Category: Prof. Sandra Sperino
November 21, 2024
Dean Sperino publishes article in the Texas Law Review
Sandra Sperino, associate dean for research and faculty development and the Elwood L. Thomas Missouri Endowed Professor of Law, this fall published an article, “Bostock and the Forgotten EEOC” in the Texas Law Review. On June 15, 2020, the United States Supreme Court issued a historic opinion. Read More
August 23, 2024
Dean Sperino cited by U.S. Court of Appeals
The United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit cited two of Associate Dean Sandra Sperino’s articles in a case involving how causation principles apply to a statute. The Third Circuit cited Statutory Proximate Cause, 88 Notre Dame L. Rev. 1199 (2013) and The Causation Canon… Read More
August 6, 2024
Dean Sperino cited by Supreme Court of Connecticut
The Supreme Court of Connecticut cited Associate Dean Sandra Sperino’s article, Revitalizing State Employment Discrimination Law, 20 Geo. Mason L. Rev. 545 (2013), in its discussion of whether to adopt the federal standard for defining supervisor for purposes of vicarious liability for employment discrimination. O’Reggio v. Commission on Human Rights… Read More
April 22, 2024
Associate Dean Sperino Quoted in Forbes
Sandra Sperino, associate dean for research and faculty development, was quoted last week in Forbes on a story about Supreme Court expansion of employer risk of discrimination. To read her quotes and the full story, visit: https://www.forbes.com/sites/michelletravis/2024/04/18/supreme-court-expands-employer-risk-of-discrimination-claims/?sh=22ffd5b53e79
February 15, 2024
Dean Sperino Publishes Article on Summary Judgments in Employment Discrimination Cases
Associate Dean Sandra Sperino has published an article on the McDonnell Douglas framework in the North Carolina Law Review. The McDonnell Douglas framework is the most important analytical structure in employment discrimination law. Scholars and judges have regularly criticized the three-part, burden-shifting test. Despite decades of criticism, a central feature… Read More
February 13, 2024
Dean Sperino Cited in JOTWELL
Associate Dean Sandra Sperino‘s article, The Causation Canon, published last year in the Iowa Law Review, was cited in JOTWELL, a blog aimed at highlighting excellent legal scholarship. In JOTWELL, Joseph Seiner writes: “In The Causation Canon, Professor Sandra Sperino performs a superb analysis of the Supreme Court’s evolving… Read More
February 7, 2024
Associate Dean Sperino Publishes New Edition of Federal Employment Discrimination Law Book
Associate Dean Sandra Sperino has published the 10th edition of her book, “Federal Law of Employment Discrimination in a Nutshell” this February. Dean Sperino’s book is designed to assist students—both law and undergraduate—to achieve a basic understanding of the complex area of federal employment discrimination law, and provide… Read More
January 11, 2024
Dean Sperino Cited in Eleventh Circuit Opinion
Associate Dean Sandra Sperino’s article, Rethinking Discrimination Law, 110 Mich. L. Rev. 69 (2011), was cited in a concurring opinion by Judge Newsom of the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit. The case is Tynes v. Florida Department of Juvenile Justice, 88… Read More
December 6, 2023
Dean Sperino Quoted in Bloomberg Law
Sandra Sperino, associate dean and Elwood L. Thomas Endowed Professor of Law, was quoted in Bloomberg Law about oral arguments in the U.S. Supreme Court on a work discrimination case. Narrowing the issue leaves out biased employer decisions on topics like when and where employees work, which job functions… Read More
June 15, 2023
Faculty Spotlight — Meet Dean Sandra Sperino
A first generation undergraduate and law student, Sandra Sperino applied to law school not quite sure of what her life would look like as a lawyer, or where her career in the legal field would take her. Though Sperino, now an associate dean and Elwood L. Thomas Missouri Endowed Professor… Read More