Sandra F. Sperino / April-June 2014

Sandra completed an article, titled Let’s Pretend Title VII is a Tort, which is forthcoming in the Ohio State Law Journal.

Sandra launched a new blog, called Friend of the Court, which explores cutting edge and emerging issues in employment discrimination law.  It provides in-depth, substantive commentary on each topic and discusses history, theory, doctrine. and policy implications.  The goal of Friend of the Court is to assist courts, lawyers, and policymakers as they navigate complex discrimination issues.  Additionally, Sandra is serving as a contributor at the Workplace Prof Blog.

Several of Sandra’s articles were cited:

  • A Modern Theory of Direct Corporate Liability for Title VII, 61 Ala. L. Rev. 773 (2010), in Curtis J. Bankers, Identifying Employers’ “Proxies” in Sexual-Harassment Litigation, 99 Iowa L. Rev. 1785 (2014), and in Michael W. Disotell, Interpreting Title VII: The Discord Between Legisprudence and Jurisprudence and Its Impact on Small Businesses, 9 Ohio St. Entrepreneurial Bus. L.J. 35 (2014);
  • Recreating Diversity in Employment Law by Debunking the Myth of the McDonnell Douglas Monolith, 44 Hous. L. Rev. 349 (2007), in David Sherwyn, Michael Heise, & Zev J. Eigen, Experimental Evidence That Retaliation Claims Are Unlike Other Employment Discrimination Claims, 44 Seton Hall L. Rev. 455 (2014);
  • Rethinking Discrimination Law, 110 Mich. L. Rev. 69 (2011), in Lucas Loafman & Andrew Little, Race, Employment and Crime: The Shifting Landscape of Disparate Impact Discrimination Based on Criminal Convictions, 51 Am. Bus. L.J. 251 (2014).
  • Fakers and Floodgates, 10 Stan. J. C.R. & C.L. (forthcoming 2014) ( (with Suja Thomas), in William B. Gould IV, The Supreme Court, Job Discrimination, Affirmative Action, Globalization, and Class Actions: Justice Ginsburg’s Term, 36 U. Haw. L. Rev. 371 (2014); and
  • Judicial Preemption of Punitive Damages, 78 U. Cin. L. Rev. 227, 252 (2009), in Andrew S. Polis, The Death of Inference, 55 B.C. L. Rev. 435, 490 (2014).

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