INCREASER Intercampus North Coast Retreat for Emerging and Advanced Sociolegal Empirical Researchers
September 26-27, 2025 Lake James, Indiana
Welcome to the inaugural annual Intercampus North Coast Retreat for Emerging and Advanced Sociolegal Empirical Researchers (INCREASER) conference!
This overnight retreat, hosted by the American Bar Foundation, Purdue University, and the University of Michigan, will bring together advanced graduate students and faculty who study the interface between law and society.
We look forward to creating a supportive, collegial space for exploring ideas, sharing feedback, and building community across institutions.
Schedule
Friday, September 26, 2025
1:30pm – 2:15pm Introductions
2:30pm – 4:00pm Panel sessions 1a and 1b
4:00pm – 5:00pm Hotel check in
5:00pm – 6:30pm Panel sessions 2a and 2b
6:30pm – 8:00pm Dinner
8:00pm – 9:30pm Social activities
Saturday, September 27, 2025
8:00am – 9:00am Breakfast
9:00am – 10:30am Panel sessions 3a and 3b
10:30am – 11:00am Hotel check out
11:00am – 12:30pm Flash talks
12:30pm – 2:00pm Mentoring lunch
2:00pm – 3:00pm Future of INCREASER
3:00pm – 3:15pm Closing remarks
Cosponsored by the ABF, Purdue University, and the University of Michigan.
About the American Bar Foundation
The American Bar Foundation (ABF) is the world’s leading research institute for the empirical and interdisciplinary study of law. The ABF seeks to expand knowledge and advance justice through innovative, interdisciplinary, and rigorous empirical research on law, legal processes, and legal institutions. To further this mission the ABF will produce timely, cutting-edge research of the highest quality to inform and guide the legal profession, the academy, and society in the United States and internationally. The ABF’s primary funding is provided by the American Bar Endowment and the Fellows of The American Bar Foundation.
About Purdue University
For over 150 years, generations of Boilermakers have left their mark in small steps and giant leaps. Today, they continue in those footsteps as they bring their best and learn to build a better world, together.
About the University of Michigan
The mission of the University of Michigan is to serve the people of Michigan and the world through preeminence in creating, communicating, preserving and applying knowledge, art, and academic values, and in developing leaders and citizens who will challenge the present and enrich the future.