Wonderful news for Michigan—Judge Grey was confirmed this week to serve on the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan! His experience and thoughtfulness make him a great judge.

Let’s congratulate Professor Emilie Aguirre of Duke Law on receiving the Distinguished Teaching Award at the Duke Law Outstanding and Noteworthy Endeavors Awards!! Read more here: buff.ly/3KFi4fm #WomenAlsoKnowLaw #WomenInAcademia

New in nature! In the first year of the pandemic, we saw a large/abrupt spike in the percent of Black & nonwhite people incarcerated in state prisons nature.com/articles/s4158… A key driver: pervasive differences in sentence length by race Elizabeth Hinton C. Brandon Ogbunu Sam Scarpino

Also! We want to thank Jess E., who captured the core of our research perfectly in her News & Views piece, especially as we begin to think about next steps in this work. Find it here: doi.org/10.1038/d41586…

FACTS: white people benefited the most from the unprecedented reduction in U.S. prison populations during COVID. After declining for nearly a decade, the proportion of Black people in prison started rising again... in nearly every state. Our study now in nature! Check this 👇🏾👇🏾

Welcoming Chesa Boudin! As founding executive director of Berkeley Law’s new Criminal Law & Justice Center (Criminal Law & Justice Center), Boudin sees an exciting opportunity to build on his work of transforming the criminal legal system in profound ways. law.berkeley.edu/article/chesa-…

LDF is excited to welcome Karla McKanders as the new director of Thurgood Marshall Institute. Professor McKanders comes to LDF from Vanderbilt University Law School, where she has taught Critical Race Theory and Immigration Law for the past six years. naacpldf.org/press-release/…

Also happy to share that I recently joined the faculty Cornell Law School I will miss my wonderful colleagues at IUMaurerLaw, but I am excited for this next chapter in my career. Looking forward to checking out the gorges, too!

JOIN US | OCT 26 @ 12:30PM - A discussion of ‘AI and Marginalized Groups’ with interdisciplinary experts and scholars North Carolina Central University School of Law Prof. April G. Dawson, Cornell Law School Prof. Jess E. ’08, and William & Mary Law School Prof. Margaret Hu ’00. Sponsored by Duke Law's Center on Law, Race & Policy.

Major congrats to Profs. E. Tendayi Achiume and Andrea Armstrong who were both awarded 2023 MacArthur Foundation genius grants. They deserve all the things! Am so glad to see them gettting their flowers for their awesome body of work. Screaming with joy. Let's goooo! macfound.org/programs/fello…

To my colleagues and friends: thank you for the love and support over this past week. It is an honor to do this work and I do not take my responsibility as a scholar and teacher lightly. My team @NLawCRDJ is incredible and we wanted to take some time to set the record straight...

Meet Ruha Benjamin (Ruha Benjamin), a transdisciplinary scholar, writer, and 2024 #MacFellow exploring the ethical and social dimensions of innovation. Learn more about Ruha ⬇️ macfound.org/fellows/class-…

Meet Dorothy Roberts (@dorothyeroberts), a legal scholar, public policy researcher, and 2024 #MacFellow exposing the racial inequities embedded within health and social service systems. Learn more about Dorothy ⬇️ macfound.org/fellows/class-…

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An alien visited my office again, this time to discuss what “color-blind” means in relation to algorithms and criminal law. My Afrofuturism and the Law essay w/The Georgetown Law Journal is here. Check it out: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cf…

Check out Jess E.’s paper, “On ‘Color-blind’ and the Algorithm,” discussing the contested nature of the term in contemporary legal discourse around race and algorithms in criminal law. Read the The Georgetown Law Journal article here: buff.ly/3zOsnw5 #WomenAlsoKnowLaw

Please join us for the Boston University Law Review's fall symposium, open to all students and faculty! The relationship between law and expertise sits at the heart of debates about democracy and governance.