Law Students

How Female Judges Decide Cases

By Anonymous

Neil A. Lewis discusses the question of how female judges decide cases in his piece Debate on Whether Female Judges Decide Differently Arises Anew:

Sandra Day O?Connor, the first woman to serve on the Supreme Court, is often quoted as saying that a wise female judge will come to the same conclusion as a wise male judge.

But the opposing argument was bolstered forcefully in April by Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, currently the court?s only woman, in a case involving Savana Redding, a 13-year-old girl who had been strip-searched at school by the authorities on suspicion of hiding some ibuprofen pills that may be bought over-the-counter.

The rest of the article is here.

Further reading on the topic:

Sally J. Kenney, Thinking about gender and juding

Christina L. Boyd, Lee Epstein, and Andrew D. Martin, Untangling the Casual Effects of Sex on Judging

Jennifer Peresie, Female Judges Matter: Gender and Collegial Decisionmaking in the Federal Appeallate Courts

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Full post as published by Ms. JD on June 04, 2009 (boomark / email).