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Legal Writing Prof Blog
Alternative to the LSAT measures students’ ability to research, write and problem solve
By legalwriting
The New York Times is reporting today that two UC Berkeley Professors teamed up to design an alternative to the traditional LSAT entrance exam which they believe will better measure…
Connecticut Employment Law Blog
EEOC Reports Record Number of Discrimination Claims for 2008; Up 15 Percent from 2007
Record numbers of discrimination complaints were filed with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, according to a MSNBC column: Discrimination claims filed with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission jumped 15 percent in…
Labor Law Prof Blog
Recently Published Scholarship
ArticlesJessica Fink (left), Unintended Consequences: How Antidiscrimination Litigation Increases Group Bias in Employer-Defendants, 38 New Mexico L. Rev. 333 (2008).Lisa Smith-Butler (center), Workplace Privacy: We'll Be Watching You, 35 Ohio…
Labor Law Prof Blog
Roberts on GINA
Jessica Roberts (Columbia fellow) has just posted on SSRN her article Preempting Discrimination: Lessons from the Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act. Here's the abstract:Later this year, the Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act…
ImmigrationProf Blog
U.S. to Skip Second World Conference Against Racism, Racial Discrimination, Xenophobia and Related Intolerance
Roberto Lovato writes about his disappointment with the fact that the first Black U.S. president will not be attending the world’s most important conference on race and racism. The Obama…
Tilting the Scales
Employee Terminations 101
Introduction: What Is There to Worry About? Most employers know that Texas is an “employment at-will” state, meaning that—unless there is an employment agreement guaranteeing employment for a specific amount…
California Employment Law Report
Less Discrimination Lawsuits Equals More Wage And Hour Lawsuits?
The WSJ recently reported, there is a trend that discrimination based lawsuits fair a lot worse than most other cases filed in federal court. A study found that discrimination cases…
ImmigrationProf Blog
Speak Up Against Discriminatory Comments
From the National Immigration Forum:ABC has a weekly show that examines how people react to different difficult situations. One show featured a bigot restaurant owner who refused to serve Latino…
Labor Law Prof Blog
Transgender, Identity, and Discrimination
Zak Kramer (Penn State-Dickinson) and Elizabeth Glazer (Hofstra) have just posted on SSRN their book review Trans Fat, which reviews Anna Kirkland, Fat Rights: Dilemmas of Difference and Personhood. Here's…
ImmigrationProf Blog
PBS Special on Discrimination Against Mexicans
PBS's American Experience premieres film showing challenge of Jim Crow-style discrimination against Mexican Americans February 23In 1951 in the town of Edna, Texas, a field hand named Pedro Hernández murdered…