Criminal Law Symposium Program Materials
June 30, 2021
Handouts
- Voir Dire Primer (.pdf)
- Washington v. Lahman – Implicit Bias and Peremptories (.pdf)
- US v. Palkowitsch Attorney-conducted Voir Dire Introduction (.pdf)
- Mason v. US (DC Court of Appeals) (.pdf)
- Governor-Newsom-McDaniel-Amicus-Brief re Juries (.pdf)
- Derek Chauvin Trial – Unconscious Bias Jury Instruction (.pdf)
- 16-124 Juror Questionnaire (.pdf)
- Floyd-Chauvin Jury Questionnaire (.pdf)
- Kaonohi Jury Questionnaire (.pdf)
- TEMPLATE Crim Questionnaire (.pdf)
Articles
- Dovidio et al – Racial Attitudes and the Death Penalty 1997 (.pdf)
- Dobbin + Kalev – Why Doesn’t Diversity Training Work (.pdf)
- Levenson, Bennet, et al – Judging Implicit Bias (.pdf)
- Green + Hagiwar – The Problem with Implicit Bias Training (.pdf)
- Gonzales Rose – Color-Blind But Not Color-Deaf (.pdf)
- Peter-Hagene – Jurors Cognitive Depletion and Performance (.pdf)
- Sommers – On Racial Diversity and Group Decision Making (.pdf)
- Jones – Judge v Attorney-Conducted Voir Dire (.pdf)
- Bennett – Unraveling the Gordian Knot (.pdf)
Articles on the Web
- Unraveling the Gordion Knot of Implicit Bias in Jury Selection: The Problems of Judge-Dominated Voir Dire, the Failed Promise of Batson, and Proposed Solutions, Judge Mark W. Bennett. Harvard Law & Policy Review, Vol. 4, 2010 (HarvadLPR.com)
- Why Doesn’t Diversity Training Work?, Frank Dobbin & Alexandra Kalev. Anthropology Now, Vol. 101, #2, October 2018 (AnthroNow.com)
- Racial Attitudes and the Death Penalty, John Dovidio, Jennifer Smith, Amy Donnella & Samuel Gaertner. Journal of Applied Social Psychology, 1997 (Wiley.com)
- Color-Blind but Not Color-Deaf: Accent Discrimination in Jury Selection, Jasmine B. Gonzales-Rose, NYU Review of Law & Social Change (SocialChangeNYU.com)
- The Problem with Implicit Bias Training, Tiffany Green, Scientific American, August 28, 2020 (ScientificAmerican.com)
- Judge-Versus Attorney-Conducted Voir Dire, Susan Jones, Law & Human Behavior, Vol. II, No. 2, 1987 (Springer.com)
- Judging Implicit Bias: A National Empirical Study of Judicial Stereotypes, Justin Levinson, Mark Bennett, and Koichi Hioki, Florida Law Review, 69 Fla. L. Rev. 63 (2017) (FloridaLawReview.com)
- Jurors’ Cognitive Depletion and Performance During Jury Deliberation as a Function of Jury Diversity and Defendant Race, Liana Peter-Hagene, Law and Human Behavior, 2019, Vol. 43, No. 3 (PsycNet.APA.org)
- On Racial Diversity and Group Decision-Making: Identifying Multiple Effects of Racial Compositions on Jury Deliberations, Samuel Sommers, Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 2006, Vol. 90, No. 4. (PsycNet.APA.org)