Course
ELS Atelier – for lawyers who want to learn about empirical research
- Date
- Tuesday 24 October 2023 - Thursday 13 June 2024
- Address
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Kamerlingh Onnes Building
Steenschuur 25
2311 ES Leiden
An increasing amount of empirical research is being conducted in the field of law and there is also growing interest at our faculty in relation to this type of research. The ELS Atelier is a course that is open to all staff at Leiden Law School who are interested in the fascinating world of empirical law. Perhaps you would like to conduct empirical legal research yourself. Or perhaps you're a PhD supervisor who wants to improve supervision of a thesis that is based (partly) on empirical research. Or you might be a lecturer who wants to incorporate empirical evidence and skills in your course. In all these cases, the ELS Atelier can offer insights and tools necessary to achieve your goals.
The empirical legal research cycle starts by formulating a research question. After designing the research and collecting data, you then proceed to writing an empirical legal article. By participating in the ELS Atelier you will learn how to go through this process under the supervision of a lecturer who is an expert in the field of the method you have chosen to use.
We offer a trajectory for qualitative methods (interviews) and a trajectory for quantitative methods (survey and experiment). The qualitative methods are taught by Jessie Pool and the quantitative methods are taught by Helen Pluut. The sessions will be held throughout the academic year 2023-2024, which allows you to make progress in your research in between sessions. All sessions will be held onsite (no hybrid option) and in English. There will be a weekly consultation hour for participants in the ELS Atelier to ask questions about their empirical research.
Program
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Qualitative methods |
Quantitative methods |
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Session 1: Formulating empirical questions and/or hypotheses |
Tue Oct 24, 2023 |
11:15-13:00 |
KOG, B0.35 |
Mon Oct 30, 2023 |
13:15-15:00 |
KOG, B0.20 |
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Session 2: Research design - Part I |
Mon Dec 11, 2023 |
13:15-15:00 |
KOG, B0.32 |
Mon Dec 4, 2023 |
13:15-15:00 |
KOG, B0.20 |
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Session 3: Research design - Part II |
Tue Jan 16, 2024 |
11:15-13:00 |
KOG, B0.32 |
Mon Jan 15, 2024 |
13:15-15:00 |
KOG, B0.20 |
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Session 4: Workshop to design your own research (active skills track only) |
Tue Feb 13, 2024 |
13:15-17:00 |
KOG, C0.22 |
Mon Feb 19, 2024 |
13:15-17:00 |
KOG, C.022 |
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Session 5: Data collection |
Mon Mar 4, 2024 |
13:15-15:00 |
KOG, C0.22 |
Tue Mar 12, 2024 |
11.15-13:00 |
KOG, C0.22 |
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Session 6: Data analysis and reporting results |
Tue Apr 9, 2024 |
11:15-13:00 |
KOG, C0.22 |
Tue Apr 23, 2024 |
11:15-13:00 |
KOG, C0.22 |
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Session 7: Workshop to analyse your own data (active skills track only) |
Mon Apr 29, 2024 |
13:15-17:00 |
KOG, C0.22 |
Tue May 14, 2024 |
13:15-17:00 |
KOG, B0.36 |
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Session 8: Writing and publishing an empirical-legal paper |
Thu Jun 13, 2024 |
15:15-17:00 |
KOG, C0.22 |
Tue Jun 11, 2024 |
15:15-17:00 |
KOG, C0.22 |
The ELS Atelier is particularly suitable for acquiring skills to help set up and conduct your own research project. The course comprises lectures and workshops – in the real sense of the word – where, in small groups with fellow legal scholars, you will actively set to work with your own research project. It is also possible to attend only the lectures. We call this the ‘passive skills’ track, which is essentially a light version of the full-blown ELS Atelier. This could be a good option if you don’t have your own research project, but are keen to gain basic knowledge about empirical research
Register by October 15!
The ELS Atelier - for lawyers who want to learn about empirical research
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