Topic
Implicit Bias
165 published works
Appellate Advocacy Blog
Thinking slowly to address implicit bias
As advocates, we frequently represent clients who face potential bias from the jury box or bench. Sometimes the biases are explicit, but most often, the biases are implicit, and the…
Boundary Dispute Law Blog
Implicit Bias v. Scientific Method
By Bob Zierman
Yesterday, I had an informational interview with a gentleman from Tableau Software. He mentioned how he believes it is so important that we follow the scientific method's means of determining…
Gender and the Law Prof Blog
Harvard Study Shows Bias Drops Dramatically for Sexual Orientation and Race Since 2007
By Tracy Thomas
Study: Bias Drops Dramatically for Sexual Orientation and Race since 2007New research from Harvard University finds that Americans' unconscious bias on the basis of sexual orientation and race dropped dramatically over a…
California Employment Law Update
The Coming Battle Over ‘Implicit Bias’ in Employment Discrimination Cases
By Tony Oncidi
Employers are facing the growing threat of “implicit bias” evidence in employment discrimination cases. Employment partner Tony Oncidi explains how to meet the challenge: https://www.proskauer.com/uploads/the-coming-battle-over-implicit-bias-in-employment-discrimination-cases …
Taking Care of HR Business
12 Days of HR: A Lesson on Implicit Bias Inspired by Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer
The story of Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer has been a long-time holiday staple, both in film and in song. The gist of the story is that Rudolph was born with…
Gender and the Law Prof Blog
Implicit Bias in the Law School Dean Search Process
By Tracy Thomas
Michelle Benedetto Neitz, Pulling Back the Curtain: Implicit Bias in the Law School Dean Search Process, Seton Hall L. Rev. (forthcoming) The dean search process can be viewed as a bellwether…
Sentencing Law and Policy
“Who Locked Us Up? Examining the Social Meaning of Black Punitiveness”
Main October 29, 2018"Who Locked Us Up? Examining the Social Meaning of Black Punitiveness"The title of this post is the title of this new quasi-book review authored by Darren Lenard…
Pretrial, Trial, Appellate & Evidence Blog
HISTORIC NEW RULE: JURY SELECTION AND IMPLICIT BIAS
The Washington Supreme Court is the first court in the nation to adopt rules aimed at eliminating implicit bias from jury selection in both civil and criminal cases. The new…
Gender and the Law Prof Blog
Changing the Toxic Culture of Domestic Violence by Renorming in Law
By Tracy Thomas
Melissa Berger, Reforming by Re-Norming: How the Legal System has the Potential to Change a Toxic Culture of Domestic Violence, 44 Notre Dame J. of Legislation 171 (2018)Regressive societal norms…
The Right Coast
NAACP goes Big Brother: What we need is mandatory implicit bias testing
NAACP President Derrick Johnson wrote a piece for USAToday yesterday announcing that his organization was calling for mandatory implicit bias testing for all public officials. Implicit bias testing is a…