In recent years scholarly attention has increasingly focused on the importance of a robust and procedurally fair system of refugee status determination rsd. Refugee roulette disparities in asylum adjudication and proposals for reform by jaya ramji nogales andrew ian schoenholtz and philip g schrag mike sanderson unhcr kosovo a legal consultant unhcr kosovo this review was written in the authors private capacity and does not reflect the views of either the united nations high commissioner for refugees or the united nations search for . Inrefugee roulette disparities in asylum adjudication and proposals for reformthe refugee roulette study2 professors ramji nogales schoenholtz and schrag provide a comprehensive analysis of new data to document decisional disparities that undermine the fairness of asylum adjudication the refugee roulette study is an empirical project of remarkable scope it examines patterns of asylum . Refugee roulette disparities in asylum adjudication jaya ramji nogales andrew i schoenholtz and philip g schrag addressing consistency in the application of the law former attorney general robert jackson told congress in 1940 it is obviously repugnant to assistant professor of law temple university beasley school of law . Through the refugee act of 1980 the united states offers the prospect of safety to people who flee to america to escape rape torture and even death in their native countries in order to be granted asylum however an applicant must prove to an asylum officer or immigration judge that she has a well founded fear of persecution in her homeland