Access Restricted to Northwestern Law CommunityEmployment Law
Organized by Professors Max Schanzenbach and Kim Yuracko
This is an advanced seminar focusing on new research in employment law. The papers presented will cover statutory anti-discrimination laws such as the Title VII and the Americans with Disabilities Act and may cover other statutes as well common law issues.
Half of the class periods will involve a leading scholar presenting his or her paper. These workshops will be attended by students enrolled in the colloquium, members of the faculty, faculty from other schools and departments, and interested students. On weeks for which there is no outside speaker, the seminar will meet to review prior workshops and to discuss papers to be presented in later sessions. Students must write short reactions to each paper and student presentations will be required.
FALL 2004
September 2
General Course Introduction
September 16
Laura Beth Nielsen, Research Fellow, American Bar Foundation
"Rights Realized? An Empirical Analysis of Employment Discrimination Litigation as a Claiming System" (Work in Progress, co-authored with Robert Nelson)
September 30
Michael Stein,
Associate Professor of Law, College of William and Mary
"Same Struggle, Different Difference: ADA Accommodations as Antidiscrimination"
October 14
Peter Siegelman, Professor of Law, University of Connecticut
"Unmuddling Mixed-Motives? Protection for the Non-exemplary Worker"
October 28
Cynthia Estlund,
Isidor and Seville Sulzbacher Professor of Law, Columbia University
November 11
Mitu Gulati, Professor of Law, Georgetown Universityl;
Devon Carbado,
Professor of Law,University of California at Los Angeles
"Race to the Top of the Corporate Ladder:
What Minorities Do When They Get There"
November 30
Cristina Rodriguez,
Assistant Professor of Law, New York University
"Language and Participation"
