Mark Kleiman Innovation for Public Policy Memorial Lecture
The Mark Kleiman Innovation for Public Policy Memorial Lecture honors former CLAJ member Mark Kleiman. Applications for the 2026 lecture will be open from May 15, 2026, to 11:59pm ET on July 15, 2026.
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Dr. Ouss is an assistant professor in the Department of Criminology at the University of Pennsylvania. Her scholarship aims to make the criminal justice system fairer and more efficient. She primarily does empirical research grounded in the methodology of economics. She also engages with researchers in the fields of legal studies, behavioral science, and sociology, and with policymakers and practitioners in the United States and France. She received a Ph.D. in economics from Harvard University and completed a post-doctoral fellowship at the University of Chicago Crime Lab.
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The Committee on Law and Justice is pleased to announce Dr. Rosanna Smart as the 2025 Mark Kleiman Innovation for Public Policy Memorial Lecturer. Dr. Rosanna Smart is senior economist at the RAND Corporation and co-director of the RAND Drug Policy Research Center. She is also professor of policy analysis at the Pardee RAND Graduate School. Her research is in applied microeconomics, with a focus on issues related to health behaviors, illicit markets, drug policy, and the determinants of gun violence. She investigates complex issues related to substance use behaviors, including the impact of evolving cannabis markets, trends in polysubstance use, and the consequences of supply disruptions in psychiatric medications. Her work on firearm policy focuses on evaluating the differential effects of gun laws across various populations and communities, with the aim of identifying effective interventions to reduce gun violence. Through her research, Dr. Smart collaborates with experts from multiple fields and engages with policymakers to inform evidence-based policy decisions. She holds a Ph.D. in economics from the University of California, Los Angeles.
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Dr. McKay is a postdoctoral fellow at Duke University and affiliated with RTI International's Transformative Research Unit for Equity. Funded by a National Science Foundation postdoctoral fellowship, her early research has made two key contributions at the intersection of public policy and law and justice: (1) Rigorously estimating the economic value of the damage sustained by Black communities from racially inflected policing and punishment and making the case for multi-trillion-dollar reparations for mass incarceration; and (2) Building a formative understanding of how mass incarceration-era policing and punishment, and the complicated relationships they engender between formal institutions and vulnerable families, may shape the most common form of violence: violence in families.
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