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Employment Law, Labor Law, Legal Methods

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Biography

Professor e. christi cunningham joined the law faculty in 1996. Her research and teaching interests are in the areas of Critical Race Theory, Family Law, Civil Procedure, Feminist Jurisprudence, Poverty Law, Employment Discrimination, and International Human Rights. Professor cunningham was the 1999 recipient of the Warren S. Rosmarin Award for Excellence in Teaching and Service.

Before joining the law faculty, Professor cunningham was engaged in the private practice of law with the New York City law firm of Debevoise and Plimpton. Professor cunningham graduated summa cum laude from Southern Methodist University in 1989 and in 1992 from the Yale Law School where she was a senior editor of the Yale Law Journal. Following graduation professor cunningham clerked for United States District Court Judge Constance Baker Motley of the Southern District of New York. Professor cunningham is admitted to the Bar of the State of New York.

Professor cunningham is the author of numerous articles, including Preserving Normal Heterosexual Male Fantasy: The “Severe or Pervasive” Missed-Interpretation of Sexual Harassment in the Absence of a Tangible Job Consequence, 1999 Chi. Legal Forum 199; The “Racing” Cause of Action and the Identity Formerly Known as Race: The Road to Tamazunchale, 30 Rutgers L.J. 707 (1999); The Rise of Identity Politics I: The Myth of the Protected Class in Title VII Disparate Treatment Cases, 30 Conn. L. Rev. 441 (1998). As a law student she published Unmaddening: A Response to Professor Angela Harris, 4 Yale J.L. & Feminism 155 (1991).

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