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.

Completed StudyPublication
Online Dispute ResolutionRenee Danser, D. James Greiner, Andy Gu, and Philip O’Sullivan, “Online Dispute Resolution of Low-Level Court Proceedings: Two Broken Field Experiments, One Unexpected Result,” February 4, 2023.
Criminal Justice Record ClearingD. James Greiner, Hannah Crowe, and Renee Danser, “Record-Clearing as a Rite of Passage To Engage in the Justice System,” July 22, 2022.
Matthew Stubenberg, Renee Danser, and D. James Greiner, “Criminal Justice Record Clearing: An Analysis from Two States,” February 4, 2023.
Algorithmic Policy MakingEli Ben-Michael, D. James Greiner, Kosuke Imai, and Zhichao Jiang, “Safe Policy Learning through Extrapolation: Application to Pre-trial Risk Assessment,” September 22, 2021.
Pro Bono Representation in DivorceD. James Greiner, Ellen Degnan, Thomas Ferriss, and Roseanna Sommers, “Using random assignment to measure court accessibility for low-income divorce seekers,” PNAS April 6, 2021 118 (14).
Unemployment RepresentationD. 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 CourtD. 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 CourtD. 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 ProfessionH. Fernandez Lynch, D. J. Greiner, and 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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