Law Review Articles
The Influence of the Race of Defendant or Race of Victim on Capital Charging and Sentencing in California Between January 1, 1978, and June 30, 2002, Catherine M. Grosso, Jeffrey Fagan & Michael Laurence (work-in-progress 2023).
A Tale of Two Jury Selections. Barbara O’Brien & Catherine M. Grosso. CHI.-KENT L. REV. (forthcoming 2023).
Local History, Practice & Statistics: A Study on the Influence of Race on the Administration of Capital Punishment in Hamilton County, Ohio (January 1992-August 2017). Catherine M. Grosso, Barbara O’Brien & Julie C. Roberts. 51 COL. H.R. L. REV. 905 (2020).
Latinx Defendants, False Convictions & the Difficult Road to Exoneration. Barbara O’Brien, Klara Stephens, Maurice Possley & Catherine M. Grosso. 66 UCLA L. REV. 1682 (2019).
Death by Stereotype: Race, Ethnicity & California’s Failure to Implement Furman’s Narrowing Requirement. Catherine M. Grosso, David Baldus (deceased), George Woodworth, Michael Laurence & Jeffrey Fagan. 66 UCLA L. REV. 1394 (2019).
Furman at 45: Constitutional Challenges from California’s Failure to (Again) Narrow Death Eligibility. David Baldus (deceased), George Woodworth, Catherine M. Grosso, Michael Laurence & Jeffrey Fagan. 16 J. OF EMP. LEGAL STUD. 693 (2019). Peer reviewed.
Lawyers and Jurors: Interrogating Voir Dire Strategies by Analyzing Conversations. Catherine M. Grosso & Barbara O’Brien. 16 J. OF EMP. LEGAL STUD. 515 (2019). Peer reviewed.
Examining Jurors: Applying Conversation Analysis to Voir Dire in Capital cases, A First Look. Barbara O’Brien, Catherine M. Grosso & Abijah Taylor. 107 J. CRIM. L. & CRIMINOLOGY 687 (2017). Peer reviewed.
Grounding Criminal Procedure. Catherine M. Grosso & Barbara O’Brien. 20 J. GENDER RACE & JUST. 53 (2017).
A Call to Criminal Courts: Record Rules for Batson. Catherine M. Grosso & Barbara O’Brien. 105 KY. L.J. 651 (2016).
Untangling the Role of Race in Capital Charging and Sentencing in North Carolina, 1990-2009. Barbara O’Brien, Catherine M. Grosso, George Woodworth & Abijah Taylor. 94 N.C. L. REV. 1997 (2016).
Beyond Batson’s Scrutiny: A Preliminary Look at Racial Disparities in Prosecutorial Preemptory Strikes Following the Passage of the North Carolina Racial Justice Act. Barbara O’Brien & Catherine M. Grosso. 46 U.C. DAVIS L. REV. 1623 (2013).
A Stubborn Legacy: The Overwhelming Importance of Race in Jury Selection in 173 Post-Batson North Carolina Capital Trials. Catherine M. Grosso & Barbara O’Brien. 97 IOWA L. REV. 1531 (2012).
Statistical Proof of Racial Discrimination in the Use of Peremptory Challenges: The Impact and Promise of the Miller-El Line of Cases, As Reflected in the Experience of One Philadelphia Capital Case. David C. Baldus (deceased at time of final drafting and publication), Catherine M. Grosso, Robert Dunham, George Woodworth & Richard Newell. 97 IOWA L. REV. 1425 (2012).
Confronting Race: How A Confluence of Social Movements Convinced North Carolina to Go Where the McCleskey Court Wouldn’t. Barbara O’Brien & Catherine M. Grosso. 2011 MICH. ST. L. REV. 463 (2011).
In Tribute to Professor David C. Baldus. Catherine M. Grosso & Barbara O’Brien. 2011 MICH. ST. L. REV. 445 (2011).
Racial Discrimination in the Administration of the Death Penalty: The Experience of the United States Armed Forces (1984-2005). David C. Baldus, Catherine M. Grosso, George Woodworth & Richard Newell. 101 J. CRIM. L. & CRIMINOLOGY 1227 (2011). Peer reviewed.
The Role of Intimacy in the Prosecution and Sentencing of Capital Murder Cases in the United States Armed Forces, 1984-2005. Catherine M. Grosso, David Baldus & George Woodworth. 40 N.M. L. REV. 273 (2010).
The Impact of Civilian Aggravating Circumstances on the Military Death Penalty: Another Chapter in the Resistance of the Armed Forces to the Civilianization of Military Justice, 1984-2005. Catherine M. Grosso, David C. Baldus & George Woodworth. 43 U. MICH. J.L. REFORM 569 (2010).
