About the Book
Cases and Materials on Employment Discrimination
Seventh Edition
Michael J. Zimmer
Seton Hall
Charles A. Sullivan
Seton Hall
Rebecca Hanner White
University of Georgia
2008. 864 pages. ISBN: 978-0-7355-7086-3. With Teacher's Manual.
About the Book
A traditional cases-and-notes casebook well known for its authorship and for the introduction of a conceptual structure that brings cohesion to its subject.
Features:
- Best selling title, featuring a pedagogy of cases, notes, and problems.
- Authorship—all of the authors are prolific scholars and highly visible in the field of employment discrimination.
- Balances lower and Supreme Court cases plus statutory material.
- Conceptual framework provides tools for understanding how discrimination is defined and how it is proven in the course of litigation.
- Broad conceptual coverage, including race, sex, age, gender, religion, and disability (treated in its own section)
- Explains how the employment relationship came to be legally regulated.
- Explores statutory and common-law approaches to discrimination analysis, including a review of procedural and remedies issues.
- Statutory Supplement—a useful reference source, available for purchase separately.
New to the Seventh Edition:
- A complete update that will result in a shorter, more streamlined book with less of a mini-treatise feel but still retaining its sense of comprehensiveness and connection to scholarly currents.
- Integration of the emerging cognitive bias literature and its impact on the law.
- Analysis of Ledbetter’s impact on Recognition of Revived Interest in class actions as a result of Dukes v. Wal-Mart.
- Reconceptualized proof structures for individual disparate impact.
- Reorganized structure of Chapter 3 on Individual Disparate Treatment to reflect recent developments.
- Greater student-friendliness through a reduction in the amount of reference material.
