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Fifth Annual Chief Justice Ronald M. George Distinguished Lecture: Veterans In The Judiciary, Lisa Lomba
Fifth Annual Chief Justice Ronald M. George Distinguished Lecture: Veterans In The Judiciary, Lisa Lomba
Ronald M. George Distinguished Lecture Series
Program Handbook for:
October 17, 2013
Fifth Annual Chief Justice Ronald M. George Distinguished Lecture:
Veterans in the Judiciary
Featuring: Associate Justice Ming. W. Chin, Supreme Court of California
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October 18, 2013: First Annual Veterans Law Conference
Presented by the Law Students Veterans Coalition of Northern California
2013-14 International Women Judges Graduate Fellow Announced, Lisa Lomba
2013-14 International Women Judges Graduate Fellow Announced, Lisa Lomba
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Early Disclosure Would Gut Judicial Complaint System, Susan Rutberg, Peter Keane
Early Disclosure Would Gut Judicial Complaint System, Susan Rutberg, Peter Keane
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Wwii Japanese Internments: Can It Happen Again?, Karen Korematsu, Robert Leon Rusky, Nasrina Bargzie
Wwii Japanese Internments: Can It Happen Again?, Karen Korematsu, Robert Leon Rusky, Nasrina Bargzie
The Jesse Carter Distinguished Lecture Series
In 1942 at the age of 23, Fred Korematsu intentionally defied Executive Order 9066 and refused to go to the government’s incarceration camps for American citizens of Japanese ancestry. After he was arrested and convicted of defying the government’s curfew law, he appealed his case all the way to the United States Supreme Court. In 1944, the Supreme Court ruled against him, ruling that the incarceration was justified due to military necessity. It was not until 1983 that a team of lawyers helped overturn Korematsu’s conviction in the United States District Court, Northern District of California.
On September 23, 2010, …
Socioeconomic Bias In The Judiciary, Michele Benedetto Neitz
Socioeconomic Bias In The Judiciary, Michele Benedetto Neitz
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Judges hold a prestigious place in our judicial system, and they earn double the income of the average American household. How does the privileged socioeconomic status of judges affect their decisions on the bench? This Article examines the ethical implications of what Ninth Circuit Chief Judge Alex Kozinski recently called the “unselfconscious cultural elitism” of judges.** This elitism can manifest as implicit socioeconomic bias.
Despite the attention paid to income inequality, implicit bias research and judicial bias, no other scholar to date has fully examined the ramifications of implicit socioeconomic bias on the bench. The Article explains that socioeconomic bias …