Foreword

• Published date: 01 March 2017
• Date: 01 March 2017
• DOI: http://doi.org/10.1111/jels.12139

Foreword

With this issue, JELS is pleased to include a new section entitled “Research Notes and

Datasets.” As part of our strong commitment to the growth of empirical legal studies

and the ethos of shared intellectual inquiry, JELS welcomes important work that

describes new, unique, and publicly available datasets, engages recurrent methodological

issues, or explores novel research design.

We inaugurate this new section of JELS with “Medical Liability Insurance Premia:

1990–2016 Dataset, with Literature Review and Summary Information,” by Bernard

Black, Jeanette W. Chung, Jeffrey Traczynski, Victoria Udalova, and Sonal Vats, which

provides data description, codebooks, and access instructions for medical malpractice

premiums complied from the annual surveys conducted by Medical Liability Monitor.

JELS hopes the publication of Research Notes and Datasets will encourage and

expand data access and help illuminate innovative methods and research design, all in

service of better understanding the law and legal systems.

The Editors

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