Race and Proportionality Since McCleskey v. Kemp (1987): Different Actors with Mixed Strategies of Denial and Avoidance. David C. Baldus, George Woodworth & Catherine M. Grosso. 39 COLUM. HUM. RTS. L. REV. 143 (2007).
Arbitrariness and Discrimination in the Administration of the Death Penalty: A Legal and Empirical Analysis of the Nebraska Experience (1973–1999). David C. Baldus, George Woodworth, Catherine M. Grosso & Aaron M. Christ. 81 NEB. L. REV. 486 (2002).
International Law in the Domestic Arena: The Case of Torture in Israel. Catherine M. Grosso. 86 IOWA L. REV. 305 (2000).
Book Chapters
Race and Jury Selection. Catherine M. Grosso & Barbara O’Brien. In RESEARCH HANDBOOK IN LAW AND PSYCHOLOGY (forthcoming 2023)
Commentary on Coker v. Georgia. Barbara O’Brien & Catherine M. Grosso. In FEMINIST JUDGEMENTS: CRIMINAL LAW (Bennett Capers, Sarah Deer & Corey Rayburn Yung eds.) (Cambridge Univ. Press, 2022).
Criminal Trials and Reforms Intended to Reduce the Impact of Race: A Review. Catherine M. Grosso & Barbara O’Brien. ANN. REV. LAW SOC. SCI. 2020 16: 117-130 (2020).
The Death Penalty in the United States Military. Catherine M. Grosso. In ROUTLEDGE HANDBOOK ON Capital Punishment (2018).
Jury Selection in the Post-Batson Era. Catherine M. Grosso & Barbara O’Brien. In CRIMINAL JURIES IN THE 21ST CENTURY: PSYCHOLOGICAL SCIENCE AND THE LAW (Cynthia Najdowski & Margaret Stevenson eds.) (Oxford University Press 2018).
Race Discrimination and the Death Penalty: An Empirical and Legal Overview. Catherine M. Grosso, Barbara O’Brien, Abijah Taylor & George Woodworth. In AMERICA’S EXPERIMENT WITH CAPITAL PUNISHMENT (Charles S. Lanier, Robert Bohm & James Acker eds.) (Durham, N.C.: Carolina Acad. Press 3d ed., 2014).
Empirical Studies of Race and Geographic Discrimination in the Administration of the Death Penalty: A Primer on the Key Methodological Issues. David Baldus, George Woodworth, Neil Alan Weiner, David Zuckerman & Catherine M. Grosso. In THE FUTURE OF AMERICA’S DEATH PENALTY: AN AGENDA FOR THE NEXT GENERATION OF CAPITAL PUNISHMENT RESEARCH (Charles S. Lanier, William J. Bowers & James Acker eds.) (Durham, N.C.: Carolina Acad. Press 2009).
Other Publications
Secrets & Suspicionless Policing: A Fundamentally Anti-Democratic Mix. Catherine M. Grosso. American Constitution Society, ACS Blog, Expert Forum (6 April 2023).
Furman at Fifty: California’s Failure to Narrow Death-Eligibility. David Baldus (deceased), George Woodworth, Catherine M. Grosso, Michael Laurence & Jeffrey Fagan. 43 AMICUS J. 36 (2022) (based on Journal of Empirical Legal Studies article of same name).
Perfecting the Record on Appeal, A Review of THE COLOR OF LAW: A FORGOTTEN HISTORY OF HOW OUR GOVERNMENT SEGREGATED AMERICA BY RICHARD ROTHSTEIN. Brian Gilmore & Catherine M. Grosso. 53 NEW ENG. L. REV. 1 (2021).
Comment: Expanding the Record by Scott Phillips and Justin Marceau. Barbara O’Brien & Catherine M. Grosso. 55 HARV. C.R.-C.L. REV. 667 (2020).
Book Review, EUGENE WANGER, FIGHTING THE DEATH PENALTY: A FIFTY-YEAR JOURNEY OF ARGUMENT AND PERSUASION. Catherine M. Grosso. 43 MICH. HISTOR. REV. 108 (2017).
James Skelly Wright, Encyclopedia of the Supreme Court (2008).
Mapping Work and Outcomes: Participatory Evaluation of the Farm Preservation Advocacy Network, Cornelia Butler Flora & Catherine M. Grosso. 1 SOC. PRAC. 133–155 (1999).
Human Rights and Norwegian Aid to the Palestinian Areas - A Self-Monitoring Exercise, Catherine Gule, 1997 HUM. RTS. DEV. Y.B. 60 (1997).