Panel sessions ESELS Conference Warsaw 2023
Tuesday 26 September 2023
09:00 – 10:30 | Panel session III.1 Compliance | Room 3A |
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Chair: Pieter Desmet |
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Jerg Gutmann, Universität Hamburg, Germany
Can new constitutions tighten the reins? The effect of constitutional change on constitutional compliance |
Katarzyna Metelska-Szaniawska, University of Warsaw, Faculty of Economic Sciences, Warsaw, Poland
Economic consequences of non-compliance with constitutions – the post-socialist “illiberal democracy” perspective Moral accounting, real-effort, and unjust enrichment: experimental evidence |
Aylin Aydin-Cakir, Erasmus University Rotterdam, the Netherlands; Amanda Driscoll, Florida State University, USA; Susanne Schorpp, Independent Researcher
Public (in)tolerance of government non-compliance |
Marie-Therese Sekwenz, TU Delft, the Netherlands; Ben Wagner TU Delft, the Netherlands
Myth, Method and Moderation – An Empirical Legal Approach for Very Large Platform Audits for DSA Compliance |
Pieter Desmet, Rotterdam Institute of Law and Economics/Erasmus School of Law, Erasmus University Rotterdam, the Netherlands; Leonie Gerhards, King’s Business School, King’s College London, UK; Franziska Weber, Rotterdam Institute of Law and Economics/Erasmus School of Law, Erasmus University Rotterdam, the Netherlands
Is compensation fine? Sanction schemes and their effects on deterrence and trust |
09:00 – 10:30 | Panel session III.2 Criminal Law I | Room 3B |
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Chair: Jesús Aguerri |
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Piotr Bystranowski, Interdisciplinary Centre for Ethics, Jagiellonian University, Poland; Bartosz Janik, Faculty of Law and Administration, University of Silesia in Katowice, Poland; Maciej Próchnicki, Interdisciplinary Centre for Ethics, Jagiellonian University, Poland
What do we punish for? An experimental inquiry in criminal punishment |
Libor Dušek, Charles University, Faculty of Law, Prague, Czech Republic; Christian Traxler, Hertie School, Berlin, Germany
Swiftness and Delay of Punishment |
Gabriele Paolini, Hamburg University, Germany & Erasmus University Rotterdam, the Netherlands & University of Bologna, Italy; Elena Kantorowicz-Reznichenko, Erasmus School of Law, Erasmus University Rotterdam, the Netherlands; Stefan Voigt, Hamburg University, Germany
Plea bargaining procedures worldwide: Drivers of introduction and use |
Jesús C. Aguerri, CRIMINA, University of Elche, Spain; Fernando Miró-Llinares, CRIMINA, University of Elche, Spain; Mario Santisteban, University of Elche, Spain
Criminal policy as a background: Twitter discussion dynamics about criminal law |
09:00 – 10:30 | Panel session III.3 Vulnarable Adults | Room 2A |
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Chair: Anna Mäki-Petäjä-Leinonen |
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Ildeberto Rodello, Evandro Ribeiro, Edneia Rocha, Luciana Morilas, University of Sao Paulo, Brazil Access to Justice of persons with disabilities under the Brazilian Inclusion Law |
Roos Nieuwboer, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, the Netherlands The Dutch Legal Practice of Guardianship Measures for Older Adults with Dementia: A Court File Study |
Katri Gadd, University of Eastern Finland, Finland; Mervi Issakainen, University of Eastern Finland, Finland; Jenni Savonen, University of Helsinki, Finland; Kaijus Ervasti, University of Eastern Finland, Finland; Anna Mäki-Petäjä-Leinonen, University of Eastern Finland, Finland Spatiotemporal approach to the lives of people with dementia
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Henna Nikumaa, Anna Mäki-Petäjä-Leinonen, Eeva Nykänen, all University of Eastern Finland, Law School, Finland Lost in the Bermuda Triangle – the Rights of Older People with Disability |
Anna Mäki-Petäjä-Leinonen; Maija Aalto-Heinilä, both University of Eastern Finland, Finland Supporting the Autonomy of a Person under Guardianship: From a Philosophical Ideal to a Practical Guardianship work |
9:00 – 10:30 | Panel session III.4 Human Rights & (Supra)national Courts | Room 2B |
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Chair: Pascal Langenbach |
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Inessa Sakhno, University of Utrecht, the Netherlands
What do we mean by systemic discrimination: empirical legal methods as a tool for forming a concept based on judgements of the European Court of Human Rights |
Tilmann Altwicker, University of Zürich, Switzerland; Florian Geering, University of Zürich, Switzerland; Daniel Gerber, University of Applied Sciences and Arts Northwestern Switzerland, Switzerland; Zhivko Taushanov, Center for Legal Data Science at the University of Zurich, Switzerland
Winning Arguments About Rights. An Empirical Analysis of Argument Construction at the European Court of Human Rights |
