The Case for Empathy
11 May 2009
Submitted by Anisa McClain
Empathy is an attractive idea, but it requires some careful unpacking. No one should win or lose in Court because they are rich or poor or black or white. Yet to be evenhanded is not the same as being uncaringly formalistic or concerned only with systematic consequences. Real litigants stand before the Court.
One can be empathetic toward all sides of a dispute.
Read the entire article here: http://www.americamagazine.org/content/article.cfm?article_id=11649