Cases and Materials on Employment Discrimination and Employment Law: The Field as Practiced
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Description
This text is the fifth edition of a work that grew out of our initial text, Cases and Materials on the Law Governing the Employment Relationship. We are also publishing this year a new edition of our shorter texts on employment discrimination law, and employment law respectively. The book captures the breadth of expertise demanded of practitioners in our field. While employment lawyers can and do specialize, a working knowledge of the field is as critical for defense lawyers counseling an employer as it is for plaintiff’s lawyers evaluating a case. An employer inquiring about an employee discipline issue may implicate discrimination and retaliation-related liability. A plaintiff complaining about discriminatory treatment may have a weak Title VII claim but an excellent wage and hour claim. Students exposed to the breadth of the field are best positioned to issue spot from a complex fact pattern, and educate their future clients about available options. The book also provides considerable flexibility for instructors planning to sample from many different topics, emphasize topics reflecting their area of specialty, or focus on issues most heavily litigated in their jurisdiction. The book also supports intensive courses and courses that extend across multiple semesters. The teaching website accompanying the firth edition offers several options for tailoring the course to suit your needs. The notes and questions that follow the principal reading are organized into two categories: “Test Your Understanding of the Material” and “Related Issues.” The former encourage students to gain a basic understanding of the material on their own, liberating instructors to spend more class time on rule applications and advanced topics. The “Related Issues” notes explain important points of law not covered in the principle cases and explore policy questions and debates. The note material is intended primarily as a teaching tool rather than as a vehicle for expressing our particular viewpoints. In this text, as well as in earlier editions, we have not tried to reach complete consensus concerning the wording and the balance of each of our notes. We also hope to entice students to join this exciting area of practice through the “Practitioner Perspectives” interspersed through the book. Each one provides a glimpse into the day-to-day practice of leading practitioners in our field, and their area of sub-specialization.
Publication Date
2016
Edition
5
Recommended Citation
Estreicher, Samuel; Harper, Michael C.; and Tippett, Elizabeth C., "Cases and Materials on Employment Discrimination and Employment Law: The Field as Practiced" (2016). Faculty Books & Edited Works. 191.
https://gretchen.law.nyu.edu/fac-books-edited-works/191
