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- Title
ANTIDISCRIMINATION LAW THROUGH A SOCIOLEGAL LENS.
- Authors
Offit, Anna
- Abstract
The article focuses on the decision of the U.S. Supreme Court in the case Batson v. Kentucky argues that a socio-legal, ethnographic approach to how lawyers perpetuate discrimination in jury selection. It mentions how ethnography leads to a more sophisticated, empirically grounded understanding of these issues, casting new light on racial and other forms of exclusion, including exclusion based on socioeconomic status and previous contact with the legal system.
- Subjects
BATSON v. Kentucky; PEREMPTORY challenges (Jury selection); JURY selection; ANTI-discrimination laws; ETHNOLOGY; JUSTICE administration
- Publication
Alabama Law Review, 2022, Vol 73, Issue 4, p753
- ISSN
0002-4279
- Publication type
Article