Incarceration and the Law, Cases and Materials

Margo Schlanger
  • Criminal Law
2026

“Challenging Federal Government Impunity: The Case of Disability Law”

Margo Schlanger
Boston University Law Review
2025

“Keynote: Promoting Disability Equality Behind Bars”

Margo Schlanger
  • Human Rights
Nevada Law Journal
2025

ExpertLongBench: Benchmarking Language Models on Expert-Level Long-Form Generation Tasks with Structured Checklists

Margo Schlanger Vivek S. Sankaran
2025

“Effective Communication with Deaf, Hard of Hearing, Blind, and Low Vision Incarcerated People, Civil Rights Litigation”

Margo Schlanger
  • Criminal Law
  • Human Rights
  • Civil Rights
Journal of Gender, Race, and Justice
2023

“Ending the Discriminatory Pretrial Incarceration of People with Disabilities: Liability under the Americans with Disabilities Act and the Rehabilitation Act”

Margo Schlanger
  • Criminal Law
  • Human Rights
Harvard Law and Policy Review
2022

Multi-LexSum: Real-World Summaries of Civil Rights Lawsuits at Multiple Granularities - Documentation

Margo Schlanger
  • Civil Rights
2022

Multi-LexSum: Real-World Summaries of Civil Rights Lawsuits at Multiple Granularities - Dataset

Margo Schlanger
  • Civil Rights
2022

Multi-LexSum: Real-World Summaries of Civil Rights Lawsuits at Multiple Granularities - Documentation

Margo Schlanger
  • Civil Rights
2022

White Paper: Effective Communication with Deaf, Hard of Hearing, Blind, and Low Vision Incarcerated People

Margo Schlanger
  • Criminal Law
Civil Rights Litigation Clearinghouse
2022

“Pandemic Rules: COVID-19 and the Prison Litigation Reform Act’s Exhaustion Requirement”

Margo Schlanger
  • Litigation
Case Western Law Review
2022

2022 Data Update for “Slamming the Courthouse Door” Table F: Incidence of Court Orders

Margo Schlanger
2022

2022 Data Updates: Slamming the Courthouse Door: 25 Years of Evidence for Repealing the Prison Litigation Reform Act, Prison Policy Initiative

Margo Schlanger
2022

“Narrowing the Remedial Gap: Damages for Disability Discrimination in Outsourced Federal Programs”

Margo Schlanger
  • Civil Rights
University of Chicago Law Review Online
2021

“Prisoners with Disabilities: Law and Policy”

Margo Schlanger
  • Civil Rights
  • Health Law
Public Health Behind Bars: From Prisons to Communities
2021

“Slamming the Courthouse Door: 25 years of evidence for repealing the Prison Litigation Reform Act”

Margo Schlanger
  • Litigation
  • Civil Rights
Prison Policy Initiative
2021

2021 Data Update: Slamming the Courthouse Door: 25 years of evidence for repealing the Prison Litigation Reform Act

Margo Schlanger
2021

“Memoriam: Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg”

Margo Schlanger
Harvard Law Review
2021

Incarceration and the Law, Cases and Materials

Margo Schlanger
2020

“Mapping the Iceberg: The Impact of Data Sources on the Study of District Courts”

Margo Schlanger
  • Legal Writing and Research
Journal of Empirical Legal Studies
2020

“Incrementalist vs. Maximalist Reform Strategies: Solitary Confinement Case Studies”

Margo Schlanger
Northwestern University Law Review
2020

“The Constitutional Law of Incarceration, Reconfigured”

Margo Schlanger
  • Constitutional Law
Cornell Law Review
2018

“The Civil Rights Litigation Clearinghouse: Origins and Goals”

Margo Schlanger
KULA Knowledge Creation Dissemination and Preservation Studies
2018

“Prisoners with Disabilities”

Margo Schlanger
Reforming Criminal Justice
2017

“Trends in Prisoner Litigation, as the PLRA Approaches 20”

Margo Schlanger
Correctional Law Reporter
2017

“Intelligence Legalism and the NSA’s Civil Liberties Gap”

Margo Schlanger
Law Quadrangle Notes
2016

“How the ADA Regulates and Restricts Solitary Confinements for People with Mental Disabilities”

Margo Schlanger
Advance: The Journal of the ACS Issue Briefs
2016

“The Just-Barely-Sustainable California Prisoners’ Rights Ecosystem”

Margo Schlanger
Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science
2016

“Anti-Incarcerative Remedies for Illegal Conditions of Confinement”

Margo Schlanger
University of Miami Race & Social Justice Law Review
2016

“How the ADA Regulates and Restricts Solitary Confinement for People with Mental Disabilities”

Margo Schlanger
American Constitution Society Issue Brief
2016

“No Reason to Blame Liberals (or, the Unbearable Lightness of Perversity Arguments)”

Margo Schlanger
New Rambler Review
2015

“Against Solitary Confinement: Jonah’s Redemption and Our Need for Mercy”

Margo Schlanger
Rutgers Journal of Law and Religion
2015

“Stealth Advocacy Can (Sometimes) Change the World”

Margo Schlanger
Michigan Law Review
2015

“Prisoners’ Rights Lawyers’ Strategies for Preserving the Role of the Courts”

Margo Schlanger
University of Miami Law Review
2015

“Intelligence Legalism and the National Security Agency’s Civil Liberties Gap”

Margo Schlanger
Harvard National Security Journal
2015

“Trends in Prisoner Litigation, as the PLRA Enters Adulthood”

Margo Schlanger
University of California Irvine Law Review
2015

Data Appendix for “Trends in Prisoner Litigation, as the PLRA Enters Adulthood”

Margo Schlanger
2015

“Offices of Goodness: Influence Without Authority in Federal Agencies”

Margo Schlanger
Cardozo Law Review
2014

“The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission and Structural Reform of the American Workplace”

Margo Schlanger
Washington University Law Review
2014

Source Appendix for “Offices of Goodness: Influence Without Authority in Federal Agencies”

Margo Schlanger
2014

Replication Code for “The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission and Structural Reform of the American Workplace”

Margo Schlanger
2014

“Prison Segregation: Symposium Introduction and Preliminary Data on Racial Disparities”

Margo Schlanger
Michigan Journal of Race & Law
2013

“Plata v. Brown and Realignment: Jails, Prisons, Courts, and Politics”

Margo Schlanger
Harvard Civil Rights-Civil Liberties Law Review
2013

Technical Appendix for “Plata v. Brown and Realignment: Jails, Prisons, Courts, and Politics”

Margo Schlanger
2013

“Women Behind the Wheel: Gender and Transportation Law, 1860-1930”

Margo Schlanger
Feminist Legal History: Essays on Women and Law
2011

ABA Standards for Criminal Justice. Treatment of Prisoners

Margo Schlanger
2011

“Against Secret Regulation: Why and How We Should End the Practical Obscurity of Injunctions and Consent Decrees”

Margo Schlanger
DePaul Law Review
2010

“Regulating Segregation: The Contribution of the ABA Criminal Justice Standards on the Treatment of Prisoners”

Margo Schlanger
American Criminal Law Review
2010

“ABA Criminal Justice Standards on the Treatment of Prisoners”

Margo Schlanger
Criminal Justice
2010

“How Should We Study District Judge Decision-Making?”

Margo Schlanger
Washington University Journal of Law and Policy
2009