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March 05, 2025
Geopolitical Brunch Series Create Space for Candid Global Conversations
A lifetime after setting aside an early contemplation to become a priest, Wolfgang Danspeckgruber has finally found a different vocation centered on Sunday mornings.Since 2023, he has taught a regular Sunday seminars series held at Princeton SPIA’s Liechtenstein Institute on Self-Determination (LISD). Known as Geopolitical…
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February 27, 2025
Princeton SPIA’s Aleksandra Korolova Receives Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers
As artificial intelligence technology continues to enter the mainstream, Princeton SPIA’s Aleksandra Korolova has been behind the scenes researching the societal impacts of machine learning and AI. Her dedication to her craft has resulted in a prestigious designation: Korolova, an assistant professor of computer science and…
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February 26, 2025
Princeton SPIA Experts Contribute to Global Report on AI Safety
A recently released U.K. government report on artificial intelligence (AI) safety draws on contributions from 100 AI experts across 33 countries and intergovernmental organizations—including members of the Center for Information Technology Policy (CITP) at the Princeton School of Public and International Affairs.Billed as “the…
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February 25, 2025
Princeton SPIA Faculty Member Reflects on 30 Years of Fighting for Human Rights
In most countries governed by the rule of law, a strong, independent judicial branch makes for the most effective enforcement of human rights.But it’s all too easy for judges to be corrupted, compromised, or even murdered.What then?“Deploying the public’s sense of right and wrong to pressure the political branches of government…
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Jonathan Mummolo
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February 19, 2025
Research Record: Political Diversity in U.S. Police Agencies
Princeton SPIA’s Research Record series highlights the vast scholarly achievements of our faculty members, whose expertise extends beyond the classroom and into everyday life.If you’d like your work considered for future editions of Research Record, click here and select “research project.”
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February 13, 2025
Justice Without Vengeance: A Princeton SPIA Researcher Seeks Answers When His Work Turns Personal
Laurence Ralph had been researching gang-affiliated young people for more than a dozen years when the topic landed on his doorstep with an urgency that no peer-reviewed paper could hope to match.It was September 2019, and he had just learned that his stepson’s half-brother had been fatally shot in San Francisco.Luis Alberto…
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January 10, 2025
Kahneman-Treisman Center Initiative Assists Students, Scholars in Applying Behavioral Science to Research
A few years ago, in a paper published in Science, researchers showed that reminders beforehand were more effective in getting criminal defendants to show up for court appearances than the deterrent threat of arrests for failing to appear.One of the researchers was Anuj Shah, a new associate professor of psychology and public…
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January 06, 2025
Students Brief Policymakers on Artificial Intelligence in First-Ever AI Task Force
While artificial intelligence may unlock unprecedented human potential in the coming years, it is also a forceful technology that is magnifying the threats society faces and posing thorny policy challenges for elected officials in Washington.From increasingly complex cyber threats to the development of harmful biological agents…
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December 20, 2024
Princeton’s SPIA in New Jersey Garden State Fellows Cohort Reflections
Garden State Fellows reflect on their work, halfway through the Fellowship: Lauren Aung"My experience at the American Civil Liberties Union of New Jersey (ACLU-NJ) so far has been incredible; I have applied the skills I cultivated at Princeton in a meaningful way, grown my understanding of political change…
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December 20, 2024
Princeton Policy Advocacy Clinic Students Release Analysis of Federal Crack-Powder Cocaine Sentencing Disparities, Draw Bipartisan Praise
In a country that strives for equal justice under the law, the federal statute that governs sentencing for cocaine offenses is especially eye-opening: The sentence for 28 grams of crack cocaine is the same as that for 500 grams of powder cocaine. The 18-to-1 sentencing disparity is despite there being no significant…
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