How do judges’ previous professional experiences affect case outcomes? In this short article, we investigate the question by documenting…
The Moral Dimension of AI-Assisted Decision-Making: Some Practical Perspectives from the Front Lines
This essay takes an engineering approach to ensuring that the deployment of artificial intelligence does not confound ethical principles,…
The ability to exercise leadership effectively requires skills and capacities that must be developed; they are not innate. Leadership is…
We examine a new dataset of public procurement laws, practice, and outcomes in 187 countries. We measure regulation as restrictions on the…
State and local policies increasingly restrict employers’ access to criminal records, but without addressing the underlying reasons that…
The Decriminalization and Policing Working Group of the Roundtable on Racial Disparities in Massachusetts Criminal Courts has released a…
Does personal and family history influence legislative behavior in democracies? Linking members of Congress to the census, we observe…
Experts argue that more work is needed to remove the stigma of a criminal record on job applications
Sandra Susan Smith and Christopher Herring find that ‘banning the box’ is just the beginning.