Getting up to speed on implicit bias

March 13, 2011

Updated 3/20/2012 1:24 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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California Judicial Training Videos on Implicit Bias

January 16, 2011

I was in the process of responding to an email request about training materials on implicit bias.   I knew that the California Administrative Office of the Courts had produced a three part series called “The Neuroscience and Psychology of Decisionmaking” (put together by Kimberly Papillon).  I thought a few easy searches would turn up [...]

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AALS Social Science and Law Talk map

January 10, 2011

 At the AALS Research Committee section (Jan 6, 2011), I gave a talk about how Implicit Social Cognition might be imported in the law (after Tony Greenwald and before Greg Mitchell).   The themes included:  behavioral realism, 4 quadrants of legal intervention, and politicization (with time only to discuss Backlash from the Right).  Here’s [...]

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Seeing through Colorblindness published

January 5, 2011

2010 was a busy year in terms of getting some papers out on implicit bias and the law. Seeing through Colorblindness: Implicit Bias and the Law (co-authored with psychologist Kristin Lane) was just published in the UCLA Law Review.   Here’s a table of contents: If want to learn more about” behavioral realism,” here’s a [...]

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Self-surveillance privacy draft online

December 23, 2010

This is still very much a draft.   Comments and reactions are welcome.  Here’s the link to the full paper @ SSRN.   The abstract is below: It has become cliché to observe that new information technologies endanger privacy. Typically, the threat is viewed as coming from Big Brother (the government) or Company Man (the [...]

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Website is very much under construction

December 7, 2010

I’m in the process of moving my website to this new platform, based on WordPress.  So lots of things are changing, including organization and URLs.  My guess is that things will get stable in the next two weeks are so.  Sorry for any confusion or broken links.  Thanks for your patience.

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A Critique of Law and Economics

December 2, 2010

Recently, I gave a lecture titled A Critique of Law & Economics to UCLAW’s recently formed Law & Economics Student Association, headed by Doug Souza (a former civil procedure student). Here’s a video and a pdf of the mindmap I used. Lecture Video: A Critique of Law & Economics (Nov. 17, 2010 @ UCLAW) :: [...]

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