19th Annual Colloquium on Scholarship in Employment and Labor Law (COSELL)

Location

Joan B. Kroc Institute for Peace and Justice

Cost

0

Co-hosted by University of San Diego School of Law and California Western School of Law

Friday, September 13th
Location: University of San Diego,
Joan B. Kroc Institute for Peace and Justice                                                                                                                                                

Saturday, September 14th
Location: California Western School of Law,
350 Cedar Street
San Diego, CA, 92101 

USD Law students interested in attending please contact asyabernal@sandiego.edu 

COSELL 2024 Schedule

ALL TIMES IN PACIFIC TIME

FRIDAY SEPTEMBER 13 – USD Joan B. Kroc Institute for Peace and Justice

8:00: BREAKFAST – Room AB

8:25: Welcome

•   Dean Robert Schapiro (University of San Diego School Law)
•   Dean Sean Scott (California Western School of Law)
•   Professor Orly Lobel (University of San Diego School of Law)
•   Professor Susan Bisom-Rapp (California Western School of Law)

8:45 – 10:15 a.m. GROUP 1

PANEL A: Room C

Moderator – Orly Lobel

Ruben Garcia, Hostile Environments

Seema Patel, Whistle While You Work? The Fatal Problem with Whistleblower Regulations in Low-Wage Work Industries

Daiquiri Steele, Whistleblowing Parity

PANEL B: Room D

Moderator – Susan Bisom-Rapp

Tanya Hernández, The Role of DEI Training in Employment Discrimination Law

Diana Reddy, Discrimination as Exploitation

Michael Selmi, DEI and the Private Workplace

PANEL C: Room G

Moderator – Rick Bales

Michael Oswalt, New Independent Union Organizing Campaigns at Starbucks, Amazon, Trader Joe’s, etc.

Gali Racabi, Expressive Employers, Silent Workers

Alvin Velazquez, The Death of Labor Law and the Rebirth of the Labor Movement

10:15 - 10:30 a.m. BREAK

10:30 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.  GROUP 2

PANEL A: Room C

Moderator - Ariana Levinson

Rachel Arnow-Richman & J.H. (Rip) Verkerke, Defusing Disclaimers

Jonathan Harris, Neo-Lochnerism Meets Neo-Taylorism: Attacks on Worker Mobility

Orly Lobel, Between Fuzzy Doctrine and Void Contracts: How Trade Secrecy Law Shapes the Breadth of Non-Competes

PANEL B: Room D

Moderator – Marcia McCormick

Stephanie Bornstein, Impact Arbitration 

Liz Tippett, “Severe or Pervasive”: Evidence that Courts Dismiss Harassment Cases that Juries Would Find Meritorious

Deborah Widiss, The Sexual Harassment Silo

PANEL C: Room G

Moderator – Gali Racabi

Samuel Estreicher, The Perils of Political Unionism

Joel Heller, Voting at Work

Jeff Hirsch, Labor Regulation of AI

12:00 - 1:00 p.m. Lunch will be served in Room AB

1:00 - 2:30 p.m. GROUP 3

PANEL A: Room C

Moderator – Michael Oswalt

Susan Bisom-Rapp & Urwana Coiquaud, The State’s Role in (De)Standardizing Work: A Government-Focused Approach to Regulatory Capture in the Platform Economy

Doron Dorfman, Work Law for Volunteers

César Rosado Marzán, Alt-Labor’s Laws in Chicago and a Dignity Gap

PANEL B: Room D 

Moderator – Tristin Green

Marcia McCormick, Judicial Jujitsu in Anti-Discrimination Law after Bostock

Helen Norton, How the Antidiscrimination Law of Commercial Transactions Really Works

Vicki Schultz, How the DOJ Civil Rights Division Helped Desegregate the American Workforce in the 1960s and 70s

