Alternative Dispute Resolution,
Law Practice
Sep. 21, 2021
Is focusing on perceived and actual biases misplaced?
When people think of bias, they tend to associate it with unfairness and injustice. While unchecked biases can and do often have such an impact, the focus on perceived and even actual biases themselves is misplaced, in my opinion
Mark B. Baer
Mark works as a mediator and conflict resolution consultant and teaches a course on implicit bias.
When people think of bias, they tend to associate it with unfairness and injustice. While unchecked biases can and do often have such an impact, the focus on perceived and even actual biases themselves is misplaced, in my opinion.
Most people may not be familiar with Susie Marshall Sharp. She was the first female chief justice of the North Carolina Supreme Court. In 1956, as a superior court judge, she was responsible for desegregating the ...
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