Associate Dean of Faculty and Professor Sandra Sperino’s article, Retaliation and the Reasonable Person, 67 Fla. L. Rev. 2031 (2016), is in print.
Professor Sperino placed her most recent article, Justice Kennedy’s Big New Idea, with the Boston University Law Review; the publication date is pending.
Professor Sperino was a plenary speaker at the National Conference on Equal Employment Opportunity Law in Austin, Texas, on March 30, 2016. Professor Sperino’s panel covered the Future of Discrimination Law and the Changing Workplace. The conference was presented by the ABA Section of Labor and Employment Law’s Committee on Equal Employment Opportunity Law. The conference related to EEO law and highlighted nationally recognized speakers, including judges and top government officials as well as private practitioners. The Conference covered a variety of subjects of interest to any and all EEO practitioners—from hot topics in compensation and gender discrimination, to class actions, social media, government enforcement, Supreme Court review, and EEO risks and case evaluation, as well as others.
Professor Sperino’s article, The Sky Remains Intact: Why Allowing Subgroup Evidence is Consistent with the Age Discrimination in Employment Act, 90 Marquette L. Rev. 227 (2006), was cited by the EEOC on April 7, 2016, in an amicus brief filed with the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit.
In Oregon v. Turnidge, 2016 WL 2587442 (Or. 2016), the Oregon Supreme Court determined whether the common law concept of proximate cause applied to a criminal statute. In considering the question, the court cited Professor Sperino’s article, Statutory Proximate Cause, 88 Notre Dame L. Rev. 1199 (2013), which discussed problems posed when imposing proximate cause concepts on statutory causes of action.