This paper uses data from freelancer.com – an online platform that allows employers and freelancers to search for, and match with, each other – to study the effect of freelancers' country of origin on their likelihood to be hired. Having to rely on a relatively small number of...

To the extent that preferential racial policies are promoted and pursued in the United States, the liberal consensus among supporters dictates that they are to be pursued by the government, within the ambit of the law, whether instituted legislatively, administratively, or judicially, and in...

Do vulnerable individuals have real human rights? At the supranational level of the European Convention of Human Rights the question of the rights of individuals is inextricably linked to the corollary question of the state's obligations. General principles determining positive obligations of...

Judicial review of arbitration awards is highly deferential- but when does it become rubber stamping? Using original data, I find that federal courts vacated only 4.3 percent of 162 disputed awards. Nearly the same result was observed for a sub-sample of 44 employment discrimination awards under...

This article traces examples of state, local and federal governmental responses to natural disasters over the past 100 years in American history. From the prejudice and violence perpetuated against Chinese-Americans after the great 1906 Earthquake hit San Francisco, to the disparate treatment of...