D. James Greiner

Harvard University - Center on the Legal Profession

Assistant Professor

1585 Massachusetts Avenue

Wasserstein Hall, Suite 5018

Cambridge, MA 02138

United States

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Randomized Evaluation in Legal Assistance: What Difference Does Representation (Offer and Actual Use) Make?

Yale Law Journal, Vol. 121, 2011
Number of pages: 82 Posted: 14 Nov 2010 Last Revised: 06 Nov 2013
D. James Greiner and Cassandra Wolos Pattanayak
Harvard University - Center on the Legal Profession and Harvard University - Department of Statistics
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Legal Representation, Legal Aid, Legal Services, Litigation, Lawyer Effects, Randomized Control Trial, Selection Effects

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Can Voter ID Laws Be Administered in a Race-Neutral Manner? Evidence from the City of Boston in 2008

Quarterly Journal of Political Science, Vol. 7, No 1, pp 1-33
Number of pages: 34 Posted: 14 Jun 2010 Last Revised: 10 Dec 2014
Rachael V. Cobb, D. James Greiner and Kevin M. Quinn
Suffolk University - Department of Government, Harvard University - Center on the Legal Profession and Emory University School of Law
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Voter ID, exit poll, multiple imputation, Bayesian hierarchical modeling, voting rights law

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Self-Help, Reimagined

Indiana Law Journal, Vol. 92, No. 3, 2017
Number of pages: 56 Posted: 21 Jul 2015 Last Revised: 04 Nov 2018
D. James Greiner, Dalié Jiménez and Lois R. Lupica
Harvard University - Center on the Legal Profession, University of California, Irvine School of Law and University of Maine School of Law
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access to justice, low income, pro se, self-help, financial distress, debt collection, adult education

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The Limits of Unbundled Legal Assistance: A Randomized Study in a Massachusetts District Court and Prospects for the Future

D. James Greiner, Cassandra Wolos Pattanayak, & Jonathan Hennesy, The Limits of Unbundled Legal Assistance: A Randomized Study in a Massachusetts District Court And Prosects for the Future, 126 Harv. L. Rev. 901 (2013)
Number of pages: 89 Posted: 24 Oct 2011 Last Revised: 13 Mar 2023
D. James Greiner, Cassandra Wolos Pattanayak and Jonathan Philip Hennessy
Harvard University - Center on the Legal Profession, Harvard University - Department of Statistics and Harvard University - Department of Statistics
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randomized control trial, limited legal assistance, unbundled legal assistance, summary eviction, housing, civil Gideon, effect of representation

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Randomized Control Trials in the United States Legal Profession

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Randomized Control Trials in the United States Legal Profession

Harvard Public Law Working Paper No. 16-06
Number of pages: 17 Posted: 03 Feb 2016 Last Revised: 16 Mar 2016
D. James Greiner and Andrea Matthews
Harvard University - Center on the Legal Profession and Harvard Law School
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empirical legal studies, randomized control trials, law

Randomized Control Trials in the United States Legal Profession

Annual Review of Law and Social Science, Vol. 12, pp. 295-312, 2016
Posted: 18 Nov 2016
D. James Greiner and Andrea Matthews
Harvard University - Center on the Legal Profession and Harvard Law School

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Trapped in Marriage

Number of pages: 47 Posted: 28 Nov 2018
Ellen Degnan, Thomas Ferriss, D. James Greiner and Roseanna Sommers
Southern Poverty Law Center, Google Inc., Harvard University - Center on the Legal Profession and University of Michigan Law School
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randomized control trial, randomized experiment, RCT, divorce, family law, pro bono, legal services, access to justice

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The Problem of Default, Part I

Number of pages: 44 Posted: 24 Jun 2015
D. James Greiner and Andrea Matthews
Harvard University - Center on the Legal Profession and Harvard Law School
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Default, access to justice, randomized experiment, adult education

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Improving the Lives of Individuals in Financial Distress Using a Randomized Control Trial: A Research and Clinical Approach

Georgetown Journal on Poverty Law & Policy, Vol. 20, N. 3 (Spring 2013)
Number of pages: 29 Posted: 08 Feb 2013 Last Revised: 06 Nov 2013
Dalié Jiménez, D. James Greiner, Lois R. Lupica and Rebecca L. Sandefur
University of California, Irvine School of Law, Harvard University - Center on the Legal Profession, University of Maine School of Law and Arizona State University
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randomized control trial, RCT, debt collection, debt buyers, consumer law, bankruptcy, financial counseling, credit counseling, financial education, pro se, self-represented litigants, pro se materials, access to justice, empirical research, empirical methodology, clinical instruction

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What We Know and Need to Know About Outreach and Intake by Legal Services Providers

