Document Type

Article

Publication Date

2017

Publication Citation

Conference on the Judiciary in Territorially and Culturally Compound Systems: Organization and Functions, Trento, May 7-8, 2015

Abstract

This paper is about diversity in federal and state courts in the United States. My main argument is that we should promote a judiciary that is reflective of the society of which it is a part for three reasons: first, because in doing so, we gain critical awareness of barriers to judicial service; second, because in doing so, we are also promoting access to resources, education and opportunities in the legal profession; and third, because it is possible (although not automatic) that a reflective judiciary will broaden the range of experience and perspective on the matters involved in the cases themselves. I will focus primarily on the first and second of these points, with some attention to individual judges in the paper’s closing section.

Comments

This essay will appear in JURISDICTION AND PLURALISMS: THE TEMPTATIONS OF A REFLECTIVE JUDICIARY. New York: Routledge, Forthcoming 2017.

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