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Elliott Ash is Assistant Professor of Economics at University of Warwick, where he teaches political economy and public finance. Elliott’s research focuses on empirical analysis of the law and legal system using techniques from applied microeconometrics, natural language processing, and machine learning. Elliott was previously a Postdoctoral Research Associate at Princeton University’s Center for the Study of Democratic Politics. He received a PhD in economics and JD from Columbia University, a BA in economics, government, and philosophy from University of Texas at Austin, and an LLM in international criminal law from University of Amsterdam. Meanwhile, Elliott has provided expert witness testimony for the Department of Justice Civil Rights investigation into discriminatory practices at Ferguson Police Department.