South Carolina Law Review, Vol. 67, 2016, HLS Center on the Legal Profession Research Paper No. 2016-3
Number of pages: 8 Posted: 19 May 2016 Last Revised: 12 Jul 2016
D. James Greiner
Harvard University - Center on the Legal Profession
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outreach, intake, legal services providers

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The Evolution of Unbundling in Litigation Matters: Three Case Studies and a Literature Review

Molly M. Jennings & D. James Greiner, The Evolution of Unbundling in Litigation Matters: Three Case Studies and a Literature Review, 89 Denv. U. L. Rev. 825 (2012)
Number of pages: 27 Posted: 11 Apr 2012 Last Revised: 03 Mar 2023
D. James Greiner and Molly Jennings
Harvard University - Center on the Legal Profession and Harvard University
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unbundled represenation, limited assistance representation

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Ecological Inference in Voting Rights Act Disputes: Where are We Now, and Where Do We Want to Be?

Jurimetrics, Vol. 47, 2007
Number of pages: 53 Posted: 17 Oct 2011
D. James Greiner
Harvard University - Center on the Legal Profession
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voting rights act, ecological inference, ecological regression, homogeneous precincts analysis, racial bloc voting

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Exit Polling and Racial Bloc Voting: Combining Individual-Level and R x C Ecological Data

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Exit Polling and Racial Bloc Voting: Combining Individual-Level and R x C Ecological Data

Harvard Public Law Working Paper No. 09-40, CELS 2009 4th Annual Conference on Empirical Legal Studies Paper
Number of pages: 33 Posted: 05 Jul 2009 Last Revised: 06 Nov 2013
D. James Greiner and Kevin M. Quinn
Harvard University - Center on the Legal Profession and Emory University School of Law
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racial bloc voting, ecological inference, Bayesian inference

Exit Polling and Racial Bloc Voting: Combining Individual-Level and R X C Ecological Data

Annals of Applied Statistics, Vol. 4, No. 4, pp. 1774-1796
Number of pages: 23 Posted: 17 Oct 2011
D. James Greiner and Kevin M. Quinn
Harvard University - Center on the Legal Profession and Emory University School of Law
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racial bloc voting, voting rights act, R x C, ecological inference, exit poll

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Causal Inference in Civil Rights Litigation

Harvard Law Review, Vol. 122, No. 2, p. 533, 2008
Number of pages: 66 Posted: 17 Oct 2011
D. James Greiner
Harvard University - Center on the Legal Profession
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civil rights litigation, potential outcomes framework, employment discrimination, death penalty, redistricting

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Criminal Justice Record Clearing: An Analysis from Two States

Number of pages: 79 Posted: 06 Mar 2023
Matthew Stubenberg, Renee Danser and D. James Greiner
Harvard University - Access to Justice Lab, Harvard University - Access to Justice Lab and Harvard University - Center on the Legal Profession
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expungement, clean slate, web scraping, criminal record clearing

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Record-Clearing as a Rite of Passage To Engage in the Justice System

Number of pages: 12 Posted: 07 Mar 2023 Last Revised: 11 Apr 2023
D. James Greiner, Hannah Crowe and Renee Danser
Harvard University - Center on the Legal Profession, Independent and Harvard University - Access to Justice Lab
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expungement, criminal justice record clearing, clean slate, access to justice

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R x C Ecological Inference: Bounds, Correlations, Flexibility and Transparency of Assumptions

Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, Vol. 172, No. 1, pp. 67-81
Number of pages: 15 Posted: 17 Oct 2011
D. James Greiner and Kevin M. Quinn
Harvard University - Center on the Legal Profession and Emory University School of Law
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ecological inference, R x C, voting rights act, racial bloc voting

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The Quantitative Empirics of Redistricting Litigation: Knowledge, Threats to Knowledge, and the Need for Less Districting

Yale Law & Policy Review, Vol. 29, p. 527
Number of pages: 16 Posted: 17 Oct 2011
D. James Greiner
Harvard University - Center on the Legal Profession
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redistricting, quantitative methods, litigation

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Online Dispute Resolution of Low-Level Court Proceedings: Two Broken Field Experiments, One Unexpected Result

Number of pages: 27 Posted: 07 Mar 2023 Last Revised: 28 Jul 2023
Renee Danser, D. James Greiner, Andy Gu and Philip W. O’Sullivan
Harvard University - Access to Justice Lab, Harvard University - Center on the Legal Profession, Independent and Harvard University - Harvard Law School
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ODR, RCTs, reminder effects

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How Effective Are Limited Legal Assistance Programs? A Randomized Experiment in a Massachusetts Housing Court

Number of pages: 50 Posted: 08 Jul 2011 Last Revised: 03 Sep 2012
D. James Greiner, Cassandra Wolos Pattanayak and Jonathan Philip Hennessy
Harvard University - Center on the Legal Profession, Harvard University - Department of Statistics and Harvard University - Department of Statistics
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legal aid, limited legal assistance, randomized experiment, housing, summary eviction