University of Colorado Law Review

Volume 79 Issue 4, Fall 2008

ABOUT THE CONTRIBUTORS

RICHARD MOBERLY , Protecting Whistleblowers by Contract, is an Assistant Professor of Law at the University of Nebraska College of Law.  His research and writing focus on employee whistleblower protection, particularly under the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002.  In 2007, the United States House of Representatives invited Professor Moberly to testify on his research and as an expert on federal whistleblower protections in a hearing before the Subcommittee on Workforce Protections.  His 2007 empirical study of whistleblower decisions under the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, published in the William and Mary Law Review, was featured in numerous newspapers, including the Wall Street Journal and the London Financial Times.  Professor Moberly received his J.D. degree, magna cum laude, from Harvard Law School and his B.A. degree, summa cum laude, from Emory University.

ALEX B. LONG, Retaliatory Discharge and the Ethical Rules Governing Attorneys, teaches and writes in the areas of torts, professional responsibility, employment law, and disability law.  His scholarship in this area has been published in numerous journals, including the Minnesota Law Review, Washington Law Review, Washington & Lee Law Review, and the Georgetown Journal of Legal Ethics.  Professor Long received his law degree from the College of William & Mary in Williamsburg, Virginia, where he was Topics & Research Editor for the William & Mary Law Review.  He received the W. Allen Separk Faculty Scholarship Award in 2007 for his article in the Florida Law Review concerning employer retaliation.

PAUL M. SECUNDA, Whither the Pickering Rights of Federal Employees, joined Marquette University Law School in 2008 after teaching at the University of Mississippi School of Law for six years.  He has authored nearly three-dozen books, treatises, and articles.  His legal scholarship focuses primarily on civil liberties and civil rights of employees.  His recent articles have appeared in such journals as the UCLA Law Review, Wisconsin Law Review, UC Davis Law Review, and Duke Journal of Gender Law & Policy.  He has also co-authored the treatise Understanding Employment Law and the casebook Global Issues in Employee Benefits Law.  He is co-editor of Workplace Prof Blog (http://www.lawprofessors.typepad.com/laborprof_blog/). Professor Secunda is the current national chair-elect of the AALS Section on Labor Relations and Employment Law, the immediate past chair of the AALS Section on Employment Discrimination Law, and the current secretary of the AALS on Employee Benefits.  He is a frequent commentator on labor and employment law issues in the national media.  Professor Secunda holds a J.D., magna cum laude, from Georgetown University Law Center, and an A.B., cum laude, from Harvard College.  While in law school, he was named to the Order of the Coif and served as an editor for the American Criminal Law Review.

ANN C. McGINLEY, Creating Masculine Identities: Bullying and Harassment “Because of Sex,” a William S. Boyd Professor of Law, has taught at the William S. Boyd School of Law of the University of Nevada, Las Vegas since 1999.  A cum laude 1982 graduate of the University of Pennsylvania Law School and an editor of the University of Pennsylvania Law Review, Professor McGinley clerked for the Honorable Joseph S. Lord, III of the Eastern District of Pennsylvania and practiced law in Minnesota and New Jersey.  Before moving to UNLV, she taught at Brooklyn Law School and Florida State University College of Law.  Professor McGinley, who served as the Associate Dean for Faculty Development and Research at UNLV in 2007–08, is a nationally-recognized scholar who has published extensively in the area of employment discrimination.  She currently teaches torts, employment law, employment discrimination, and disability discrimination law.

