Workshop on Judicial Behavior

2010-2011 Academic Year

Frank H. Easterbrook
Lee Epstein
William M. Landes
James Lindgren
Richard A. Posner

The Workshop on Judicial Behavior provides students with a unique opportunity to read and analyze cutting-edge scholarship that focuses on how judges reach their decisions. In a case law system such as that of the United States, a realistic understanding of judicial behavior, which conventional legal instruction does not convey, is essential to the understanding and practice of law.

Over the course of the academic year, eight scholars from the fields of law and the social sciences will present their work. Students will produce a major research paper on judicial behavior (due at the end of the academic year).

The Workshop is limited to ten law students from the University of Chicago and ten from Northwestern University.  It will meet ten times over the course of the 2010-2011 academic year, with meetings alternating between Chicago and Northwestern.

Click here for the schedule.
Click here for information about the research paper.