Grading Machines: Can AI Exam-Grading Outperform Law Professors? (with Kevin Cope, Jens Frankenreiter, and Scott Hirst), draft available upon request.
Performative Judging: Measuring the Effect of Video Recording on Judicial Behavior in Circuit Court Oral Arguments (with Aaron Kaufman and Lucy Williams), draft available upon request.
A Hybrid Approach to Legal Document Data Extraction: The iDX Framework for Enhanced Search Warrant Analysis (with Gagan Agrawal, Khan Mohammad Al-Farabi, Gokila Dorai, Miguel de Figueiredo, Thomas Kadri, John Meixner, and Ashiqur Rahman), draft available upon request.
An Experimental Analysis of “Evolving Standards of Decency (with Mitchell Roundy and Lucy Williams), draft available upon request.
Law as a Matter of Fact: The Inherent Empiricism of Heightened Scrutiny (with Brady Earley, Tom Lee, and Bradley Rebeiro), draft available upon request.
Nudging Judges in the Shadow of Judge Shoves: A Field Experiment on Judicial Recusal (with Ben Johnson and Newby Parton), draft available upon request.
The Legal and Ethical Challenges of Running Randomized Field Experiments in the Courtroom (with Jacob Kopas), draft available here.
Field Experiment on Inducing CCPA Compliance (working project) (with Jens Frankenreiter, Julian Nyarko, and Alejandro Salinas de Leon)
Using data resulting from a large language model that identifies non-compliance with the CCPA, we field a randomized experiment that tests various models of compliance (information, examples of compliance, threat of reporting, actual reporting) and various subjects (website managers, legal representatives, C-suite executives).
Evaluating the Scope of Search Warrants of Electronic Data (working project) (with Gagan Agrawal, Khan Mohammad Al-Farabi, Gokila Dorai, Miguel de Figueiredo, Thomas Kadri, John Meixner, and Ashiqur Rahman)
This project explores over 5,000 electronic search warrants approved via Utah’s e-Warrants system. We explore each stage of the warrant approval process (affidavit submission, warrant approval, and warrant return) to determine the scope of electronic warrants, whether they meet the strict standards for electronic data requests, and how often the warrant returns reflect successful searches exceeded the already broad grant in the approved warrant.
An RCT Pilot on Increasing Juror Compensation (working project) (in cooperation with the Utah Administrative Office of the Courts via the Jury Equity Project)
In cooperation with the Utah Administrative Office of the Courts, the Jury Equity Project is conducting a pilot study in which the jury pools for a randomly selected portion of criminal trials in Utah District Courts will be subject to increased juror compensation. The primary outcomes of interest will be the “jury yield” rate in Utah District Court jury pools (i.e., the percentage of persons contacted for jury service who are ultimately qualified and available), particularly among traditionally underrepresented demographic groups.
Testing the Right to Counsel in Parole Hearings: A Randomized Field Experiment (working project; in partnership with the Parole Preparation Project) (with Jacob Kopas)
This empirical project arises from an ongoing collaboration with the Parole Preparation Project, a New York-based non-profit that connects volunteer attorneys and law students with individuals who are serving life sentences but are up for parole. To empirically evaluate the efficacy of these services, we randomly assign the project’s volunteers, allowing us to compare the parole hearing outcomes for those who have received assistance against those who have not. The experiment was cut short due to COVID, and we are currently in the analysis stage.