Topic
Implicit Bias
165 published works
Litigation & Trial
The Myth of the Undecided Juror
Not Exactly Rocket Science fills us in on a recent Italian study revealing the unconscious decision-making of "undecided" voters: Silvia Galdi at the University of Padova, Italy, has found evidence…
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Recently Published Scholarship: Symposium on Unconscious Discrimination
.Connecticut Law ReviewVolume 40, Number 4, May 2008Symposium: Unconscious Discrimination Twenty Years Later: Application and Evolution.Keynote SpeakersCharles Lawrence, III, Unconscious Racism Revisited: Reflections on the Impact and Origins of ‘The…
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Wax on The Discriminating Mind: Define It, Prove It
Amy Wax (Penn) has posted on NELLCO her forthcoming piece in the Connecticut Law Review: The Discriminating Mind: Define It, Prove It.Here's the abstract:Differential group achievements in competitive spheres like…
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Interpreting Delaware Corporate Law to Disincentivize Unconscious Discrimination
Franita Tolson (law clerk to Seventh Circuit Judge Ann Claire Williams) has just posted on SSRN the abstract to her intriguing article The Boundaries of Litigating Unconscious Discrimination: Firm-Based Remedies…
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Are you biased based on skin colour?
By Gerry Riskin
Take this Harvard test and get your own (possibly surprising) results in five minutes. Thank you to The Complete Lawyer for "Test Yourself For Hidden Bias" in the Surveys and…
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Unconscious Discrimination Symposium at Connecticut Law Review
Alexandra Lahav at PrawfsBlawg has the details:The Connecticut Law Review is hosting a symposium on November 2, 2007celebrating, revisiting, critiquing and moving forward the ideaspresented in Charles Lawrence's influential article…
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Top-5 Employment SSRN Downloads
Benjamin Barton, Do Judges Systematically Favor the Interests of the Legal Profession? (397).Samuel R. Bagenstos, Implicit Bias, Science, and Antidiscrimination Law (139).Edward A. Zelinsky, The New Massachusetts Health Law: Preemption…
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Levinson Posts Empirical Study on Misremembering
Justin Levinson has just posted on SSRN an abstract of his forthcoming article Forgotten Racial Equality: Implicit Bias, Decision-Making, and Misremembering. Here's an excerpt from the abstract: This Article argues…
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Bagenstos on Implicit Bias
Sam Bagenstos has just posted on SSRN his article Implicit Bias, Science, and Antidiscrimination Law. Here's the abstract: In recent years, scholars ofantidiscrimination law have increasingly come to focus on…
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Jolls on How Antidsicrimination Law Inadvertently Reduces Implicit Bias
Christine Jolls has just posted on SSRN her new article Antidiscrimination Law's Effects on Implicit Bias. Here's the abstract: It is by now commonplace to observe thatbias on the basis…