Featuring Rachel Best, Associate Professor and Director of Graduate Studies, Sociology, University of Michigan When they sue their employers for disability discrimination, do plaintiffs with some types of conditions fare better than others? This paper analyzes legal outcomes for three types of conditions that are potentially disputed (subject to suspicion and doubt) or disfavored (subject […]

Featuring Sa-kiera Tiarra Jolynn Hudson, Assistant Professor of Management of Organizations, UC Berkeley Empathy is often hailed as the emotion to target in intergroup conflicts, as it predicts consequential prosocial behaviors that can help reduce inequality. And indeed, in many social conflicts, people struggle to feel empathy for those not part of their social groups. […]

Featuring Karen Tani, Seaman Family University Professor, Penn Carey Law, University of Pennsylvania At the end of his brilliant career, Professor David Lieberman was writing about Jeremy Bentham’s views on courts and democracy. Lieberman was particularly interested in Bentham’s approach to “democratic statecraft”—that is, to the institutional arrangements that Bentham thought could thwart “sinister interests” […]

Featuring Amel Ahmed, Associate Professor of Political Science, University of Massachusetts Amherst.  Cosponsored with the Center for Research on Social Change Recent scholarship has warned that the American public is turning away from democracy. Building on work that has shown signs of backsliding in the U.S., a number of studies have demonstrated that, particularly in a […]