Meet Nina Varsava, new Assistant Professor at UW Law School. Nina was recently profiled in the campus newsletter Inside UW.
I work largely at the intersection of law and applied ethics. I’m interested, for example, in revealing and remedying injustices in human subjects research, and in the delivery of health care and legal services.
Also, I think it’s important to make research findings accessible to a broad audience beyond academia and to keep open lines of communication between the university and broader society. To that end, I look for opportunities to discuss my work outside of academia and to write about research for general audiences.
Below is a selection of Nina’s recent works. For more, see her author profiles on SSRN and the UW Law School Digital Repository.
- Elements of Judicial Style: A Quantitative Guide to Neil Gorsuch’s Opinion Writing 93 NYU Law Review Online 75 (2018), Univ. of Wisconsin Legal Studies Research Paper No. 1489
- Kavanaugh Ignored Precedent in His Major Abortion Dissent. That’s Part of a Pattern. Slate, Feb 27, 2019
- How to Realize the Value of Stare Decisis: Options for Following Precedent 30 Yale Journal of Law and the Humanities 62 (2018), Univ. of Wisconsin Legal Studies Research Paper No. 1490
- Computational Legal Studies, Digital Humanities, and Textual Analysis in COMPUTATIONAL LEGAL STUDIES: THE PROMISE AND CHALLENGE OF DATA-DRIVEN LEGAL RESEARCH (Ryan Whalen, ed.) (Forthcoming)., Univ. of Wisconsin Legal Studies Research Paper No. 1492
- The Role of Dissents in the Formation of Precedent 14 DUKE JOURNAL OF CONSTITUTIONAL LAW & PUBLIC POLICY 285 (2019), Univ. of Wisconsin Legal Studies Research Paper No. 1493
- Allocating Authority between Lawyers and Their Clients after McCoy v. Louisiana 23 NEW CRIMINAL LAW REVIEW (forthcoming Spring 2020), Univ. of Wisconsin Legal Studies Research Paper No. 1491
- Conflicts of Interpretation Univ. of Wisconsin Legal Studies Research Paper No. 1495
- Severe Brain Injury, Disability, and the Law: Achieving Justice for a Marginalized Population Florida State University Law Review, Vol. 45, 2018
- The Problem of Anthropomorphous Animals: Toward a Posthumanist Ethics Society & Animals 22, no. 5 (2014): 520-536