As the T&S field matures, policymakers, regulators, and industry practitioners are increasingly hungry for empirical evidence to guide their work. As part of the Social Media Governance Initiative, we downloaded an archive of 20 years of over 1,200 research articles written on various online Trust and Safety topics. Our postbaccalaureate fellow, Michael Bochkur Dratver, then began a systematic coding of all articles in the archive using a codebook that was developed collaboratively among those in our lab and feedback from others interested in the project.

The SMGI/JC hosted a two-day in person conference on Thursday and Friday March 30th and 31st, 2023 at Yale Law School. This two-day conference included presentations from a cross-disciplinary group of scholars and industry practitioners discussing their work exploring a range of issues of online governance.

Sponsored by the Justice Collaboratory’s Social Media Governance Initiative, this course on Trust, Safety, and Governance helps prepare participants to be effective practitioners of governance and leaders within Trust & Safety teams. The three-day intensive workshop provides state of the art training on ways to use digital technologies to create and maintain prosocial environments.

The Social Media Governance Initiative is hosting a one day workshop entitled “Community Driven Governance Online: Past, Present, and Future”. The forum will discuss approaches to online governance which put communities at the center of governance structures, providing community members tools, training, and systems to build communities and self-govern.

In partnership with the Policing Project at New York University School of Law, The Justice Collaboratory organized the convening of two working groups of some of the country’s leading advocates and experts to discuss what a reimagined public safety system would look like.

With the support of the William T. Grant Foundation and the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, we are working with several large district attorney’s offices to understand the causal impacts of misdemeanor prosecution. Misdemeanor cases make up over 80 percent of the cases processed by the U.S. criminal justice system, yet we know little about the causal impacts of misdemeanor prosecution.

On October 5-6, 2017, the Justice Collaboratory at Yale Law School hosted the Moving Justice Forward conference, which convened scholars, policymakers, and practitioners to discuss how to advance reforms of the criminal justice system in the absence of progressive federal leadership.

This convening, sponsored by the Justice Collaboratory, explores how policing in the United States will and/or should be affected by the shooting of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri, and the subsequent nationwide protests.