Conferences
Governing Deep Differences Reading Workshop: July 27 - 29, 2023
Designing New International Institutional Frameworks - A Focus on the Global Fisheries Commons: June 15 - 16, 2023
Restoring Mine-Impaired Watersheds: Experiences, Lessons, and Next Steps: September 26, 2022
Negotiating Difference and Pluralism in the Way Ahead: A Conference on Afghanistan: April 25 - 26, 2023
Seminar Series
Future of Law in Technology and Governance Series
Texting, Texting: The Effect of Text Messages On Voting, Volunteering, and Giving: October 5, 2023
Researcher Access to Social Media Data: Lessons from Clinical Trial Data Sharing: September 21, 2023
Governing Smart Cities as Knowledge Commons: April 12, 2023
Introduction to AI Ethics: April 15, 2023
Artificial Justice: March 23, 2023
Judging the Black Box: AI and Administrative Law: February 16, 2023
Data Privacy and Security Concerns after Roe v. Wade: January 26, 2023
Computational Entities for Regular People: January 19, 2023
Embodied Narratives: Protecting Identity Interests through Ethical Governance of Bioinformation: December 1, 2022
Can Blockchain Solve the Dilemma in the Ethics of Genomic Biobanks?: November 10, 2022
Modeling the Caselaw Access Project: October 27, 2022
Algorithmic Cartels: September 15, 2022
The Fight for Privacy: Protecting Dignity, Identity, and Love in the Digital Age: May 5, 2022
The Surveillant University: March 3, 2022
Every Rotten Idea Since Adam: How ERISA Reform Made Modern Venture Capital: January 20, 2022
The Institutional Grammar Research Initiative, Institutional Grammar 2.0: A specification for encoding and analyzing institutional design: December 9, 2021
Coding the Code: Catala and Computationally Accessible Tax Law: November 4, 2021
NFTs, Digital Scarcity, and the Computational Aura: October 7, 2021
To What End? On Infrastructural Governance: March 4, 2021
Competing Algorithms for Law: Sentencing, Admissions, and Employment: January 21, 2021
Using Information Privacy Standards to Build Governance Markets: March 30, 2023
The Reasonable Robot: Artificial Intelligence and the Law: September 9, 2021
Information Privacy and the Inference Economy: April 7, 2022
Voices from Afghanistan
Turkish Foreign Policy towards Afghanistan during the Justice and Development Party Era: May 18, 2023
Book Talk: Patriarchal Hierarchy; Market Capitalism and Production in Afghanistan: April 18, 2023
Taxation and State-Building in Afghanistan: A Political Economy Perspective (2001-2021): March 20, 2023
The Constitution and Laws of the Taliban 1994-2001: Understanding the Taliban’s Philosophy of Governance: January 20, 2023
The Balkh School of Islamic Thought: An Approach Towards Pluralist Coexistence for the Muslim World: November 30, 2022
Afghanistan One Year Later: The Economics of a Collapsed State: November 16, 2022
Afghanistan One Year Later: Human Rights and Civil Society under Taliban Rule: October 26, 2022
Dysfunctional Centralization and Growing Fragility Under Taliban Rule: October 12, 2022
Uses and Abuses of Prediction Seminar Series
How Generative AI Predicts the Next Word: April 19, 2023
Automating Early Warning: The Possibilities and Limits of Predicting Conflict: March 28, 2023
Predicting Well-Being in the Real-World and Real-Time: Possibilities and Challenges: January 31, 2023
Algorithms in Criminal Justice: December 8, 2022
The Art and Science of Election Polling: October 18, 2022
Expertise and Bad Predictions: How Can We Do Better?: September 13, 2022
Past, Present, and Future of Cities
Redlined Forever: The Racist Past of Today's Land Use Regulations: March 17, 2022
The Contingency of Neighbourhood Diversity: March 24, 2022
Reclaiming Local Control: School Finance Reforms and Housing Supply Restrictions: April 14, 2022
How can state governments support healthier housing markets?: April 21, 2022
Coexistence in Pluralistic Societies
Doing Global Fieldwork: A Social Scientist's Guide to Mixed-Methods Research Far from Home: May 11, 2021
Possessive Individualism: A Crisis of Capitalism: March 23, 2021
The Socio-Historical Conditions of Sharing Sacred Sites: Reflections on Contemporary Cases Across the Mediterranean: March 11, 2021
Community and Belonging in Fracturing Societies: February 9, 2021
Unassailable Ideas How Unwritten Rules and Social Media Shape Discourse in American Higher Education: January 15, 2021
Networked Governance: How Can We Govern Ourselves Digitally?
