Joanna Shepherd on Judges in Employment Cases

Joanna Shepherd August 28, 2024

ICLE Nonresident Scholar Joanna Shepherd was quoted by the Yale Daily News in a story about the diversity of Connecticut’s judicial bench. You can read the full piece here.

Former corporate lawyers and prosecutors were about half as likely as other judges to rule in favor of workers in employment cases in the U.S., according to a 2021 paper by legal scholar Joanna Shepherd. Shepherd’s study is one of multiple corroborating Kennedy’s claim that judges’ professional backgrounds influence their rulings.