Private Law Theory

Samuel R Bagenstos, Employment Law and Social Equality, 112 Michigan Law Review 225 (2013). If the law of the workplace could be anthropomorphized into a family of four siblings, here’s how it might go: labor law would be the oldest, a raconteur spinning yarns about the old days; employment discrimination would be the middle child, an activist vigorously standing up for justice and equality; employee benefits would be an accountant, quietly off to the side at family dinners; and employment law would be the oddball youngest child, jumping from activity to activity without rhyme or reason. I teach employment law, and it is often compared to a “catch-all” or “grab-bag” category: anything that doesn’t fit in the other courses is covered there … (more)

[Matt Bodie, JOTWELL, 23 September]

First posted 2014-09-23 11:53:55