Shima Baradaran Baughman

Brigham Young University - J. Reuben Clark Law School

Woodruff J. Deem Professor of Law and Distinguished Fellow, Wheatley Institute

430 JRCB

Brigham Young University

Provo, UT 84602

United States

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1.

How Effective Are Police? The Problem of Clearance Rates and Criminal Accountability

72 Ala. L. Rev. 47 (2020), University of Utah College of Law Research Paper No. 362
Number of pages: 84 Posted: 02 Apr 2020 Last Revised: 23 Feb 2021
Shima Baradaran Baughman
Brigham Young University - J. Reuben Clark Law School
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police, policing, crime clearance, criminal accountability

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Restoring the Presumption of Innocence

Ohio State Law Journal, Vol. 72, No. 4, 2011
Number of pages: 59 Posted: 08 Feb 2011 Last Revised: 21 Mar 2012
Shima Baradaran Baughman
Brigham Young University - J. Reuben Clark Law School
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Pretrial detention, bail, presumption of innocence, criminal justice, crime, due process clause, fourth amendment, criminal procedure, criminal law, history, defendant

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Fair Trade and Child Labor

Columbia Human Rights Law Review, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 63 Posted: 27 Apr 2011 Last Revised: 16 Sep 2013
Shima Baradaran Baughman and Stephanie H. Barclay
Brigham Young University - J. Reuben Clark Law School and Notre Dame Law School
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child labor, fair trade, human trafficking, global economy, prosecution, child trafficking, employee rights, law, malawi, private monitoring, international monitoring, trade sanction, boycott, human rights

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Predicting Violence

Texas Law Review, Vol. 90, p. 497, 2012
Number of pages: 74 Posted: 07 Feb 2011 Last Revised: 02 Apr 2020
Shima Baradaran Baughman and Frank McIntyre
Brigham Young University - J. Reuben Clark Law School and Amazon.com
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Crime and the Mythology of Police

99 Wash. U. L. Rev. 65 (2021), University of Utah College of Law Research Paper No. 422
Number of pages: 79 Posted: 05 Mar 2021 Last Revised: 11 Feb 2022
Shima Baradaran Baughman
Brigham Young University - J. Reuben Clark Law School
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police, law, crime, reform, marginalization, instrumentalist, abolition, function, investigation, clearance, solve, myth, mythology, policing, expectation, public safety, security, police reform, mass incarceration, victim, communities of color, structural dissonance

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Funding Terror

University of Pennsylvania Law Review, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 60 Posted: 11 Mar 2013 Last Revised: 25 Mar 2014
Shima Baradaran Baughman, Michael Findley, Daniel L. Nielson and J. C. Sharman
Brigham Young University - J. Reuben Clark Law School , University of Texas at Austin, Brigham Young University and Griffith University
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terrorism, war on terror, terrorism financing, shell company, anonymous, randomized controlled trial, money laundering, corruption, charity, FATF, UNOTC

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Does International Law Matter?

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Does International Law Matter?

97 Minnesota Law Review 743 (2013)
Number of pages: 95 Posted: 08 Feb 2013
Shima Baradaran Baughman, Michael Findley, Daniel L. Nielson and J. C. Sharman
Brigham Young University - J. Reuben Clark Law School , University of Texas at Austin, Brigham Young University and Griffith University
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International law, randomized controlled trial, global field experiment, constructivism, rationalism, managerial theory, penalty, international alw, compliance, norms, shell companies, incorporation transparency, financial action task force, FATF, OECD, tax haven, terrorism, corruption

Does International Law Matter?

