This Article synthesizes two decades of research on the progression of sexual harassment claims through the legal system and adds a new, original, empirical study on the resolution of sexual harassment lawsuits filed in federal district court. It examines the prevalence of sexual harassment in...

Are more cases settled when judges are elected among the most belligerent trade unions? In the specific case of French employment courts, the answer is broadly negative. This article provides evidence of the minor role that judges have on alternative dispute resolution in and out of court....

The current state of affairs in Ontario for average and low wage earners who lose their jobs without cause is not satisfactory. These terminated employees must choose between two unappealing courses: either accept minimal entitlements to notice under the Employment Standards Act, 2000, or seek...

In order to strengthen the efficacy of the Brussels I Regulation (recast), which has already been shown to operate effectively, it is suggested to complete it with specific rules aimed at circumscribing the jurisdictional power in respect of extra-EU cases, together with specific rules on...

The 1995 Employment Due Process Protocol, which suggested minimum procedural safeguards for employment arbitration agreements, was drafted in the early years of employment arbitration, before the drafters could anticipate many of the issues now facing the courts. This article discusses twenty...

This article discusses the Supreme Court's 2002 Hoffman Plastic Compounds opinion, normally considered in terms of its social justice ramifications, from the different perspective of NLRB attorneys tasked with pursuing enforcement of the National Labor Relations Act (NLRA) under the conceptually...

In this Essay I reply to Professor David Gregory and Paul Secunda's comments about my principal article, Sprint/United Management Co. vs. Mendelsohn: The Supreme Court Appears To Have Punted On The Admissibility of Me Too Evidence Of Discrimination. But Did it? 102 Nw. U. L. Rev. 264 (2008)....

In this study, we examine the relation between employee lawsuit and risk in U.S. public firms. We hand collect more than 20,000 employee lawsuits and find that labor-related allegations significantly affect firm risk after controlling for various firm characteristics. We document that a greater...