Scholarship
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Law Review Articles
"The Future of Work-Family Policy: Is 'Choice' the Right Choice?" (13)2 Employee
Rights and Employment Policy Journal 385 (2009). [SSRN]
"The PDA's Causation Effect: Observations of an Unreasonable Woman," 21 Yale Journal of Law and Feminism 51 (2009). [SSRN]
"Lashing Back at the ADA Backlash: How the Americans With Disabilities Act Benefits Americans Without Disabilities," 76 Tennessee Law Review 311 (2009). [SSRN]
"The Full-Time Face-Time Norm: Lessons from the United Kingdom," 10 Employee Rights and Employment Policy Journal 257 (2006) (Proceedings of the 2006 Annual Meeting, Association of American Law Schools' Section on Labor Relations and Employment Law).
"Recapturing the Transformative Potential of Employment Discrimination Law," 62 Washington and Lee Law Review 1 (2005). [SSRN]
"Equality in the Virtual Workplace," 24 Berkeley Journal of Employment & Labor Law 283 (2003). [SSRN]
"Telecommuting: The Escher Stairway of Work/Family Conflict," 55 Maine Law Review 262 (2002) (symposium issue). [SSRN]
"Perceived Disabilities, Social Cognition, and "Innocent Mistakes," 55 Vanderbilt Law Review 481 (2002). [SSRN]
"Leveling the Playing Field or Stacking the Deck? The 'Unfair Advantage' Critique of Perceived Disability Claims," 78 North Carolina Law Review 901 (2000). [SSRN]
Note, "Psychological Health Tests for Violence-Prone Police Officers: Objectives, Shortcomings, and Alternatives," 46 Stanford Law Review 1717 (1994).
"Defending the Indigent During a War on Crime," 1 Cornell Journal of Law & Public Policy 69 (1992) (with John Martin).
Other Publications
Signatory, Professors' Amicus Brief in AT&T v. Hulteen.
"Americans with Disabilities Act: High Court Endorses Disparate Impact Theory," Issue 1356, No. 866, Pt. 2, Labor Law Reporter (CCH) (2004).
"High Court Endorses Disparate Impact Theory," 148 Accommodating Disabilities (CCH) (2004).
Presentations and Lectures
Presenter, "What a Difference a Day Makes, or Does It? Work-Family Balance and the Four-Day Work Week," Connecticut Law Review's symposium "Redefining Work: Implications of the Four-Day Work Week," University of Connecticut School of Law, Hartford, CT (October 30, 2009).
"The Legal 'Back Door' to Work-Family Balance," The Sixth International Carework Conference at UC Hastings, San Francisco (August 2009).
"Review of Labor and Employment Cases Decided in the 2008-09 Term," Bar Association of San Francisco (July 7, 2009) (with Maria Ontiveros)
"The ADA and You — How Laws Intended to Help the Disabled Affect Those With and Without Disabilities," University of San Francisco School of Law (March 3, 2009)
Moderator for the panel "Past, Present and Future: High-Skilled Immigrants in the U.S. Workforce," Symposium on the Evolving Definition of the Immigrant Worker: The Intersection Between Employment, Labor, and Human Rights Law, University of San Francisco School of Law (February 27, 2009)
Presenter, "Lashing Back at the ADA Backlash: How the Americans with Disabilities Act Benefits Americans Without Disabilities," Employment Law Colloquium, Northwestern University School of Law (February 19, 2009).
Presenter, "Building a More Flexible and Accessible Profession: What Changes are Possible?," Bar Association of San Francisco (BASF), San Francisco, California (January 2009).
Presenter, Conference on "Respecting Expecting: The 30th Anniversary of the PDA," Yale Law School, New Haven, Connecticut (November 2008).
Commentator, Seton Hall Annual Employment & Labor Law Scholars' Forum, Seton Hall University School of Law, Newark, New Jersey (October 2008).
Introductory remarks and moderator for the panel on "The Social Science Behind Family Responsibilities Discrimination and the Prospects for Caregiver Non-Discrimination Legislation," Symposium on Family Responsibilities Discrimination: Lessons for the Use of Stereotyping Evidence and Implicit Bias in Employment Cases, University of California Hastings College of the Law, (February 2008).
