Associate Dean of Faculty and Professor Sandra Sperino was cited by the Third Circuit in an opinion creating a circuit split by approving the use of subgroup evidence in ADEA disparate impact cases. The argument used by the Third Circuit is the argument she set forth in the article. See Professor Sperino’s blog post for more information: https://friendofthecourtblog.wordpress.com/
Oxford University Press just published Professor Sperino’s book, Unequal: How America’s Courts Undermine Discrimination Law (w/ Thomas). This book explores how federal courts substantively limit discrimination claims through frameworks, doctrines and rules. It argues that the legal doctrine distracts courts away from the key question in discrimination cases: whether a person faced negative consequences because of a protected trait.
Professor Sperino submitted the latest edition of the Nutshell on Federal Discrimination Law (w/ Player) to West.
On March 10, 2017, Professor Sandra Sperino spoke at the University of California-Berkeley School of Law, as part of a symposium on the Future of Discrimination Law: Frameworks, Theory, Practice and People. The symposium was sponsored by the Berkeley Journal of Employment and Labor Law.
Professor Sandra Sperino attended the American Association of Law Schools Conference in San Francisco. At the conference, Professor Sperino presented her book, Unequal: How American Courts Undermine Discrimination Law (w/ Thomas) (Oxford University Press 2017). She also commented on a draft article as part of a panel to assist new and emerging scholars in discrimination law.
Professor Sperino was quoted in the March 22 Pro Publica article, “Is It Age Discrimination If You Don’t Know You’re Being Discriminated Against?”