Number of pages: 83 Posted: 02 Jul 2012
Shima Baradaran Baughman, Michael Findley, Daniel L. Nielson and J. C. Sharman
Brigham Young University - J. Reuben Clark Law School , Brigham Young University - Department of Political Science, Brigham Young University and Griffith University
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international relations theory, rationalism, constructivism, randomized controlled trial, empirical, audit, field experiment

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Inside the Black Box of Prosecutor Discretion

55 UC Davis Law Review 2133 (2022), Penn State Law Research Paper No. 19-2021, University of Utah College of Law Research Paper No. 459
Number of pages: 76 Posted: 28 Jul 2021 Last Revised: 27 Apr 2022
Megan S. Wright, Shima Baradaran Baughman and Christopher T. Robertson
The Pennsylvania State University (University Park) – Penn State Law, Brigham Young University - J. Reuben Clark Law School and Boston University
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prosecutors, charging, crime, sentencing, discretion, empirical legal studies, mass incarceration, prison, decision making

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Drugs and Violence

88 USC Law Review 227 (2015), University of Utah College of Law Research Paper No. 75
Number of pages: 72 Posted: 01 Apr 2014 Last Revised: 04 Nov 2015
Shima Baradaran Baughman
Brigham Young University - J. Reuben Clark Law School
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drugs, drug policy, violence, violent crime, America, criminal justice, empirical evidence, media, social science, sentencing, prisons, mass incarceration, war on drugs, crime, arrest

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Costs of Pretrial Detention

Boston University Law Review, Vol 97(1) 2017, University of Utah College of Law Research Paper No. 160
Number of pages: 30 Posted: 01 Apr 2016 Last Revised: 11 May 2017
Shima Baradaran Baughman
Brigham Young University - J. Reuben Clark Law School
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Prosecutors and Mass Incarceration

Southern California Law Review, Forthcoming, University of Utah College of Law Research Paper No. 392, Penn State Law Research Paper No. 20-2021
Number of pages: 65 Posted: 11 Sep 2020 Last Revised: 24 Aug 2021
Shima Baradaran Baughman and Megan S. Wright
Brigham Young University - J. Reuben Clark Law School and The Pennsylvania State University (University Park) – Penn State Law
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prosecutors; mass incarceration; charging; crime; supreme court; police; arrest; sentencing; prison; randomized controlled trial

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Race, Prediction & Discretion

81 George Washington Law Review 157 (2013)
Number of pages: 66 Posted: 05 Apr 2012 Last Revised: 03 Feb 2013
Shima Baradaran Baughman
Brigham Young University - J. Reuben Clark Law School
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race, prediction, judges, police, bias, prejudice, criminal justice, incarceration, violent crime, drug crime, war on drugs, black, racism

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The Presumption of Innocence and Pretrial Detention in Malawi

Malawi Law Journal, Vol. 4, No. 1, p. 124, 2010
Number of pages: 18 Posted: 24 Oct 2010 Last Revised: 30 Nov 2010
Shima Baradaran Baughman
Brigham Young University - J. Reuben Clark Law School
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Malawi, Bail, Pretrial Crime, Constitution, Presumption, Innocence, Defendant

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The State of Pretrial Detention

THE STATE OF CRIMINAL JUSTICE, American Bar Association, 2011
Number of pages: 7 Posted: 27 Oct 2011 Last Revised: 22 Mar 2012
Shima Baradaran Baughman
Brigham Young University - J. Reuben Clark Law School
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pretrial detention, bail, pretrial release, bail reform, predictive justice, trial, criminal defendant, presumption of innocence, dangerousness, danger

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Race, Prediction, and Pretrial Detention

7th Annual Conference on Empirical Legal Studies Paper
Number of pages: 41 Posted: 23 Jan 2012 Last Revised: 10 Jul 2012
Frank McIntyre and Shima Baradaran Baughman
Amazon.com and Brigham Young University - J. Reuben Clark Law School
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race, pretrial detention, bail, judge behavior

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The Presumption of Punishment

8 Criminal Law & Philosophy 391 (2014)
Number of pages: 16 Posted: 22 Dec 2012 Last Revised: 24 Apr 2020
Shima Baradaran Baughman
Brigham Young University - J. Reuben Clark Law School
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Due process, Fifth Amendment, Sixth Amendment, jury trial, presumption of innocence, sentencing, Magna Carta, detention, trial, judges, guilt, prison

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Race and Class: A Randomized Experiment with Prosecutors

