Publication Date
2006
Publication Title
California Law Review
Abstract
Considerable attention has been given to the Implicit Association Test (IA T), which finds that most people have an implicit and unconscious bias against members of traditionally disadvantaged groups. Implicit bias poses a special challenge for antidiscrimination law because it suggests the possibility that people are treating others differently even when they are unaware that they are doing so. Some aspects of current law operate, whether intentionally or not, as controls on implicit bias; it is possible to imagine other efforts in that vein. An underlying suggestion is that implicit bias might be controlled through a general strategy of "debiasing through law."
Recommended Citation
Cass R. Sunstein & Christine Jolls, "Law of Implicit Bias, The," 94 California Law Review 969 (2006).
Additional Information
Symposium on Behavioral Realism