jodi Gardner, Professor Karen Rowlingson and Dr Lindsey Appleyard) Oxford & Birmingham

Pre-diner Keynote: Mike Hough (Birkbeck University of London)

SATURDAY 20 JUNE 2015 St Catherine’s College

SESSION 3: TRUST IN METHODS 9.30 am – 11.45 am

Chair & discussant: Anne-Lise Sibony (Liege university)

The Role of Empirical Evidence in Building Trust in Legal Institutions (Alysia Blackham) Cambridge

A Comprehensive Design for Legal Research: Methods, Perspectives, and Progression (Genevieve Helleringer & Ronen Perry) Essec Paris, Oxford & Haifa

Break

Measuring trust in the informal justice system (Naomi Creutzfeldt & Ben Bradford) Oxford

Using transnational legal Indicators for socio-legal comparisons: A Pragmatic Approach (David Restrepo - Amariles) HEC Paris

Concluding remarks: Avishalom Tor

12.15 pm Lunch at the Ashmolean museum for all speakers