University of Michigan Law School University of Michigan Law School Scholarship Repository Articles Faculty Scholarship 2020 On Sexual Harassment in the Judiciary Leah Litman University of Michigan Law School,
[email protected] Deeva Shah Keker, Van Nest & Peters Available at: https://repository.law.umich.edu/articles/2182 Follow this and additional works at: https://repository.law.umich.edu/articles Part of the Civil Rights and Discrimination Commons, Courts Commons, Judges Commons, Law and Gender Commons, and the Legal Profession Commons Recommended Citation Litman, Leah. "On Sexual Harassment in the Judiciary." Deeva Shah, co-author. Nw. U. L. Rev. 115, no. 2 (2020): 599-645. This Article is brought to you for free and open access by the Faculty Scholarship at University of Michigan Law School Scholarship Repository. It has been accepted for inclusion in Articles by an authorized administrator of University of Michigan Law School Scholarship Repository. For more information, please contact
[email protected]. Copyright 2020 by Leah Litman & Deeva Shah Printed in U.S.A. Vol. 115, No. 2 Essay ON SEXUAL HARASSMENT IN THE JUDICIARY Leah M. Litman & Deeva Shah ABSTRACT—This Essay examines the legal profession’s role in sexual harassment, particularly in the federal courts. It argues that individuals in the profession have both an individual and collective responsibility for the professional norms that have allowed harassment to happen with little recourse for the people subject to the harassment. It suggests that the legal profession should engage in a sustained, public reflection about how our words, actions, attitudes, and institutional arrangements allow harassment to happen, and about the many different ways that we can prevent and address harassment.