We examine the role of gender in legal decision making by applying critical mass theory to
the US federal district courts. We analyze whether behavioral differences manifest …

Women are less successful than their male counterparts at Supreme Court oral arguments
under certain circumstances. However, existing work relies on mere presence rather than on …

Although still a minority, the growing number of women on both the Bench and at the Bar of
the US Supreme Court has important implications for judicial decision-making and …

Despite abundant attention to the judicial selection of US Supreme Court justices, most
federal legal disputes are resolved in the lower federal courts. Who the judges are and how …

In a ground-breaking study on the nature of judicial behaviour in the Supreme Court of
Canada, Donald Songer, Susan Johnson, CL Ostberg, and Matthew Wetstein use three …

In this study, we explore gendered patterns of voting, and whether such patterns appear only
after a critical mass of female justices is reached by analyzing the votes of justices in the …

Is justice truly blind-rendered without regard to wealth, race, sex, or other background
characteristics? For centuries, that compelling idea has animated the self-concept of the …

While federal anti-employment discrimination laws have helped diminish inequality at work,
discrimination persists, in part perhaps due to unequal handling of equal employment …

Workplace bullying has evolved into an insidious, pervasive workplace issue. However, very
few investigations have utilized comprehensive research methods to gain an understanding …

In 1873, Justice Bradley (in) famously wrote in a concurring opinion that the" natural...
timidity and delicacy" of women makes them unfit" for many of the occupations of civil life," …