Refugee Roulette
The “Refugee Roulette: Disparities in Asylum Adjudication” by Phil Schrag, Jaya Ramji-Nogales, Andrew Schoenholtz, forthcoming in the Stanford Law Review, is available at http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=983946 The article shows the disparities in asylum adjudications between courts, applicants from different nations, and other factors. The N.Y. Times (here) today has a nice article featuring the study.
KJ