The Statutory Public Interest in Closing the Pay Gap
Bornstein, Stephanie
2019
This essay seeks to expose a significant proportion of the gender pay gap for what it actually is: the result of unfair competition and unfair labor practices that injure the public interest and the U.S. economy.
The highly publicized and controversial deaths of Michael Brown, Freddie Gray, and Tamir Rice have sparked a national conversation about community policing and the use of deadly force. This symposium will draw together experts from across the nation to examine the complicated set of issues that arises in the context of policing and use of force. The colloquy will consider both the constitutional and civil rights dimensions of the use of force, with particular focus on avenues for rendering existing legal remedies more responsive to current concerns. Attention will be paid to issues of racial justice as well as a range of pragmatic, on-the-ground aspects of (and impediments to) reform. The conversation will also include a lunchtime panel of law enforcement officers, prosecutors, and practitioners who will offer a first-hand account of the challenges associated with community policing and the use of force.
Participating Scholars:
Bryan Adamson, Seattle University School of Law
Mary Fan, University of Washington School of Law
John Gross, University of Alabama School of Law
Song Richardson, University of California, Irvine School of Law
Lunchtime Law Enforcement Community Panel:
Steven D. Anderson, city of Tuscaloosa chief of police
Kira Fonteneau, Jefferson County Community Law Office
Lyn Head, Tuscaloosa County district attorney
Praveen Krishna, assistant United States attorney, Department of Justice for the Northern District of Alabama
Yuri Linetsky, University of Alabama School of Law
Antidiscrimination Law and Policy After Hobby Lobby
Friday, March 27, 2015
In her dissenting opinion in last term’s much-discussed Burwell v. Hobby Lobby Stores, Inc., Justice Ginsburg famously stated, “The Court, I fear, has ventured into a minefield.” One of the “mines” that she identifies is the prospective impact of the Hobby Lobby on confrontations between religious beliefs and LGBT antidiscrimination measures. For its spring symposium, the Alabama Civil Rights & Civil Liberties Law Review has drawn together an exceptional compliment of scholars to explore this evolving landscape.
Hobby Lobby has garnered a great deal of attention from a range of scholarly quarters, but particularly among those interested in LGBT equality/antidiscrimination issues as well as those interested in issues surrounding religious liberty. While the decision itself involved a challenge to the contraceptive mandate in the Affordable Care Act (ACA), Hobby Lobby may also have the potential to chart a new legal landscape with respect to a wide range of issues involving the intersection of religious liberty and LGBT equality/antidiscrimination measures. This colloquy will consider these tensions in light of the latest relevant missive from the Supreme Court.
Participating Scholars:
Leslie C. Griffin, William S. Boyd Professor of Law, University of Nevada, Las Vegas
Paul Horwitz, Gordon Rosen Professor of Law, University of Alabama
Andrew M. Koppelman, John Paul Stevens Professor of Law, Northwestern University
Ira C. Lupu, F. Elwood and Eleanor Davis Professor Emeritus of Law, George Washington University
Elizabeth Sepper, Associate Professor of Law, Washington University in St. Louis
Lunch speaker:
David Dinielli, Deputy Legal Director, Southern Poverty Law Center
