Gender, Race, and Intersectionality on the Federal Appellate Bench

Reflections on Intersectionality: Gender, Class, Race and Nation

This article argues for several shifts in perspective in order to advance a comparative, transnational account of how gender, race, ethnicity, class and nation align in practice to overcome insularity and particularism inherent to many extant intersectional theories. An extensive review of feminist theories finds that much US scholarship decontextualizes intersectionality, takingfor-granted the...

Studying the Federal Appellate System

Filling the Federal Appellate Court Vacancies

Multiple observers have criticized President Barack Obama’s discharge of his Article II constitutional responsibility to nominate and confirm federal judges. Senators have blamed the administration for slowly making nominations, liberals have contended that the executive appointed myriad candidates who are not sufficiently centrist, and conservatives have alleged that President Obama proffered ...

Anastasoff, Unpublished Opinions, and Federal Appellate Justice

Female Judges Matter: Gender and Collegial Decisionmaking in the Federal Appellate Courts