Mark W. Bennett

U.S. District Court (Northern District of Iowa)

Judge

320 6th St.

Sioux City, IA 51101

United States

Independent

Drake University - Law School

27th & Carpenter Sts.

Des Moines, IA 50311

United States

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Implicit Bias in the Courtroom

UCLA Law Review, Vol. 59, No. 5, 2012, UCLA School of Law Research Paper

Number of pages: 63 Posted: 21 Mar 2012 Last Revised: 12 Nov 2012

Jerry Kang, Mark W. Bennett, Devon W. Carbado, Pamela Casey, Nilanjana Dasgupta, David L. Faigman, Rachel D. Godsil, Anthony Greenwald, Justin D. Levinson and Jennifer Mnookin

University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) - School of Law, U.S. District Court (Northern District of Iowa), University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) - School of Law, National Center for State Courts, University of Massachusetts at Amherst - Psychology, UC Hastings Law, Rutgers Law School, University of Washington, University of Hawaii at Manoa - William S. Richardson School of Law and University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) - School of Law

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Last Words: A Survey and Analysis of Federal Judges' Views on Allocution in Sentencing

Alabama Law Review, Vol. 65, No. 3, 2014, American University, WCL Research Paper No. 2014-9

Number of pages: 80 Posted: 13 Mar 2014

Mark W. Bennett and Ira P. Robbins

U.S. District Court (Northern District of Iowa) and American University - Washington College of Law

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Eight Traits of Great Trial Lawyers: A Federal Judge’s View on How to Shed the Moniker 'I Am a Litigator'

Review of Litigation, Vol. 33, No. 1, 2014

Number of pages: 43 Posted: 06 Sep 2014

Mark W. Bennett

U.S. District Court (Northern District of Iowa)

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Unraveling the Gordian Knot of Implicit Bias in Jury Selection: The Problem of Judge-Dominated Voir Dire, the Failed Promise of Batson, and Proposed Solutions

Harvard Law & Policy Review, Vol. 4, p. 149, 2010

Number of pages: 24 Posted: 05 Oct 2014

Mark W. Bennett

U.S. District Court (Northern District of Iowa)

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Unspringing the Witness Memory and Demeanor Trap: What Every Judge and Juror Needs to Know About Cognitive Psychology and Witness Credibility

American University Law Review, 2015

Number of pages: 52 Posted: 22 Mar 2015

Mark W. Bennett

U.S. District Court (Northern District of Iowa)

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A 'Holocaust in Slow Motion?' America's Mass Incarceration and the Role of Discretion

7 DePaul Journal for Social Justice 117 (2014), U of St. Thomas (Minnesota) Legal Studies Research Paper No. 14-30

Number of pages: 62 Posted: 01 Sep 2014

Mark William Osler and Mark W. Bennett

University of St. Thomas - School of Law (Minnesota) and U.S. District Court (Northern District of Iowa)

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Addicted to Incarceration: A Federal Judge Reveals Shocking Truths About Federal Sentencing and Fleeting Hopes for Reform

Number of pages: 40 Posted: 21 Apr 2018

Mark W. Bennett

U.S. District Court (Northern District of Iowa)

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Reinvigorating and Enhancing Jury Trials Through an Overdue Juror Bill of Rights: WWJW — What Would Jurors Want? — A Federal Trial Judge's View

Arizona State Law Journal, Vol. 38, Fall 2016 (Forthcoming)

Number of pages: 51 Posted: 28 Aug 2015 Last Revised: 15 Sep 2015

Mark W. Bennett

U.S. District Court (Northern District of Iowa)

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Confronting Cognitive 'Anchoring Effect' and 'Blind Spot' Biases in Federal Sentencing: A Modest Solution for Reforming a Fundamental Flaw

Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology, Vol. 104, No. 3, p. 489, 2014

Number of pages: 47 Posted: 01 Oct 2014

Mark W. Bennett

U.S. District Court (Northern District of Iowa)

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A Slow Motion Lynching? The War on Drugs, Mass Incarceration, Doing Kimbrough Justice, and a Response to Two Third Circuit Judges

Rutgers Law Review, Vol. 873, 2014

Number of pages: 47 Posted: 02 Mar 2015

Mark W. Bennett

U.S. District Court (Northern District of Iowa)

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Judging Federal White-Collar Fraud Sentencing: An Empirical Study Revealing the Need for Further Reform

Iowa Law Review, Vol. 102, 2016

Number of pages: 53 Posted: 22 Feb 2016

Mark W. Bennett, Justin D. Levinson and Koichi Hioki

U.S. District Court (Northern District of Iowa), University of Hawaii at Manoa - William S. Richardson School of Law and Kobe University - Graduate School of Business Administration

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Judging Implicit Bias: A National Empirical Study Of Judicial Stereotypes

Florida Law Review, Vol. 69, 2017

Number of pages: 51 Posted: 27 Apr 2017

Justin D. Levinson, Mark W. Bennett and Koichi Hioki

University of Hawaii at Manoa - William S. Richardson School of Law, U.S. District Court (Northern District of Iowa) and Kobe University - Graduate School of Business Administration

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From the Bench. Obituary: The American Trial Lawyer, Born 1641 - Died 20??

39 Litigation 5, Spring 2013

Number of pages: 3 Posted: 12 Oct 2014

Mark W. Bennett

U.S. District Court (Northern District of Iowa)

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Looking Criminal and the Presumption of Dangerousness: Afrocentric Facial Features, Skin Tone, and Criminal Justice

51 U.C. Davis L.Rev. (2018, Forthcoming), UC Berkeley Public Law Research Paper

Number of pages: 62 Posted: 30 Nov 2017

Mark W. Bennett and Victoria Plaut

U.S. District Court (Northern District of Iowa) and University of California, Berkeley - School of Law

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Essay: From the 'No Spittin', No Cussin' and No Summary Judgment' Days of Employment Discrimination Litigation to the 'Defendant's Summary Judgment Affirmed Without Comment' Days: One Judge's Four-Decade Perspective

New York Law School Law Review, Vol. 57, No. 685, 2012-2013

Number of pages: 33 Posted: 06 Sep 2014

Mark W. Bennett

U.S. District Court (Northern District of Iowa)

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A Fresh Look at Jurors Questioning Witnesses: A Review of Eighth Circuit and Iowa Appellate Precedents and an Empirical Analysis of Federal and State Trial Judges and Trial Lawyers

Drake Law Review, Vol. 64, 2-16, Forthcoming

Number of pages: 64 Posted: 07 Jan 2016

Thomas Waterman, Mark W. Bennett and David Waterman

Iowa Supreme Court, U.S. District Court (Northern District of Iowa) and United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit

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The Proposed Capital Penalty Phase Rules of Evidence

Cardozo Law Review, Vol. 36, p. 417, 2014

Number of pages: 81 Posted: 16 Jan 2015

David McCord and Mark W. Bennett

Drake University Law School and U.S. District Court (Northern District of Iowa)

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Sudden Death: A Federal Trial Judge's Reflections on the ABA Guidelines for the Appointment and Performance of Defense Counsel in Death Penalty Cases

Hofstra Law Review, Vol. 42, p. 391, 2013

Number of pages: 27 Posted: 13 Oct 2014 Last Revised: 15 Aug 2018

Mark W. Bennett

U.S. District Court (Northern District of Iowa)

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Hard Time: Reflections on Visiting Federal Inmates

94 Judicature 304 (2011)

Number of pages: 2 Posted: 12 Oct 2014

Mark W. Bennett

U.S. District Court (Northern District of Iowa)

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