Internal Roundtable: How Might We Govern Ourselves Digitally?: November 4, 2020
Governance in Digitalized Electricity Systems: The Economics of Transactive Energy: October 28, 2020
The Rule of Code: Challenges in Regulating Decentralized Blockchain-based Systems: October 23, 2020
The Competitive Governance of Units of Account in the 21st Century: October 14, 2020
The Siren Song: Algorithmic Governance By Blockchain: October 7, 2020
Admins, Mods, and Benevolent Dictators for Life: The Implicit Feudalism of Online Communities: October 2, 2020
Capitalism after Satoshi: On the Economic Organization of a Digital Economy: September 30, 2020
Digital Decentralisation by Design: Escaping the Paradox of Power: September 23, 2020
Is Bitcoin a Decentralized Payment Mechanism?: September 16, 2020
Smart Contracts, Transaction Costs, and Decentralized Work: October 30, 2020
Economics of Race and Identity
Indigenous Nations and the Development of the US Economy: November 18, 2020
Misdemeanor Prosecution: November 10, 2020
Racial and Ethnic Disparities: Essential Workers, Mental Health, and the Coronavirus Pandemic: November 6, 2020
A New Institutional History of Allotment: Evidence from the Pine Ridge Reservation, 1904-1934: November 4, 2020
The Political Economy of Status Competition: Sumptuary Laws in Preindustrial Europe: October 28, 2020
Racial Diversity, Electoral Preferences, and the Supply of Policy: The Great Migration and Civil Rights: October 21, 2020
Going the Extra Mile: the Cost of Complaint Filing, Accountability, and Law Enforcement Outcomes in Chicago: October 14, 2020
Islam and the State: Religious Education in the Age of Mass Schooling: October 7, 2020
Land Use Regulation and Individual Welfare: September 30, 2020
The Incubated Revolution: Education, Cohort Effects, and the Linguistic Wage Gap in Quebec, 1970 to 2000: September 23, 2020
Property Rights without Transfer Rights: A Study of Indian Land Allotment: September 16, 2020
Policing and Police Reform in the United States
Policing and Political Participation: November 17, 2020
Uncontrollable Blackness: African American Men and Criminality in Jim Crow New York: November 16, 2020
Misdemeanor Prosecution: November 10, 2020
Watched, Stopped, and Handcuffed: The Effects of Direct and Indirect Police Contact on the Health of Black Women: November 3, 2020
A City Divided: Race, Fear, and the Law in Police Confrontations: October 27, 2020
The Law and Economics of Crime on Indian Reservations: October 20, 2020
Going the Extra Mile: the Cost of Complaint Filing, Accountability, and Law Enforcement Outcomes in Chicago: October 14, 2020
Presumed Criminal: Black Youth and the Justice System in Postwar New York: October 13, 2020
Preying on the Poor: Criminal Justice as Revenue Racket: October 6, 2020
Roundtable on Police Reform in Pittsburgh: October 2, 2020
Lessons from the Prison Education Project: September 29, 2020
Injustice for All: How Financial Incentives Corrupted and Can Fix the US Criminal Justice System: September 22, 2020
Conversations & Workshops
Book Talk: Solving Social Dilemmas: May 2
A Year of Resilience in Ukraine: April 17
Governing Smart Cities as Knowledge Commons: April 12
Taxation and State-Building in Afghanistan: A Political Economy Perspective (2001-2021): March 20, 2023
The Ethics & Regulation of Generative AI: February 27, 2023
Future-Proofing the US-European Relationship: February 23, 2023
What Makes Ukraine Resilient in an Asymmetric War? A Survey of Local Governments’ Emergency Responses: February 15, 2023
Russia's War on Ukraine: Implications for Security in the Black Sea Region and Europe: February 9, 2023
The Problem of Democracy: America, the Middle East, and the Rise and Fall of an Idea: January 18, 2023
Navigating Differences in an Age of Toxic Polarization with Sharif Azami: November 15, 2022
Everyday Choices: The Role of Competing Authorities and Institutions in Politics and Development: November 14, 2022
Can Blockchain Solve the Dilemma in the Ethics of Genomic Biobanks?: November 12, 2022
Restoring Mine-Impaired Watersheds: Experiences, Lessons, and Next Steps: September 26, 2022
Mohamad Machine-Chian: Unrest in Iran: September 28, 2022
Ukrainian Independence and the Future of the World: September 21, 2022
War in Ukraine: Voices From Kyiv: February 25, 2022
Haroun Rahimi: Afghanistan's Informal Economy: October 28, 2021
Francis Fukuyama and Tymofiy Mylovanov: Reform in Ukraine: Is There a Way Forward?: October 16, 2020
Governance Reform in Kazakhstan: What to Expect Next?: October 16, 2020
The Issues the Candidates Aren't Discussing: Governance Reform: September 28, 2020
Overcoming Governance Challenges and Partisan Divides: September 16, 2020
The Plight of the Uyghur Muslims in China: September 2, 2020
Belarus on the Brink? Domestic and Global Dimensions: August 24, 2020
Policy and Political Economy Workshop: Spring 2020