Empirical legal studies (ELS) is a sibling discipline to law and economics. Conceived by a visionary scholar almost 40 years ago, it has today become a reality. ELS is currently one of the most interesting phenomena in legal academia. We here celebrate its founder Theodore Eisenberg, and provide a glimpse of this important step forward in modern legal scholarship, for a law and economics audience.

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让数据讲述他们自己的故事：向Ted Eisenberg致敬

经验法学（ELS）是法律和经济学的同级学科。由近40年前的一位有远见的学者构想，如今已成为现实。ELS当前是法律学术界最有趣的现象之一。我们在这里庆祝其创始人西奥多·爱森伯格（Theodore Eisenberg），并向法律和经济学的读者介绍了现代法律学术领域向前迈出的重要一步。