ALEXANDRIA, Va., September 29, 2022–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Amelia Clegg is the 2022 winner of the prestigious American Inns of Court Warren E. Burger Prize for Writing, a competition designed to promote scholarship in the area of professionalism, ethics, civility, and excellence. The award, which comes with a $5,000 prize, recognizes Clegg’s essay “All Lawyers Are Equal, But Some Are More Equal Than Others: Incivility Towards Female Attorneys from within the Legal Profession.”
The winning essay calls attention to the legal system’s sexism against women attorneys. Drawing on empirical data, case law, and anecdotal evidence, the paper argues that male attorneys and both male and female judges exhibit strong animosity toward women. This animosity takes the form of both nakedly hostile…
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