D. James Greiner

Professor of Law

Biographical Statement

Jim is currently 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 in 1989 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 causation to civil rights issues. His current projects concern redistricting, election administration, causal inference, evaluation of delivery of legal services, and adjudicative system design.

Appointments

• Assistant Professor of Law, 2007-2011
• Professor of Law, 2012

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

Other Information

2011-2012 Faculty Disclosures re: Related Outside Interests and Activities

Representative Publications

• Greiner, D. James & Don Rubin. "Potential Outcomes and Causal Effects of Immutable Characteristics," Review of Economics and Statistics, (forthcoming).
  
• Greiner, D. James & Kevin Quinn. "R X C Ecological Inference: Bounds, Correlations, Flexibility, and Transparency of Assumptions," 172 Journal of the Royal Statistical Society 67 (2009).
  
• Greiner, D. James. "Causal Inference in Civil Rights Litigation," 122 Harvard Law Review 533 (2008).
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• 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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