Robert J. Smith

Harvard Law School (Fair Punishment Project, a joint initiative of the Charles Hamilton Houston Institute & Criminal Justice Institute)

Executive Director & Senior Research Fellow

Cambridge, MA

United States

  • Harvard Law School (Fair Punishment Project, a joint initiative of the Charles Hamilton Houston Institute & Criminal Justice Institute)

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1.

The Failure of Mitigation?

Hastings Law Journal, Vol. 65, 2014, UNC Legal Studies Research Paper No. 2446950
Number of pages: 35 Posted: 08 Jun 2014
Robert J. Smith, Sophie Cull and Zoe Robinson
Harvard Law School (Fair Punishment Project, a joint initiative of the Charles Hamilton Houston Institute & Criminal Justice Institute), Independent Researcher and Marquette University - Law School
Downloads 935 (54,459)
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The Geography of the Death Penalty and its Ramifications

Boston University Law Review, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 63 Posted: 23 Aug 2011 Last Revised: 13 Feb 2012
Robert J. Smith
Harvard Law School (Fair Punishment Project, a joint initiative of the Charles Hamilton Houston Institute & Criminal Justice Institute)
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The Impact of Implicit Racial Bias on the Exercise of Prosecutorial Discretion

Seattle University Law Review, Vol. 35, No. 795, 2012
Number of pages: 32 Posted: 25 Apr 2012
Robert J. Smith and Justin D. Levinson
Harvard Law School (Fair Punishment Project, a joint initiative of the Charles Hamilton Houston Institute & Criminal Justice Institute) and University of Hawaii at Manoa - William S. Richardson School of Law
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implicit racial bias, IAT, criminal justice, prosecutor, Brady

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Bias in the Shadows of Criminal Law: The Problem of Implicit White Favoritism

Alabama Law Review, Vol. 66, 2015, UNC Legal Studies Research Paper No. 2385415
Number of pages: 53 Posted: 27 Jan 2014 Last Revised: 17 Jun 2017
Robert J. Smith, Justin D. Levinson and Zoe Robinson
Harvard Law School (Fair Punishment Project, a joint initiative of the Charles Hamilton Houston Institute & Criminal Justice Institute), University of Hawaii at Manoa - William S. Richardson School of Law and Marquette University - Law School
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criminal law, criminal procedure, implicit racial bias, implicit white favoritism

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The Racial Geography of the Federal Death Penalty

Washington Law Review, Vol. 85, p. 425, 2010
Number of pages: 68 Posted: 22 Jan 2010 Last Revised: 21 Mar 2011
G. Ben Cohen and Robert J. Smith
University of Akron - School of Law and Harvard Law School (Fair Punishment Project, a joint initiative of the Charles Hamilton Houston Institute & Criminal Justice Institute)
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Implicit Racial Bias Across the Law (Book Synopsis)

Justin D. Levinson and Robert J. Smith (eds), IMPLICIT RACIAL BIAS ACROSS THE LAW, Cambridge University Press (May 2012), University of Hawai’i Richardson School of Law Research Paper No. 2045319
Number of pages: 3 Posted: 26 Apr 2012 Last Revised: 09 Jan 2020
Justin D. Levinson, Robert J. Smith, Jerry Kang, Michelle Wilde Anderson, Victoria Plaut, Danielle Young, Dorothy A. Brown, Rachel D. Godsil, Charles Ogletree, Charles R. Lawrence, Deana Pollard Sacks, Melissa Hart, Michele Goodwin, Naomi Duke, Danielle M. Conway, Susan K. Serrano, Eric K. Yamamoto, Nancy Gertner and G. Ben Cohen
University of Hawaii at Manoa - William S. Richardson School of Law, Harvard Law School (Fair Punishment Project, a joint initiative of the Charles Hamilton Houston Institute & Criminal Justice Institute), University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) - School of Law, Stanford Law School, University of California, Berkeley - School of Law, University of Hawaii at Manoa - Department of Psychology, Emory University School of Law, Rutgers Law School, Harvard Law School, University of Hawaii at Manoa - William S. Richardson School of Law, Sacks Law Firm, University of Colorado Law School, Georgetown University Law Center, University of Minnesota - Twin Cities, Penn State Dickinson Law, University of Hawaii at Manoa - William S. Richardson School of Law, University of Hawaii at Manoa - William S. Richardson School of Law, Harvard Law School and University of Akron - School of Law
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Implicit Racial Bias, Corporations, Criminal Law, Torts, Property, Cyber, Tax, Federal Indian, Intellectual Property, Capital Punishment, Reparations, Employment, Health, Education, Communications, Environmental

