Episode 5 Resources: An Insider’s Perspective on the Legal System

Contents

• Learn about Judge Cordell
• Legal Issues Discussed in this Episode
  • Affirmative Action
  • Diversity and the Courts
  • Implicit or Unconscious Bias
  • Intersectionality
  • Mental Health Courts
  • Mental Health in the Legal Profession
  • Three Strikes Law

Learn about Judge Cordell

• Judge LaDoris Cordell’s Personal Website
  Link: judgecordell.com
• Book: Her Honor: My Life on the Bench…What Works, What’s Broken, and How to Change It…
  Source: Macmillan Publishers
  Link: us.macmillan.com/books/9781250269584/herhonor
• Article: LaDoris Cordell: Civil Rights Crusader on the Bench
  Source: Stanford University Law School
  Link: law.stanford.edu/stanford-lawyer/articles/ladoris-cordell
• Biography: ABA Women Trailblazers Project
  Source: American Bar Association (ABA)
  Link: abawtp.law.stanford.edu/exhibits/show/ladoris-h-cordell/biography
• Oral History Interview (Audio with Transcript; 47:13 minutes)
  Source: American Bar Association (ABA)
  Link: abawtp.law.stanford.edu/exhibits/show/ladoris-h-cordell/oral-history

Legal Issues Discussed in this Episode

Affirmative Action

• The Supreme Court Expanding Civil Rights – Landmark Cases: Regents of University of California v. Bakke (1978)
  The Supreme Court ruled unconstitutional a university’s use of racial “quotas” in its admissions process but held that affirmative action programs could be constitutional in some circumstances.
  Source: Thirteen
  Link: thirteen.org/wnet/supremecourt/rights/landmark_regents.html

Diversity and the Courts

• Research: Building a More Inclusive Federal Judiciary
  Source: Center for American Progress
  Link: americanprogress.org/issues/courts/reports/2019/10/03/475359/building-inclusive-federal-judiciary

Implicit or Unconscious Bias

• Article: Pygmalion in the Classroom
  Source: Wikipedia
  Link: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pygmalion_in_the_Classroom
• Biases: The Pygmalion Effect
  Source: The Decision Lab
  Link: thedecisionlab.com/biases/the-pygmalion-effect
• Implicit Bias Task Force
  Source: American Bar Association (ABA)
  Link: americanbar.org/groups/litigation/initiatives/task-force-implicit-bias
• Resources: Fighting Implicit Bias
  Source: American Bar Association (ABA)
  Link: americanbar.org/groups/judicial/committees/fighting_implicit_bias
• Implicit Bias Toolbox
  Source: American Bar Association (ABA)
  Link: americanbar.org/groups/litigation/initiatives/task-force-implicit-bias/implicit-bias-toolbox
• Research: State of Science on Unconscious Bias
  Source: Office of Diversity and Outreach, University of California, San Francisco
  Link: vdiversity.ucsf.edu/resources/state-science-unconscious-bias
• What Empirical Research Tells Us: Studying Judges’ and Juries’ Behavior [PDF]
  Source: American University Law Review, Winter, 1991, Peter David Blanck.
  Copyright 1991 by the Washington College of Law of The American University
  Link: disability.law.uiowa.edu/lhpdc/publications/documents/blanckdocs/40AmULRev775.pdf
• Article: Unconscious Bias Training that Works
  Source: Harvard Business Review
  Link: hbr.org/2021/09/unconscious-bias-training-that-works

Intersectionality

• Article: The Intersectionality Wars
  Intersectionality – a term coined by Professor Kimberle’ Crenshaw at Columbia Law School.
  Source: Vox
  Link: vox.com/the-highlight/2019/5/20/18542843/intersectionality-conservatism-law-race-gender-discrimination

Mental Health Courts

• Mental Health Courts Program Overview
  This page includes links to related News, Training and Technical Assistance, Resources, and more.
  Source: U.S. Department of Justice Office of Justice Programs, Bureau of Justice Assistance (BJA)
  Link: bja.ojp.gov/program/mental-health-courts-program/overview
• GAINS Center for Behavioral Health and Justice Transformation
  Source: Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA)
  Link: samhsa.gov/gains-center
• Mental Health Courts Locator – GAINS Center
  Source: Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA)
  Link: samhsa.gov/gains-center/treatment-court-locators

Mental Health in the Legal Profession

• Improving the Legal Profession’s Mental Health Crisis Begins in Law School
  Source: Insight Into Diversity
  Link: insightintodiversity.com/improving-the-legal-professions-mental-health-crisis-begins-in-law-school
• Boiling Point: Why Mental Health Is the ‘Existential Crisis’ Facing the Legal Profession
  Source: Law.com
  Link: law.com/2021/08/16/boiling-point-why-mental-health-is-the-existential-crisis-facing-the-legal-profession
• Research: The Prevalence of Substance Use and Other Mental Health Concerns Among American Attorneys
  Read the 2016 American Bar Association and Hazelden Betty Ford study, with related information, articles, and resources.
  Source: American Bar Association (ABA)
  Link: americanbar.org/groups/lawyer_assistance/research/colap_hazelden_lawyer_study
• Mental Health Resources for the Legal Profession
  Source: American Bar Association (ABA)
  Link: americanbar.org/groups/lawyer_assistance/resources/covid-19–mental-health-resources

Three Strikes Law

• Three Strike Law in Different States: 3 Strikes Law Facts
  Source: Legal Match
  Link: legalmatch.com/law-library/article/three-strikes-laws-in-different-states.html
• California’s Three Strikes Sentencing Law
  Source: California Courts
  Link: courts.ca.gov/20142.htm
• Three Strikes Project
  Source: Stanford University Law School
  Link: law.stanford.edu/three-strikes-project/#slsnav-litigation-reform-education