Product Description

Reflecting the dominate theme of workplace equality, the authors go beyond this general consensus to affirm that the fundamental purpose of laws prohibiting employment discrimination is to implement the national civil rights policy. Organized around an examination of the reach and limits of laws, the book scrutinizes the federal statutory protection against employment discrimination. Constitutional provisions and state laws are included where appropriate. In addition, this new edition extensively uses scholarship drawn from the work of critical race theorists and feminist legal scholars. It also has materials on the law and economics approach to employment discrimination.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #672380 in Books
• Published on: 2004-05
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Hardcover
• 1008 pages

About the Author
Professor of Law, Golden Gate University

Customer Reviews

Good intro into Employment discrimination law
For me this casebook (7th Ed 2004) along with the statutory supplement has given me a pretty good understanding of employment discrimination law. The book gives excellent coverage to Disparate treatment and disparate impact cases as well as their applicability to the federal stautes.

However, where this book is lacking is in any type of discussion of employment at will. Also this book (7th ed 2004)is missing several key cases which would better help the student understand the material, most notably disparate impact. As long as you have a good prof who understands the subject, then this text + the prof should be enough.

Not Worth Buying
During law school, one of my professors selected this book as the course text. I must say, I was utterly lost. I felt this book managed to take relatively simple concepts and make them exceedingly complex, difficult and confusing. Needless to say, after a semester of listening to My professor and reading selections from this "book," I had no idea what employment discrimination was from a legal perspective.
Then I was assigned an employment discrimination case where I was clerking. I did some legal research, read some case law and consulted the Continuing Legal Education books on employment discrimination, and learned that it really was quite straightforward, just not in this book.
***The Above is only the opinion of the author, based on his feelings and personal experiences, and does not purport to accurately access the legal merits or reasoing contained in that text.