Law's Presence, Law's Absence: Reporting Stories of Employment Discrimination in the Academy

Sterett, Susan

doi:10.1017/s1743923x18000119

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“…Turning to litigation, it is clear from the field of sexual harassment that while there are undoubted benefits of individuated stories that legal cases often involve (not least because "Legal complaints as stories with characters, place, time, and events fit well with news reporting" (Sterett 2018, 10), there are also potential downsides. Chief among these is that wider systemic issues around sex discrimination can easily get crowded out and remain unseen (Sterett 2018). Nosek (2018) considers narratives in climate change litigation.…”

Section: The Narrative Turn In Climate Changementioning

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Law, courts and populism: climate change litigation and the narrative turn

Hilson¹

2019

Research Handbook on Law and Courts

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Climate change litigation has become an increasingly common feature of the modern legal landscape. Populism has, likewise, become commonplace within the political landscape, and the interaction between populism and the courts is the subject of a growing literature. This chapter considers the connections linking the two fields, considering in particular whether climate change litigation can be said to be populist in nature. Based on a survey of relevant cases, I develop two categories -populist legalism and legal populism -the former relating to the nature of the parties involved in litigation and the latter to narrative style employed in legal submissions. I argue that there are both benefits and distinct risks in borrowing from the populist playbook. While the chapter is focused on climate change litigation, its framework and conclusions are likely to be more broadly applicable to other policy fields examined by law and courts scholars.

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Section: The Narrative Turn In Climate Changementioning

confidence: 99%

Law, courts and populism: climate change litigation and the narrative turn

Hilson¹

2019

Research Handbook on Law and Courts

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“…Across forms of analysis and data, the academy shares problems of public trust. Problems are myriad: among scholars who work at a distance from each other but can share outputs easily (Monaghan, 2013), among people who mistrust the sexual politics of scholarship, as demonstrated by sexual misconduct scandals since 2013 (Sterett, 2018), and between scientists and the public. Data access for audit may contribute to building trust among academics.…”

Section: Conclusion: Changing Work Practicesmentioning

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Data Access as Regulation

Sterett

2018

American Behavioral Scientist

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This article considers calls for data transparency as research regulation and accountability. Rather than arguing for or against the value of sharing data, the article argues that understanding the call for data sharing requires questioning assumptions embedded in the debate about the context of scholarship and rethinking the purposes of data access. The article first argues that the spread of information available digitally means that researchers in the academy and outside it work with digital information, quite apart from mandates for data access. Second, replication as an accountability measure is often offered as one reason for making data available. However, scholars of replication have argued that replication has multiple components, many difficult to enact. Demands in universities for grant funding, impact by standard metrics, and newsworthy research encourage rapidly produced scholarship and research that makes big innovative claims. However, replication imposed sporadically cannot regularly counter these systematic incentives. If one purpose of data access is to regulate the research enterprise, scholarship on regulatory strategies and the difficulty of accomplishing goals via mandates illuminates the call for data access. Replication operates as a threat, one seen to generate incentives for good science, but is erratically enforced. Borrowing from the scholarship of audit and regulation, the article uses regulation, including audit, as accountability to argue that the sciences might need to address fundamental concerns about trust.

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“…The #MeToo movement originated in 2006 as a term used by Tarana Burke to call attention to sexual assault and harassment. Burke was particularly concerned with discrimination against women of color in low‐income communities (Murphy 2019; Sterett 2018). Yet the term did not gain a broader foothold until more than a decade later.…”

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Facing the Giant: A Framework to Undo Sex‐Based Discrimination in Academia

Bishu

Kennedy

2020

Public Administration Review

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In 2019, American workers reported 26,221 claims of workplace harassment to the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. Nearly half of those claims represented sex-based harassment. The #MeToo movement has shined a spotlight on the pervasiveness of harassment across sectors and institutions. A 2018 report by the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine indicates that 58 percent of women in academic institutions, for instance, have experienced some form of sexual harassment. In this article, the authors propose a three-part framework to establish a culture of zero tolerance of sexual harassment. The framework helps academic and other institutions prevent sexual harassment, protect victims from risks of reporting harassment, and set accountability measures to demand justice. The utility of the framework is twofold. First, administrators can apply it as a tool to audit institutional attitudes toward sexual harassment. Second, leaders can apply it as a corrective tool to prevent permissive organizational climates that allow sexual harassment to be perpetuated.

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Law's Presence, Law's Absence: Reporting Stories of Employment Discrimination in the Academy

Cited by 4 publications

References 81 publications

Law, courts and populism: climate change litigation and the narrative turn

Law, courts and populism: climate change litigation and the narrative turn

Data Access as Regulation

Facing the Giant: A Framework to Undo Sex‐Based Discrimination in Academia

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