Cases and materials on employment discrimination, 7th ed.9780735570863 Cases and materials on employment discrimination, 7th ed. Ed. by Michael J. Zimmer et al. Wolters Kluwer Wolters Kluwer N.V. (Euronext: WKL) is a leading global information services and publishing company. The company provides products and services for professionals in the health, tax, accounting, corporate, financial services, legal and regulatory, and education sectors. 2008 833 pages $130.00 Hardcover KF3464 This seventh edition of the casebook A printed compilation of judicial decisions illustrating the application of particular principles of a specific field of law, such as torts, that is used in Legal Education to teach students under the Case Method system. includes noted changes in content and form. The most significant change in content is to the individual disparate treatment materials, which have been reordered to account for changes in the law and increasing social science scholarship on the nature of discrimination; other significant changes include the removal of the chapter regarding legal approaches to the employment relation (which appears instead in the teacher's manual of the book), reconceptualization of the materials on sex discrimination, the rewriting re·write v. re·wrote , re·writ·ten , re·writ·ing, re·writes v.tr. 1. To write again, especially in a different or improved form; revise. 2. of the procedures material, and an added chapter on risk management. This edition returns to the original casebook format as opposed to more recent manifestations that included multiple treatises on the subject. Chapter topics include individual and systemic systemic /sys·tem·ic/ (sis-tem´ik) pertaining to or affecting the body as a whole. sys·tem·ic adj. 1. Of or relating to a system. 2. disparate treatment discrimination; systemic disparate impact A theory of liability that prohibits an employer from using a facially neutral employment practice that has an unjustified adverse impact on members of a protected class. A facially neutral employment practice is one that does not appear to be discriminatory on its face; rather it is discrimination, the interrelation of the three theories of discrimination; disability discrimination; procedures for enforcing antidiscrimination laws, and judicial relief. ([c]20082005 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR) |
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