An Intersectional Approach to Law & Society

该项目将支持一名博士后，他将与政治学和法学学者合作，了解种族和性别交叉的法律意义。博士后将参与的项目都涉及有效民主制度的问题，包括法院，包括所有人，并关注法院和机构的重要性，这些都是为了关注民主偏好。一个可供分析的地点是新奥尔良，由于其人口和社会经济的多样性，以及城市的变化，这个城市特别适合分析种族和性别对治理的重要性。博士后将能够为跨国比较做出贡献，因为学者们同时研究美国和巴西的问题。交叉归属身份对管理机构的重要性直到最近才成为系统实证调查的问题，使其成为一个特别创新的项目。该项目将支持一名博士后和一名本科生，对他们进行跨学科的实证社会科学培训。由于民主制度对治理的重要性，以及其中一个项目对如何选出法官的分析，该项目还将产生实质性的更广泛的影响。

This project will support a postdoctoral fellow who will work with scholars in political science and law to understand the legal significance of the intersection of race and gender. Projects to which the postdoctoral fellow will contribute all address questions of effective democratic institutions, including courts, that include all people, and are attentive to the significance of both courts and institutions that are to attend to democratic preferences. One site for analysis is New Orleans, a city particularly ripe for analysis of the significance of race and gender for governance because of its demographic and socioeconomic diversity, and changes in the city. The postdoc will be able to contribute to cross-national comparisons, as scholars work on issues in both the United States and Brazil. The significance to governing institutions of intersecting ascriptive identities has only recently been a matter for systematic empirical investigation, making this a particularly innovative project. The project will support a postdoctoral fellow and an undergraduate student, training them in empirical social sciences across multiple disciplines. The project will also have substantial broader impacts because of the importance of democratic institutions to governance, and one project's analysis of how judges are selected.