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The Least Diverse Profession: Comment on Blanck, Hyseni, and Altunkol Wise’s National Study of Diversity and Inclusion in the Legal Profession
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 12 July 2021
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Diversity and Inclusion in the American Legal Profession: Discrimination and Bias Reported by Lawyers with Disabilities and Lawyers Who Identify as LGBTQ+ (“Blanck et al.”) is an incredibly careful, thoughtful, and powerful article, and may and should lead to changes in the stigma, bias, and discrimination landscape in the legal profession.1
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Elyn R. Saks is the Orrin B. Evans Distinguished Professor of Law, Psychology, and Psychiatry and the Behavioral Sciences at the University of Southern California Gould School of Law. Saks is an expert in mental health law and a MacArthur Foundation Fellowship winner. She has written about her experience living with schizophrenia in her award-winning, best-selling autobiography. See Elyn R. Saks, The Center Cannot Hold: My Journey Through Madness (2007).
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1 Blanck, Peter, Hyseni, Fitore & Altunkol Wise, Fatma, Diversity and Inclusion in the American Legal Profession: Discrimination and Bias Reported by Lawyers with Disabilities and Lawyers Who Identify as LGBTQ+, 47 Am. J.L. & Med. 9 (2021).CrossRefGoogle Scholar
2 Id. at 51.
3 Id. at 9.
4 Id. at 11.
5 Id. at 49.
6 Id. at 14.
7 Id. at 13.
8 Id. at 16.
9 Id. at 15.
10 Id. at 16.
11 Id. at 12 (citing Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic, Ace the Assessment, Harv. Bus. Rev., July-Aug. 2015, at 118, 120–21).