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).
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"
Fall 2024
October 8, 2024 | 2 pm
Michał Kłusek (University of Wrocław) "Status and Moral Education: On the Philosophy and Psychology of Punishment"
October 15, 2024 | 2 pm
Shai Dothan (University of Copenhagen, Faculty of Law) "The Bandwagon of International Law"
October 22, 2024 | 2 pm
Heinrich Nax (University of Zurich) "Fairness and justice principles versus opportunism" (slides)
October 29, 2024 | 2 pm
Lubomír Cingl (Prague University of Economics and Business) "Expected Stigma Among Prison Inmates: Incentivized Field Evidence of Optimism Bias"
November 5, 2024 | 2 pm
Magdalena Domínguez (Centre for Economic Performance at the London School of Economics and Political Science & Institute for Fiscal Studies) "Neighborhood Labeling and Schooling Paths"
November 12, 2024 | 2 pm
Katarína Šipulová (Masaryk University, Faculty of Law) "Opening the Black Box: The Role of Oral Hearings at the European Court of Human Rights"
November 19, 2024 | 2 pm
Tomáš Knap (Charles University, Faculty of Law) "What Determines Offense Seriousness: Typified Story or Quantifiable Attributes?"
November 26, 2024 | 2 pm
Gor Vartazaryan (Charles University, Faculty of Law) "I have spoken and saved my soul: A Qualitative Analysis of Dissenting Behavior of Czech Constitutional Judges"
December 3, 2024 | 2 pm
Clara Sievert (CERGE-EI) "Supernatural Beliefs about Illness and Modern Medicine Use: Evidence from the DRC"
December 10, 2024 | 2 pm
Zuzana Ambrozková (Charles University, Faculty of Law) "Remorse in the courtroom: A content analysis of judgments on the assessment of offender's remorse in the context of waiver of punishment"
December 17, 2024 | 2 pm
Mark A. Drumbl (Washington and Lee University) and Barbora Holá (VU Amsterdam) "Informers Up Close – Stories from Communist Prague"
