2022 Symposium: Fairness and Transparency in AI
Alison Morantz
A scholar whose research has explored the law and economics of protective labor regulation, intellectual and developmental disability (I/DD), and workers’ compensation, Alison D. Morantz seeks to parse the real-world effects of legal and policy reform. Her recent work has examined the relationship between ownership status and the quality of care in facilities serving the intellectually disabled, how statistical techniques can be used to target the most hazardous workplaces, the effects of unionization on mine safety, and the law and economics of workers’ compensation.
Morantz is the Director of the Stanford Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities Law and Policy Project (SIDDLAPP), an interdisciplinary initiative examining the rights and welfare of individuals with I/DD. She is also a Senior Fellow of the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research (SIEPR), and has been the principal investigator of multi–year research projects funded by the National Science Foundation and the National Institute of Occupational Safety and Health. In the spring of 2010, she was one of four experts appointed, at Secretary of Labor Hilda Solis’s request, to a federal panel that provided an independent analysis of the Mine Safety and Health Administration’s internal review following the explosion at Upper Big Branch Mine on April 5, 2010, that claimed 29 miners’ lives.
After receiving a BA summa cum laude from Harvard in 1993, Morantz earned an MSc from Oxford University on a Rhodes Scholarship; a JD from Yale Law School; and a PhD in economics from Harvard University. She clerked for Judge Patti B. Saris of the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts, and worked as a union–side labor lawyer and antidiscrimination advocate in Boston, before joining the Stanford Law School faculty in 2004.
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