The Academic Affiliates Program

Professor Meredith R. Miller teaches courses in the areas of Employment Law, Contracts and Business Organizations at Albany Law School. She joined the legal academy in 2006 as a Freedman Fellow and Lecturer at Temple University School of Law. 

Professor Miller’s research explores the intersection of employment law and business law, as well as the intersection of contract law and procedure.  Her scholarship focuses on the places where doctrine is facially neutral, but has the potential to perpetuate inequality. Recent work has wrestled with issues such as the enforceability of statute of limitations waivers, the use of corporate oppression doctrine to combat gender discrimination, and the inability of federal wage and hour laws to protect workers in today’s economy. In this sense, Professor Miller’s scholarship is about assuring that law serves everyone, not just the privileged.

Prior to teaching, Professor Miller was a law clerk to the New York Court of Appeals. She also worked as an associate at Proskauer Rose LLP,where she litigated commercial and pro bono matters. In addition to her work as a law professor, Professor Miller continues to consult and co-counsel on complex litigation, arbitration and appellate matters. She provides transactional representation to employees, freelancers and businesses. Professor Miller is also active in bar associations and other professional organizations, where she has held various leadership positions.

Through her writing, Professor Miller aims to translate the doctrinal and theoretical insights of legal scholarship into practical lawyering tools. She believes academic work can contribute by framing arguments, identifying emerging trends, and anticipating doctrinal shifts. 

“Legal scholarship—particularly in workplace law—should be in continuous dialogue with practice: shaped by the realities of litigation and counseling, and directed toward producing insights that practitioners can actually use.”

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Professor Kerri Stone teaches courses in the areas of Contracts, Employment Law, Employment Discrimination, and Labor Law at Florida International University College of Law. Previously she was a Freedman Fellow at Temple University Beasley School of Law.

Professor Stone's research focuses on examining anti-discrimination jurisprudence, including sexual harassment, stereotyping, and bullying. In her work she strives to blend theory, public policy considerations, and legal analysis with practical considerations, like human psychology and popular culture. Her 2022 book, Panes of the Glass Ceiling, reimagines the well-known metaphor as a series of "panes of clear glass," each representing an unspoken but toxic societal belief that causes failures of law, policy, and human nature, and thus, stack up to form an impenetrable glass ceiling. She has twice been named a "Top Scholar" by FIU.

Prior to entering the legal academy Professor Stone clerked at the Third Circuit Court of Appeals and practiced law in New York City.

Professor Stone hopes to increase the impact of legal research in day-to-day practice and development of law. She is particularly interested in understanding and influencing how courts engage with workplace challenges like employees' psychological disorders and the demands of contemporary communication modalities and language barriers in adjudicating workplace disputes.

“Legal research should have practical applications and impact on the ground, as well as educate and provoke though in those who want to learn.”

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Associate Professor Andrea Johnson teaches courses in the areas of Contracts, Employment Discrimination, and Civil Rights Litigation at New York Law School where she joined the faculty in 2024. Previously she was a Visiting Assistant Professor and Diversity and Inclusion Fellow at Rutgers Camden Law School.

Professor Johnson’s research focuses on employer liability avoidance strategies and their impact on workers’ ability to vindicate their Title VII rights. Her recent article in George Mason Law Review offers a substantive rights justification for voiding employer-imposed contracts shortening the statute of limitations for filing discrimination claims. A forthcoming piece contends that reports of workplace race discriminations are increasingly being reframed in litigation as "accusations of racism," a linguistic and legal shift that creates new avenues of liability for employers and decreases retaliation protections for employees. Other research topics include the “stray remark” doctrine in summary judgment proceedings and the viability of preemption analysis in defeating contractual waivers of Title VII rights.

Prior to entering the legal academy Professor Johnson worked as an employment discrimination and civil rights trial attorney representing first plaintiffs pursuing discrimination lawsuits and later companies defending against discrimination claims. Her work experience impressed on her the need to connect scholarship and practice to support practitioners seeking to achieve a more just society.

“I am so excited to be part of a program that is focused on making academic scholarship more accessible to practitioners. Representing individuals attempting to vindicate their civil rights showed me the importance of the availability of practical resources with novel arguments and new theoretical frameworks to encourage practitioners to move the law forward. Growing up as a child of minimum wage workers in West Virginia, I strongly believe that workplace justice must be made accessible to all.”

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