Panel sessions ESELS Conference Warsaw 2023
Monday 25 September 2023
11:00-12:00 | Plenary 1 | Auditorium |
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Chair: Jessie Pool | |
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11:00 – 11:10 | Welcome to the conference by ESELS President Jessie Pool, President of the European Society for Empirical Legal Studies |
11:10 – 11:20 |
Opening of the Conference by prof. Krzysztof Kozlowski, Vice-rector of Warsaw School of Economics |
11:20 – 11:30 |
Welcome address by Jaroslaw Beldowski on behalf of the Local Organizing Committee |
11:30-12:00 |
Plenary address by prof. Jennifer Robbenolt, Alice Curtis Campbell Professor of Law and Professor of Psychology, Illinois College of Law Apologies, Remorse, and Amends: Empirical Legal Studies Across Domains and Disciplines |
12:00 – 13:00 | Lunch | Mezzanine |
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13:00 – 14:30 | Panel session I.1 Corporate Law & Behaviour | Room 3A |
Chair: Jessie Pool |
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Jan Winczorek, Faculty of Law and Administration, University of Warsaw, Poland
Legal semantics under trickle-down economics. How Polish SMEs use law to navigate business uncertainty? |
Eberhard Feess, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand; Roee Sarel, Institute of Law and Economics, University of Hamburg, Germany; Thomas Schilling, University of Trier, Germany
Moral accounting, real-effort, and unjust enrichment: experimental evidence |
Jessie Pool, Leiden University, the Netherlands; Niek Strohmaier, Leiden University, the Netherlands
Noise and insolvency proceedings: how to promote sustainable liquidation? |
13:00 – 14:30 |
Panel session I.2 Pre-arranged panel: Disparities in Verdicts and Sentencing |
Room 3B |
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Chair: Jonathan Hasson |
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Jose Pina-Sánchez, University of Leeds, UK
Modelling Sentencing Discrimination: Pitfalls and Solutions |
Jakub Drápal, Institute of State and Law of Czech Academy of Sciences, Czech Republic
Does an individualized threat of a suspended prison sentence deter offenders? |
Ronen Shehman, University of Haifa, Faculty of Law, School of Criminology, Israel
Let’s Talk About Sex: The Influence of Judges’ Sex and Age on Verdicts of Sexual Offence Cases |
Yosef Zohar, Institute for Safety in the Criminal Justice System, Western Galilee College, Department of Criminology, Israel; Jonathan Hasson, Oxford University Faculty of Law, Centre of Criminology, UK & University of Haifa, Faculty of Law, Israel
Trial in The Shadow of the Bargaining Range: The Sentencing Disparities Effect of Plea Bargaining –A Theoretical and Empirical Study |
Jonathan Hasson, Oxford University, Faculty of Law, Centre of Criminology, UK & University of Haifa, Faculty of Law, Israel
Circumventing mandatory minimum sentences through legal representation: A mixed methods study of drunk driving offences |
13:00 – 14:30 | Panel session I.3 International Courts | Room 2A |
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Chair: Kyra Wigard |
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Urška Šadl, European University Institute (EUI) & iCourts, Copenhagen; Lucía López Zurita, Center for Global Mobility Law, University of Copenhagen, Denmark; Sebastiano Piccolo, University of Copenhagen, Denmark
Cluster analysis of the citation network of the judgments of the European Court of Justice |
Shai Dothan, University of Copenhagen, Faculty of Law, Denmark; Mitja Kovac, University of Ljubljana, School of Economics and Business, Slovenia; Rok Spruk, University of Ljubljana, School of Economics and Business, Slovenia
Democratic waves, preservation of international law and dynamic equilibrium |
Wojciech Giemza, European University Institute, Florence, Italy
The ICJ References in Investor-State Arbitration |
Yulia Khalikova, University of Hamburg, Germany
How authoritarian courts use international law: Evidence from Russia |
Kyra Wigard, Faculty of Law and Criminology, KU Leuven, Belgium
The Individual Opinions of Judges of the International Court of Justice: A Topic-Modelling Approach |
13:00 – 14:30 | Panel session I.4 Constitutional Law | Room 2B |
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Chair: Tanja Porčnik |
