Op-ed: ‘Empathy is important in making judgments’
Posted by Keith Kamisugi | Filed under Opinion
In an op-ed, “Empathy is important in making judgments,” published by the Oakland Tribune, Equal Justice Society board member Prof. Margaret Russell, a law professor at Santa Clara University and Marilyn Edelstein, an English professor at the same institution, discuss the notion of empathy in the context of the Sotomayor confirmation hearings.
Read the piece here.
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‘Real-world experience prepared Sotomayor’
Posted by Keith Kamisugi | Filed under Her Story
Hugh H. Mo writes on POLITICO.com:
As the confirmation process goes forward, Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor’s legal experience and judicial philosophy will be closely dissected and analyzed from every perspective, including the parsing of the meanings and nuances of common words used to describe her or attributable to her.
As the political debate continues over the [...]
