Prof. Shen Receives IDEA Multicultural Research Award

Professor Francis Shen has been awarded a 2013 Multicultural Research Award by the University of Minnesota Institute for Diversity, Equity, and Advocacy (IDEA). Shen will use the research award on a project entitled "Race, Gender, and the Sorting of Guilty Minds." The project will investigate the effects of defendant race and gender on the attribution of mens rea in the criminal law. This work builds on Shen's previous collaborative scholarship "Sorting Guilty Minds," 86 New York University Law Review 1306 (2011) (with Morris B. Hoffman, Owen D. Jones, Joshua D. Greene & Rene Marois).