LAW 823 Employment Discrimination
This course will cover theoretical, legal and practice issues around employment discrimination law. The course will focus on U.S. employment discrimination law, primarily Title VII of the 1964 Civil Rights Act, which prohibits employment discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, or national origin." The course will also examine sexual harassment, the constitutional law of employment discrimination, Title I of the Americans with Disabilities Act ("ADA"), the Age Discrimination in Employment Act ("ADEA"), affirmative action, and various state and local statutes addressing emerging issues in employment discrimination law, such as employment discrimination based on physical appearance or attractiveness, cyber-harassment, speech codes and "safe spaces, and privacy violations like revenge pornography. Finally, the course will consider the interaction of the above with other related and emerging fields, like labor law, intellectual property (including trade secrecy), privacy, cyberlaw, cybersecurity and information law. The course will use practice problems (some handed in for evaluation), drafting exercises and administrative procedure (particularly EEOC filings) to apply theoretical principles. Outside speakers from private practice and government will join the class via video.