Gary Blasi

Gary Blasi
University of California, Los Angeles | UCLA · School of Law

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Los Angeles has four years to make inroads on the largest population of unsheltered people in the U.S. If we fail, 2028 is likely to be a disaster for unhoused people and LA’s reputation. Lack of income and the high cost of housing cause homelessness. The median monthly income of unsheltered individuals is $387 a month. Sixty-one percent of all u...
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This chapter reviews theory and research on System Justification Theory (SJT) and summarizes key implications for law, lawyers, and social justice advocacy. According to SJT, lawyers should attend to all relevant social orders and implicit as well as explicit biases in selecting jurors and developing advocacy strategies. The theory identifies impor...
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The vast majority of studies of the processing of employment discrimination claims have examined federal Title VII litigation and the EEOC. In virtually every state, however, claimants have the option of pursuing the same claims with state Fair Employment Employment Agencies (FEPA’s). State law claimants can have their claims handled by an administ...
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The research reported in this journal issue represents some of the most sophisticated and careful of current social science research on homelessness in the United States. Much of the early research was limited to assessment of the numbers and characteristics of the homeless. More sophisticated studies utilizing longitudinal and ethnographic methods...
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This study provides an empirical evaluation of the operation of employment discrimination law in California, with emphasis on the Fair Employment and Housing Act, which was enacted 50 years ago last year. We rely on large administrative datasets from the California Department of Fair Employment and Housing (DFEH) and the U.S. Equal Employment Oppor...
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This study examined whether explicit and implicit biases in favor of Whites and against Asian Americans would alter mock jurors' evaluation of a litigator's deposition. We found evidence of both explicit bias as measured by self-reports, and implicit bias as measured by two Implicit Association Tests. In particular, explicit stereotypes that the id...
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Taxi drivers are often portrayed as the ultimate entrepreneurs, free of any fixed workplace, able to choose their own hours, and with a toehold in the American middle class. That stereotype may have been accurate in New York City decades ago (Hodges 2007, Mathews 2005), but in contemporary Los Angeles, taxi drivers spend long hours in “sweatshops...
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succeeds admirably on two levels. First, Ahmad presents a careful analysis of a much neglected topic, the role of interpreters in mediating the relationship between a lawyer and a client who must overcome the most funda- mental of communication barriers—language difference. He challenges the uninformed view of a mechanical, black box ideal of inter...
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Recent research in cognitive social psychology and social cognitive neuroscience has powerful implications for lawyers and other advocates in situations where stereotypes are at work. The science suggests that there are, indeed, few advocacy situations where stereotypes are not at work. Legal scholars have attempted to bring some of this science to...
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This article suggests that recent developments in cognitive science offer legal scholars the means to better understand the range of knowledge and practice of lawyers, including such issues as judgment, wisdom, expertise, and relationship of theory to practice in law. A broader view of the role of theory in lawyering practice is proposed; implicati...
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Suggests that there has been a shift in elite attitudes (EAs) toward homelessness (HLN) as a social problem and that past efforts by both advocates and scholars may have unintentionally contributed to that shift. However, the changes in EAs might not be paralleled by significant changes in attitudes in the broader population, which still exhibits s...
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The dirt and the dust are everywhere. No breeze is ever gentle. When there is wind, it brings not relief from the sun but more dust. Set out on the dirt are rows of army cots under incongruous blue and white canopies. It is cold at night, and the people on the cots wake up wet with dew. Others sleep in the limited number of tents, each 4 feet high,...

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