NEWS RELEASE
October 31, 2007
Professor Susan Bisom-Rapp Elected to American Law Institute
SAN DIEGO- Thomas Jefferson School of Law Professor Susan Bisom-Rapp has been elected to the prestigious American Law Institute (ALI), which is headquartered in Philadelphia.
Founded in 1923, ALI’s members are judges, practicing lawyers and legal scholars in the United States as well as some foreign countries and are selected on the basis of professional achievement and a demonstrated interest in the improvement of the law.
“I am deeply honored to be recognized by an institution that does such important work, and look forward with great anticipation to contributing to ALI’s efforts,” said Professor Bisom-Rapp. “The ALI is an organization with a rich history that nonetheless continues to be as relevant to the development of the law as it was at its inception.”
Professor Bisom-Rapp is the first member of TJSL's tenured faculty to be elected as an academic to the ALI. Dean Rudy Hasl, as one of the nation's law school deans, serves as an ex officio member, and Professor Claire Wright became a member in 2001 when she worked for a prominent law firm.
According to the ALI’s official website:
“To further its law-reform work, the Institute seeks individuals who reflect the excellence and diversity of today's legal profession. ALI membership is a distinct professional honor and the number that can be admitted is limited to 3000.”
Professor Bisom-Rapp is the director of Thomas Jefferson's Center for Law and Social Justice and a widely cited expert on employment discrimination and international and comparative workplace law. Her scholarship, examining the effects on civil rights enforcement of employers' compliance efforts and attorneys' litigation strategies, has for more than a decade been influential not only in the legal academy but also in the disciplines of sociology and psychology.
Professor Bisom-Rapp's more recent writing on workplace globalization includes a pioneering study on the internationalization of American labor and employment law practice. Her co-authored casebook, The Global Workplace (Cambridge University Press, 2007), is the first law school text on international and comparative employment law.
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