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Black History is Now
Posted on February 14, 2007
When many Americans think about Black History Month, the operative word is “history.” They take what might be called a”history was then” perspective. For that group, February is a time to remember and regret how bad things used to be and to celebrate a few of the household-name heroes who helped expose and reform the […]
Posted in History, Implicit Associations, System Legitimacy | 13 Comments »
Nancy Gertner on The Situation of Dispositionist Criminal Sentencing
Posted on September 8, 2012
From Cognoscenti: There is a canned, formulaic newspaper story about any criminal case. It can be repeated in every prosecution, no matter what the crime, no matter who the defendant. Here’s how it goes: Judge X sentenced defendant Y to five years (or whatever the number). The prosecutor argued for 10 (or higher than the […]
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Implicit Juror Bias
Posted on November 1, 2011
Anna Roberts posted her article, “(Re)Forming the Jury: Detection and Disinfection of Implicit Juror Bias” (Connecticut Law Review, Vol. 44, 2012) on SSRN. Here is the abstract. * * * This Article investigates whether one of the most intractable problems in trial procedure can be ameliorated through the use of one of the most striking […]
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Juror Bias
Posted on October 30, 2011
Jessica West recently posted her article, “12 Racist Men: Post-Verdict Evidence of Juror Bias” (Harvard Journal of Racial & Ethnic Justice, Vol. 27, p. 165, 2011) on SSRN. Here’s the abstract. * * * Federal Evidence Rule 606(b) and similar state rules prohibit post-verdict admission of juror statements, including racist or biased remarks, made during […]
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Poverty and Delinquency
Posted on October 15, 2011
Tamar Birckhead recently posted her article, “Delinquent by Reason of Poverty” (forthcoming Journal of Law and Policy, Vol. 38, 2012) on SSRN. Here’s the abstract. * * * This Article, written for the 12th Annual Access to Equal Justice Colloquium, explores the disproportionate representation of low-income children in the United States juvenile justice system. It […]
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Unequal Juries
Posted on June 24, 2011
Wendy Parker posted her article, “Juries, Race, and Gender: A Story of Today’s Inequality” (Wake Forest Law Review, Vol. 46, pp. 209-240, 2011), on SSRN. Here’s the abstracst. The Civil Rights Act of 1991 was supposed to be a victory for employment discrimination plaintiffs – a dramatic expansion of their rights. Twenty years later, however, […]
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The Inherited Situation of Racial Inequality
Posted on December 15, 2010
Professor Palma Joy Strand recently posted her important paper, “Inheriting Inequality: Wealth, Race, and the Laws of Succession” (forthcoming in the Oregon Law Review) on SSRN. Here’s the abstract. * * * The article begins by documenting deep inequality in the form of Black-White wealth disparities: While the overall wealth distribution in the United States […]
Posted in Abstracts, Deep Capture, Distribution, History, Ideology, Law, Life | 2 Comments »
The Constructed Situation of Race
Posted on February 2, 2010
Christian Sundquist’s interesting article, “The Meaning of Race in the DNA Era: Science, History and the Law” (27 Temple Journal of Science, Technology & Environmental Law 231-265 (2008)) is now available on SSRN. Here’s the abstract. * * * The meaning of “race” has changed dramatically over time. Early theories of race assigned social, intellectual, […]
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The Situation of “Justice” in Tulia Texas
Posted on February 10, 2009
From PBS’s Independent Lens: A lone undercover cop moves into a small farming town. By the end of the blazing summer of 1999, 46 people are arrested for selling cocaine—nearly all of them African American. It was heralded as one of the biggest drug busts in Texas history, until a team of lawyers set out […]
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Wages Are Only Skin Deep – Abstract
Posted on February 5, 2009
Joni Hersch recently posted a fascinating paper, titled “Color, Discrimination, and Immigrant Pay” on SSRN. This is her latest paper in a larger set of articles on the topic. Here’s the abstract. * * * In “Profiling the New Immigrant Worker: The Effects of Skin Color and Height,” (Journal of Labor Economics 2008), I present […]
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Colorblinded Wages – Abstract
Posted on September 5, 2008
Joni Hersch, recently posted her intriguing paper, “Skin Color, Immigrant Wages, and Discrimination” on SSRN. Here’s the abstract. * * * Immigrant workers with darker skin color have lower pay than their counterparts with lighter skin color. Whether this pay penalty is due to labor market discrimination is explored using data from the New Immigrant […]
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The Situation of Capital Punishment – Abstract
Posted on May 23, 2008
Katherine Barnes, David Sloss, and Stephen Thaman, recently posted their paper, “Life and Death Decisions: Prosecutorial Discretion and Capital Punishment in Missouri” on SSRN. Here is the abstract. * * * This article presents the results of an empirical study of intentional homicide cases in Missouri. The authors created a database of 1046 cases; it […]
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Situationist Staff Favorites for 2007
Posted on December 17, 2007
Since January, several hundred posts have been published on The Situationist. As 2007 draws to a close, the Situationist Staff thought it was a good time to identify 40 of our favorites over that time period. Narrowing it down to that still-signficant number was harder than it sounds. We have listed and linked to them […]
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Jena 6 – Part II
Posted on September 24, 2007
Part I of this series summarizes events giving rise to the march and protest last week in Jena, Louisiana. The protest was motivated largely by a shared sense that events in Jena reveal race-based disparities in our criminal justice system and constitute the visible tip of a largely ignored iceberg of racial disparities throughout the […]
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