Author | Title | Citation | Summary | Year |
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Statement of the Anti-defamation League on Bias-motivated Crime and H.r. 1082--the Hate Crimes Prevention Act August 4, 1999 |
21 Chicano-Latino Law Review 53 (Spring 2000) |
The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) is pleased to provide testimony as the House Judiciary Committee conducts hearings on bias-motivated crime and H.R. 1082, the Hate Crimes Prevention Act (HCPA). This necessary legislation, introduced under the leadership of Representatives Conyers, Morella, Gephardt, Frank, and Forbes, would eliminate gaps in... |
2000 |
Jennifer Gerarda Brown |
Sweeping Reform from Small Rules? Anti-bias Canons as a Substitute for Heightened Scrutiny |
85 Minnesota Law Review 363 (December, 2000) |
I. A Primer on Judicial Bias. 371 II. A Taxonomy of Judicial Bias on the Basis of Sexual Orientation. 377 A. Disrespect. 380 B. Distorting Findings of Fact: Positive Bias. 388 1. Judicial Notice. 396 2. Bad Empiricism. 405 3. When General Trumps Specific. 411 C. Distorting Application of Law: Normative Bias. 416 1. Law that Is Clearly Anti-Gay and... |
2000 |
Frederick M. Lawrence |
The Case for a Federal Bias Crime Law |
16 National Black Law Journal 144 (1999-2000) |
The past twenty years have seen a revolution in the legal response to bias-motivated violence. Prior to 1980, Connecticut was the only state that criminalized bias crimes. Bias crime laws have become pervasive in American legal culture. Virtually every state now expressly criminalizes bias crimes. At the present time, however, there is no pure... |
2000 |
Martha Chamallas |
The Disappearing Consumer, Cognitive Bias and Tort Law |
6 Roger Williams University Law Review Rev. 9 (Fall 2000) |
The term hidden curriculum is sometimes used by academics to describe an underlying structure beneath the catalogue listing of required and elective courses. In the hidden curriculum are the must-take courses, the courses which are considered to be the most important and central and which acquire a higher status as a result of their informal... |
2000 |
Sarah G. Vincent |
The Hate Within Ourselves: Criminal Law's Attempt to Overcome Bias |
16 Harvard BlackLetter Law Journal 229 (Spring, 2000) |
Discussions about racism generally elicit sighs of weariness, but the mention of racially motivated crimes grabs the attention of everyone within hearing range. The average person knows about the civil rights movement and all the successes that accompanied its legal aftermath, but will dismiss the idea of racism existing except for the allegedly... |
2000 |
Robert A. Prentice |
The Sec and Mdp: Implications of the Self-serving Bias for Independent Auditing |
61 Ohio State Law Journal 1597 (2000) |
Huge accounting firms, seeking to become one-stop shopping centers for clients, wish to add legal services to the audit, tax, information consulting, financial planning, litigation support, and other services they already provide-a phenomenon known as multi-disciplinary practice (MDP). MDP can aggravate problems already plaguing objectivity and... |
2000 |
Gail D. Hollister |
Tort Suits for Injuries Sustained During Illegal Abortions: the Effects of Judicial Bias |
45 Villanova Law Review 387 (2000) |
SYMONE T., an eleven-year-old child, was raped in December 1987. On May 25, 1988 she learned that she was pregnant, and, on May 26, her mother took her to a hospital where Symone underwent an abortion. The abortion was illegal because Symone was 24.7 weeks pregnant. The abortionist allegedly performed the procedure negligently, causing Symone to... |
2000 |
Roxanne Barton Conlin, Gretchen Jensen |
What, Me? Prejudiced? Absolutely Not! |
36-DEC Trial 20 (December, 2000) |
Almost no one thinks he or she is prejudiced. In fact, we all are. Jury selection must be conducted in a way that reveals the subtle and not-so-subtle biases held by the members of the venire. Jury selection is a crucial element in achieving a fair result for your client. Without an impartial jury, the best representation and facts may not win the... |
2000 |
Cecil R. Reynolds , Texas A&M University |
Why Is Psychometric Research on Bias in Mental Testing So Often Ignored? |
6 Psychology, Public Policy, And Law 144 (March, 2000) |
Since the late 1960s, a substantial body of content and methodological research on bias has been conducted. Much of this research has been conducted by psychometricians and published in major psychometric journals not often read by those in other psychological specialties. However, much of what has been learned is summarized in book chapters and... |
2000 |
AnnJanette Rosga |
Bias Before the Law: the Rearticulation of Hate Crimes in Wisconsin V. Mitchell |
25 New York University Review of Law and Social Change 29 (1999) |
The subject of law is also the subject of the nation. Law is primarily a national institution and adherence to its rule symbolizes the imagined community of the nation and expresses the fundamental unity and equality of its citizens. Paul Gilroy The maintenance of a nation's identity as a nation depends crucially upon its particular historical... |
1999 |
Myra C. Selby |
