Measuring Racial Discrimination in Bail Decisions
We develop new quasi-experimental tools to measure disparate impact, regardless of its source, in the context of bail decisions.
Research
Brief for Indian Law and Policy Professors as Amici Curiae Supporting Petitioner in United States v. Cooley
Amici curiae are 25 scholars who teach, write, and/or practice in the area of federal Indian law and federal Indian policy.
The Birth of a Nation: Media and Racial Hate
This paper documents the impact of popular media on racial hate by examining the first American blockbuster: 1915’s The Birth of a Nation, a fictional portrayal of the KKK’s founding rife with racist
Strengthening Models of Civic Engagement: Community-Informed Approaches to Inclusive and Equitable Decision-Making
For too long the federal policymaking process has been mysterious and inaccessible to everyone but the most sophisticated, elite stakeholders.
Causal Conceptions of Fairness and their Consequences
Recent work highlights the role of causality in designing equitable decision-making algorithms.
The Political Consequences of Ethnically Targeted Incarceration: Evidence from Japanese American Internment during World War II
What are the downstream political consequences of state activity explicitly targeting an ethnic minority group?
Pretrial Detention, Pretrial Release & Public Safety
As a growing number of jurisdictions across the country have attempted to implement bail reforms, debates have intensified about the relationship between such reforms and crime, including and perhaps
Adaptive Sampling Strategies to Construct Equitable Training Datasets
In domains ranging from computer vision to natural language processing, machine learning models have been shown to exhibit stark disparities, often performing worse for members of traditionally unders
A decade-long longitudinal survey shows that the Supreme Court is now much more conservative than the public
Has the US Supreme Court become more conservative than the public?
Reproductive healthcare in immigration detention: The imperative of informed consent
Health care providers are trained to inform, counsel, and provide optimal care to patients, regardless of their setting or immigration status.
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