MICHAEL J. ZIMMER, A Chain of Inferences Proving Discrimination, is a widely recognized scholar in the areas of employment discrimination law, labor and employment law and constitutional law.  Professor Zimmer co-authored Cases and Materials on Employment Discrimination (1982; 2d ed. 1988; 3d ed. 1994; 4th ed. 1997, 5th ed. 2000; 6th ed. 2003; 7th ed. 2008), The Global Workplace (2007), Employment Discrimination: Law & Practice (2002), Employment Discrimination (1988), Cases & Materials on Employment Law (1993), Federal Statutory Law of Employment Discrimination (1980) and authored Employment Discrimination Roadmap.  He has also published articles in numerous leading law journals. Professor Zimmer joined the faculty at Loyola University Chicago in 2008.  He began his law school teaching career at the University of South Carolina and he has taught at a number of law schools, most recently as a visiting professor of law at Northwestern University.  He joined the Seton Hall University School of Law in 1978, served as Associate Dean from 1990 to 1994 and was on the faculty until 2008. Professor Zimmer received his A.B. and J.D. from Marquette University, where he was Editor in Chief of the Marquette Law Review.  He also holds an LL.M from Columbia University, where he was named a James Kent Fellow.  Following law school, he clerked for the Honorable Thomas E. Fairchild of the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit and then served as an associate at Foley & Lardner in Milwaukee.

JESSICA L. ROBERTS, Accommodating the Female Body: A Disability Paradigm of Sex Discrimination, received her B.A., summa cum laude,in political science from the University of Southern California in 2002 and her J.D. from the Yale Law School in 2006, where she served as an Articles Editor and a Book Review Editor for the Yale Journal of Law and Feminism.  Following law school, Ms. Roberts clerked for the Honorable Justice Dale Wainwright of the Texas Supreme Court and the Honorable Roger L. Gregory of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit.  Ms. Roberts’ areas of interest include antidiscrimination law, employment discrimination, family law, disability law, and feminist legal theory.  Her previous work has appeared in the Yale Journal of Law and Feminism, the Texas Journal on Civil Rights and Civil Liberties, and the Virginia Journal of Social Policy and the Law.  She is currently an Associate-in-Law at Columbia Law School.

MATTHEW T. BODIE, Mother Jones Meets Gordon Gekko: The Complicated Relationship Between Labor and Private Equity, teaches and writes on corporate, contract, employment and labor law subjects.  His research focuses on the role of information and ownership in the workplace.  He has written articles on employee stock options, employment arbitration agreements, and the AOL-Time Warner merger.  His recent article, Information and the Market for Union Representation, was selected for presentation at the Stanford/Yale Junior Faculty Forum and the annual meeting of the American Law & Economics Association and was recently published in the Virginia Law Review.  Professor Bodie has also published in the Iowa Law Review, the Georgia Law Review, the Journal of Corporation Law, and the Washington University Law Review.  Prior to joining Saint Louis University School of Law, Matt served as an associate professor at Hofstra University School of Law from 2002 to 2007, where he taught business organizations, contracts, corporate governance and employment law.  He graduated from Princeton University in 1991 and attended Harvard Law School, where he was an editor and social chair of the Harvard Law Review.  After graduating from Harvard in 1996, he served as a law clerk to Judge M. Blane Michael of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit. From 1997 to 2000, he served as a field attorney in the New York office of the National Labor Relations Board.  He then taught at New York University School of Law as an acting assistant professor of Lawyering and earned an LL.M. in Labor and Employment Law.

A native of Columbia, South Carolina, D. WENDY GREENE, Title VII: What’s Hair (and Other Race-Based Characteristics) Got to Do with It?, joined the Cumberland School of Law faculty in 2007.  She is a graduate of Xavier University of Louisiana and Tulane University Law School in New Orleans, Louisiana.  While at Tulane, Professor Greene clerked for the South Carolina Department of Social Services Office of the General Counsel, the District of Columbia Office of Human Rights, and the governmental relations firm of R. Duffy Wall & Associates.  Also as a law student, Professor Greene represented indigent clients in civil rights cases for the Tulane Law Civil Litigation Clinic. Following graduation from Tulane, Professor Greene was employed with the Capitol Hill Group, a Washington D.C. lobbying firm, and Neel and Hooper, P.C. in Houston, Texas, a boutique labor and employment law firm specializing in the representation of management.  Most recently, Professor Greene completed the General LL.M. program at the George Washington University Law School in Washington D.C. and submitted her masters’ thesis, a comparative of racial determination in Brazil and the United States.  Professor Greene teaches equitable remedies, race and the law, and employment discrimination.  Her additional teaching and research interests include: civil rights, constitutional, property, and comparative slavery and race relations law.