Ira Mark Ellman

Charles J. Merriam Distinguished Professor of Law, and Affiliate Professor of Psychology, Emeritus, Arizona State University

Distinguished Affiliated Scholar, Center for the Study of Law and Society, University of California, Berkeley

 
Email: ira.ellman@berkeley.edu
E-mail: ira@asu.edu
 
       
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Recent Talks and Presentations
  • Understanding How Risk Assessment Works, Alliance for Constitutional Sex Offense Laws (June 2019)
  • Child Pornography Prosecutions, Alliance for Constitutional Sex Offense Laws, (June 2019)
  • Not So Frightening, Not So High. Not Sex Offenders, plenary presentation, Alliance for Constitutional Sex Offense Laws (June 2018)
  • When Will They Ever Learn? Sex Offense Laws And Sex Offense Facts, plenary presentation, Alliance for Constitutional Sex Offense Laws (June 2017)
  • Retiring With Sex Offenders, ASU Faculty Workshop, (April, 2017)
  • Child Support and the Custodial Mother’s Move or Remarriage 2014 Conference on Empirical Legal Studies, Berkeley.
  • How Ordinary Citizens Think about Fairness in Family Law Rules, Center for the Study of Law and Society, Berkeley, October 6, 2014.
  • Examining the Public’s Views About Child Support by Asking Them to Decide Particular Cases, English Social Research Council International Seminar Series, Nuffield Foundation, London, March 2014.
  • Using Legal Presumptions to Decide Family Law Cases, panel on Presumptions in Family Law: Global Perspectives, Association of Family and Conciliation Courts National Conference, Los Angeles, May 2013.
  • Presentation to British scholars and policymakers, Nuffield Foundation, London, 2010. This overview of the empirical projects conducted by Sanford Braver, Rob MacCoun and myself eventually led to our current work replicating many parts of the project within the United Kingdom.

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  • The Arizona Child Support Committee's Proposed Revision of the Guidelines. This 2010 presentation to a National College of Child Support Attorneys explained the reform then being proposed by the Arizona Child Support Committee, which at that time had been tentatively approved by the Arizona Judicial Council. For the story of these proposed guidelines, which never went into effect, see "A Case Study in Failed Law Reform: Arizona's Child Support Guidelines", published in the Arizona Law Review; it can be downloaded from the a link on the Articles tab of this website.

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  • Constructing Child Support Guidelines: Understanding and Evaluating Current Practice. Presentation to the Interim Workgroup on the Construction of Child Support Guidelines of the Arizona Child Support Committee, February, 2005. (This very large Powerpoint has been condensed by converting it to PDF.) Read
  • Evaluating Support Guidelines: What They Do, and How They Came to Do It. Presentation to the New Jersey Legal Services Annual Meeting, November 21, 2006. (This in the full Powerpoint file. It is large.)

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Intuitive Lawmaking: The Example of Child Support. Presentation to the Conference on Empirical Legal Studies, New York University, November 2007.

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Understanding Child Support Guidelines. Presentation to the Arizona Child Support Guideline Committee, June 27, 2008. (This in the full Powerpoint file. It is large.)

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