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Principles of Risk Assessment
(Ohio State Journal of Criminal Law, 2018)
Risk assessment — measuring an individual’s potential for offending — has long been an important aspect of criminal justice, especially in connection with sentencing, pretrial detention and police decision-making. To aid ...
Explicit Bias
(Northwestern University Law Review, 2018)
In recent decades, legal scholars have advanced sophisticated models for understanding prejudice and discrimination, drawing on disciplines such as psychology, sociology, and economics. These models explain how inequality ...
Sustaining Tiered Personhood
(Harvard Journal on Racial & Ethnic Justice, 2010)
Latino immigrants are moving to areas of the country that have not seen a major influx of immigrants. As a result of this influx, citizens of these formerly homogenous communities have become increasingly critical of federal ...
The Constitutionality of State and Local Laws Targeting Immigrants
(University of Arkansas at Little Rock Law Review, 2009)
Latino immigrants are moving to areas of the country that have not seen a major influx of immigrants. As a result of this influx, citizens of these formerly homogenous communities have become increasingly critical of federal ...
Beyond Equality
(Indiana Law Journal, 2011)
Sexual harassment law and family leave policy originated as feminist reform projects designed to protect women in the workplace. But many academics now ask whether harassment and leave policies have outgrown their gendered ...
Feminism and the Tournament
(Texas Law Review Online, 2018)
Gender and the Tournament: Reinventing Antidiscrimination Law in the Age of Inequality, by Naomi Cahn, June Carbone, and Nancy Levit, offers a new account of the glass ceiling, connecting the phenomenon with shoddy corporate ...
Frontiers of Sex Discrimination Law
(Michigan Law Review, 2017)
A short time ago, the argument that sex discrimination includes discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation was considered a risky litigation tactic with little hope of success. One reason was the fear that extending ...
Debating the Past's Authority in Alabama
(Stanford Law Review, 2018)
In 2015, the city council of Birmingham, Alabama enacted an ordinance establishing a local minimum wage of $10.10 an hour-a significant raise for the city's low-income workers from the federal floor of $7.25. The ordinance ...
Why Are Seemingly Satisfied Female Lawyers Running for the Exits?
(Marquette Law Review, 2019)
Despite the fact that women are leaving the practice of law at alarmingly high rates, most previous research finds no evidence of gender differences in job satisfaction among lawyers. This Article uses nationally representative ...