Employment Law

Foul Ball: Why Major League Baseball’s Current Labor Model is Flawed

This past fall, David Price, a 30-year-old free agent, signed a seven-year contract with the Boston Red Sox worth $217 million. Less than a week later, Zach Greinke, a 32-year old free agent, signed a six-year contract with the Arizona Diamondbacks worth $206 million. Despite these astronomical contracts, I argue in a forthcoming paper in

Employment Laws Slow to Catch Up to Society’s Perception of Fluid Identity

by Leora Eisenstadt (LL.M. '13)

In the era of Tiger Woods’s racial self-identification as “Cablinasian” and Caitlyn Jenner’s transition from Olympian to transgender advocate, it may seem obvious that a growing number of Americans openly embrace fluid social identities, being multiracial, post-racial, transgender, or gender nonconforming, among others. Efforts to use new words and conceptions of race and sex appear