While research continues to investigate and improve the accuracy, fairness, normative appropriateness of content moderation processes on large social media platforms, even best process cannot be effective if users reject its authority as illegitimate. We present a survey experiment comparing perceived institutional legitimacy four popular processes. conducted within-subjects in which we showed ...

Race, Rationality, and Religion, and the US Jury in Civil Cases: What Does Love Have to Do With It? By Paul J. Zwier (An Essay for the Nootbaar Conference, Draft, Not for Citation March 9, 2017)1 The United States is the sole remaining common law jurisdiction that provides parties with the right to have facts in dispute in civil cases determined by a jury.2 This paper considers whether a religi...

The relationship between race and jury decision making is a controversial topic that has received increased attention in recent years. While public and media discourse has focused on anecdotal evidence in the form of high-profile cases, legal researchers have considered a wide range of empirical questions including: To what extent does the race of a defendant affect the verdict tendencies of ju...