Pascal Langenbach, Max Planck Institute for Research on Collective Goods, Behavioural Law and Economics Group, Bonn, Germany; Cornelius Schneider, University of Mannheim, Germany
Human rights and public opinion in international multi-level court systems. Experimental evidence on the opinion shaping power of the German Constitutional Court and the European Court of Human Rights |
09:00 – 10:30 | Panel session III.5 Legal Philosophy | Room 2E |
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Chair: Gareth Davies |
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Piotr Bystranowski, Interdisciplinary Center for Ethics, Jagellonian University, Krakow, Poland,
Measuring meta-interpretation |
Johan Lindholm, Umeå University, Department of Law, Sweden; Mattias Derlén Umeå University, Department of Law, Sweden; Daniel Naurin, University of Oslo, ARENA Centre for European Studies, Oslo, Norway
Taking Legal Reasoning Seriously: A General Theory of Legal Methodology and Its Application to the Swedish Supreme Court |
Ana B. Gómez-Bellvís, Universidad Miguel Hernández, Elche, Spain; Vicente Valiente, Universidad de Barcelona, Spain, Fco. Javier Castro-Toledo, Plus Ethics, Elche; Carlos Falces, Universidad Miguel Hernández, Elche, Spain
The attribution of criminal responsibility in complex contexts: An approach to the actio libera in causa from criminal law and experimental philosophy |
Gareth Davies, Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
Ethics in Empirical and Theoretical Legal Research |


11:00 – 12:00 | Plenary Session 2 | Auditorium |
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Chair: Catrien Bijleveld |
Plenary address by prof. Adam Bodnar,
Dean of the Faculty of Law of SWPS University, Poland Rule of law crisis in Poland and its impact on legal safety of business and citizens |
Plenary address by prof. Giovanni Battista,
Professor of Economics, Università di Torino Quantifying Justice: Examining Judicial Systems Through Empirical Lens |
13:00 – 14:30 | Panel session IV.1 Pre-arranged panel: EBRD | Room 3A |
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Chair: Jaroslaw Beldowski | Special session by the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development on the digitalisation of commercial courts | |
13:00 – 14:30 | Panel session IV.2 Criminal Law II | Room 3B |
Chair: Marinella Geronimo da Silva Quinzeiro |
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Freya Augusteijn, NSCR Institute for the Study of Crime and Law Enforcement, Amsterdam, the Netherlands; Alice Bosma, NSCR, Amsterdam, the Netherlands; Antony Pemberton, NSCR, Amsterdam, the Netherlands & Catholic University Leuven, Belgium; Catrien Bijleveld, NSCR, Amsterdam & Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, the Netherlands
Victims’ rights in the Netherlands: perception and reality |
Gabriel Doménech-Pascual, Universitat de València, Spain; Juan Luis Jiménez, Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain
The value of time spent in pretrial detention: an empirical study |
Andrea Parziale, Institute for Transnational Legal Research (METRO), Maastricht University, the Netherlands
Rationalising full compensation of non-pecuniary damages to reconcile equal treatment and personalisation: Results from the EU project Full Compensation |
Marinella Geronimo da Silva Quinzeiro, Federal University of Santa Catarina, Florianópolis, Santa Catarina, Brazil; Clarindo Epaminondas de Sá Neto, Federal University of Santa Catarina, Florianópolis, Santa Catarina, Brazil
Concept of restorative justice and data from restorative juvenile justice programs in Brazil |
13:00 – 14:30 | Panel session IV.3 International Criminal Justice | Room 2A |
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Chair: Izabele Skoczen |
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Mirza Buljubasic, University of Sarajevo, Bosnia-Herzegovina
Towards the intergenerational legacies: A Scoping Review of attitudes towards and impacts of the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia in Bosnia and Herzegovina |
Elena Kantorowicz-Reznichenko, Erasmus School of Law, Rotterdam, the Netherlands; Jaroslaw Kantorowicz, Leiden University, the Netherlands
Delivering Justice for International Crimes: Public Perception of International and National Courts |
Anne Brekoo, Erasmus University Rotterdam, the Netherlands
The Potential for Counterterrorism Cooperation When One Man’s Terrorist is Another Man’s Freedom Fighter |
Izabela Skoczen, Jagellonian University, Krakow, Poland
The anthropocentric bias of ecocide |
13:00 – 14:30 |
Panel session IV.4 Presidential Round Table: Teaching Methods to Lawyers |
Room 2B |
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Chair: Jessie Pool |
