Empirical Legal Studies – Workshop in Honor of Prof. Christoph Engel

10:00-11:35

Chair: Eyal Zamir

Greetings

Prof. Christoph Engel, Property Rule vs. Liability Rule: An Experiment (with Oren Bar-Gill)

Dr. Yehonatan Givati, Preferences for Criminal Justice Error Types: Some Stylized Facts

Coffee break

12:00-13:30

Chair: Doron Teichman

Prof. Ori Heffetz, Forgetting and Heterogeneity in Task Delay: Evidence from New York City Parking-Ticket Recipients (with Ted O’Donoghue and Henry S. Schneider)

Prof. Alon Klement, The Diffusion of Legal Innovations: A Case Study of Class Actions in Israel (with Christoph Engel and Keren Weinshall)

Lunch

14:30-16:00

Chair: Daphna Lewinsohn-Zamir

Dr. Netta Barak-Corren, Mitigating Norm Conflicts by Affirming Identity

Ms. Meirav Furth, On the Surprising Use of Unenforceable Contract Terms: Evidence from the Residential Rental Market

Coffee Break

16:30-18:00

Chair: Dr. Shoham Choshen-Hillel  

Prof. Yuval Feldman, Why Israelis Discriminate? (with Tami Krichelli-Katz and Haggai Porat)

Dr. Amos Schurr, Judging the Morality, Severity and Retribution of Swerving in Self-Driving versus Regular Cars (with Simone Moran and Clil Uliel

Dinner for participants