- Title
- An age of diversity: where to next for the Judicial Diversity Project? Review of Debating judicial appointments in an age of diversity
- Creator
- McLoughlin, Kcasey; Williams, Joan
- Relation
- University of New South Wales Law Journal Forum , Issue 9, p. 1-15
- Publisher
- Law School, University of New South Wales
- Resource Type
- journal article
- Date
- 2019
- Description
- Debates about diversity – why it matters, what it looks like, and how it might be achieved – continue to reverberate around the world. There have been discernible but all too often meandering gains in attempts to ensure that judges better reflect the communities from which they are drawn. Notwithstanding these gains, important questions remain not only about the justifications for judicial diversity but, perhaps most interestingly, the contested implications of judicial diversity. Gee and Rackley’s impressive edited collection Debating Judicial Appointments in an Age of Diversity provides a timely account of these debates. By reframing familiar debates about merit, quotas, and the respective role of judges and politicians in the selection process, they ensure their collection is relevant beyond the United Kingdom (‘UK’). Moreover, the extent to which the collection brings together what are sometimes conflicting views in an attempt to move past a seemingly insurmountable impasse between ‘insider’ and ‘outsider’ views means that it provides an instructive, thoughtful and novel blueprint for considering (and reconsidering) how to best advance the judicial diversity project.
- Subject
- diversity; judicial diversity; legal representation; law
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1413819
- Identifier
- uon:36677
- Identifier
- ISSN:0313-0096
- Language
- eng
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