Sonja B. Starr

Sonja B. Starr

Member of University of Michigan Law School Faculty 2009-2020

Forthcoming

• "Understanding Violent-Crime Recidivism." Benjamin Pyle and J.J. Prescott, co-authors. Notre Dame L. Rev. (Forthcoming 2020).
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• "Expungement of Criminal Convictions: An Empirical Study." J.J. Prescott, co-author. Harv. L. Rev. 133 (Forthcoming).
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Book Chapters

• "The Right to an Effective Remedy: Balancing Realism and Aspiration." In International Human Rights Law: Six Decades after the UDHR and Beyond, edited by M. A. Baderin and M. Ssenyonjo, 477-98. Farnham, UK: Ashgate, 2010.
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Journal Articles

• "Ban the Box, Criminal Records, and Racial Discrimination: A Field Experiment." Amanda Agan, co-author. Q.J. Econ. 133, no. 1 (2018): 191-235.
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• "The Effect of Criminal Records on Access to Employment." A. Agan, co-author. Am. Econ. Rev. 107, no. 5 (2017): 560-64.
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• "The Odds of Justice: Actuarial Risk Prediction and the Criminal Justice System." Chance 29, no. 1 (2016): 49-51.
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• "Testing Racial Profiling: Empirical Assessment of Disparate Treatment by Police." U. Chi. Legal F. (2016): 485-531.
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• "Estimating Gender Disparities in Federal Criminal Cases." Am. L. & Econ. Rev. 17, no. 1 (2015): 127-59.
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• "Racial Disparity in Federal Criminal Sentences." M. M. Rehavi, co-author. J. Pol. Econ. 122, no. 6 (2014): 1320-54.
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• "Evidence-Based Sentencing and the Scientific Rationalization of Discrimination." Stan. L. Rev. 66, no. 4 (2014): 803-72.
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• "On the Role of Cost-Benefit Analysis in Criminal Justice Policy: A Response to The Imprisoner's Dilemma." Iowa L. Rev. Bull. 98 (2013): 97-111.
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• "On Estimating Disparity and Inferring Causation: Sur-Reply to the U.S. Sentencing Commission Staff." M. M. Rehavi, co-author. Yale L.J. Online 123 (2013): 273-95.
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• "Mandatory Sentencing and Racial Disparity, Assessing the Role of Prosecutors and the Effects of Booker." M. M. Rehavi, co-author. Yale L.J. 123, no. 1 (2013): 2-80.
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• "Did Booker Increase Sentencing Disparity?" Fed. Sent'g Rep. 25, no. 5 (2013): 323-6.
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• "Sentence Reduction as a Remedy for Prosecutorial Misconduct." Geo. L.J. 97, no. 6 (2009): 1509-66.
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• "Ensuring Defense Counsel Competence at International Criminal Tribunals." UCLA J. Int'l L. & Foreign Aff. 14, no. 1 (2009): 169-206.
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• "Using Sentencing to Clean Up Criminal Procedure Incorporating Remedial Sentence Reduction into Federal Sentencing Law." Fed. Sent'g Rep. 21, no. 1 (2008): 29-36. (Work published when author not on Michigan Law faculty.)
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• "Rethinking 'Effective Remedies': Remedial Deterrenece in International Courts." NYU L. Rev. 83, no. 3 (2008): 693-768. (Work published when author not on Michigan Law faculty.)
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• "Extraordinary Crimes at Ordinary Times International Justice Beyond Crisis Situations." Nw. U. L. Rev. 101, no. 3 (2007): 1257-314. (Work published when author not on Michigan Law faculty.)
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• "Improving Criminal Jury Decision Making after the Blakely Revolution." J. J. Prescott, co-author. U. Ill. L. Rev. 2006, no. 2 (2006): 301-56. (Work published when author not on Michigan Law faculty.)
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• "Family Separation as a Violation of International Law." L. Brilmayer, co-author. Berkeley J. Int'l L. 21, no. 2 (2003): 213-87. (Work published when author not on Michigan Law faculty.)
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• "Simple Fairness: Ending Discrimination in Health Insurance Coverage of Addiction Treatment." Yale L.J. 111, no. 8 (2002): 2321-65. (Work published when author not on Michigan Law faculty.)
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Works in Progress & Working Papers

• Explaining Race Gaps in Policing: Normative and Empirical Challenges. University of Michigan Law & Economics Research Paper No.15-003. Working Paper.
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