Institute for Quantitative Social Science at Harvard University

James Greiner

Department of Statistics, Department of Statistics

• James Greiner's web site

Before coming to the Statistics Department in 2002, Jim practiced law for six
years, three for the Department of Justice (Civil Division, Federal Programs
Branch), three for the Washington, D.C. office of Jenner & Block. He tried to
focus his practice on employment discrimination, voting rights, and the
Decennial Census, but alas, he also had to learn how airplanes get on and off
aircraft carriers (in the A-12 litigation, originally filed over 15 years ago
and still going), as well as how to deal with structural injunctions in
long-running housing desegregation cases.

Currently, Jim's research focuses on statistics and litigation, especially (i) ecological inference models often used in cases under Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act, and (ii) the application of counterfactual frameworks of causal inference to employment
discrimination and death penalty matters.

In his spare time, Jim enjoys movies of all kinds, and children's literature, and above all, spending time with his wife.