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Discrimination
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Regulatory Oversight
Virginia AG’s New Office of Civil Rights Will Scrutinize Business Activities in 2021
By Chris Carlson, Bonnie Gill, Ashley L. Taylor, Jr.
On January 5, Virginia Attorney General Mark R. Herring announced the creation of a new Office of Civil Rights, which will expand and replace the existing Division of Human Rights…
Gender and the Law Prof Blog
Recovering the Aspiration of the Equal Rights Amendment to Overcome Gendered Disempowerment in the Work of Pauli Murray
By Tracy Thomas
Julie C. Suk, A Dangerous Imbalance: Pauli Murray's Equal Rights Amendment and the Path to Equal Power, 107 Virginia L. Rev. Online 3 (Jan. 30, 2021)This Essay recovers the aspiration…
Employment Law Lookout
Court In Colorado Chops Off EEOC’s Motion For Reconsideration In Systemic Discrimination Lawsuit Against Meatpacker
By Gerald L. Maatman, Jr. and Alex W. Karasik Seyfarth Synopsis: In EEOC v. JBS USA, LLC, No. 10-CV-2103, 2021 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 13012 (D. Colo. Jan. 25, 2021), an…
Law and the Workplace
4th Circuit Holds Law Firm Partner Is Not an Employee Protected Under Title VII
By Evandro Gigante, Rachel Fischer, Scott Tan
On January 19, 2021, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit issued a noteworthy decision in Lemon v. Myers Bigel, P.A., No. 19-1380, 2021 WL 161978 (4th Cir.…
School Law
CAS Legal Mailbag Question of the Week – 1/28/2021
Dear Legal Mailbag: Despite the challenges of working through the last months (we hope) of the COVID-19 pandemic, life goes on for me as a middle school principal, including the…
Gender and the Law Prof Blog
Why It Remains So Difficult for Employers to Prevent and Respond Effectively to Workplace Harassment
By Tracy Thomas
Suzanne B. Goldberg, Harassment, Workplace Culture, and the Power and Limits of Law, American University Law Review, Vol. 70, 2020This article asks why it remains so difficult for employers to…
Gender and the Law Prof Blog
Normalizing Menopause and Finding the Appropriate Legal Frameworks
By Tracy Thomas
Naomi Cahn, Justice for the Menopause: A Research Agenda, Columbia Journal of Gender and Law, vol. 41 (forthcoming 2021)This short essay, prepared for a symposium on menstruation, is an initial effort…
Canadian Lawyer Mag
B.C. lawyer honoured for role in legal fight to eliminate discrimination against LGBTQ2SI+ community
Canadian Bar Association B.C. branch awards barbara findlay the Georges A. Goyer QC Memorial Award
Canadian Lawyer Mag
B.C. lawyer honored for role in legal fight to eliminate discrimination against LGBTQ2SI+ community
Canadian Bar Association B.C. branch awards barbara findlay the Georges A. Goyer QC Memorial Award
COVID-19 Workplace Law Advisor
Biden Signs Proclamation Ending Discriminatory Bans
President Joseph Biden signed the Proclamation on Ending Discriminatory Bans on Entry to The United States (“Proclamation Ending Discriminatory Bans”) during his first hours in office, terminating the controversial Muslim…