16 Journal of Empirical Legal Studies 807 (2019), Arizona Legal Studies Discussion Paper No. 19-26
Number of pages: 37 Posted: 30 Jun 2018 Last Revised: 03 Sep 2021
Christopher T. Robertson, Shima Baradaran Baughman and Megan S. Wright
Boston University, Brigham Young University - J. Reuben Clark Law School and The Pennsylvania State University (University Park) – Penn State Law
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prosecutors, race, class bias, criminal justice, experiment

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The Bail Book: A Comprehensive Look at Bail in America's Criminal Justice System - Introduction

Cambridge University Press (2017), University of Utah College of Law Research Paper No. 266
Number of pages: 17 Posted: 21 Jun 2018 Last Revised: 17 Jul 2018
Shima Baradaran Baughman
Brigham Young University - J. Reuben Clark Law School
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Bail, Bail Rights, Criminal Justice, Criminal Procedure, Jail, Criminal Detention, Incarceration

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Blinding Prosecutors to Defendants’ Race: A Policy Proposal to Reduce Unconscious Bias in the Criminal Justice System

Behavioral Science and Policy, Vol 1(2) 2015
Number of pages: 8 Posted: 23 Nov 2015 Last Revised: 08 Jan 2022
Sunita Sah, Christopher T. Robertson and Shima Baradaran Baughman
Johnson Graduate School of Management, Cornell University, Boston University and Brigham Young University - J. Reuben Clark Law School
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criminal justice, non-conscious bias, implicit bias, race, prosecutorial discretion, blinding, prosecutors

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Dividing Bail Reform

University of Utah College of Law Research Paper No. 314, 105 Iowa Law Review 947 (2020)
Number of pages: 79 Posted: 04 Jun 2019 Last Revised: 09 Apr 2020
Shima Baradaran Baughman
Brigham Young University - J. Reuben Clark Law School
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bail, pretrial, release, detention, incarceration, defendant, mass, risk assessment, money, misdemeanor, felony, conviction, violence, crime, criminal

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Rebalancing the Fourth Amendment

Georgetown Law Journal, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 58 Posted: 23 Mar 2013 Last Revised: 25 Mar 2014
Shima Baradaran Baughman
Brigham Young University - J. Reuben Clark Law School
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Subconstitutional Checks

Notre Dame Law Review, Vol 92(3) 2017, University of Utah College of Law Research Paper No. 161
Number of pages: 71 Posted: 01 Apr 2016 Last Revised: 11 May 2017
Shima Baradaran Baughman
Brigham Young University - J. Reuben Clark Law School
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Religious Monopolies and the Commodification of Religion

Pepperdine Law Review, Vol. 32, No. 885, 2005
Number of pages: 57 Posted: 03 Dec 2009
Brett G. Scharffs, Elizabeth Clark and Shima Baradaran Baughman
Brigham Young University - J. Reuben Clark Law School, Brigham Young University - J. Reuben Clark Law School and Brigham Young University - J. Reuben Clark Law School
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First Amendment, religion, monopoly, church and state

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Reforming State Bail Reform

74 SMU L. Rev. 447 (2021), University of Utah College of Law Research Paper No. 471
Number of pages: 28 Posted: 01 Oct 2021
Shima Baradaran Baughman, Lauren Boone and Nathan H. Jackson
Brigham Young University - J. Reuben Clark Law School , University of Utah - S.J. Quinney College of Law and University of Utah, S.J. Quinney College of Law, Students
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bail reform, pretrial detention

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The History of Misdemeanor Bail

Boston University Law Review, Vol. 98, No. 837, 2018, University of Utah College of Law Research Paper No. 264
Number of pages: 47 Posted: 15 Jun 2018
Shima Baradaran Baughman
Brigham Young University - J. Reuben Clark Law School
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Machoism and the Rape Epidemic in South Africa

Sigma: Journal of Political and International Studies, Fall 2000
Number of pages: 11 Posted: 16 Dec 2009
Shima Baradaran Baughman
Brigham Young University - J. Reuben Clark Law School
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Rape, South Africa, machoism, gender violence, Xhosa, apartheid