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Emanuele Cocchiara, University of Bari Aldo Moro, Italy; Alberto Nicòtina, University of Antwerp, Belgium Investigating the perception of constituent power by high-school students through role-play simulations: the ‘Young Constitution-Makers Project’ |
Marlene Löding, Umeå University, Department of Law, Sweden Legislative preparatory works from a Swedish lower court perspective |
Johan Lindholm, Umeå University, Sweden; Mattias Derlén, Umeå University, Sweden Reforming Judicial Appointments in Sweden |
Tanja Porčnik, Institute of Law and Economics, Faculty of Law, Universität Hamburg, Germany Constitutionalism and change in legal rules: an experimental analysis of preferences
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13:00 – 14:30 | Panel session I.5 Migrants, Discrimination & Hate Crimes | Room 2E |
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Chair: Alex Berg |
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Štěpán Mikula, Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic; Josef Montag, Charles University, Prague, Czech republic
School Principals and Minorities: A Field Experiment on Ethnic and Socioeconomic Discrimination |
Anna Juzaszek, Doctoral School in the Social Sciences, Jagiellonian University, Krakow, Poland; Ewa Górska; Department of Law and Administration, Jagiellonian University, Krakow, Poland
Case files research in Polish courts concerning hate crimes: struggles and results |
Ines Sučić, Ivo Pilar Institute of Social Sciences, Zagreb, Croatia; Ivana Eterović, Croatian Law Centre, Zagreb, Croatia; Maja Munivrana, Faculty of Law, University of Zagreb, Croatia; Aleksandar Maršavelski , Faculty, of Law, University of Zagreb, Croatia
Empirical approach to analysing hate crime cases |
Alex Berg, University of Eastern Finland, Finland
The Legal Rights of Older Immigrants and Immigrants with Dementia in Finland |


14:35 – 15:25 | General Assembly (members only) | Auditorium |
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14:30 – 15:30 | Tea and coffee | Mezzanine |
15:30 – 17:00 | Panel session II.1 Corporate Law | Room 3A |
Chair: Katarzyna McNaughton |
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Hanjo Hamann, JSM (Stanford) & EBS University of Business and Law, Wiesbaden, Germany Empirical Explorations of Administrative Practice. A Case Study of German State-Licensed Associations |
Sahil Chopra, Université Sorbonne, Centre d’Economie de l’Université, Paris Nord (CEPN), France Relationship between the judgements of the securities class action with significance level |
Katarzyna McNaughton, UCI, Queens University, Canada The Variability and Clustering of Financial Intelligence Units (FIUs)-A Comparative Analysis of National Models of FIUs in Ten Selected Western and Eastern (post-Soviet) Countries |
15:30 – 17:00 | Panel session II.2 Methodology | Room 3B |
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Chair: Rok Spruk |
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Camille Bordere, CERCCLE – Université de Bordeaux, France Empirical Legal Studies and scholarship analysis. Escaping the Pitfalls of Discourse Analysis Using Empirical Tools |
Jakob Merane, Center for Law & Economics, Department of Humanities, Social and Political Sciences, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) Zürich, Switzerland; Florian Geering, Center for Legal Data Science, Faculty of Law, University of Zürich, Switzerland The Swiss Federal Supreme Court Dataset |
Maciej Świtała, Department of Quantitative Finance, Faculty of Economic Sciences, University of Warsaw, Poland What are the courts deciding and what will they decide? Topic modelling and time series analysis on the example of the Polish judiciary |
Saylon Alves Pereira, Insper; Camila Alves Borges Oliveira, São Paulo Law School of the Getulio Vargas Foundation (FGV Law SP); Luciana Romano Morilas, University of Sao Paulo. Brazil Law, Big Data, and Empirical Research: A Diagnosis of Initiatives for the Production of Public Legal Data in Brazil |
Nuno Garoupa, Antonin Scalia Law School, George Mason University, Arlington, VA; Rok Spruk, School of Economics and Business, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia Synthetic control estimation: A new tool for empirical comparative constitutional law |
15:30 – 17:00 | Panel session II.3 Impact Assessment, Laws and Policy | Room 2A |
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Chair: Jasper Sluijs |
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Theo Post, Erasmus University Rotterdam, the Netherlands The impact of nudges in health care policy |
