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Strict Scrutiny

Workplace Misconduct And The Federal Courts

Strict Scrutiny

Crooked Media

Philosophy, News, Government, Supreme Court, Society & Culture

4.84.7K Ratings

🗓️ 27 April 2020

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Summary

Leah and Jaime are joined by Deeva Shah (from Law Clerks for Workplace Accountability) and Sejal Singh and Emma Janger (from People’s Parity Project) for a discussion about workplace misconduct and the federal courts.

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0:00.0

Let's keep justice. Please report.

0:04.0

It's an old joke, but when a man argues against two beautiful ladies like this, they're going to have the last word.

0:12.0

She spoke not elegantly, but with unmistakable clarity.

0:18.0

She said, I ask no favor for my sex.

0:23.0

All I ask of our brethren is that they take their feet or for our next.

0:30.0

Welcome to Strix scrutiny, a podcast about the Supreme Court and the legal culture that surrounds it.

0:48.0

Hi, Leah. Hi, Jamie. And Hi, new friends.

0:52.0

And Hi, new friends. I'm so excited about the show and the guests we have on.

0:55.0

So at our Boston live show, we spent a little bit of time talking about the House Judiciary Subcommittee hearing about protecting federal judiciary employees from sexual harassment, including the testimony of Olivia Warren, a former law clerk of Ninth Circuit Judge Steven Reinhart,

1:11.0

live recounted the severe harassment she experienced during her clerkship and her frustrating efforts to report her experience so it could help law schools and the judiciary implement reforms.

1:21.0

So at the time we had her show, we flagged that we wanted to spend some more time on this topic. And so we've invited several guests to the show that have spent hundreds, if not thousands of hours advocating on these issues.

1:32.0

Their work has had a huge impact. So we wanted to highlight it and also have a deeper discussion about the cultural issues animating harassment in the judiciary and what everyone can do to help address it.

1:45.0

So why don't we go ahead and introduce and welcome our guests now. So first we have with us, Diva Shaw. Hi, Diva. Hi.

1:53.0

Diva is one of the co-founders of law clerks for workplace accountability, which we'll be talking more about in a minute. She's also an attorney now at Kekker Van Ness in San Francisco and a graduate of the greatest law school in the world, the University of Michigan.

2:09.0

Go blue.

2:10.0

We also have with us two third year law students at one of the greatest law schools in the world, Harvard Law School.

2:18.0

And that would be Sejal Singh and Emma Janger. They are among the co-founders and organizers behind people's parity project, which we will also be hearing about more later in the episode. So welcome Emma and Sejal.

2:33.0

Thank you so much for having us.

2:35.0

I think we would be remiss if we didn't point out that the two co-hosts here have also spent hundreds, if not thousands of hours advocating on these issues. So we're very excited to be here chatting with some of our collaborators.

2:48.0

Thanks, Sejal.

2:49.0

Outline for the show is going to proceed kind of as follows. We're going to do a recap of the hearing that Jamie mentioned. Then we will do an introduction to the work of the two organizations that we talked about.

3:02.0

We're going to do a couple of different workshops for workplace accountability and people's parity project. Then we'll spend some time discussing what we think are some contributing sources to the problem of harassment and the courts and the legal profession as well as some reforms and ways to work forward.

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