Girvan, Erik

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Erik Girvan is an Assistant Professor at the UO School of Law. His research investigates how social stereotypes impact decisions in the legal system and explores ways to reduce or eliminate those effects. In addition, he works to develop strategies for using the insights, methods, and findings of social science to address problems of legal policy, doctrine, and procedure. He teaches Civil Procedure; Remedies; and Race, Gender, Bias and Law.

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    When Our Reach Exceeds Our Grasp: Remedial Realism in Antidiscrimination Law
    (University of Oregon School of Law, 2016-05-09) Girvan, Erik J.
    This Article reviews major developments in anti-discrimination doctrine related to discretionary decisions in two different domains—the death penalty and employment decisions—and highlights the role that judicial concerns about remedies plays in the opinions supporting those developments. In order to more effectively impact the doctrinal development in that area, this Article discusses concrete ways that the remedies understanding of the law-science gap can help guide social scientists, legal scholars, and advocates for expanded anti-discrimination rights.