Mark Kleiman Innovation for Public Policy Memorial Lecture 

Aurélie Ouss will deliver the 2024 Mark Kleiman Innovation for Public Policy Memorial Lecture at the National Academy of Sciences Building. This lecture memorializes the late Mark Kleiman — a policy analyst, teacher, and long-time member of the National Academy’s Committee on Law and Justice — by awarding an early career scholars who has innovative ideas for public policy. 

Ouss is an assistant professor in the Department of Criminology at the University of Pennsylvania. Her scholarship aims to make the criminal justice system fairer and more efficient. She primarily does empirical research grounded in the methodology of economics. She also engages with researchers in the fields of legal studies, behavioral science, and sociology, and with policymakers and practitioners in the United States and France. She received a Ph.D. in economics from Harvard University and completed a post-doctoral fellowship at the University of Chicago Crime Lab.