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Publications

Sharing the results of our work is critical to making change in the field. We make all of our publications and, as much as legally possible, all of our data publicly available. For data on current studies, check study pages for up-to-date information.

Publications for completed studies include:

Pro Bono Representation in Divorce

D. James Greiner, Ellen Degnan, Thomas Ferriss, Roseanna Sommers, “Using random assignment to measure court accessibility for low-income divorce seekers,” PNAS April 6, 2021 118 (14).

Unemployment Representation

D. James Greiner and Cassandra Wolos Pattanayak, “Randomized Evaluation in Legal Assistance: What Difference Does Representation (Offer and Actual Use) Make?“, 121 Yale Law Journal 2118 (2011).

District Court

D. James Greiner, Cassandra Wolos Pattanayak, and Jonathan Hennessy, “The Limits of Unbundled Legal Assistance: A Randomized Study in a Massachusetts District Court and Prospects for the Future,” 126 Harvard Law Review 901 (2012).

Housing Court

D. James Greiner, Cassandra Wolos Pattanayak, and Jonathan Philip Hennessy, “How Effective are Limited Legal Assistance Programs? A Randomized Experiment in a Massachusetts Housing Court”  (2012).

Publications on RCTs in the U.S. Legal Profession

H. Fernandez Lynch, D. J. Greiner, I. G. Cohen, “Overcoming obstacles to experiments in legal practice,” Science, 06 Mar 2020, Vol. 367, Issue 6482, pp. 1078.

D. James Greiner and Andrea Matthews, “Randomized Control Trials in the United States Legal Profession,” Harvard Public Law Working Paper No. 16-06 (2016).

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