Empirical Legal Studies

Christopher Zorn

doi:10.1016/B978-0-08-097086-8.86135-8

Empirical Legal Studies

Christopher Zorn

Political Science

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Empirical legal studies (ELS) is a burgeoning field of scholarly inquiry situated at the intersection of law and the social sciences. The contemporary ELS movement began in the 1990s, and was primarily the result of an interdisciplinary group of scholars working in U.S. law schools. ELS is broadly characterized by a commitment to a positivist epistemology, an emphasis on quantitative methods of inquiry, and a substantive focus on matters of legal policy. By the first decade of the twenty-first century, ELS had created a professional association, an annual meeting, a quarterly peer-reviewed journal, and a widely viewed weblog.

Original language	English (US)
Title of host publication	International Encyclopedia of the Social & Behavioral Sciences: Second Edition
Publisher	Elsevier Inc.
Pages	554-557
Number of pages	4
ISBN (Electronic)	9780080970875
ISBN (Print)	9780080970868
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-08-097086-8.86135-8
State	Published - Mar 26 2015

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General Social Sciences

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