Examining Race and Gender Bias in the Courts: a Legacy of Indifference or Opportunity? |
32 Indiana Law Review 1167 (1999) |
The true worth of a race must be measured by the character of its womanhood. In his 1999 State of the Union address, President William Jefferson Clinton recognized a great heroine of the Civil Rights' movement, Rosa Parks. Parks, in 1955, refused to give up her seat on the bus in Montgomery, Alabama, in violation of one of the restrictive Jim... |
1999 |
W. JOHN THOMAS, ; DOROTHY E. STUBBE, ; GERALDINE PEARSON |
Race, Juvenile Justice, and Mental Health: New Dimensions in Measuring Pervasive Bias |
89 Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology 615 (Winter 1999) |
Delinquent Children, are those, who through Ignorance, Vice, Folly, Sport Carelessness, Thoughtlessness and in a hundred other ways, violate City Ordinances, Laws, statutes or the Rights of Others, for which there must be some method of Correction. Defective Children, are those who are physically or mentally deficient, thereby becoming a charge... |
1999 |
Ruth E. Friedman |
Statistics and Death: the Conspicuous Role of Race Bias in the Administration of the Death Penalty |
11 La Raza Law Journal 75 (Spring, 1999) |
Statistics can be very useful things. They are detached, nonpartisan, and eminently quotable. Never damned lies by themselves, statistics are cold calculations not amenable to much debate. It is, of course, what we think the numbers mean that makes all the difference. This short essay looks at a few statistics on race and criminal justice and the... |
1999 |
Deana A. Pollard |
Unconscious Bias and Self-critical Analysis: the Case for a Qualified Evidentiary Equal Employment Opportunity Privilege |
74 Washington Law Review 913 (October, 1999) |
Abstract: Recent breakthroughs in social psychology have resulted in the ability to measure unconscious bias scientifically. Studies indicate that prejudiced responses are largely unconscious, the result of normal cognitive processing and stereotypical associations of which the prejudiced subject may be completely unaware. The studies also indicate... |
1999 |
Rena M. Atchison |
A Comparison of Gender Bias Studies: Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals and South Dakota Findings in the Context of Nationwide Studies |
43 South Dakota Law Review 616 (1998) |
The final publication of forty-one gender bias reports and the continuing formation of other reports concerning gender bias have produced some definitive answers in a complex arena. Although several questions remain in the gender bias forum, a discussion of the numerous reports, findings, recommendations and implementation of those recommendations... |
1998 |
Kenji Yoshino |
Assimilationist Bias in Equal Protection: the Visibility Presumption and the Case of "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" |
108 Yale Law Journal 485 (December, 1998) |
I. Introduction. 487 II. Equal Protection Immutability and Visibility Defined. 493 A. Immutability. 493 B. Visibility. 496 C. Commonalities. 498 III. Equal Protection's Assimilationist Bias. 500 A. The Substantive Defense and Its Shortcomings. 504 B. The Political Process Defense. 506 IV. The Immutability Presumption. 509 A. Evasive Power. 509 B.... |
1998 |
Robin Parker |
Bias Crimes in the Schools-an Uncivil Education |
193-OCT New Jersey Lawyer, the Magazine 20 (October, 1998) |
ยท Santa Barbara, CA Sitting in school one day an Africian American high school student struggles to maintain her composure when a group of white classmates slip a drawing of a lynched black girl onto her desk. Later in the school year, a white high school student, wearing a Confederate flag like a bandit's mask, punches an Africian-American... |
1998 |
Ellen E. Deason |
Court-appointed Expert Witnesses: Scientific Positivism Meets Bias and Deference |
77 Oregon Law Review 59 (Spring 1998) |
I. The Evolution of Court-Appointed Experts Within the Adversarial System. 64 A. The Emergence of Appointed Experts. 64 B. The Current Authority and Procedures for Appointing Expert Witnesses and Advisors. 75 1. Rule 706 of the Federal Rules of Evidence. 75 2. The Courts' Inherent Power. 79 II. Improvements Court-Appointed Experts Bring to the... |
1998 |
The Honorable John Garrett Penn |
D.c. Circuit: Study of Gender, Race, and Ethnic Bias |
32 University of Richmond Law Review 765 (May 1, 1998) |
Matthew J. DeVries The District of Columbia Circuit became the first federal circuit to establish a Task Force on race and gender bias. In 1992, the Task Force, which was comprised of judges from the D.C. Circuit, created two committees--the Special Committee on Gender and the Special Committee on Race and Ethnicity--to assist the Task Force in its... |
1998 |
Daria Roithmayr |
Deconstructing the Distinction Between Bias and Merit |
10 La Raza Law Journal 363 (Spring 1998) |
In this article Professor Roithmayr attempts to develop in the context of law school admissions a theoretical argument from deconstruction to support the radical critique of merit. The radical critique, espoused primarily by Critical Race Theorists and radical feminists, argues that merit standards disproportionately exclude white women and people... |
1998 |
