Cross-Disciplinary Legal Studies
About the Cross-Disciplinary Legal Studies Program
The Cross-Disciplinary Legal Studies Program at the University of Alabama School of Law sponsors and supports a variety of research and educational opportunities for faculty and students. The Program is committed to fostering cutting-edge research, analysis, and teaching that focus on the interaction and integration of diverse academic disciplines as they relate to law, legal theory, and public policy. These disciplines include, but are not limited to, philosophy, economics, political science, psychology, sociology, anthropology, feminist theory, history, neuroscience, medicine, and statistics.
The Program sponsors lectures, symposia, and a cross-disciplinary workshop series. The Program also provides support to the law school’s joint-degree programs and to courses and student organizations with an interdisciplinary focus.
Co-Directors
Michael Pardo & J. Shahar Dillbary
Board of Directors
William Brewbaker
Grace Lee
Meredith Render
Fred Vars
Affiliated Faculty
Montre Carodine
Heather Elliott
Tony Freyer
Timothy Hoff
Paul Horwitz
Daniel Joyner
Andrew Morriss
Norman Singer
Decision Theory and Law Symposium
The symposium took place on April 13, 2012 with speakers from the fields of philosophy, psychology, economics, and law inlcuding: Dean José Luis Bermúdez, College of Liberal Arts, Texas A&M University; Professor Keith Hylton, Boston University School of Law; Professor Paul Pecorino, Culverhouse College of Commerce, The University of Alabama; Professor Jeff Rachlinski Cornell University Law School; and Professor Alex Stein, Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law.
PDFs of the original unpublished manuscripts are available below:
Negligence, Causation, and Incentives for Care - Professor Keith Hylton
Are People Probabilistically Challenged? - Professor Alex Stein
Introducing Super-Risk - Dean José Luis Bermúdez
An Empirical Analysis of the Signaling and Screening Models of Litigation - Professor Paul Pecorino