Articles
Color Commentators of the Bench, Florida State University Law Review (2010)
Featuring prominently in the last four sets of Supreme Court confirmation hearings, the judge-as-umpire analogy...
Frames of Injustice: The Bias We Overlook, Indiana Law Journal (2010)
The Cultural Cognition Project (CCP) at Yale Law School and the Project on Law and...
Quick on the Draw: Implicit Bias and the Second Amendment, Oregon Law Review (2010)
African Americans face a significant and menacing threat, but it is not the one that...
The Body of the Mind: Embodied Cognition, Law, and Justice, St. Louis University Law Journal (2010)
Recent research from embodied cognition strongly contests the dualist notion of the mind as distinct...
The Geography of Criminal Law, Cardoza Law Review (2010)
When Westerners explain the causes of actions or outcomes in the criminal law context, they...
Naïve Cynicism: Maintaining False Perceptions in Policy Debates (with Jon Hanson), Emory Law Journal (2008)
This is the second article in a multi-part series. In the first part, The Great...
The Great Attributional Divide: How Legal Policy Debates Are Shaped by Divergent Views of Human Nature (with Jon Hanson), Emory Law Journal (2008)
This article, the first of a multipart series, argues that a major rift runs across...
Legal Academic Backlash: The Response of Legal Theorists to Situationist Insights (with Jon Hanson), Emory Law Journal (2008)
This article is the third of a multipart series. The first part, "The Great Attributional...
The Drifters: Why the Supreme Court Makes Justices More Liberal (with Jon Hanson), Boston Review (2006)
The Costs of Dispositionism: The Premature Demise of Situationist Law and Economics (with Jon Hanson), Maryland Law Review (2005)
This article was written for the 2005 Symposium: "Calabresi's Costs of Accidents: A Generation of...
Broken Scales: Obesity and Justice in America (with Jon Hanson and David Yosifon), Emory Law Journal (2004)
This Article provides a broad assessment of the American obesity epidemic from the perspective of...