Justin D. Levinson

Professor Levinson is a leader in the field of implicit bias and the law and an expert in psychological decision-making in the legal system.  His scholarship, which regularly employs experimental social science methodology, has appeared in the NYU Law Review, Yale Law Journal Forum, UCLA Law Review, and Duke Law Journal, among others, and has been cited by the United States Supreme Court.  Professor Levinson served as lead editor of Implicit Racial Bias Across the Law, a volume that was published by Cambridge University Press in 2012 (co-edited by Robert J. Smith).  He has lectured, taught courses, and trained audiences globally, including in Eastern and Western Europe, East and Southeast Asia, Australia, and the Middle East.

In 2008, Professor Levinson founded the Culture and Jury Project, an interdisciplinary and international research collaboration devoted to facilitating the study of human decision-making in the law.  He is currently collaborating with scholars in China, Japan, and Korea, as well as domestically in the United States.

Professor Levinson previously practiced corporate law at Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati in Palo Alto, California.  He has served as Visiting Assistant Professor at Beijing University, and as a Fellow at the Culture and Cognition Lab at UC Berkeley.  He regularly teaches Business Associations, Law and Psychology, Corporate Finance, High Growth Entrepreneurship, and has offered a seminar on Implicit Bias and the Law.

Books

• IMPLICIT RACIAL BIAS ACROSS THE LAW (Justin D. Levinson & Robert J. Smith, editors), Cambridge University Press (2012). Amazon | Synopsis at SSRN

Articles

• Race and Retribution:  An Empirical Study of Implicit Bias and Punishment in America, 53 U. C. Davis L. Rev. (2019, with Robert J. Smith & Koichi Hioki). HeinOnline | SSRN | ScholarSpace
• Systemic Implicit Bias, 126 Yale L. J. F. 406 (2017, with Robert J. Smith) HeinOnline | SSRN | ScholarSpace
• Diversity, Dialogue, and Deliberation: An Empirical Investigation of Age, Gender, and Meaningful Decision-Making in Korean Juries,  19 Asian-Pacific L. & Pol'y J. (with Jisuk Woo, 2017) HeinOnline | ScholarSpace

• Judging Federal White-Collar Fraud Sentencing: An Empirical Study Revealing the Need for Further Reform, 102 Iowa L. Rev. (2017, with Mark W. Bennett and Koichi Hioki) HeinOnline | SSRN | ScholarSpace

• Judging Implicit Bias: A National Empirical Study of Judicial Sterotypes, 69 Fla. L. Rev. (2017, with Mark W. Bennett and Koichi Hioki) HeinOnline | SSRN | ScholarSpace
• Implicit Bias in Hawai'i: An Empirical Study, 37 U. Haw. L. Rev. 429 (2015, with Koichi Hioki and Syugo Hotta).  HeinOnline
• Implicit White Favoritism in the Criminal Justice System, 66 Alabama L. Rev. 871 (2015, with Robert J. Smith & Zoe Robinson) HeinOnline | SSRN | ScholarSpace
• Devaluing Death:  An Empirical Study of Implicit Racial Bias on Jury-Eligible Citizens in Six Death Penalty States,  87 NYU L. Rev. (2014, with Robert Smith & Danielle Young). HeinOnline | SSRN | ScholarSpace
• Innocent until Primed: Mock Jurors' Racially Biased Response to the Presumption of Innocence (with Danielle M. Young & Scott Sinnett),10 Plos One 1371(2014). ScholarSpace
• Implicit Bias in the Courtroom, 59 UCLA L. Rev. 1125 (2012, with J. Kang, M. Bennett, D. Carbado, P. Casey, N. Dasgupta, D. Faigman, R. Godsil, A. G. Greenwald & J. Mnookin) HeinOnline | SSRN | ScholarSpace
• SuperBias: The Collision of Implicit Social Cognition and Behavioral Economics.  45 Akron L. Rev.  591 (2012). HeinOnline | SSRN | ScholarSpace
• The Impact of Implicit Racial Bias on the Exercise of Prosecutorial Discretion (with Robert J. Smith), 35 Seattle L. Rev. 795 (2012). HeinOnline | SSRN | ScholarSpace
• Implicit Gender Bias in the Legal Profession: An Empirical Study, 18 Duke J. Gender L. & Pol’y 1 (2010, with Danielle Young). HeinOnline | SSRN | ScholarSpace
• Guilty by Implicit Racial Bias: The Guilty/ Not Guilty Implicit Association Test, 8 Ohio St. J. Crim. L. 187 (2010, with Huajian Cai & Danielle Young). HeinOnline | SSRN | ScholarSpace
• Different Shades of Bias: Skin Tone, Implicit Racial Bias, and Judgments of Ambiguous Evidence, 112 W. Va. L. Rev. 307 (2010, with Danielle Young). HeinOnline | SSRN | ScholarSpace
• Race, Death and The Complicitous Mind, 58 DePaul L. Rev. 599 (2009). HeinOnline | SSRN | ScholarSpace
• Forgotten Racial Equality: Implicit Bias, Decision-Making and Misremembering, 57 Duke L.J. 345 (2007). HeinOnline | SSRN | ScholarSpace
• Valuing Cultural Differences in Behavioral Law and Economics, 5 ICFAI Journal of Behavioral Finance, 32 (2007, with Kaping Peng). SSRN | ScholarSpace
• Mentally Misguided: How State of Mind Inquiries Ignore Psychological Reality and Overlook Cultural Differences, 49 How. L. J. 1 (2005). HeinOnline | ScholarSpace
• Suppressing the Expression of Community Values in Juries: How 'Legal Priming' Systematically Alters the Way People Think, 73 U. Cin. L.Rev. 1059 (2005). HeinOnline | SSRN | ScholarSpace
• Different Torts for Differrent Cohorts: A Cultural Psychological Critique of Tort Law's Actual Cause and Foreseeability Inquiries, 13 So. Cal. Interdisc. L. J. 195 (2004, with Kaiping Peng). HeinOnline | ScholarSpace

Book Chapters

• Implicit Bias:  A Social Science Overview, in ENHANCING JUSTICE: REDUCING BIAS (with Danielle Young & Laurie Rudman) (Sarah Redfield, ed. 2017, ABA Press) (updated version of 2012 Chapter) ABA
• Biased Corporate Decision-Making? in IMPLICIT RACIAL BIAS ACROSS THE LAW (Justin D. Levinson & Robert J. Smith, editors), Cambridge University Press (2012). Amazon
• Implicit Racial Bias: A Social Science Overview (with Danielle Young & Laurie A. Rudman), in IMPLICIT RACIAL BIAS ACROSS THE LAW (Justin D. Levinson & Robert J. Smith, editors), Cambridge University Press (2012). Amazon
• Culture, Cognitions and Legal Decision-Making, in (R. Sorrentino & S. Yamaguchi, eds) Handbook of Motivation and Cognition Across Cultures. Elsevier Press (2008). Elsevier