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Professor Sandra Sperino’s recent article, “When is Discrimination Harmful?,” recently published in the Washington University Law Review, was highlighted in JOTWELL as one of the best works of recent scholarship relating to Legislation by Ian Stephens, professor at the Texas A&M University School of Law.
In his review, Stephens wrote: “Sperino makes a compelling case for a more comprehensive approach to discrimination law. In fact, I might even go a step further to argue that Title VII and its sister-statutes double as one of a class of background statutes that provide context to the law more broadly. As courts grapple with the unanswered questions Muldrow left, they should take Professor Sperino’s lesson that those questions are supposed to be there. And they should take heed that answers exist, not just in the statute’s text, but in its character.”