Past Spotlights

Fall 2025

Employment Law Scholars Launch “The Legal DEI Project” to Counter Anti-DEI Rhetoric

Recent political actions targeting so-called “illegal DEI” have sewn confusion about the scope of antidiscrimination law and what employers must and can do to ensure compliance. In response, Professor Stephanie Bornstein of LMU Loyola Law School reached out to a team of employment law scholars to launch The Legal DEI Project—a new, comprehensive FAQ providing […]

Fall 2026

Professors Michael Conklin and Rafael Gely Reframe the Conversation around the Term 'Overqualified' within ADEA Cases

Michael Conklin, Assistant Professor of Business Law at Texas A&M University–Central Texas, and Rafael Gely, the James E. Campbell Missouri Endowed Professor of Law at the University of Missouri School of Law, have published “Overqualified” as a Defense to Title VII Employment Protections in the Southern California Interdisciplinary Law Journal, offering employment litigators a framework for […]

Fall 2026

Scholars Urge EEOC to Preserve EEO-1 Reporting Requirements

Workplace Law scholars Stacy Hawkins (Rutgers), Andrea J. Johnson (New York Law) and Shirley Lin (Brooklyn) submitted a public comment to the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), opposing its proposed rescission of the EEO-1 workforce demographic reporting requirements. Nearly 120 law and social science professors with expertise in workplace law, civil rights and the […]

Fall 2026

Professor Alvin Velazquez Offers New Playbook for Building Union Power

Workplace law scholar Alvin Velazquez (Indiana) has published an essay, Using Business Law to Build Labor Power, in the Harvard Civil Rights-Civil Liberties Law Review, demonstrating how the labor movement can deploy corporate and bankruptcy law as tools to build worker power. Bringing his perspective as a former Associate General Counsel to the Service Employees […]

Fall 2025

Professor Elizabeth Tippett Rounds-Up the Supreme Court's Impact on Labor and Employment Law

Employment Law Scholar Elizabeth Tippett recently contributed to the ABA Labor and Employment section’s fall newsletter.

Fall 2025

Professor Kerri Stone Examines Narcissism and the Use of the Term in Employment Discrimination Cases

Professor Kerri Stone examines allegations of narcissism in workplace disputes in a recent issue of the ABA Labor & Employment Journal.

Fall 2025

Professor Rick Bales Provides a How-To for Effective Labor Arbitration Briefs

In his recently published article, Writing Effective Labor Arbitration Briefs, Ohio Northern University Law School Professor Richard A. Bales sheds light on a critical aspect of labor arbitration: the written brief.

Spring 2025

Labor Organizing by Independent Contractors?

Professor Sam Estreicher and Attorney Jack Samuel contend that, whatever the prospects for legal change, independent contractors who supply solely their own labor can organize and demand bargaining without fearing antitrust suits.

Summer 2026

Employment Law Scholars Submit Comment on Proposed Federal-Employee NDA

Workplace law professors Rachel Arnow-Richman, Jonathan Harris and Orly Lobel joined forces with information transparency experts Professors Mark Fenster and Margaret Kwoka to submit a public comment to the U.S. Office of Personnel Management (OPM), criticizing its proposed nondisclosure agreement (NDA) for federal employees. Drawing from their scholarship on worker mobility, whistleblowing and information controls, […]

Spring 2025

Leading Title VII Scholars File Amicus Brief to SCOTUS in Ames v. Ohio

Professors Katie Eyer, Sandra Sperino, and Deborah Widiss are bringing their Title VII expertise to bear in the soon-to-be-argued Supreme Court case Ames v. Ohio.

Fall 2024

Professor Roberto Corrada Tackles College Athlete Unionization Concerns

Professor Roberto Corrada’s scholarship on college athlete unionization tackles practical concerns of unionization and offers pathways for student athlete collective bargaining to succeed despite seeming incompatibilities with existing law.

Fall 2024

Labor Law Attorney Joel Heller Challenges the Rhetoric of the “Labor Gerrymander”

D.C.-based labor law attorney Joel Heller shared his expertise with the legal academy in his recently published law review article, The Labor Gerrymander.

Fall 2024

UF Symposium Engages Scholars and Practitioners on the Future of Noncompete Regulation

The FTC’s recent ban on noncompetes follows years of policy debate over how best to regulate these and other worker mobility restraints. Academics have been a key force in this conversation.

Fall 2024

Professor Jonathan Harris’ Scholarship Fuels Efforts to Abolish TRAPs

Professor Jonathan Harris’s scholarship on training repayment agreement provisions (“TRAPs”) is fueling an on-the-ground movement to ban these pernicious restraints on worker mobility.

Fall 2023

Professor Ryan Nelson Puts His Legal Scholarship to the Test

In partnership with One Fair Wage, Professor Ryan Nelson is testing his idea of combatting subminimum wage through discrimination law in the 9th Circuit. Professor Nelson argues that tipping and commissions can have a disparate impact on women and people of color because of discriminatory customer preferences. The suit is now facing a novel standing issue, providing more fodder for Professor Nelson’s research agenda.

Fall 2023

Proposed Noncompete Ban Rallies Law Professors, Policy Groups, Lawmakers, and Economists

Noncompete reform has been a hot-button issue for nearly a decade. In 2023, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) proposed a rule banning these widely used agreements. Workplace law professors, policy makers, and economists have been in frequent contact in developing and submitting comments on the proposal.

Fall 2023

Professor Sandra Sperino Defines “Sexual Harassment” Ahead of the Courts

Professor Sandra Sperino is one of the first to theorize the scope of “sexual harassment” under the Ending Forced Arbitration of Sexual Assault and Sexual Harassment Act (EFASASHA). Her analysis is likely to be highly influential as courts consider the scope of this new law.

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