Implicit Bias and Accountability Systems: What Must Organizations Do to Prevent Discrimination?

For the over half-million people currently homeless in the United States, the U.S. Constitution has historically provided little help: it is strongly...

Memory issues are well-known in legal trials that involve the reliability of eyewitnesses in criminal cases. However, the relevance of memory to law...

Evidence law controls what information will be admissible in court and when, how, and by whom it may be presented. It shapes not only the trial...

During times of crisis, governments often consider policies that may promote safety, but that would require overstepping constitutionally protected...

In an era defined by partisan rifts and government gridlock, many celebrate the rare issues that prompt bipartisan consensus. But extreme consensus...

Professor Elizabeth Scott, the chief reporter of the American Law Institute’s (ALI) Restatement of Children and the Law, has often observed that the...

Working hand-in-hand with the private sector, largely in a regulatory vacuum, policing agencies at the federal, state, and local level are acquiring...

The decision in Students for Fair Admissions v. President and Fellows of Harvard [SFFA], invalidating the use of race in college admissions, reignites...

In New York State Rifle & Pistol Association v. Bruen, Justice Thomas’s majority opinion announced that the key to applying originalist methodology...

Forensic evidence has become a common tool in police investigations and a familiar form of evidence at trial. Forensic scientists are trained to...

Scott Lilienfeld warned that psychology’s ideological uniformity would lead to premature closure on sensitive topics. He encouraged psychologists to...

We examined how the presentation of risk assessment results and the race of the person charged affected pretrial court actors’ recommendations to...

Coercive policing is conducted mostly by means of commands, and officers usually cannot use force unless they have first issued an order. Yet, despite...

Given that no two acts, events, situations, and legal cases are identical, precedential constraint necessarily involves determining which two...

This year marks the fiftieth anniversary of the Supreme Court’s decision in San Antonio Independent School District v. Rodriguez that our Constitution...

Both statutory and constitutional law prohibiting discrimination forbid actions taken on the basis of certain traits. But rarely are those traits...

The practice of assessing and adjudicating competence for criminal adjudication in the United States developed largely without assistance from the U.S...

Gun-related violence and suicide in the United States are serious public health problems that are concentrated among young adults, especially those...