Discovery and the Evidentiary Foundations of Implicit Bias

Scholarship

CO-AUTHORS Allan G. King, Richard W. Black, Catherine A. Conway, and Julie A. Totten

PUBLISHER

Labor Law Journal

DATE

2015

Gregory Mitchell

Richard W. Black et al., Discovery and the Evidentiary Foundations of Implicit Bias, 66 Labor Law Journal, 49–64 (2015).

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