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When Organizations Rule: Judicial Deference To Institutionalized Employment Structures, Lauren Edelman, Linda Krieger, Scott Eliason, Catherine Albiston, Virginia Mellema
When Organizations Rule: Judicial Deference To Institutionalized Employment Structures, Lauren Edelman, Linda Krieger, Scott Eliason, Catherine Albiston, Virginia Mellema
Lauren Edelman
This article offers a theoretical and empirical analysis of legal endogeneity—a powerful process through which institutionalized organizational structures influence judicial conceptions of compliance with antidiscrimination law. It finds that organizational structures (e.g., grievance and evaluation procedures, antiharassment policies) become symbolic indicators of rational governance and compliance with antidiscrimination laws, first within organizations, but eventually in the judicial realm as well. Lawyers and judges tend to infer nondiscrimination from the mere presence of those structures. Judges increasingly defer to organizational structures in their opinions, ultimately inferring nondiscrimination from their presence. Legal endogeneity theory is tested by analyzing a random sample of …
Lawrence Friedman And The Canons Of Law & Society, Lauren Edelman
Lawrence Friedman And The Canons Of Law & Society, Lauren Edelman
Lauren Edelman
No abstract provided.
L'Endogeneite Du Droit, Lauren Edelman
To Comply Or Not To Comply - That Isn't The Question: How Organizations Construct The Meaning Of Compliance, Lauren Edelman, Shauhin Talesh
To Comply Or Not To Comply - That Isn't The Question: How Organizations Construct The Meaning Of Compliance, Lauren Edelman, Shauhin Talesh
Lauren Edelman
No abstract provided.