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Eleventh Circuit: "Executive Summary"--report of the Eleventh Circuit Task Force on Gender Bias |
32 University of Richmond Law Review 751 (May 1, 1998) |
In 1993 the Eleventh Circuit Judicial Council's Task Force on Gender Bias was established. It was the Mandate of this Task Force to study the effects of gender in the Eleventh Circuit and the courts that comprise the Eleventh Circuit. The Task Force elected to employ survey methods to discover whether or not various members of the court family... |
1998 |
Laurie Schaffner |
Female Juvenile Delinquency: Sexual Solutions, Gender Bias, and Juvenile Justice |
9 Hastings Women's Law Journal L.J. 1 (Winter 1998) |
The beginning of delinquency in girls is usually an impulse to get amusement, adventure, pretty clothes, favorable notice, distinction, freedom in the larger world which presents so many allurements and comparisons. The cases which I have examined (about three thousand) show that sexual passion does not play an important role, for the girls have... |
1998 |
Gregory A. Nussel |
Fifth Circuit: Study of Gender Bias |
32 University of Richmond Law Review 723 (May 1, 1998) |
In October 1993, in response to a recommendation in the Report of the National Commission on Judicial Discipline and Removal, Chief Judge Henry A. Politz appointed a Special Committee of the Fifth Circuit Judicial Council to consider and recommend whether a study of gender bias in the Fifth Circuit should be made. The Special Committee, composed of... |
1998 |
The Honorable Bruce M. Selya |
First Circuit: a Study of Gender Bias in and Around the Courts |
32 University of Richmond Law Review 647 (May 1, 1998) |
Beginning with the state courts of New Jersey in 1984, almost every state in the country and numerous federal circuits have mounted initiatives to address issues of gender bias in the courts. While individual approaches have varied, each of these judicial units has displayed an increasing sensitivity to the potential problems of bias in the courts... |
1998 |
Samuel W. Phillips |
Fourth Circuit: the Judicial Council's Review on the Need for a Gender Bias Study |
32 University of Richmond Law Review 721 (May 1, 1998) |
In 1993, the Women Judges Fund for Justice, the National Association of Women Judges, and the National Center for State Courts, sponsored a four-day conference (March 18-21) in Williamsburg, Virginia, entitled Second National Conference on Gender Bias in the Courts: Focus on Follow-up. Then Chief Circuit Judge Sam J. Ervin, III, designated the... |
1998 |
Marilyn J. Berger , Kari A. Robinson |
Gender Bias in the American Bar Association Journal: Impact on the Legal Profession |
13 Wisconsin Women's Law Journal 75 (Spring 1998) |
We cannot but think the common law wise in excluding women from the profession of law. . . . The law of nature destines and qualifies the female sex for the bearing and nurture of the children of our race and for the custody of the homes of the world and their maintenance in love and honor. And all life-long callings of women, inconsistent with... |
1998 |
M. Juliet Bonazzoli |
Jury Selection and Bias: Debunking Invidious Stereotypes Through Science |
18 QLR 247 (Summer 1998) |
Jury selection, according to many experts, is the most critical stage of the trial process. Some believe that a case is won or lost there. The O.J. Simpson criminal and civil trials, in which jury composition remained a concern both during and after the trials, illustrate the pivotal role jury selection plays in the trial process. Psychologists,... |
1998 |
The Honorable Procter Hug, Jr., The Honorable Marilyn L. Huff, The Honorable John C. Coughenour |
Ninth Circuit: the Gender Bias Task Force |
32 University of Richmond Law Review 735 (May 1, 1998) |
In 1990, the federal courts o f the Ninth Circuit began to examine the effects of gender on the business of the courts. The pioneering Final Report of the Ninth Circuit Gender Bias Task Force was issued in July 1993 and the Ninth Circuit has worked to implement the task force's recommendations for several years. To assist others setting forth on a... |
1998 |
Andrew D. Leipold |
Objective Tests and Subjective Bias: Some Problems of Discriminatory Intent in the Criminal Law |
73 Chicago-Kent Law Review 559 (1998) |
Much has changed in the area of race and the criminal law over the last thirty years, but three things remain constant. First, despite the formal repudiation of racism at all levels of government, racial bias continues to play a role in the investigation and prosecution of crimes. Second, most of the judicial efforts to eliminate racism have... |
1998 |
Jennifer Durkin |
Queer Studies I: an Examination of the First Eleven Studies of Sexual Orientation Bias by the Legal Profession |
8 UCLA Women's Law Journal 343 (Spring-Summer 1998) |
Professor William Rubenstein first approached me with the idea for this Article in November 1997. I thought that it would be interesting to read through the sexual orientation bias studies that have been done and to evaluate their similarities and differences. I began my research by reading several of the reports. Then, I began Westlaw and Internet... |
1998 |