Criminal Law & Procedure

Crystal Yang & Will Dobbie, Equal Protection Under Algorithms: A New Statistical and Legal Framework, 119 Mich. L. Rev. 291 (2020).

Will Dobbie & Crystal Yang, Proposals for Improving the U.S. Pre-Trial System (The Hamilton Project Policy Proposal 2019-5, Mar. 2019).

David Arnold, Will Dobbie & Crystal S. Yang, Racial Bias in Bail Decisions, 133 Q.J. Econ. 1885 (2018).

Crystal S. Yang, Does Public Assistance Reduce Recidivism?, 107 Am. Econ. Rev. 551 (2017).

Crystal S. Yang, Toward an Optimal Bail System, 92 N.Y.U. L. Rev. 1399 (2017).

Will Dobbie, Jacob Goldin & Crystal S. Yang, The Effects of Pre-Trial Detention on Conviction, Future Crime, and Employment: Evidence from Randomly Assigned Judges, 108…

Crystal S. Yang, Resource Constraints and the Criminal Justice System: Evidence From Judicial Vacancies, 8 AEJ: Econ. Pol’y 289 (2016).

Crystal S. Yang, Local Labor Markets and Criminal Recidivism, 147 J. Pub. Econ. 16 (2017).

Crystal S. Yang, Have Interjudge Sentencing Disparities Increased in an Advisory Guidelines Regime? Evidence from Booker, 89 N.Y.U. L. Rev. 1268 (2014).

Crystal S. Yang, Free at Last? Judicial Discretion and Racial Disparities in Federal Sentencing, 44 J. Legal Stud. 75 (2015).

Alma Cohen & Crystal S. Yang, Judicial Politics and Sentencing Decisions, 11 Am. Econ. J.: Econ. Pol’y 160 (2019).

Alexandra Natapoff, Criminal Municipal Courts, 134 Harv. L. Rev. 964 (2021).

Alexandra Natapoff, Underenforcement, 75 Fordham L. Rev. 1715 (2006).

Lloyd L. Weinreb & Elizabeth Papp Kamali, Leading Constitutional Cases on Criminal Justice (2025).

Emma Harrington & Hannah Shaffer, Brokers of Bias in the Criminal System: Do Prosecutors Compound or Attenuate Racial Disparities in Policing?, Review of Economics and…

Maureen E. Brady, The Lost “Effects” of the Fourth Amendment: Giving Personal Property Due Protection, 125 Yale L.J. 946 (2016).

Alexandra Natapoff, Institutional Structures of Penal Inequality, 115 The Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology 821 (2026).

Jeannie Suk Gersen, The Demise and Afterlife of Donald Trump’s Criminal Cases, The New Yorker (Dec. 6, 2024).

Alexandra Natapoff, Misdemeanors, 85 S. Cal. L. Rev. 1313 (2012).

Alexandra Natapoff, Speechless: The Silencing of Criminal Defendants, 80 N.Y.U. L. Rev. 1449 (2005).

Andrew Manuel Crespo, Root and Branch: Lawyers, Movements, and the End of Mass Incarceration, 60 Harvard Civil Rights-Civil Liberties Law Review 567 (2025).