An Intersectional Approach to Law & Society

该项目将支持一名博士后研究员，他将与政治学和法律学者合作，了解种族和性别交叉的法律的意义。 博士后研究员将贡献的项目都涉及有效的民主机构，包括法院，包括所有人的问题，并注意到法院和机构的重要性，以满足民主偏好。 分析的一个地点是新奥尔良，这是一个特别适合分析种族和性别对治理的重要性的城市，因为它的人口和社会经济多样性，以及城市的变化。 博士后将能够有助于跨国比较，因为学者在美国和巴西的问题上的工作。 直到最近，交叉归属身份对治理机构的重要性才成为一个系统的实证研究问题，使其成为一个特别创新的项目。 该项目将支持一名博士后研究员和一名本科生，对他们进行跨多个学科的经验社会科学培训。 由于民主体制对治理的重要性，以及一个项目对如何挑选法官的分析，该项目还将产生广泛的影响。

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.