D. James Greiner

Assistant Professor of Law

Biographical Statement

Jim is currently an Assistant Professor of Law, and he teaches courses on civil procedure, expert witnesses, and voting regulation. Before coming to the law school in 2007, Jim completed his Ph.D. in statistics at Harvard University. Prior to this, Jim practiced law for six years, three for the Department of Justice (Programs Branch), three for Jenner & Block. He tried to focus his practice on employment discrimination, voting rights, and the Decennial Census, but alas, he also had to learn how airplanes get on and off aircraft carriers (in the A-12 litigation, originally filed over 15 years ago and still going), as well as how to deal with structural injunctions in long-running housing desegregation cases. Currently, Jim's research focuses on statistics and litigation, including ecological inference models often used in cases under Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act as well as the application of counterfactual frameworks of causal inference to civil rights issues. His current projects include an analysis of the flow of felony cases through the court system in Cook County, Illinois; a series of randomized studies on the effect of assigning legal counsel to indigent clients in administrative proceedings; and a set of exit polls to gather data for testing of new statistical models used infer voting patterns by racial/ethnic group membership.

Appointments

• Assistant Professor of Law, 2007

Education

• University of Virginia B.A. 1991, Government and Foreign Affairs
• University of Michigan J.D. 1995
• Harvard University Ph.D. 2007, Statistics

Research Interests

• Causal Inference
• Ecological Inference
• Election Law (especially redistricting)
• Employment Discrimination
• Quantitative Legal Empirics

Representative Publications

• Greiner, D. James & Kevin Quinn. "R X C Ecological Inference: Bounds, Correlations, Flexibility, and Transparency of Assumptions," Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, Series A (forthcoming 2008).
  
• Greiner, D. James. "Causal Inference in Civil Rights Litigation," 122 Harvard Law Review 533 (2008).
  
• Greiner, D. James. "Ecological Inference in Voting Rights Act Disputes: Where are We Now, and Where do We Want to Be?" 47 Jurimetrics 115 (2007).
  

Bibliography

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