Golden Gate University

COURSES TAUGHT

• Women's Employment Rights Clinic and Seminar

RESEARCH INTERESTS AND AREAS OF SPECIALIZATION

• Civil Rights
• Clinical Teaching
• Labor and Employment Law
• Low Wage & Immigrant Workers
• Women's employment issues: gender discrimination, sexual harassment

EDUCATION

PROFESSIONAL AND TEACHING EXPERIENCE

• Founded the Women's Employment Rights Clinic in 1993.
• Practiced labor law as house counsel for the California School Employees Association.
• Worked for the California Department of Industrial Relations and served as counsel to the California Industrial Welfare Commission.
• Private practice emphasized employment discrimination litigation.
• Member of Board of Advisors, The Discrimination Research Center, 1998-2006.
• Member of Board of Advisors, POWER Legal Services Project, a project of the Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights.
• One of the founders of the interdisciplinary San Francisco General Hospital Occupational Health Clinic.
• Bay Area Coalition for Civil Rights, 1989-1993.

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

• With Hina Shah. Domestic Worker Organizing: Building a Contemporary Movement for Dignity and Power, 75 Albany L. Rev. 413 (2012).
  

• Chinese Soup, Good Horses, and Other Narratives: Practicing Cross-Cultural Competence Before We Preach, ch. 15 in: Vulnerable Populations and Transformative Law Teaching: A Critical Reader. Carolina Academic Press (2011).

• with Hina Shah. Complex Employment Issues in Elder Care, The Recorder, 3/2/2011.

• Justice Jesse Carter's Passionate Defense of Workers' Rights: Challenging the Majority's "Legal Legerdemain", ch. in The Great Dissents of the "Lone Dissenter": Justice Jesse W. Carter's Twenty Tumultuous Years on the California Supreme Court (Carolina Academic Press, 2010).

• Contributing author, Reinforcing the Seams: Guaranteeing the Promise of California's Landmark Anti-Sweatshop Law: an evaluation of Assembly Bill 633 Six Years Later, Asian Pacific American Legal Center of Southern California (2005).

• Leaves of Absence: Paid Family Care Leave: SB 1661 Creates the Family Temporary Disability Insurance System, 12 California Employment Law Reporter 202 (2002).

• Developing Issues In Retaliation Law, American Bar Association Section on Labor & Employment Law, 2002 Midwinter Meeting publication. (Paper prepared in conjunction with ABA panel presentation.)

• Co-author, Beyond Sex Harassment: Title VII Workplace Harassment on the Basis of Race, National Origin, Religion, Age, Disability, and Retaliatory Animus, 2001:9 California Employment Law Reporter.

• Advisor, Contingent Rights: The Legal Landscape for Nonstandard Workers in California, Center for Policy Initiatives, 2002.

• Know Your Rights: A Guide to Employment Law for California Workers (Golden Gate University School of Law Women's Employment Rights Clinic 1997). Co-editor.

• Community Guide to Environmental & Occupational Safety Laws: Part I "Right-To-Know Laws: How to Obtain Information About Environmental Hazards in Your Community and Workplace." (Women's Employment Rights Clinic Manual 1996). Contributing author and editor.

• Accommodating the Conflict Between the Americans with Disabilities Act & the National Labor Relation Act's Collective Bargaining Obligations (NY University Forty-Sixth Annual Labor Conference. Little, Brown & Co. 1994). Co-author.

• Rossein, Employment Discrimination: Law and Litigation ch. 33 The Family and Medical Leave Act of 1993 (Clark Boardman 1994).
  

• California Public Sector Labor Relations (Matthew Bender 1989). Contributing author.
  

• Employee and Union Guide to Labor Law (Clark Boardman 1983). Contributing author.

PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS

• Member of the California and New York State Bars.

   

LINKS

• Women's Employment Rights Clinic