Discrimination & Civil Rights

Alexandra Natapoff, Misdemeanor Decriminalization, 68 Vand. L. Rev. 1055 (2015).

Jon Kleinberg, Jens Ludwig, Sendhil Mullainathan & Cass R. Sunstein, Algorithms as Discrimination Detectors, 117 Proc. Nat’l Acad. Sci. 33096 (Dec. 1, 2020).

J. Mark Ramseyer, Social Capital and the Problem of Opportunistic Leadership: The Example of Koreans in Japan, 52 Eur. J.L. & Econ. 1 (2021).

Kristin M. Kostick-Quenet, I. Glenn Cohen, et al., Mitigating Racial Bias in Machine Learning, 50 J. L., Med., & Ethics 92 (2022).

Carmel Shachar, Emmanuel F. Drabo, Theodore J. Iwashyna et al., Addressing Racial and Ethnic Bias in Pulse Oximeters—A Wicked Problem, 333 JAMA 563 (2024).

John C.P. Goldberg, The Rights and Wrongs of Constitutional Torts, Jotwell (March 27, 2025) (reviewing Matteo Godi, Section 1983: A Strict Liability Statutory Tort, 113…

Joseph William Singer, “Merciless Indian Savages” or “Distinct, Independent Political Communities”?, in American Law & Governance: 250 and Beyond (forthcoming 2026).

Alexandra Natapoff, The High Stakes of Low-Level Criminal Justice, 128 Yale L.J. 1648 (2019) (reviewing Issa Kohler-Haussmann, Misdemeanorland: Criminal Courts and Social Control in an…

Alexandra Natapoff, Misdemeanors, 11 Ann. Rev. L. & Soc. Sci. 255 (2015).

J. Mark Ramseyer, Contracting for Sex in the Pacific War, 65 Int’l Rev. of L. & Econ. 105971 (2021).

J. Mark Ramseyer, Comfort Women: The Economics of the Contracts and the Politics of the Dispute (Feb. 3, 2020).

J. Mark Ramseyer, A Monitoring Theory of the Underclass: With Examples from Outcastes, Koreans, and Okinawans in Japan (Jan. 24, 2020).

J. Mark Ramseyer, Learning to Love Japan: Social Norms and Market Incentives, 31 San Diego L. Rev. 263 (1994).

David Eaves, I.P.L. Png & J. Mark Ramseyer, Gender, Ethnicity and Grades: Empirical Evidence of Discrimination in Law-Firm Interviews, 7 Law & Ineq. 189 (1989).

J. Mark Ramseyer, Doctrines and Rents in Japan: A Comment on Professors Osuka and Nakamura, Law & Contemp. Probs., Spring 1990, at 29.

J. Mark Ramseyer, Indentured Prostitution in Imperial Japan: Credible Commitments in the Commercial Sex Industry, 7 J.L. Econ. & Org. 89 (1991).

J. Mark Ramseyer, On the Invention of Identity Politics: The Buraku Outcastes in Japan, 16 Rev. L. & Econ. 1 (2020).

J. Mark Ramseyer & Eric Bennett Rasmusen, Outcaste Politics and Organized Crime in Japan: The Effect of Terminating Ethnic Subsidies, 15 J. Empirical Legal Stud.

J. Mark Ramseyer & Minoru Nakazato, Japanese Law: An Economic Approach (Univ. of Chi. Press 1999).

J. Mark Ramseyer, Book Review, 25 J. Japanese Stud. 365 (1999) (reviewing Ivan P. Hall, Cartels of the Mind: Japan’s Intellectual Closed Shop (1998)).

Wesley Hohfeld A Century Later: Edited Work, Select Personal Papers, and Original Commentaries (Shyamkrishna Balganesh, Ted M. Sichelman & Henry E. Smith eds., 2022).