Employment Discrimination: Law and Theory (University Casebook Series)

This casebook offers a new perspective on employment discrimination law, one that provides a theoretical structure for analyzing legal doctrine and for assessing the competing justifications for the law in this field. This book is meant to serve as an accessible introduction to an increasingly complex field, covering prohibitions against discrimination on the basis of race, national origin, sex, religion, age, and disability. It also offers a comprehensive survey of current legal scholarship and scholarship in related fields, especially studies in labor economics that address the effects of prohibitions against discrimination. Throughout the book, the approach is pluralistic, comparing the different political viewpoints and legal arguments that have shaped the law in this field, and evaluating their implications and effectiveness. To that end, the materials cover all the major statutes prohibiting employment discrimination, together with related developments in constitutional law and all the major decisions of the Supreme Court interpreting these prohibitions. Comprehensive notes survey the current state of the law, raise questions for class discussion, and address the continuing controversies in this field.George A. Rutherglen is the author of 'Employment Discrimination: Law and Theory (University Casebook Series)', published 2005 under ISBN 9781587789144 and ISBN 1587789140.