Reviews of how federal agencies functioned during George W. Bush’s presidency reveal many instances of regulatory capture by industry. One prototypical example is the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA), the agency responsible for occupational safety and health (OSH) standard...

On June 15, 2020, the Supreme Court of the United States (Supreme Court or SCOTUS) issued a widely anticipated decision holding that the federal statutory ban on sex discrimination in employment includes a prohibition of discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity. A landmark...

Lifetime Disadvantage, Discrimination and the Gendered Workforce fills a gap in the literature on discrimination and disadvantage suffered by women at work by focusing on the inadequacies of the current law and the need for a new holistic approach. Each stage of the working life cycle for women...

In most countries, precarious working is on the rise and nonstandard forms of work are proliferating. What we call the “grey zone” of employment is generated by transformations at and with respect to work both in standard and nonstandard forms of working. Focusing on legal and policy...

This article considers the effect on women of a lifetime of discrimination using material from both the U.S. and the U.K. Government reports in both countries make clear that women workers suffer from multiple disadvantages during their working lives, which result in significantly poorer...

This invited response essay responds to Professor Deborah Eisenberg's article in the Florida Law Review, "Regulation by Amicus," which assesses U.S. Department of Labor efforts to influence statutory interpretation and effectuate public policy through the use of "friend-of-the-court" (amicus...

This article explores the goals, challenges and outcomes associated with a course entitled "The Global Workplace," which the author taught in May-June 2007 as part of Thomas Jefferson School of Law's inaugural Study Abroad in China Program. Although she had previously taught a similar course,...