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Devaluing Death: An Empirical Study of Implicit Racial Bias on Jury-Eligible Citizens in Six Death Penalty States

New York University Law Review, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 65 Posted: 10 Aug 2013
Justin D. Levinson, Robert J. Smith and Danielle Young
University of Hawaii at Manoa - William S. Richardson School of Law, Harvard Law School (Fair Punishment Project, a joint initiative of the Charles Hamilton Houston Institute & Criminal Justice Institute) and University of Hawaii at Manoa - Department of Psychology
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implicit racial bias, race of victim effect, death penalty, capital punishment, racial disparities, empirical study

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Struck by Lightning: Walker v. Georgia and Louisiana's Proportionality Review of Death Sentences

Southern University Law Review, Forthcoming 2010
Number of pages: 33 Posted: 22 Jan 2009 Last Revised: 03 Mar 2010
Bidish Sarma, Robert J. Smith and G. Ben Cohen
Loyola University New Orleans, Harvard Law School (Fair Punishment Project, a joint initiative of the Charles Hamilton Houston Institute & Criminal Justice Institute) and University of Akron - School of Law
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Death Penalty, Walker v. Georgia, Louisiana Supreme Court, Proportionality Review

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Race and Retribution: An Empirical Study of Implicit Bias and Punishment in America

UC Davis Law Review, Vol. 53, 2019, University of Hawai’i Richardson School of Law Research Paper No. 3516378
Number of pages: 53 Posted: 13 Jan 2020
Justin D. Levinson, Robert J. Smith and Koichi Hioki
University of Hawaii at Manoa - William S. Richardson School of Law, Harvard Law School (Fair Punishment Project, a joint initiative of the Charles Hamilton Houston Institute & Criminal Justice Institute) and Kobe University - Graduate School of Business Administration
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implicit bias, retribution, criminal law, death penalty, death qualification, implicit racial bias, jury decision-making

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Redemption Song: Graham v. Florida and the Evolving Eighth Amendment Jurisprudence

Michigan Law Review First Impressions, Vol. 108, p. 86, 2010
Number of pages: 9 Posted: 23 Mar 2011
Robert J. Smith and G. Ben Cohen
Harvard Law School (Fair Punishment Project, a joint initiative of the Charles Hamilton Houston Institute & Criminal Justice Institute) and University of Akron - School of Law
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graham, juvenile, lwop, death penalty, eighth amendment, evolving standards of decency

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State Constitutionalism and the Crisis of Excessive Punishment

Iowa Law Review, Forthcoming, U Iowa Legal Studies Research Paper No. 2022-38
Number of pages: 71 Posted: 23 Sep 2022 Last Revised: 10 Nov 2022
Robert J. Smith, Zoe Robinson and Emily Hughes
Harvard Law School (Fair Punishment Project, a joint initiative of the Charles Hamilton Houston Institute & Criminal Justice Institute), Marquette University - Law School and University of Iowa - College of Law
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state constitutionalism, excessive punishment, Eighth Amendment, constitutional law, criminal procedure, punishment, liberty

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The Death of Death-Qualification

Case Western Reserve Law Review, Vol. 59, No. 87, 2008
Number of pages: 39 Posted: 18 Aug 2009 Last Revised: 10 Aug 2010
G. Ben Cohen and Robert J. Smith
University of Akron - School of Law and Harvard Law School (Fair Punishment Project, a joint initiative of the Charles Hamilton Houston Institute & Criminal Justice Institute)
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death penalty, voir dire, witherspoon, death qualification

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Constitutional Liberty and the Progression of Punishment

Cornell Law Review, Vol. 102, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 77 Posted: 28 Oct 2016
Robert J. Smith and Zoe Robinson
Harvard Law School (Fair Punishment Project, a joint initiative of the Charles Hamilton Houston Institute & Criminal Justice Institute) and Marquette University - Law School
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Eighth Amendment, Constitutional Law, Constitutional Theory, Constitutional Rights, Criminal Law, Criminal Procedure, Punishment, Marriage, Fourteenth Amendment

