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Professor and Assistant Provost Shruti Rana has published an invited symposium essay, Comparative Lessons for Enhancing Representation in the U.S. Judiciary—And Countering Democratic Decline, in Vol. 16 of ConLawNow. The essay argues that efforts to enhance judicial representation and parity in the United States could benefit from further drawing upon and building on international principles and comparative examples from other nations and international fora, and discusses how efforts to ensure greater representation and parity in U.S. Courts could enhance the rule of law and counter democratic decline during periods of intensifying contestation and erosion.
This essay is based on Prof. Rana’s presentation in the Women’s Leadership in Law and Politics Symposium, Center for Constitutional Law and the Bliss Institute of Applied Politics, University of Akron on Feb. 21, 2025.