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Marquette Law Review Symposium – Promoting Employee Voice in the New American Economy

Post author:Paul M. Secunda
Post published:September 15, 2010
Post category:Labor & Employment Law Marquette Law School Speakers at Marquette

The Marquette Law Review Symposium this year will be on a labor and employment law topic. I had the pleasure of organizing the symposium as part of Marquette’s Labor and Employment Law Program. The event will be on Friday, October 1, 2010 from 8:15 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. at the beautiful new Eckstein Hall Law School building at 1215 Michigan Ave., Milwaukee.

The name of the program is: Promoting Employee Voice in the New American Economy and features, among other prominent speakers, Professor Kenneth Dau-Schmidt, the Willard and Margaret Carl Professor of Labor and Employment Law at Indiana University–Bloomington, Maurer School of Law.

All are welcome. There is no fee for this conference, but registration is required. Please reserve your spot by September 23, 2010 by filling out and sending in this this form.

Best of the Blogs

Post author:Michael M. O'Hear
Post published:August 1, 2010
Post category:Civil Procedure Federalism Labor & Employment Law U.S. Supreme Court

Is American law too complex? PrawfsBlawg featured an interesting exchange on this question last week. Eric Johnson initiated the exchange with this post, in which he observed:

There is a huge, obvious problem with the law. The bar studiously ignores it. Even the legal academy generally pretends it’s not there. It’s so large as to be beyond overwhelming.

The problem is this: Our system of justice is absurdly complex and time consuming.

. . .

There are three basic aspects to the mess: Endeavoring to understand the law is unduly complex and expensive, determining the facts is unduly complex and expensive, and teeing up the law and the facts for judges and juries is unduly complex and expensive.

In addition to a lively string of comments (including a couple by our own Rick Esenberg), Eric’s comments also prompted a thoughtful responsive post by Paul Horwitz.

Trans-formation

Post author:Melissa Longamore
Post published:June 28, 2010
Post category:Civil Rights Criminal Law & Process Labor & Employment Law Wisconsin Law & Legal System

A year ago, President Barack Obama issued a proclamation naming June “Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgendered Pride Month.” The proclamation effectively incorporated the transgendered community into President Bill Clinton’s 2000 proclamation, which named June “Gay & Lesbian Pride Month.” In honor of the transgendered community, their legal rights, and the month of June, it seems appropriate to discuss gender identity discrimination and the infamous “trans panic defense.”

The overall struggle that transgender people face is similar to the struggle that gays and lesbians face, but for transgender people, the progressive change for their legal rights seems to be slower. Currently, in 38 states it is still legal to discriminate based on gender identity. Comparatively, 30 states have not yet developed laws against sexual orientation discrimination. Wisconsin was the first state to ban employment discrimination based on sexual orientation, and it did so in 1982. However, as of yet, it has not created equal legislation regarding gender identity.