Participant, Workplace Flexibility 2010, Georgetown University Law Center (November 2007).
"Lashing Back at the ADA Backlash: How the Americans With Disabilities Act Benefits Americans Without Disabilities," Second Annual Colloquium on Current Scholarship in Labor & Employment Law, University of Denver Sturm College of Law and University of Colorado Law School (September 2007).
"Part-Time Arrangements as Reasonable Accommodations," Conference on Hiring and Retaining Attorneys with Disabilities, San Francisco, California (July 2007).
Participant, Caregiver Bias Working Group, WorkLife Law Center, University of California, Hastings College of the Law (May 2007).
Introductory Remarks and Moderator for the panel on "Affirmative Obligations: Accommodations in the Workplace," The National Disability Law Symposium, University of California, Hastings College of the Law, San Francisco, California (February 2007).
Introductory Remarks and Moderator for the panel on "Dispute Resolution in Action: Examining the Reality of Employment Discrimination Cases" (Proceedings of the 2007 Annual Meeting, Association of American Law Schools Sections on Employment Discrimination and Alternative Dispute Resolution), 11 Employee Rights & Employment Policy Journal 139 (2007).
"Gender Stereotyping and the Full-Time Face-Time Norm," The Third Annual WorkLife Law Conference on Working Time, USF School of Law, San Francisco, California (March 2006).
"The Full-Time Face-Time Norm: Lessons from the United Kingdom," in "Employment Protection for Atypical Workers" (Proceedings of the 2006 Annual Meeting, Association of American Law Schools Section on Labor Relations and Employment Law), 10 Employee Rights & Employment Policy Journal 233 (2006).
Commentator for the panel on "Gender Stereotyping—Expanding the Boundaries of Title VII" (Proceedings of the 2006 Annual Meeting, Association of American Law Schools Section on Employment Discrimination Law), 10 Employee Rights & Employment Policy Journal 271 (2006).
"Recapturing the Transformative Potential of Employment Discrimination Law," Workshop Series at the University of Connecticut School of Law, Hartford, Connecticut (April 2005).
"Stereotyping, Opting Out, and the Law: The Family Responsive Workplace in Europe and the United States," Second Annual WorkLife Law Conference on Working Time, American University Washington College of Law, Washington D.C. (March 2005).
"Supreme Court Review: What the U.S. and California Supreme Court Decisions Have Done For (or To) Labor and Employment Law," The San Francisco Bar Association Labor and Employment Section Annual Meeting, San Francisco, California (July 2004).
"The Full-Time Face-Time Norm and the Untapped Transformative Potential of Employment Discrimination Law," The Law and Society Association Annual Meeting, Chicago, Illinois (June 2004).
Commentator for the panel on "Legislative Approaches to Flexibility and Reduced Working Time," First Annual WorkLife Law Conference on Working Time: Working Time for Working Families—Europe and the USA, American University Washington College of Law, Washington D.C. (June 2004).
"Undermining the Transformative Potential of Employment Discrimination Law," The Central States Law School Association Conference, Toledo, Ohio (Sept. 2003).
"Undermining the Transformative Potential of Employment Discrimination Law," The Law and Society Association Annual Meeting, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (June 2003).
"Equality in the Virtual Workplace." Business and Professional Women's Foundation Annual Meeting, "From 9-to-5 to 24/7: How Workplace Changes Impact Families, Work, and Communities," Orlando, Florida (March 2003).
"Employment Law Pitfalls: New Supreme Court Cases on the ADA," Oregon Law Institute, Portland, Oregon (Feb. 2003).
"Sex Discrimination in the Virtual Workplace," Conference on Subversive Legacies: Learning from History/Constructing the Future, The University of Texas School of Law, Austin, Texas (November 2002).
"Telecommuting: The Escher Stairway of Work/Family Conflict," Symposium on Law, Labor, and Gender, The University of Maine School of Law, Portland, Maine (September 2002).
"Sex Discrimination in the Virtual Workplace," The Law and Society Annual Meeting, Vancouver, B.C. (June 2002).
"Perceived Disabilities, Social Cognition, and 'Innocent Mistakes,'" The Stanford/Yale Jr. Faculty Forum, Stanford Law School, Palo Alto, California (June 2001).
Awards
Dean's Circle Scholar, USF School of Law (2010)
