Sonali Chakravarti

Sonali Chakravarti is Professor of Government and director of the Allbritton Center for the Study of Public Life at Wesleyan University. She is the author of Radical Enfranchisement in the Jury Room and Public Life.

Jurors Can Protect Abortion Access

Just as abolitionists fought the Fugitive Slave Act, those resisting the criminalization of reproductive health can employ jury nullification.

  • Sonali Chakravarti

Derek Chauvin and the Myth of the Impartial Juror

What should “impartiality” mean for jurors in a historically unequal criminal legal system?

  • Sonali Chakravarti

A Jury of One’s Peers

Prosecutors have too long used a system of “strikes” to engineer nearly all-white juries.

  • Sonali Chakravarti
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