Sandra Sperino was invited to co-author (with Mack Player) the next edition of West Academic’s Federal Law of Employment Discrimination in a Nutshell. In the summer, she worked on the book (co-authored with Suja Thomas), Framed: How Courts Skew Discrimination Law Against Workers, which will be published by Oxford University Press in 2016.

Sandra was invited to speak at the Alabama Bar Association Labor and Employment Conference in October. She was also invited to present her work at a symposium at Duke Law School this November. The symposium is on the Present and Future of Civil Rights Movements. Professor Sperino was invited to present her work as part of the faculty speaker series at Cardozo School of Law this fall.

She served as a contributing editor on four books: Covenants Not To Compete, Trade Secrets, A State-by-State Survey, Employee Duty of Loyalty, and Tortious Interference in the Employment Context.

Several of Sandra’s books and articles were cited:

• Flying Without a Statutory Basis: Why McDonnell Douglas Is Not Justified by Any Statutory Construction Methodology, 43 Hous. L. Rev. 743 (2006), in J. Alexander Strohm, Student Author, Unifying Ohio’s Interpretation of O.R.C. § 4112.02 in Light of University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center v. Nassar, 83 U. Cin. L. Rev. 603 (2014).
• The New Calculus of Punitive Damages for Employment Discrimination Cases, 62 Ok. L. Rev. 701 (2010), in Laura J. Hines & N. William Hines, Constitutional Constraints on Punitive Damages: Clarity, Consistency, and the Outlier Dilemma, 66 Hastings L.J. 1257 (2015).

• Rethinking Discrimination Law, 110 Mich. L. Rev. 69 (2011), in Marcia L. McCormick, Let’s Pretend That Federal Courts Aren’t Hostile to Discrimination Claims, 76 Ohio St. L.J. Furthermore 22 (2015); Jessica L. Roberts, Protecting Privacy to Prevent Discrimination, 56 Wm. & Mary L. Rev. 2097 (2015); Steven R. Semler, Hijacking of Title VII Employment Discrimination Plaintiffs on the Way to the Jury, 32 Hofstra Lab. & Emp. L.J. 49 (2014).

• Diminishing Retaliation Liability, 88 N.Y.U. L. Rev. Online 7 (2013) (with Alex B. Long), in Alex B. Long, What is Even More Troubling About the “Tortification” of Employment Discrimination Law, 76 Ohio St. L.J. Furthermore 1 (2015).
• Discrimination Statutes, the Common Law, and Proximate Cause, 2013 U. Ill. L. Rev. 1, in Leora F. Eisenstadt, Causation in Context, 36 Berkeley J. Emp. & Lab. L. 1 (2015); Marcia L. McCormick, Let’s Pretend That Federal Courts Aren’t Hostile to Discrimination Claims, 76 Ohio St. L.J. Furthermore 22 (2015).
• Litigating the FMLA in the Shadow of Title VII, 8 FIU L. Rev. 501 (2013), in Maritza I. Reyes, Professional Women Silenced by Men-Made Norms, 47 Akron L. Rev. 897 (2015).
• Revitalizing State Employment Discrimination Law, 20 Geo. Mason L. Rev. 545 (2013), in J. Alexander Strohm, Student Author, Unifying Ohio’s Interpretation of O.R.C. § 4112.02 in Light of University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center v. Nassar, 83 U. Cin. L. Rev. 603 (2014).
• Statutory Proximate Cause, 88 Notre Dame L. Rev. 1199 (2013), in Marcia L. McCormick, Let’s Pretend That Federal Courts Aren’t Hostile to Discrimination Claims, 76 Ohio St. L.J. Furthermore 22 (2015).

• Let’s Pretend Discrimination Is a Tort, 75 Ohio St. L.J. 1107 (2014), in Marcia L. McCormick, Let’s Pretend That Federal Courts Aren’t Hostile to Discrimination Claims, 76 Ohio St. L.J. Furthermore 22 (2015).
• The Tort Label, 66 Fla. L. Rev. 1051 (2014), in Leora F. Eisenstadt, Causation in Context, 36 Berkeley J. Emp. & Lab. L. 1 (2015); Marcia L. McCormick, Let’s Pretend That Federal Courts Aren’t Hostile to Discrimination Claims, 76 Ohio St. L.J. Furthermore 22 (2015); Sonja Wolf Sahlsten, Note, I’m a Little Treepot: Conceptual Separability and Affording Copyright Protection to Useful Articles, 67 Fla. L. Rev. 941 (2015).

Finally, Sandra accepted appointment as the College’s Associate Dean of Faculty effective Fall 2015.