Recent Publications
Recent books, book chapters, and journal articles published by the University of Minnesota Law School faculty.
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– Erasing Difference: Race, Ethnicity, and Gender in Bioethics, in Embodying Bioethics: Recent Feminist Advances 65-81 (Laura M. Purdy & Anne Donchin, eds., Rowman and Littlefield, 1998)
– Neurolaw: The Big Question, 8 American Journal of Bioethics 21-22 (Jan. 2008)
– Confronting Physician-Assisted Suicide and Euthanasia: My Father's Death, 38 Hastings Center Report 23-26 (Sept./Oct. 2008)
– Advocating for Patients in Managed Care: Commentary, in Ethical Challenges in Managed Care: A Casebook 219-26 (Karen Gervais et al., eds., Routledge, 1999)
– Working Group on Chapter 2 of the Proposed Restatement of Employment Law: Employment Contracts: Termination, 13 Employee Rights and Employment Policy Journal 93 (2009)
– Pre-employment Screening and Investigation: Navigating Between a Rock and a Hard Place, Proceedings of the New York University 58th Annual Conference on Labor 235 (2010)
– How and Why Labor Arbitrators Decide Discipline and Discharge Cases: An Empirical Examination, Proceedings of the Sixtieth Annual Meeting of the National Academy of Arbitrators 420 (Stephen E. Befort & Patrick Halter, eds., BNA, 2008)
– Pre-employment Screening and Investigation: Navigating Between a Rock and a Hard Place, 14 Hofstra Labor Law Journal 365 (1997), reprinted in 47 Defense Law Journal 467 (1997)
– The Regulatory Void of Contingent Work, 10 Employee Rights and Employment Policy Journal 233 (2006)
– Employment Law and Practice (West Publishing, 1st. ed., 1995) (Supps. 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002)
– Employment Law and Practice (West Group, 2d ed., 2003) (Supps. 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009)
– Invisible Hands, Invisible Objectives: Bringing Workplace Law and Public Policy into Focus (Stanford University Press, 2009)
– Mental Illness and Long-term Disability Plans Under the Americans with Disabilities Act, 2 University of Pennsylvania Journal of Labor and Employment Law 287 (1999)
– A Reprise of a Classic: Gorman & Finkin's Basic Text on Labor Law: Unionization and Collective Bargaining, 7 University of Pennsylvania Journal of Labor and Employment Law 1031 (2005) (reviewing Robert A. Gorman & Matthew W. Finkin, Basic Text on Labor Law: Unionization and Collective Bargaining (Thomson/West, 2nd. ed., 2004)) (review essay)
– At the Cutting Edge of Labor Law Preemption: A Critique of Chamber of Commerce v. Lockyer, 20 Labor Lawyer 107 (2004)
– Within the Grasp of the Cat's Paw: Delineating the Scope of Subordinate Bias Liability Under Federal Anti-Discrimination Statutes, 60 South Carolina Law Review 383 (2008)
– Employee Handbooks and the Legal Effect of Disclaimers, 13 Industrial Relations Law Journal 326 (1991)
– BFOQ Revisited: Johnson Controls Halts the Expansion of the Defense to Intentional Sex Discrimination, 52 Ohio State Law Journal 5 (1991)
– The Sounds of Silence: The Libertarian Ethos of ERISA Preemption, 52 Florida Law Review 1 (2000)
– The Role of Legal Education in Instilling an Ethos of Public Service Among Law Students: Towards a Collaboration Between the Profession and the Academy on Professional Values, 13 Law and Inequality 1 (1994)
– ADA Presents an Unpredictable Landscape, Minnesota Lawyer 14 (Apr. 24, 2000)
– Reasonable Accommodation and Reassignment under the Americans with Disabilities Act: Answers, Questions, and Suggested Solutions after U.S. Airways, Inc. v. Barnett, 45 Arizona Law Review 931 (2003)
– Labor Law and the Double-Breasted Employer: A Critique of the Single Employer and Alter Ego Doctrines and a Proposed Reformulation, 1987 Wisconsin Law Review 67 (1987)
– Revisiting the Black Hole of Workplace Regulation: A Historical and Comparative Perspective of Contingent Work, 24 Berkeley Journal of Employment and Labor Law 153 (2003)
– Public Sector Bargaining: Fiscal Crisis and Unilateral Change, 69 Minnesota Law Review
1221 (1985)
– Beyond the Rhetoric of the NAFTA Treaty Debate: A Comparative Analysis of Labor and Employment Law in Mexico and the United States, 17 Comparative Labor Law Journal 269 (1996), reprinted in 18 Berkeley Journal of Employment and Labor Law 176 (1997)
– The Most Difficult ADA Reasonable Accommodation Issues: Reassignment and Leave of Absence, 37 Wake Forest Law Review 439 (2002)
– The ADA in Turmoil: Judicial Dissonance, The Supreme Court's Response, and the Future of Disability Discrimination Law, 78 Oregon Law Review 27 (1999)
– Labor and Employment Law at the Millennium: A Historical Review and Critical Assessment, 43 Boston College Law Review 351 (2002)
– Musings on a Clinic Report: A Selective Agenda for Clinical Legal Education in the 1990's, 75 Minnesota Law Review 619 (1991)