We are very pleased to present this annual conference issue of JELS. For this issue, JELS editors and reviewers selected for publication eight of the papers presented at the Eighth Annual Conference on Empirical Legal Studies, held at the University of Pennsylvania Law School, October 25–26, 2013. The conference was organized by Penn Law and the Society for Empirical Legal Studies. As in past years, the conference consisted of presentations of original empirical legal scholarship. Conference acceptance was determined through a peer-referee process, and it was quite competitive; only 113 papers were accepted for presentation out of a total of 406 submissions. Many people contributed to the success of the Eighth CELS. Co-presidents of the Society for Empirical Legal Studies David Abrams, Ted Ruger, and Tess Wilkinson-Ryan received generous support and assistance from the entire SELS board: Jennifer Arlen, Bernard Black, Shari Diamond, Ted Eisenberg, Valerie Hans, Michael Heise, Daniel Ho, Geoffrey Miller, Anne Joseph O'Connell, and Eric Talley. We are grateful to them, and to all the presenting authors and discussants, for their contributions. Most importantly, with this foreword, we face the terrible and unexpected task of saying goodbye to Ted Eisenberg, who passed away this spring. Ted was the editor of JELS from 2004 to 2014, and a founder not only of the Society for Empirical Legal Studies and this journal, but of the broader empirical legal studies movement in legal academia. His own cutting-edge work defined a field, and his thoughtful leadership and vision shaped an intellectual movement. And, as so many of us know personally, he was an indefatigably generous mentor and friend. We are the fortunate beneficiaries of his dedication to his profession, and we thank him.