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Critical Analysis Of Judicial Attempts To Reconcile The United States-Japan Friendship, Commerce And Navigation Treaty With Title Vii, A , Jeffrey J. Mayer
Critical Analysis Of Judicial Attempts To Reconcile The United States-Japan Friendship, Commerce And Navigation Treaty With Title Vii, A , Jeffrey J. Mayer
Northwestern Journal of International Law & Business
This paper offers a practical solution to the conflict between civil rights and economic growth through a new, but sensible, interpretation of the "right to choose" provision. Part I explains the conflicting rulings of the five Courts of Appeals that have addressed this issue. Part II concludes that the courts' various reconciliations between Title VII and the Japan FCN Treaty are, in each case, impossible to apply consistently or fairly. Courts have wrongly attempted to preserve the protections of Title VII for American employees of foreign corporations by asking factfinders to draw impossibly fine distinctions between permissible and prohibited criteria …