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Race and Prediction

Number of pages: 2 Posted: 13 Jul 2011 Last Revised: 25 Mar 2020
Shima Baradaran Baughman and Frank McIntyre
Brigham Young University - J. Reuben Clark Law School and Amazon.com
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Race, Pretrial Release

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Supplemental Materials: National Prosecutor Survey

UC Davis Law Review, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 53 Posted: 07 Sep 2021
Megan S. Wright, Shima Baradaran Baughman and Christopher T. Robertson
The Pennsylvania State University (University Park) – Penn State Law, Brigham Young University - J. Reuben Clark Law School and Boston University
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Religious Monopolies and the Commodification of Religion

University of Utah College of Law Research Paper No. 120
Number of pages: 60 Posted: 23 May 2015 Last Revised: 24 Jun 2015
Shima Baradaran Baughman, Brett G. Scharffs and Elizabeth Clark
Brigham Young University - J. Reuben Clark Law School , Brigham Young University - J. Reuben Clark Law School and Brigham Young University - J. Reuben Clark Law School
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religion, religious monopolies, liberty, autonomy, vibrancy, oppression, dominant religions, legislation

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Toward a Unified Test of Personal Jurisdiction in an Era of Widely Diffused Wrongs: The Relevance of Purpose and Effects

Indiana Law Journal, Vol. 81, No. 601, 2006
Number of pages: 66 Posted: 13 Dec 2009
C. Douglas Floyd and Shima Baradaran Baughman
affiliation not provided to SSRN and Brigham Young University - J. Reuben Clark Law School
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Personal jurisdiction, purposeful availment, internet

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Teaching Research Methods to Understand Business Crimes

Ohio State Journal of Criminal Law, Vol. 11, No. 2, 2014, University of Utah College of Law Research Paper, No. 81
Number of pages: 5 Posted: 28 May 2014 Last Revised: 21 Nov 2014
Shima Baradaran Baughman
Brigham Young University - J. Reuben Clark Law School
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Viewpoint Neutral Zoning of Adult Entertainment Businesses

Hastings Constitutional Law Quarterly, Vol. 31, No. 447, 2004
Number of pages: 45 Posted: 02 Dec 2009
Shima Baradaran Baughman
Brigham Young University - J. Reuben Clark Law School
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First Amendment, speech, zoning, secondary effects, adult entertainment

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Kaleidoscopic Consent Decrees: School Desegregation and Prison Reform Consent Decrees After the Prison Litigation Reform Act and Freeman-Dowell

Brigham Young University Law Review, Vol. 2003, No. 227, 2003
Number of pages: 38 Posted: 03 Dec 2009
Shima Baradaran Baughman
Brigham Young University - J. Reuben Clark Law School
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Consent decree, prison reform, school desegregation

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Tipping the Balance in Favor of Justice: Due Process and the Thirteenth and Nineteenth Amendments in Child Removal from Battered Mothers

Brigham Young University Law Review, Vol. 2003, No. 1333, 2003
Number of pages: 35 Posted: 30 Nov 2010
Shima Baradaran Baughman
Brigham Young University - J. Reuben Clark Law School
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Fourteenth Amendment, Substantive Due Process, Thirteenth Amendment, Nineteenth Amendment, Domestic Violence, Abuse, Child Custody, Slavery

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Taming Dangerousness

112 Georgetown Law Journal (forthcoming 2023), BYU Law Research Paper No. 23-06
Number of pages: 42 Posted: 07 Jun 2023 Last Revised: 13 Sep 2023
Shima Baradaran Baughman
Brigham Young University - J. Reuben Clark Law School
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bail reform, criminal law, pretrial detention, pretrial reform, pretrial liberty, pretrial rights, dangerousness

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Fixing Disparate Prosecution

Minnesota Law Review, Forthcoming, BYU Law Research Paper No. 23-20
Number of pages: 38 Posted: 13 Sep 2023
Shima Baradaran Baughman and Jensen Lillquist
Brigham Young University - J. Reuben Clark Law School and University of Utah - S.J. Quinney College of Law
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prosecutor, law, justice, charging, incarceration, reform, policy, state, progressive