'Flawed' Study Should Not Have Been Amplified by The Legal: Commentary
From a macro point of view, we as lawyers have to be greatly disappointed that The Legal amplified an accusation that two honorable Philadelphia judges displayed racial bias in their sentencing practices, Stephen A. Cozen writes.
August 19, 2021 at 09:30 AM
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CommentaryRecently, our Legal Intelligencer, of which I have been a significant supporter for many years, did something extraordinarily disappointing. It adopted from the New Jersey Law Journal and published, without analysis, a "study" by The Institute for the Quantitative Study of Inclusion, Diversity and Equity Inc., which, by its own admissions, was methodologically flawed. It identified as two of the "most discriminatory federal judges" Tim Savage and Darnell Jones.
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