Report on District of Columbia Police Response to Domestic Violence

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...

On January 1, 2022, the most radical change to the American jury in at least thirty-five years occurred in Arizona: peremptory strikes, long a feature...

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

This Article considers the interaction between marriage, households, and public welfare-type benefits. In light of constant cultural and media...

Berryessa et al. (2022) consider how prior experience as a criminal prosecutor may influence judicial behaviour, but their concerns about prior...

For several days, former President Donald Trump and his 18 co-defendants in a Georgia election interference case trickled into the Fulton County Jail...

Virginia adopted a risk assessment to help determine sentencing for sex offenders. It was incorporated as a one-way ratchet toward higher sentences...

Courts routinely use low cash bail as a financial incentive to ensure that released defendants appear in court and abstain from crime. This can create...

Singlehood is becoming an increasingly important social identity category. Thousands of people are members of Facebook groups such as I am my Own...

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

In our increasingly polarized society, claims that prosecutions are politically motivated, racially motivated, or just plain arbitrary are more common...

Scores of lawsuits have pushed retirement plan sponsors to shorter, easier-to-navigate menus, but – as Ian Ayres and Quinn Curtis argue in this work –...

As social scientists seek to communicate research about what works in policing to police executives, they overlook important players in determining...

Across multiple national surveys sampling more than 12,000 people, we have found that a majority of Americans, more than 60 percent, consider false...

Family law is for young people. To facilitate child rearing and help spouses pool resources over a lifetime, the law obligates parents to minor...

He who opens a school door, closes a prison. – Victor Hugo

Analogous to Nathaniel Hawthorne’s critique of his leaders’ decision to use punishment as a...