I’ve just spent the last few days fulfilling my obligation to serve as a juror in the New York County Criminal Court. While most of people in my jury pool just wanted to do their duty with the least disruption of their normal lives, there were two other large groups....

I was invited recently to be a juror in a mock trial for Professor Michael Finkelstein’s Statistics for Lawyers class at Columbia University Law School. The core issue of the trial was whether or not a major teaching hospital was discriminating against women, as to...