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LWI One-Day Workshop: Conducting Empirical Research to Advance the Discipline of Legal Writing

Hosted Virtually by the Research & Scholarship Working Group | May 2, 2025

LWI One-Day Workshop: Conducting Empirical Research to Advance the Discipline of Legal Writing

This workshop seeks to promote the discipline of legal writing through impactful research and scholarly engagement. We seek proposals on topics such as: Empirical Research 101 - what is it, qualitative v quantitative, why is it important in legal writing scholarship, types of legal writing topics that lend themselves to empirical exploration, etc.; Empirical Research 102 - Reading and Assessing Empirical Legal Research - tools to critically engage and evaluate empirical scholarship; Thinking through the design of an empirical research project; how to conduct qualitative empirical legal research; how to conduct quantitative empirical legal research; Do's and Don’ts of designing survey questions; Sharing your empirical research experience; the role of AI in empirical research; Using Empirical Legal Research to Develop a Research Agenda - data sets to identify unanswered/unexplored questions and issues; Resources for Empirical Legal Research - internal and external, technology, personnel, tapping into the expertise of law librarians, etc.; and The Institutional Review Board (IRB) Process - what is an IRB, when do you need approval, steps for getting that approval.

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