Fall Forum Schedule

Date: Friday, September 30, 2011
Time: 8:00 am - 5:00 pm
Location: Lewis & Clark Law School (Directions, Parking and Campus Map)

CLE Credits:
OSB    - 6.0 Access to Justice credits - approved
WASB - 5.75 General credits - approved
HRCI   - 6.0 General credits - approved

2011 Forum Schedule

Location:          Lewis & Clark Law School, Classroom 7, Wood Hall

8:00-8:30 am    Registration and Continental Breakfast

8:30-8:45 a.m.  Welcome, Opening Remarks, Introduction of Keynote

8:45-9:30 a.m.  Keynote Address: Michael J. Zimmer, Wal-Mart v. Dukes: Taking
                         the Protection Out of Protected Classes

9:30-10:45 a.m. Session I: New Developments in Protected Class Status
                          Moderator: Brenda K. Baumgart

                          Lino A. Graglia, The New Haven Fire Fighters Case: Even Whites
                          are a Protected Class

                          Keith Cunningham-Parmeter, Separate Spheres No More? How the
                          New Economy Enables Fathers to Seek Workplace
                          Accommodations (and the Reasons They Still Don’t)

10:45-11:00 a.m. Morning Break

11:00-12:15 p.m. Session II: Employment Discrimination Law and Social
                            Equality
                            Moderator: Amy L. Angel

                            Marcia L. McCormick, Decoupling Employment and Substantive
                            Equality

                            Michelle Travis, Toward Positive Equality: Taking the Disparate
                            Impact out of Disparate Impact Theory

12:15-1:30 p.m.   Lunch

1:30-2:45 p.m.     Session III: Critiquing the Protected Class Approach to
                            Employment Discrimination
                            Moderator: Karen L. O’Connor

                            Lawrence Blum, Moral Asymmetries as a Problem for the Protected
                            Categories Approach to Discrimination

                            Jeffrey Jones, Lewis & Clark Law School, In the Shadow of Rights: 
                            The Case for a Good Employment Discrimination Law Regime

  2:45-3:00 p.m. Afternoon Break

 3:00-4:15 p.m.  Session IV: The Evolving Workplace and Class Coherence
                          Moderator: Paula A. Barran

                          Natasha Martin, Diversity and the Virtual Workplace: Performance
                          Identity, Corporate Culture and the Shifting Boundaries of
                          Workplace Engagement

                          Nancy Levit, Changing Workforce Demographics and the Future of
                          the Protected Class Approach

 4:15-5:30 p.m.  Closing of Conference and Reception