Syllabus

Employment Discrimination
Law 7195

Professor Kaminshine
E-mail: skaminshine@gsu.edu
Phone: 404/651-2044

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Syllabus

Required Texts:

Casebook: Zimmer, Sullivan, Richards & Calloway, Cases and Materials on Employment Discrimination (4th. ed.)
Supplement: Employment Discrimination: Selected Statutes: 1997 (same authors)

Additional Resources: See below

Coverage and Assignments**

Part I - Proving Unlawful Employment Discrimination

1. Introduction: Overview of Employment Discrimination Laws and the Meaning of "Discrimination"

Assignment: CB pp. 3-17, 23-24, 31-38, 582-593, 1077-1080, 96-118; Title VII §§ 701, 702, 703(A-C), 704

2. Proving Unlawful Discrimination: Individual Disparate Treatment and Circumstantial Evidence

Assignment: CB pp. 118-132, 137 (at note 12) - 171; Handout (Betty Wont Problem)

3. Individual Disparate Treatment and Direct Evidence

Assignment: CB pp. 172-201, 206 (Problem 3.1); Title VII §§ 703(m), 706(g)(2)(B)

4. Proving Unlawful Discrimination: Systemic Disparate Treatment

Formal Policies
Assignment: CB pp. 229-230
Inference Drawn from Statistics
Assignment: CB pp. 245-273, 278-298; Title VII §§ 701(j), 707(a,c)
Rebutting the Inference
Assignment: CB pp. 298-300

5. Affirmative Defense to Disparate Treatment: Bona Fide Occupational Qualifications

Assignment: CB pp. 298-310; Title VII § 703(e); ADEA § 4(f)(1)

6. Proving Unlawful Discrimination: Disparate Impact

The Basics
Assignment: CB pp. 405-432, 441-445, 416-426; 477-480; Title VII §§ 703(k) and 701(m)
The Bottom Line Defense
Assignment: CB pp. 446-456
Multi-Component Systems, Subjective Practices, and other "Neutral" Criteria
Assignment: CB pp. 432-439, 456-470
Business Necessity
Assignment: CB pp.487-493, 456-470

7. Interrelationship of Disparate Treatment and Disparate Impact

Assignment: CB pp.551-552, 554-562

Part II - Special Problems

9. Sex Discrimination: Introduction, Sexual Orientation, Sex Plus and the Scope of the Statutory Prohibition

Assignment: Handout (Ulane v. Eastern Airlines); CB pp. 685-687, 707-712

10. Pregnancy

Assignment: CB pp. 594-617, 619-624; Title VII § 701(k)

11. Sexual Harassment

Assignment: CB pp. 627-640; Handout (Oncale v. Sundowner); 662-675; Handout (Burlington Ind. v. Ellerth); 675-684

12. Religious Discrimination

Assignment: CB pp. 712-728; Title VII § 701(j)

13. Discrimination Based on Disability

Assignment: TBA

14. Affirmative Action and Reverse Discrimination

Voluntary Plans under Title VII
Assignment: CB pp. 350-377; 534-541
Affirmative Action and the Constitution
Assignment: CB pp. 377-398
As a Remedy/Consent Decree
Assignment: CB pp. 1194-1202, 1248, 1266

15. Arbitration of Employment Discrimination Claims

Assignment: TBA (if time allows)

** Pages 38-89 of your CB contain important background readings that will be relevant throughout the course. You must read these pages by the 5th week of classes.

Additional Resources

Donohue, Foundations of Employment Discrimination Law (Oxford University Press 1997) (collection of articles)
Larson & Larson, Employment Discrimination (Matthew Bender 1994)(multi-volume treatise updated with loose-leaf supps.)
Player, Employment Discrimination Law (West Publishing 1988) (hornbook)
Sullivan, Zimmer & Richards, Employment Discrimination (2d ed.1988 & Supp.)(three volume treatise)

Reporter Services

Fair Employment Practice Cases (FEP), BNA reporter service of employment discrimination cases in federal and state courts.
Employment Practices Decisions (EPD), CCH reporter service similar to BNA's