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Restructuring The Labor Market To Democratize The Public Forum, Jessica A. Knouse
Restructuring The Labor Market To Democratize The Public Forum, Jessica A. Knouse
Jessica A. Knouse
Restructuring the Labor Market to Democratize the Public Forum makes the provocative argument that the identities we construct in the labor market prevent us from creating a democratic public forum. The labor market, where we spend most of our time as adults, wields tremendous influence over our identities, yet its influences are deeply undemocratic. Employers work to create hierarchy and ideological conformity – through many mechanisms, including sex-based pay scales and stereotypes – rather than to promote equality and ideological diversity. When employer-created hierarchies and ideologies are internalized and reproduced within the public forum, they diminish the possibility of democratic …
Academic Freedom And Governance: A Call For Increased Dialogue And Diversity, Phoebe A. Haddon
Academic Freedom And Governance: A Call For Increased Dialogue And Diversity, Phoebe A. Haddon
Phoebe A. Haddon
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Judicial Diversity On State Supreme Courts, John D. Castiglione, Gregory L. Acquiaviva
Judicial Diversity On State Supreme Courts, John D. Castiglione, Gregory L. Acquiaviva
John D. Castiglione
State courts of last resort are, in many ways, the primary expositors of law in the United States. Criminal law, contracts, family law, wills, trusts, and estates -- just to name a few -- fall within their purview. And yet, we know surprisingly little about just who sits on these courts -- state supreme court judges have been described as “perhaps the most important and least written about group within the judicial system” of the United States. Indeed, the last study on the characteristics and experiences of the state supreme court justices is almost fifteen years old. This Article presents …