Marie Wako
J.S.D. Candidate
Stanford Law School
Marie Wako is a J.S.D. candidate at Stanford Law School whose research examines how race and gender shape criminal law and legal institutions in the United States and Japan. Her current project, Racialized Language in Criminal Courtrooms, uses natural language processing to analyze approximately 400 California trial transcripts and examine how prosecutors, defense counsel, and judges frame defendants in relation to claims under the California Racial Justice Act.
Marie holds an LL.M. from Stanford Law School and a J.D. and LL.B. from the University of Tokyo. She is also a licensed attorney in Japan and New York.