Research

1. Overview
2. Research by Subject Matter

I am keenly interested in the implementation of humane technologies. It's just that I understand "technology" very broadly--not only in terms of computers and communications, but also the cognitive processes of our brains. Indeed, I view race as socio-cognitive technology, and I view my work as a sort of academic "hacking" of the system.

Overview

As suggested on my home page, my broad interest is about “technologies,” understood in a very broad sense. Much of my writing concerns communication technologies (including cyberspace), and the social impacts of new information structures. More specifically, I have focused on information privacy and pervasive computing (when the Internet is embedded everywhere).

My other research interest is race and race relations. My work falls within the broad category of critical race studies, which critically examines the mutually constitutive role of race and law. My early work focused on Asian Americans, with respect to hate crimes and affirmative action. I've also written extensively on the internment of Japanese Americans. Currently I’m most excited about importing the vocabulary, findings, and insights of implicit social cognition (e.g. implicit bias) into critical race studies. This work is guided by a commitment to “behavioral realism.”

Arguably my most creative work merges my interests in communications and race and examines their interrelations. In this vein, I've written about mass media policy, net neutrality, and on-line communities.

Finally, some work falls into a miscellaneous category. Most of my work is available in full text on-line.

Research by Subject Matter

Below is a thematically organized list of major works by subject matter. Click on these links for abstracts and full downloads.

Red highlight indicates social cognition work; yellow highlight indicates work about Asian Americans;blue is communications or cyberlaw. Purple denotes a fusion across categories.

The works are also listed chronologically in the navigation bar on the left. Click on the years to list the works published that year. (At the very bottom of the page is a fully expanded tree.)

year	race	<-- hybrid -->	communications	other
in progress			Self-Surveillance Privacy
forthcoming 2010	Are Ideal Litigators White?
forthcoming 2010	Seeing through Colorblindness

forthcoming 2010	Comment on Uhlmann, Person or Culture?, in Ideology, Psychology, and Law (Hanson, Ed.)
2009	Implicit Bias Primer for Courts (National Consortium for State Courts)
			Communications Law & Policy (3rd ed. Foundation)
	Book Review of Muller, American Inquisition: Hunt for Japanese American Disloyalty in WW II (Law & History Review)
2008		Engaging Online, in State of Asian America
	Dodging Responsibility: Story of Hirabayashi, in Race Stories (Carabado & Moran, Eds.)
			Out Of the Woods: Urban Sensing (CACM)
2007	Implicit Social Cognition and the Law (Annual Review of Law & Social Science)
		Race.net Neutrality ( J Telecom & High Tech L)
2006	Fair Measures (California Law Review)
2005			Communications Law & Policy (2nd ed.)
	Watching the Watchers (J L & Contemp. Probs)
			Pervasive Computing (Wash & Lee L Rev)
		Trojan Horses of Race (Harv. L. Rev.)
2004			Privacy in Atlantis (Harv. J L & Tech)
	Denying Prejudice: Internment, Redress, & Denial (UCLA L. Rev.)
2002	Thinking through Internment: 12/7 and 9/11, in Asian Americans on War and Peace
2001	Race, Rights, and Reparation: the Law and the Japanese American Internment (Aspen)
			Communications Law & Policy (1st ed.)
		E-racing E-lections (Loyola L.A. L. Rev.)
2000		Cyber-race (Harv. L. Rev.)
1998			Information Privacy in Cyberspace Transactions (Stanford L. Rev.)
1996	Beyond Self-Interest (UCLA APA L.J.)
	Negative Action against Asian Americans (Harv. CR-CL)
1995			Privacy and the NII (Commerce Dep't)
1993	Racial Violence against Asian Americans (Harv. L. Rev.)
1992				ISKCON v. Lee (Harv. L. Rev.)
				Rebel without a Cause, Reviewing Peter Huber's Galileo's Revenge (Harv. L. Rev.)