Fixing the Racial Wealth Gap?

Extraordinary times beget extraordinary measures. Multiple national emergencies during the past quarter century have generated a pitched debate as to...

Societies worldwide are polarized over social justice, with identity-based status hierarchies manifesting inequalities at both individual and...

The history of public policy is littered with failures to solve large-scale social problems using interventions derived from behavioral science...

The Supreme Court has twice held since 2020 that statutory restrictions on the President’s removal power violate Article II of the U.S. Constitution...

Large language models (LLMs) now perform extremely well on many natural language processing tasks. Their ability to convert legal texts to data may...

In an era of supposed great equality, women are still falling behind in the workplace. Even with more women in the workforce than in decades past...

Prof. Kim Forde-Mazrui of the University of Virginia responds to Sonja Starr’s print Article, The Magnet School Wars and the Future of Colorblindness...

Supreme Court opinions involving race and the jury invariably open with the Fourteenth Amendment, the Civil Rights Act of 1875, or landmark cases like...

This book responds to a sea change in federal civil rights law. Its focus is on the recent decisions on affirmative action, almost entirely rejecting...

Countries hit by unexpected crises often look to their overseas diasporas for assistance. Some countries have tapped into this generosity of their...

The role of implicit racial biases in police interactions with people of color has garnered increased public attention and scholarly examination over...

A defining feature of the past two and a half centuries has been the extraordinary and unprecedented velocity of technological change. The rush of new...

This chapter studies political corruption and its many relationships to the law of democracy. It begins with bribery laws, which forbid officials from...

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...

We deal here with the right of all of our children,
whatever their race, to an equal start in life and to an
equal opportunity to reach their full...

There is concern that present-biased agents incur too much debt because of its deferred costs – concern that has influenced regulation of consumer...

Lenders are perfectly free to decide for themselves whether, when, how, to whom and on what terms they will extend credit to a sovereign borrower. But...

False information causes harm, threatening individuals, groups, and society. Many people struggle to judge the veracity of the information around them...