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Race And Class: A Randomized Experiment With Prosecutors, Christopher Robertson, Shima Baradaran Baughman, Megan Wright
Race And Class: A Randomized Experiment With Prosecutors, Christopher Robertson, Shima Baradaran Baughman, Megan Wright
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Disparities in criminal justice outcomes are well known, and prior observational research has shown correlations between the race of defendants and prosecutors’ decisions about how to charge and resolve cases. Yet causation is questionable: other factors, including unobserved variation in case facts, may account for some of the disparity. Disparities may also be driven by socio-economic class differences, which are highly correlated with race.
This article presents the first blinded, randomized controlled experiment that tests for race and class effects in prosecutors’ charging decisions. Case-vignettes are manipulated between-subjects in five conditions to test effects of defendants’ race and class status. …
Attorney As Accompagnateur: Resilient Lawyering When Victory Is Uncertain Or Nearly Impossible,, Danielle Pelfrey Duryea, Margaret Reuter, Stephen A. Rosenbaum
Attorney As Accompagnateur: Resilient Lawyering When Victory Is Uncertain Or Nearly Impossible,, Danielle Pelfrey Duryea, Margaret Reuter, Stephen A. Rosenbaum
Faculty Scholarship
Social justice lawyers come to the profession intending to make a difference through the instruments of law. And gloriously, they often make a difference in people’s lives for the better. They make our world a more just, compassionate, and tolerant place. But there is no denying that, in poverty law practice, legal success can be elusive, ephemeral, or perhaps a mirage. How does that lawyer feel when the legal remedies at her disposal, even if “successful,” fail to mitigate the injustices suffered by her clients? Are there definitions of professional satisfaction and success that are enduring, even if legal success …
Everything From Soup To Nuts: The Full Plate Of Academic Law Library Directorship, Ronald E. Wheeler
Everything From Soup To Nuts: The Full Plate Of Academic Law Library Directorship, Ronald E. Wheeler
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Inspired by "A Day in My Law Library Life,' Circa 1997," this compilation collects descriptions of a day in the lives of law librarians in 2018. The descriptions provide a current snapshot and historical record of the law library profession, with similarities to, and differences from, the profession of 1997.