Disciplinary Perspectives & Law

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).

Marcella Alsan & Crystal Yang, Fear and the Safety Net: Evidence from Secure Communities (NBER Working Paper No. w24731, June 2018).

Will Dobbie, Paul Goldsmith-Pinkham & Crystal S. Yang, Consumer Bankruptcy and Financial Health, 99 Rev. Econ. & Stat. 853 (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, Local Labor Markets and Criminal Recidivism, 147 J. Pub. Econ. 16 (2017).

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

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).

Elizabeth Bartholet, Scott Brewer, Robert Clark et al., Rethink Harvard’s sexual harassment policy, Bos. Globe (Oct. 15, 2014).

Christopher Lewis & Adaner Usmani, The Libertarian Case Against Property, 45 Law and Philosophy 181 (2025).

Cass R. Sunstein, Paternalism after behavioral economics, 244 Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization (2026).

Frank I. Michelman, Political liberalism, dualist democracy and the call to constituent power, 50 Phil. & Soc. Criticism 1419 (2024).

Carey K. Morewedge, Sendhil Mullainathan, Haaya F. Naushan et al., Human bias in algorithm design, 7 Nature Hum. Behav. 1822 (2023).

Yochai Benkler, Structure and Legitimation in Capitalism: Law, Power, and Justice in Market Society, 88 Law & Contemporary Problems 1 (2025).

Christopher R. Berry & Jacob E. Gersen, Election Timing and Public Policy, 6 Q.J. Pol. Sci. 103 (2011).

Adriaan Lanni, Truth and Athenian Court Verdicts, in The Discovery of the Fact 145 (Clifford Ando & William P. Sullivan, eds., 2020).

Martha Minow, Partial Justice: Law and Minorities, in The Fate of Law 15 (Austin Sarat & Thomas R. Kearns eds., 1991).

Cass R. Sunstein, Fifty Shades of Manipulation, 1 J. Marketing Behav. 213 (2016).