PANEL C: Room G 

Moderator – Branden Butler

Michael Green, Responding to Efforts to Eradicate Workplace Law Agencies

Stefan McDaniel, Rearticulating Labor Rights

Courtlyn Roser-Jones, The General Counsel’s Labor Agenda

2:30 - 2:45 p.m. BREAK

2:45 - 4:15 p.m. GROUP 4

PANEL A: Room C

Moderator – Rick Bales

Deepa Das Acevedo, They Said- They Said: Narratives and Counter-Narratives in Tenured Faculty Terminations

Ryan Nelson, Work Law’s Domain

Yiran Zhang, Workification

PANEL B: Room D

Moderator – Jessica Fink

Saru Matambanadzo, Interrogating Accommodation

Nicole Porter, Troubling Trends: ADA Definition in Disability Cases 2019-2023 

D’Andra Shu, Remote Work Disability Accommodations Since COVID

PANEL C: Room G

Moderator - César Rosado Marzan

Liz Ford, The (Un)Common Law of Police Collective Bargaining

Ariana Levinson, How Union Negotiations in Worker-Owned Co-ops Compare to More Traditional Negotiations 

Noah Zatz, Varieties of Democratization: Labor Law and the Co-op Problem

4:15 - 4:30 p.m. BREAK

4:30 - 6:00 P.M. GROUP 5

 PANEL A: Room C

Moderator - Ryan Nelson

Rick Bales, Using AI to Teach LEL and ADR

Aneil Kovvali, Labor Market Competition and Collaboration

Pascal McDougall, Labor Struggle, Law, and the Theory of Competition 

Shefali Milczarek-Desai, Is There Hope for Workers’ Rights?

PANEL B: Room D

Moderator - Doron Dorfman

Heidi Liu, Age Discrimination and the Role of Norms

Ben Pyle, Ban the Box: Fair Chance Hiring, Hiring Discrimination Enforcement, and Local Labor Markets

Naomi Schoenbaum, Information Regulation as Antidiscrimination: The Central Provision of the Law of Workplace Equality

PANEL C: Room G

Moderator - Liz Tippett

Jessica Fink, The Benefits and Pitfalls of Backdating #MeToo

Catherine Fisk, Speech @ Work

Tristin Green, Beyond Personal Offense in Antidiscrimination Law: Muldrow’s Return to Work

SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 14 – California Western School of Law, 350 Cedar Street, San Diego

8:30 - 9:15: BREAKFAST: 1st Floor Lobby

9:15 - 10:45 a.m. GROUP 6

PANEL A: Room LH1

Moderator - Susan Bisom-Rapp

Blair Bullock, The State Takeover of Employment Law

Marcy Karin, Menstrual Bargaining

Alexi Pfeffer-Gillett, The Inconvenience Doctrine

PANEL B: Room LH2

Moderator – Deborah Widiss

Dallan Flake, Religious Sincerity After Groff

Jarod Gonzalez, Private Contractors, Security Clearance Determinations, and Employment Discrimination Law

Madeleine Gyory, The Reasonable Pregnant Worker

Tolu Odunsi-Nelson, Redefining the Scope of Anti-Discrimination Law: Illuminating Colorism Claims as a Basis for Race Discrimination Claims by Black Entertainers

PANEL C: Room 2B

Moderator – Orly Lobel

Louis Cholden-Brown, Lassiter at Work: The Status of Qualified Rights to Counsel

Sofia Cornejo, From Neutral to Integral: A Feminist Analysis of Domestic Violence as a World of Work Issue

Andrea Johnson, Accusations of Racism in the Workplace

Robert Mantell, Two Different Strike Zones: Inconsistent Rules Applied in Winning and Losing Discrimination Cases

10:45 Conference concludes

USD Law students interested in attending please contact asyabernal@sandiego.edu 

Questions?
USD:
Orly Lobel
Lobel@sandiego.edu

CWSL:
Susan Bisom-Rapp
SBisom-Rapp@cwsl.edu