Intersectionality and Influence in U.S. State Supreme Courts

• In Event: Diversity of Judges/Litigants

Brief Overview

The goal of this paper is to examine how facets of judge's social identity impact their decision-making. I examine whether the opinion author’s gender and race influence’s a judge’s decision to cite that case in abortion cases between 1970 to 2018.

Author

• Alyson Hendricks-Benton, University of Georgia