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Explicit Bias, Jessica A. Clarke Nov 2018

Explicit Bias, Jessica A. Clarke

Northwestern University Law Review

In recent decades, legal scholars have advanced sophisticated models for understanding prejudice and discrimination, drawing on disciplines such as psychology, sociology, and economics. These models explain how inequality is implicit in cognition and seamlessly woven into social structures. And yet, obvious, explicit, and overt forms of bias have not gone away. The law does not need empirical methods to identify bias when it is marching down the street in Nazi regalia, hurling misogynist invective, or trading in anti-Muslim stereotypes. Official acceptance of such prejudices may be uniquely harmful in normalizing discrimination. But surprisingly, many discrimination cases ignore explicit bias. Courts …


Equal Protection And The Social Sciences Thirty Years After Mccleskey V. Kemp, Destiny Peery, Osagie K. Obasogie Jun 2018

Equal Protection And The Social Sciences Thirty Years After Mccleskey V. Kemp, Destiny Peery, Osagie K. Obasogie

Northwestern University Law Review

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Protecting Title Vii's Antiretaliation Provision In The Wake Of University Of Texas Southwestern Medical Center V. Nassar, Kimberly A. Pathman Jan 2015

Protecting Title Vii's Antiretaliation Provision In The Wake Of University Of Texas Southwestern Medical Center V. Nassar, Kimberly A. Pathman

Northwestern University Law Review

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Critical Analysis Of Judicial Attempts To Reconcile The United States-Japan Friendship, Commerce And Navigation Treaty With Title Vii, A , Jeffrey J. Mayer Jan 1992

Critical Analysis Of Judicial Attempts To Reconcile The United States-Japan Friendship, Commerce And Navigation Treaty With Title Vii, A , Jeffrey J. Mayer

Northwestern Journal of International Law & Business

This paper offers a practical solution to the conflict between civil rights and economic growth through a new, but sensible, interpretation of the "right to choose" provision. Part I explains the conflicting rulings of the five Courts of Appeals that have addressed this issue. Part II concludes that the courts' various reconciliations between Title VII and the Japan FCN Treaty are, in each case, impossible to apply consistently or fairly. Courts have wrongly attempted to preserve the protections of Title VII for American employees of foreign corporations by asking factfinders to draw impossibly fine distinctions between permissible and prohibited criteria …