Jaroslaw Kantorowicz, Leiden University, the Netherlands; Elena Kantorowicz-Reznichenko, Erasmus School of Law, Erasmus University Rotterdam, the Netherlands Enhancing Public Support for International Sanctions |
Erik Wesselius, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, the Netherlands; Catrien Bijleveld, NSCR and Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, the Netherlands; Emma Cirpka, Myra Colis, Aleksandra Dabek, Chanika Derksen, Marina Grcic, Rohied Mahboeb, Faith Obafemi, all at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, the Netherlands Interventions after norm-transgressing behaviour: a vignette study |
Florian Heine, VU University Amsterdam, the Netherlands & Jasper P. Sluijs, Utrecht University, the Netherlands Exclusionary Pricing by State-Owned Enterprises: Experimental Evidence |
15:30 – 17:00 | Panel session II.4 Online Regulation and Privacy | Room 2B |
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Chair: Julia Krämer |
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Jesús C. Aguerri, Universidad Miguel Hernández de Elche, Spain; Mario Santisteban, Universidad Miguel Hernández de Elche, Spain; Fernando Miró‑Llinares, Universidad Miguel Hernández de Elche, Spain Disruptive behaviors in online multiplayer games and Its content moderation implications |
Rita Gsenger, Weizenbaum Institute Berlin, Germany Evidence-based regulation of disinformation on online platforms |
Jorge Constantino, TU Delft, the Netherlands Overseeing Intelligence and Security Operations in Europe with a focus on privacy and data sharing practices |
Mariia Domina, University of Lorraine, France Gamification: manipulative techniques to attract investors |
Julia Krämer, Erasmus School of Law, Rotterdam, the Netherlands The death of privacy policies: how app stores shape GDPR compliance of apps |
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15:30 – 17:00 | Panel session II.5 Family Law | Room 2E |
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Chair: Lisette Dirksen |
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Marit Buddenbaum, Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
A new non-adversarial divorce procedure for parents with disputes in the Netherlands |
Deborah Antony, University of Illinois, Springfield, USA
Mother vs. Father: English Common Law in the Right to the Naming of Children in Australia and the United States |
Lisette Dirksen, Dept. Criminology, Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, the Netherlands;
Nadia Ismaïli, Dept. Private Law, Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, the Netherlands; Elanie Rodermond, NSCR & Dept. Criminology, Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, the Netherlands; Catrien Bijleveld, NSCR & Dept. Criminology, Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, the Netherlands; Masha Antokolskaia, Dept. Private Law, Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, the Netherlands Risky or at risk? An empirical legal study of the prevention of intergenerational transmission of (violent) extremist ideologies through child protection measures |
17:00 – 18:00 | Plenary round table: Interdisciplinarity in ELS | Auditorium |
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Chairs: Catrien Bijleveld & Jarek Beldowski |
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Catrien Bijleveld (chair), NSCR and Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, the Netherlands; Jarek Beldowski, (co-chair) Warsaw School of Economics, Warsaw, Poland; Libor Dusek, Charles University, Faculty of Law, Prague, Czech Republic; Sylwia Grzegorczyk-Abram, Clifford Chance, Warsaw, Poland; Rita Gsenger, Weizenbaum Institute Berlin, Germany; Kyra Wigard, KU Leuven, Belgium |
18:30 – 22:00 | Conference Dinner (with ticket only) | Cafetaria |
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Key dates
Abstract Submissions Open: 20 April 2023
Deadline Abstract Submission: 25 May 2023
Abstract Submission Outcome: 1 June 2023
Registration Open: 1 June 2023
Deadline Early Bird Registration: 15 July 2023
Deadline Registration & Payment: 1 August 2023 (please contact us in case you missed the registration deadline and still want to join)
ESELS Conference: 25-26 September 2023
General Assembly European Society for Empirical Legal Studies: 25 September 2023
Conference Dinner: 25 September 2023

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