The theme of this year's speaker series was Myths of Public Safety. Myths abound about what public safety is and how it is achieved. These…
We develop new quasi-experimental tools to measure disparate impact, regardless of its source, in the context of bail decisions. We show…
Amici curiae are 25 scholars who teach, write, and/or practice in the area of federal Indian law and federal Indian policy. The amici are…
This paper documents the impact of popular media on racial hate by examining the first American blockbuster: 1915’s The Birth of a Nation…
As a growing number of jurisdictions across the country have attempted to implement bail reforms, debates have intensified about the…
State and local policies increasingly restrict employers’ access to criminal records, but without addressing the underlying reasons that…
We examine a new dataset of public procurement laws, practice, and outcomes in 187 countries. We measure regulation as restrictions on the…
Nationwide, 36 states and over 150 cities and counties have adopted what is widely known as “Ban the Box” (BtB). These policies require…
We study the educational choices of children of immigrants in a tracked school system. We first show that immigrants in Italy enroll…