Authors:  Rich Rosiviach, Jude Hogeboam, and members of the Minnesota State Bar Association Civic Education Committee

Through a role-playing activity, students learn about judicial fairness and bias.  A scenario involving a playground bully is the starting point.  Students will portray a group of adults with opinions as to the punishment of the bully.  The adults have different viewpoints that may impact their ability to make fair judgments in the case.

Objectives

• Students will discuss the idea of “fairness” and “fair” decision-making, and
• how the things judges say or their behavior in the past might affect both the judge’s ability to be fair
• and a person’s perception of the judge’s fairness

Source

http://www.mnciviced.org/vertical/Sites/%7B3F0B4D55-996C-4AB9-841A-ACA00304CEE0%7D/uploads/%7BBD5D7D2C-B697-4C40-98F7-B99E2E650586%7D.PDF ^[1]