Preface: Recognizing Implicit Bias in the Scientific & Legal Communities - David Baltimore, David S. Tatel & Anne-Marie Mazza

Tatel & Anne-Marie Mazza Several years ago, in the Fall 2018 volume of Dædalus, we wrote “Bridging the Science-Law Divide,” an essay about the work of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine’s Committee on Science, Technology, and Law.1 In that essay, we discussed the importance of having the legal and sci- entific communities engage with each other on a host of issues, and h. [...] We mentioned that, in the coming years, the committee hoped to focus on the issue of implicit bias (referred to as “unconscious bias” in our 2018 essay), as it was becoming increasingly evi- dent that factors outside individual awareness were affecting personal and insti- tutional decision-making that hindered the full participation of all our citizens. [...] about the authors David Baltimore, a Fellow of the American Academy since 1974, is the Judge Shir- ley Hufstedler Professor of Biology and President Emeritus at the California Insti- tute of Technology. [...] Tatel, a Fellow of the American Academy since 2015, is Senior Counsel at Hogan Lovells, and a retired Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit. [...] Anne-Marie Mazza is the Senior Director of the Committee on Science, Tech- nology, and Law for the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medi- cine, and former Executive Director of the President’s Council of Advisors on Sci- ence and Technology.