VSPEE - Research seminars in law, economics, and empirics
Research seminars in law, economics, and empirics (VSPEE) take place on Tuesdays at 2 p.m. in room 38. A complete list of speakers can be found below. This seminar series is supported by the Center for Inequality and Open Society, funded by the European Regional Development Fund (project no. CZ.02.01.01/00/23_025/0008690).
Fall 2025
October 14, 2025 | 2 pm
David Kosař (Masaryk University, Faculty of Law) "TBD"
October 21, 2025 | 2 pm
Jose Pano Sanchez (University of Leeds) "Estimating the Prevalence of Unwarranted Disparities in Sentencing: Distinguishing between Good and Bad Controls"
October 28, 2025 | 2 pm
canceled (Czechoslovak Independence Day)
November 4, 2025 | 2 pm
Amalavoyal Chari (University of Succex) "TBD"
November 11, 2025 | 2 pm
TBA
November 18, 2025 | 2 pm
TBA
November 25, 2025 | 2 pm
TBA
December 2, 2025 | 2 pm
Achim Ahrens (CERGE-EI) "TBD"
December 9, 2025 | 2 pm
TBD
December 16, 2025 | 2 pm
Emily Owens (UC Irvine) "TBD"
Spring 2025
February 25, 2025 | 2 pm
Doron Teichman (Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Faculty of Law) "Normative Ambiguity, Social Norms, and the Expressive Power of Law"
March 4, 2025 | 2 pm | room #117
Anna Bindler (DIW Berlin & University of Postdam) "The Hidden Cost of Crime: Crime Victimization and Mental Health"
March 11, 2025 | 2 pm
Arnaud Philippe (University of Bristol) "Building Criminal Networks in Prison: Evidence from French Cellmates"
March 18, 2025 | 2 pm
canceled
March 25, 2025 | 2 pm
Dinara Alpysbayeva (Masaryk University) "A Fast Track for Timely Unemployment Benefits: Impacts on Liquidity Constrained Households from Administrative Data"
March 31, 2025 | 2 pm | Job talk | room #412
Nishtha Sharma (New York University in Abu Dhabi) "The Economics of Begging"
April 1, 2025 | 2 pm
Wladislav Mill (University of Mannheim) "The Bright Side of Tax Evasion"
April 4, 2025 | 12 pm | Job talk | room #38
Matthew Trail (Max Planck Institute) "Child Welfare Predictive Risk Models and Legal Decision Making"
April 7, 2025 | 4 pm | Job talk | online | link
William LeRoy (University of Maryland) "The Impact of Conservative Media on Southern Partisan Realignment"
April 8, 2025 | 3:30 pm | Job talk | online | link
Alok Ranjan (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign) "Judicial Transparency and Criminal Justice"
April 10, 2025 | 12 pm | Job talk | room #38
Jerg Gutmann (University of Hamburg) "How Do Citizens Define and Value the Rule of Law? A Conjoint Experiment in Germany and Poland"
April 11, 2025 | 10 am | Job talk | room #117
Akanksha Vardani (Columbia University) "A House for Two: Empowering Women with Property Rights"
April 15, 2025 | 2:20 pm
Alfredo R. Paloyo (University of Wollongong) "Rethinking Index Creation and the Case of Principal Component Analysis"
April 17, 2025 | 12 pm | Job talk | room #38
Stefanie Sunao (Copenhagen Business School) "Where Sentence Is Served: Ex-Offenders’ Entrepreneurial Careers and Socioeconomic Status"
April 22, 2025 | 2 pm
canceled
April 29, 2025 | 2 pm
Kamil Mamak (Jagiellonian University in Kraków) "Methodological Challenges of Preparing Philosophical Foundations of Criminal Law in the Age of Robots"
May 6, 2025 | 2 pm | room #21
Tomáš Koref (Charles University & Goethe University Frankfurt) "Beyond Formalism and Communist Legacies? Empirical Analysis of Judicial Reasoning in Czechia"
