Empirical legal studies

This course aims at developing a rigorous understanding of the following concepts:
1. Why Empirical Research in Law matters
2. The concept of causality
2. Designing Research
3. Collecting & Coding Data
4. Statistical Software
5. Statistical Inference: linear and logistic regressions

After successful completion of the course students are expected to be able to:
1. read and understand at a high-level empirical research in legal studies
2. detect empirical flaws in third-party statements or data presentations
3. identify questions that can be answered quantitatively
4. design and execute simple but rigorous empirical tests.