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Shortcuts In Employment Discrimination Law, Kerri Lynn Stone

Saint Louis University Law Journal

Are employment discrimination plaintiffs viewed by society and by judges with an increased skepticism? This Article urges that the same actor inference, the stray comment doctrine, and strict temporal nexus requirements, as courts have applied them, make up a larger and dangerous trend in the area of employment discrimination jurisprudence—that of courts reverting to special, judge-made “shortcuts” to curtail or even bypass analysis necessary to justify the disposal or proper adjudication of a case. This shorthand across different doctrines reveals a willingness of the judiciary to proxy monolithic assumptions for the individualized reasoned analyses mandated by the relevant antidiscrimination legislation. …

A Data-Driven Snapshot Of Labor And Employment Law Professors, Richard A. Bales

Saint Louis University Law Journal

This Article provides a data-driven snapshot of the law school faculty members who teach Labor and Employment Law. Among its findings are the following:

• The teaching of Labor Law is declining and the teaching of Employment Law is rising.
• Men dominate the teaching of Labor Law, but women have mostly narrowed the gap in Employment Law.
• The other courses taught by Labor and Employment Law faculty members are highly sex-segregated. For example, Employment Law faculty members who also teach Family Law or Property are overwhelmingly likely to be women, and Employment Law faculty members who also teach Constitutional Law, Civil …