Thursday March 17 - Saturday March 19, 2005Center for the Study of Law, Science, & Technology
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CALL FOR PAPERS
Potential presenters are invited to submit abstracts of their papers and a short curriculum vitae to the program committee. These should be sent by email to Andrew (Sandy) Askland, Ph.D., Director, ASU College of Law's Center for the Study of Law, Science and Technology. Decisions will be made as abstracts are received. The committee welcomes proposals for talks in all areas that involve the use of quantitative and statistical methods in the formulation, administration, and interpretation of law. Examples of appropriate subject areas are listed under Session Topics.
Publication of Papers
Papers from the first five conferences have been published in leading international journals, as shown below. Several of these journals have expressed interest in seeing the papers presented at this Sixth Conference, and one publisher has expressed a desire to publish the proceedings as a book.
| Year | Location | Selected papers published in |
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| 1990 | University of Edinburgh | Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, Series A, 154, 1991 |
| 1993 | Arizona State University | Jurimetrics: The Journal of Law, Science, and Technology, 34, 1993
Bound proceedings edited and distributed by the ASU Center for the Study of Law, Science, and Technology |
| 1996 | University of Edinburgh | Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, Series A, 160, 1997 |
| 1999 | North Carolina State University | International Journal of Legal Medicine, 114, 2000
J. Econometrics, 113, 2003 |
| 2002 | Venice International University | Forensic Science International, 135, 2003
International Statistical Review, 71, 2003 Jurimetrics, 42, 2002 & 43, 2003 Law, Probability and Risk, 2, 2004 |
Interested journals will provide information on the appropriate style and the schedule for submitting papers following the conference. Authors desiring information on recommended styles and formats may wish to consult the websites of Jurimetrics Journal or Law, Probability, and Risk.
Jurimetrics: The Journal of Law, Science and Technology will publish a special issue of papers from the conference. The issue is scheduled for fall 2005. Jurimetrics is the journal of the American Bar Association Section of Science and Technology Law and the ASU Center for the Study of Law, Science, and Technology. It is the oldest journal of law and science in the United States, and it enjoys a circulation of about 7,000, which includes all members of the ABA section. The journal is prepared by a student staff operating under the supervision of a faculty editor.
- Drafts should be submitted for review by May 15, 2005.
- Publication decisions will be made as soon as possible following each submission.
- Instructions for authors can be found at The Jurimetrics website.
- Please contact D.H. Kaye (email k at asu.edu) if this schedule is not feasible but you want to submit a paper or if you have any other questions.