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85 S. Cal. L. Rev. 313 (2011-2012)
Examining Empathy: Discrimination, Experience, and Judicial Decisionmaking

handle is hein.journals/scal85 and id is 317 raw text is: EXAMINING EMPATHY: DISCRIMINATION, EXPERIENCE, AND JUDICIAL DECISIONMAKING JILL D. WEINBERG* LAURA BETH NIELSEN TABLE OF CONTENTS I. INTRODUCTION .............................................314 II. ASSESSING DISCRIMINATION: THREE PERSPECTIVES ON JUDICIAL DECISIONMAKING ...................... .....321 A. THE EMPATHETIC PERSPECTIVE .............................324 B. THE LIBERAL LEGAL PERSPECTIVE ................ .....327 C. THE POLITICAL PERSPECTIVE ............... . ..........328 III. AN EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS OF FEDERAL DISTRICT COURT JUDGES AND DISCRIMINATION .................330 A. DATA COLLECTION ........................... ......330 B. STATISTICAL MODELS AND HYPOTHESES..................333 IV. RESULTS ............................................336 A. LOGISTIC REGRESSION MODEL. .............. ...............339 B. INDIVIDUAL-LEVEL ANALYSES. .............. ...............342 1. Judge-Plaintiff Minority Status................ ........343 * Ph.D. (candidate), Northwestern University; J.D. 2008, Seattle University; M.A. 2009, University of Chicago; M.A. 2010, Northwestern University. t Research Professor, American Bar Foundation. Associate Professor of Sociology and Law & Director of Legal Studies, Northwestern University. J.D. 1996, Berkeley School of Law (Boalt Hall); Ph.D. Jurisprudence and Social Policy 1999, University of California, Berkeley. This research was supported by the American Bar Foundation, the National Science Foundation (#SES-0417389), and the Searle Foundation. The authors would like to thank Ellen C. Berrey, Patti Ewick, Ryon Lancaster, Robert L. Nelson, and Christopher W. Schmidt, as well as the participants at the Conference of Empirical Legal Studies (New Haven, 2010) who provided feedback on earlier versions of this Article, especially Bert Huang who provided great comments as our discussant. 313

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