Professors at FGV's Law Schools in São Paulo and Rio (São Paulo Law School and Rio de Janeiro Law School, respectively) are in Ribeirão Preto for the 3^rd Meeting of Empirical Research in Law (EPED) - supported by the Institute of Applied Economic Research (Ipea) and the National Council for Scientific and Technological Development (CNPq) - with the theme Empirical Research in Law: how to do it?

On the first day of the event, professors Maíra Rocha Machado and Michelle Ratton were part of the first panel Thinking about Empirical Research in Law. Still on the same day, Professor José Roberto Xavier was in the second panel Rethinking the theory through reality - qualitative approaches. The professors of Rio de Janeiro Law School, Antônio Maristello Porto, Cássio Cavalli and Pedro Henrique Butelli, presented the study Working with databases and the Right under the statistical look in the third panel.

Today, Professor Marta Rocha de Assis Machado participates in the panel How do panelists decide - description techniques and decision analysis, and professor Daniela Gabbay (São Paulo Law School), next to Rio de Janeiro Law School professor, Fernando de Castro Fontainha, will be in the last panel Tailoring conflicts, processes and panelists.

Besides academics of national institutions, EPED welcomes specialists in empirical research in Law Marc Galanter, of University of Wisconsin-Madison and one of the founders of Law and Society; and Alvaro Pires, of University of Ottawa (Canada).

EPED takes place until today, September 20, at the amphitheater of Ribeirão Preto Law School/USP (FDRP/USP) from 9 am to 6 pm.