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Recalibrating Constitutional Innocence Protection

Washington Law Review, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 66 Posted: 20 Sep 2011 Last Revised: 24 Apr 2012
Robert J. Smith
Harvard Law School (Fair Punishment Project, a joint initiative of the Charles Hamilton Houston Institute & Criminal Justice Institute)
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How and Why Race Continues to Influence the Administration of Criminal Justice in Louisiana

Louisiana Law Review, Vol. 72, p. 361, 2012
Number of pages: 47 Posted: 15 Feb 2012
Robert J. Smith and Bidish Sarma
Harvard Law School (Fair Punishment Project, a joint initiative of the Charles Hamilton Houston Institute & Criminal Justice Institute) and Loyola University New Orleans
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race, criminal justice, criminal law, criminal procedure, Louisiana, Batson, Witherspoon, Death Qualification, discrimination, Louisiana Supreme Court, death penalty

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The Way the Court Gauges Consensus (and How to Do it Better)

Cardozo Law Review, Vol. 35, No. 6, 2014
Number of pages: 56 Posted: 08 Mar 2016
Robert J. Smith, Bidish Sarma and Sophie Cull
Harvard Law School (Fair Punishment Project, a joint initiative of the Charles Hamilton Houston Institute & Criminal Justice Institute), Loyola University New Orleans and Independent Researcher
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Supreme Court, Eighth Amendment, National Consensus, Death Penalty

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A Cold Day in Apprendi-Land: Oregon v. Ice Brings Unknown Forecast for Apprendi’s Continued Vitality in the Capital Sentencing Context

Harvard Law & Policy Review, Vol. 3, April 24, 2009
Number of pages: 9 Posted: 26 Aug 2009 Last Revised: 30 Sep 2009
G. Ben Cohen, Bidish Sarma and Robert J. Smith
University of Akron - School of Law, Loyola University New Orleans and Harvard Law School (Fair Punishment Project, a joint initiative of the Charles Hamilton Houston Institute & Criminal Justice Institute)
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Interrogations and the Guiding Hand of Counsel: Montejo, Ventris, and the Sixth Amendment's Continued Vitality

Northwestern University Law Review (Colloquy), Vol. 103, p. 456, 2009
Number of pages: 8 Posted: 26 Aug 2009 Last Revised: 01 Oct 2009
G. Ben Cohen, Bidish Sarma and Robert J. Smith
University of Akron - School of Law, Loyola University New Orleans and Harvard Law School (Fair Punishment Project, a joint initiative of the Charles Hamilton Houston Institute & Criminal Justice Institute)
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right to counsel, counsel, Sixth Amendment

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Systemic Implicit Bias

126 Yale L.J. F. 406 (2017)
Posted: 19 Jun 2017
Justin D. Levinson and Robert J. Smith
University of Hawaii at Manoa - William S. Richardson School of Law and Harvard Law School (Fair Punishment Project, a joint initiative of the Charles Hamilton Houston Institute & Criminal Justice Institute)

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Coloring Punishment: Implicit Social Cognition and Criminal Justice (Chapter Synopsis)

Justin D. Levinson and Robert J. Smith (eds), IMPLICIT RACIAL BIAS ACROSS THE LAW, Cambridge University Press (May 2012)
Posted: 05 May 2012
Robert J. Smith, Charles Ogletree and Johanna Wald
Harvard Law School (Fair Punishment Project, a joint initiative of the Charles Hamilton Houston Institute & Criminal Justice Institute), Harvard Law School and affiliation not provided to SSRN

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Criminal Law, Criminal Justice, Incarceration, Sentencing, Race, Racial

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Choosing Life or Death (Implicitly): Chapter Synopsis

Justin D. Levinson and Robert J. Smith (eds), IMPLICIT RACIAL BIAS ACROSS THE LAW, Cambridge University Press (May 2012)
Posted: 05 May 2012
Robert J. Smith and G. Ben Cohen
Harvard Law School (Fair Punishment Project, a joint initiative of the Charles Hamilton Houston Institute & Criminal Justice Institute) and University of Akron - School of Law

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Criminal, Criminal Justice, Criminal Law, Capital Punishment, Death Penalty, Execution, Race