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Crystal Yang ’13 named professor of law at Harvard Law School

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Harvard Law Today | Profile of Crystal Yang, who has been promoted to full professor at Harvard Law School. Yang received her JD and PhD in Economics from Harvard University in 2013. Her teaching and research focus on empirical law and economics...

Monica Bell named a Harvard Law School Climenko Fellow

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Awardee: Monica Bell, Ph.D. candidate in Sociology & Social Policy Inequality Fellow Monica Bell, a Ph.D. candidate in Sociology & Social Policy, begins a two-year fellowship this year as a Harvard Law School Climenko Fellow. Climenko Fellows are...

Alex Albright: Law and Economics Fellows Writing Prize

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Harvard Law School | Stone PhD Scholar Alex Albright (Economics) is the 2019 recipient of Harvard Law School's Law and Economics Fellows Writing Prize for her paper, “If You Give a Judge a Risk Score: Evidence from Kentucky Bail Decisions." Alex presented...

Better Bankruptcy Laws Could Make Recessions Less Painful

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Barron's | New research from Adrien Auclert of Stanford University, Will Dobbie of Harvard University, and Paul Goldsmith-Pinkham of Yale University suggests that [a 2005 law discouraging Americans from filing for bankruptcy] worsened the downturn [in the...

Faculty Voices: Crystal Yang on fear and the safety net

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Harvard Law Today | Professor Crystal Yang JD/PhD 2013 discusses her paper (joint with Marcella Alsan), “Fear and the Safety Net: Evidence from Secure Communities,” which examines the link between tougher immigration enforcement in the United States and...

Stone Inequality & Social Policy Seminar: Guy-Uriel Charles

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Election Law and Structural Inequality Guy-Uriel Charles, Charles Ogletree, Jr. Professor of Law, Harvard Law School Abstract: Election law has long grappled with fundamental, important, and familiar challenges. These include addressing the problems of...

The Dollar as a Democratic Medium: Making Money a Currency of Social Justice

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Harvard Law Today | HLS Thinks Big: Harvard Law School's annual event featuring Christine Desan, who asks whether we can re-design money to deliver fairness in a world in which inequality is escalating. Christine Desan is the Leo Gottlieb Professor of Law...

Bert I. Huang

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Presidential Award for Outstanding Teaching, Columbia University, 2020.

Willis L.M. Reese Prize for Excellence in Teaching, Columbia Law School, 2020.

Bert I. Huang served as president of the Harvard Law Review and clerked for Justice David H. Souter of...

Making the Case for Criminal Justice Reform: Crystal Yang

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Harvard Law Bulletin | Profile of Crystal Yang PhD 2013, a professor at Harvard Law School who brings an empirical focus to the study of criminal law. She has now turned her attention to the extensive use of cash bail and pretrial detention in the U.S...

Proposals for improving the U.S. Pretrial System

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The Hamilton Project | By Will Dobbie (PhD 2013) and Crystal S. Yang (PhD 2013). Will Dobbie is now Assistant Professor of Economics and Public Affairs at Princeton University. Crystal S. Yang is Assistant Professor of Law at Harvard Law School.

Carol S. Steiker: The Criminalization of Poverty

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Carol S. Steiker, Henry J. Friendly Professor of Law, Harvard Law School. Poverty and crime intersect in many unfortunate ways, and it has become common to refer to “the criminalization of poverty” to describe a range of pathologies in the criminal...

Stone Inequality & Social Policy Seminar: Monica Bell

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Fifty Mothers: Empirical Poems on Policing, Punishment & Poverty Governance Monica C. Bell , Professor of Law, Associate Professor of Sociology, and Counselor to the Dean at Yale Law School Abstract: Fifty Mothers is a project on how Black American women...