2012 APA-UCLA Scholarships

February 9, 2012

Asian Pacific Alumni of UCLA is proud to announce that the 2012 APA-UCLA Scholarship selection process has begun. Over $18,000 in scholarships are available to current UCLA undergraduate and graduate students. Each year, APA-UCLA is proud to honor many qualified young women and men with APA-UCLA scholarships. Please help us in our outreach by forwarding [...]

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2012 Robert T. Matsui Writing Competition

January 30, 2012

Law students writing about Asian American legal issues should submit their paper to this competition. Here are the details: — The Asian Pacific American Bar Association Educational Fund (AEF) is seeking submissions for its 2012 Robert T. Matsui Writing Competition. The competition is open to all law students in the United States. Submissions for the [...]

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Implicit Bias and Philosophy

January 8, 2012

Recently, I heard about a group focusing on Implicit Bias and Philosophy.  Looks interesting, and to be sure, some theoretical clarification about bias, grounded in what we know from the sciences, would be very useful. Patrick Shin has a paper called “Liability for Unconscious Discrimination? A Thought Experiment…. that’s on point.

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2011 AALS Research Plenary on Implicit Bias

December 4, 2011

This is old news, but back in January 2011, the Committee on Research of the AALS (American Assoc. of Law Schools) held a plenary session on implicit bias.  Tony Greenwald, one of the creators of the Implicit Association Test, was there, and both I and Gregory Mitchell commented. Prof. Greg Mitchell, UVA is one of the most strident critics [...]

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BART cell cut off

August 19, 2011

I gave a quick e-mail interview to Fast Company, about BART’s decision to cut off mobile communications to avoid a social media-assisted protest.  Here is the quotation: Another expert on telecommunications law, Jerry Kang of the UCLA Law School, seconded the fact that BART’s decision took the transit provider into a legal gray area. According to Kang, [...]

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Video Online – Implicit Bias in the Courtroom

April 20, 2011

With Jennifer Mnookin, I codirect the pulse program at UCLA Law school. We recently uploaded video from the very interesting second annual symposium.

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Asians in the Library Redux

April 15, 2011

APILSA is sponsoring a talk at the law school on Asians in the Library, which I’ll be moderating.  Great panelists.  Promises to be an interesting conversation. See also Asians in the Library post.       ‘

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Asians in the Library

March 16, 2011

A UCLA student recorded a video rant complaining about about Asians in the library, which went viral (caution re the anonymous comments–they may be offensive).  [Update:  according to the Sacramento Bee, the video may have been a trial balloon for a larger blog presence.] Since I am teaching communications law and policy right now, this poses [...]

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Getting up to speed on implicit bias

March 13, 2011

Updated 1/9/2012 3:53 PM I sometimes get inquiries from folks about  implicit bias.  I’ve written quite a bit about the subject.  Here’s a guide on which articles you might want to read. Quick and Dirty Primers 2009 Implicit Bias Primer for Courts (brief primer written for the National Center for State Courts) Detailed Introduction to [...]

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PULSE Symposium announcement

February 12, 2011

Implicit Bias in the Courtroom: Theoretical Problems and Concrete Solutions Public Conference: March 3, 2011 The problems of overt discrimination have received an enormous amount of attention from lawyers, judges, and policy-makers. While explicit sexism, racism, and other forms of bias still exist, they have become less prominent and public as compared to earlier periods [...]

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