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Catrien Bijleveld, NSCR Institute for the Study of Crime and Law Enforcement, Amsterdam, the Netherlands; Gareth Davies, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, the Netherlands; Anja Eleveld, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, the Netherlands; Jessie Pool, Leiden University, the Netherlands; Erik Wesselius, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, the Netherlands; José Becerra, Departamento de Derecho Público, University of Malaga, Spain; Gijs van Dijck, Maastricht University, the Netherlands
How to teach empirical methods to lawyers? Challenges and opportunities |
13:00 – 14:30 |
Panel session IV.5 Pre-arranged panel: Experimental law and Economics: Regulating Social Dilemmas and Rule Compliance |
Room 2C |
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Chair: Alexander Egberts |
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Alexander Egberts, Christoph Engel, both at Max Planck Institute for Research on Collective Goods, Bonn, Germany and Joshua Fairfield, Washington and Lee School of Law in Lexington, Virginia (US) Putting off the inevitable: An experiment on deferred public bads and privacy contexts |
Pascal Langenbach, Max Planck Institute for Research on Collective Goods, Bonn, Germany and Eugenio Verrina, Economics Department of Science Po, Paris Solving social dilemmas through elected policy makers |
Christoph Engel, Thomas Holzhausen, both at Max Planck Institute for Research on Collective Goods, Bonn, Germany and Dorothee Mischkowski, Leiden University, the Netherlands “The legislator speaks, but nobody listens!” – How does legislative change translate into change in behavior if rules are followed by routine? |
14:30 – 15:00 | Tea and coffee | Mezzanine |
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15:00 – 16:00 | Panel session V.1. Social Security and Labour Law | Room 3A |
Chair: Kaijus Ervasti |
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Paulien de Winter, University of Groningen, the Netherlands
Social detectives in action: the human dimension in enforcement of social security legislation in the Netherlands |
Anja Eleveld, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, the Netherlands
Employment status of platform workers |
Kaijus Ervasti, University of Helsinki, Finland
Access to Justice and Realization of the Rights of People with Epilepsy |
15:00 – 16:00 | Panel session V.2 Criminal Law III | Room 3B |
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Chair: Barbara Błońska |
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Csaba Győry, Centre for Social Sciences, Institute for Legal Studies, ELTE Law, Budapest, Hungary; Lili Márk, Central European University, Vienna, Austria; Mihály Tóth, Centre for Social Sciences, Institute for Legal Studies, Budapest, Hungary; Balázs Váradi, Budapest Institute for Policy Analysis, ELTE Law, Hungary
The Role of the New Criminal Code in the Punitive Turn in Hungary: a Matching Analysis of Case-level Data |
Jadwiga Królikowska, University of Warsaw, Poland
Impunity in empirical socio-legal research “Penal Cultures” |
Barbara Błońska; Katarzyna Witkowska-Rozpara, both at Center for Criminological Analysis of the University of Warsaw, Poland
Making news by breaking laws – victims of child sexual abuse in Polish media and public debate |
15:00 – 16:00 | Panel session V.3 Tax Law | Room 2A |
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Chair: Artur Bogucki |
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Federica Casano, Leiden University, the Netherlands
The EU tax list |
Jarosław Kantorowicz, Leiden University, Institute of Security and Global Affairs and Department of Economics, the Netherlands; Katarzyna Metelska-Szaniawska, University of Warsaw, Faculty of Economic Sciences, Poland
Public perception of fiscal rules |
Artur Bogucki, Warsaw School of Economics, Warsaw, Poland; Robert Praas, Centre for European Policy Studies, Brussels, Belgium
Normative dilution of the EU VAT policy |
15:00 – 16:00 | Panel session V.4. Consumer Law | Room 2B |
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Chair: Adrianus van Heusden |
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Mahdi Khesali, Max Planck Institute for Research on Collective Goods, Bonn and Institute of Law & Economics, University of Hamburg, Germany; Monika Leszczynska, University of Maastricht, The Netherlands Contract as mirror of your image |
Adrianus van Heusden, Erasmus School of Law, Erasmus University Rotterdam, the Netherlands; Elena Kantorowicz-Reznichenko, Erasmus School of Law, Erasmus University Rotterdam, the Netherlands; Jaroslaw Kantorowicz, Leiden University, the Netherlands Consumer Rights in the Shadow of the Brand: An Experimental Study on Consumer Preferences |
15:00 – 16:00 | Panel session V.5 Workshop Network Analysis | Room 2E |
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Gijs van Dijck, Maastricht University, the Netherlands
Network analysis of case law |
16:10 – 16:30 | Closing ceremony | Auditorium |
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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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