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Unequal: How America's Courts Undermine Discrimination Law de Sandra F. Sperino

Unequal: How America's Courts Undermine Discrimination Law: Law and Current Events Masters

Autor Sandra F. Sperino, Suja A. Thomas
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 15 iun 2017

Observăm cu interes modul în care lucrarea Unequal este structurată pentru a demonta mitul egalității de șanse în fața justiției americane. Sandra F. Sperino și Suja A. Thomas își organizează argumentația pe două planuri majore: o analiză istorică a evoluției jurisprudenței din ultimul semicentenar și o examinare tehnică a mecanismelor procedurale care blochează accesul angajaților la reparații legale. Parcursul propus cititorului pornește de la premisa că sistemul legal nu este unitar, ci a dezvoltat un set de reguli izolate, aplicabile strict litigiilor de muncă, care favorizează sistematic angajatorul prin bariere probatorii greu de depășit.

Notăm faptul că autorii nu se limitează la teorie, ci utilizează zeci de exemple din viața reală pentru a ilustra cum judecătorii ignoră probe clare de discriminare rasială sau de gen. Abordarea diferă de The Supreme Court's New Workplace de Joseph A Seiner prin faptul că este mai puțin concentrată pe aspectele abstracte ale deciziilor Curții Supreme și mult mai aplicabilă realității tribunalelor de district, unde se decide soarta majorității proceselor. Dacă Seiner oferă un cadru de navigare prin schimbările procedurale, Sperino și Thomas oferă o critică sistemică a modului în care întreg aparatul juridic a devenit o barieră în calea drepturilor civile. De asemenea, spre deosebire de The Excuse Factory, care argumentează că legile muncii fac concedierea imposibilă, Unequal demonstrează contrariul: dificultatea extremă de a trage la răspundere angajatorii pentru practici discriminatorii documentate.

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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780190278380
ISBN-10: 0190278382
Pagini: 232
Dimensiuni: 160 x 236 x 23 mm
Greutate: 0.44 kg
Editura: Oxford University Press
Colecția OUP USA
Seria Law and Current Events Masters

Locul publicării:New York, United States

De ce să citești această carte

Recomandăm această carte profesioniștilor din domeniul juridic, studenților la drept și cercetătorilor interesați de sociologia dreptului. Cititorul va câștiga o înțelegere profundă a modului în care procedurile tehnice pot submina drepturile fundamentale. Este o resursă esențială pentru a înțelege de ce, în ciuda legislației anti-discriminare, rezultatele în instanță rămân disproporționat în favoarea corporațiilor.

Despre autor

Sandra F. Sperino și Suja A. Thomas sunt profesori de drept recunoscuți pentru expertiza lor în legislația muncii și dreptul discriminării. Sandra F. Sperino este o autoritate în studiul barierelor juridice care împiedică succesul litigiilor de muncă, în timp ce Suja A. Thomas s-a remarcat prin cercetări fundamentale privind rolul juriului în sistemul constituțional american. Colaborarea lor în cadrul Unequal, publicată de Oxford University Press, îmbină rigoarea academică cu o analiză critică a modului în care tribunalele contemporane interpretează Actul Drepturilor Civile din 1964.

Descriere

It is no secret that since the 1980s, American workers have lost power vis-a-vis employers through the well-chronicled steep decline in private sector unionization. American workers have also lost power in other ways. Those alleging employment discrimination have fared increasingly poorly in the courts. In recent years, judges have dismissed scores of cases in which workers presented evidence that supervisors referred to them using racial or gender slurs. In one federal district court, judges dismissed more than 80 percent of the race discrimination cases filed over a year. And when juries return verdicts in favor of employees, judges often second guess those verdicts, finding ways to nullify the jury's verdict and rule in favor of the employer.Most Americans assume that that an employee alleging workplace discrimination faces the same legal system as other litigants. After all, we do not usually think that legal rules vary depending upon the type of claim brought. The employment law scholars Sandra A. Sperino and Suja A. Thomas show in Unequal that our assumptions are wrong. Over the course of the last half century, employment discrimination claims have come to operate in a fundamentally different legal system than other claims. It is in many respects a parallel universe, one in which the legal system systematically favors employers over employees. A host of procedural, evidentiary, and substantive mechanisms serve as barriers for employees, making it extremely difficult for them to access the courts. Moreover, these mechanisms make it fairly easy for judges to dismiss a case prior to trial. Americans are unaware of how the system operates partly because they think that race and gender discrimination are in the process of fading away. But such discrimination still happens in the workplace, and workers now have little recourse to fight it legally. By tracing the modern history of employment discrimination, Sperino and Thomas provide an authoritative account of how our legal system evolved into an institution that is inherently biased against workers making rights claims.

Recenzii

This is must-read for all who care about workplace fairness and realizing the promise of our nation's civil rights laws.
In this important book, Professors Sperino and Thomas painstakingly and poignantly disclose how courts have broken the promise of America's workplace civil rights laws.
Our civil rights laws make grand promises of equality and opportunity, but those promises are betrayed every day in courthouses throughout the Nation. By telling the stories of the real people who have been denied the rights Congress guaranteed them, Sperino and Thomas clearly illustrate the gap between promise and reality. This book is essential reading for scholars, lawyers, and any citizen who cares about our fundamental national commitment to equal rights.
Professors Sperino's and Thomas's book goes well beyond the academic articles that recite the virtual repeal of the civil rights laws (mine among them). They give content to the discussion-meaningful, detailed content-about the specific cases, their fact patterns, and the dismissive manner in which the courts too often deal with them. It is an eye opening account of how doctrine-procedural and substantive-has gone far afield from the language of the civil rights laws and the goals it was intended to accomplish. It is an important work, required reading for practitioners, scholars and judges.
In short, Unequal: How America's Courts Undermine Discrimination Law is a splendid book. It is a sobering 'must read' for lawyers, judges, policy makers and scholars involved in employment law issues. It is also a highly engaging discussion of those issues, suitable for any reader who cares about justice in the American workplace.
In one slim volume, Sperino and Thomas have laid out concisely virtually all of the doctrines that play a key role in defeating claims of intentional discrimination brought by employees today. They have provided a wealth of detail of how those doctrines, in real world cases, allow employers to prevail, even in the face of explicit evidence of discrimination. In short, Unequal's eye-opening and informative account is a valuable read for most anyone with a stake in the current state of anti-discrimination lawjudges, policy makers, lawyers, teachers and scholars of discrimination law, employers and most of all employees.
The law professors use scores of real life examples to make their case, showing how far astray courts have gone in adjudicating discrimination cases against workers. Thankfully, Professors Sperino and Thomas provide litigants, policymakers and judges with a coherent and usable blueprint to turn the tide and restore the original intent of the anti-discrimination laws: to end workplace harassment and to give victims recourse for the injustices they have suffered.

Notă biografică

Sandra F. Sperino is Professor of Law at the University of Cincinnati. Suja A. Thomas is Professor of Law at the University of Illinois.