Susan Bisom-Rapp
Professor of Law
J.S.D., Columbia University;
LL.M., Columbia University;
J.D., The Order of the Coif, University of California, Berkeley (Boalt Hall);
B.S., Cornell University
Telephone: 619.374.6912
Email: susanb@tjsl.edu
Professor Bisom-Rapp is a widely cited expert on employment discrimination and international and comparative workplace law, who writes and lectures internationally. A member of the Thomas Jefferson faculty since 1996, she is also a member of the teaching faculty of the Doctoral Research School in Labour and Industrial Relations at the Marco Biagi Foundation, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Italy. Professor Bisom-Rapp's co-authored casebook, The Global Workplace: International and Comparative Employment Law - Cases and Materials (Cambridge University Press 2007), is the first law school text on the subject. She is a contributor to the recently published anthology, Diversity, Equality and Integration: Beyond the Law - A Comparative Study (Roger Blanpain, ed., Vanden Broele Publishers 2008), and during the summer of 2008, was part of an international team that produced for the Italian Labour Ministry a comparative law report on occupational safety and health in the new economy. Professor Bisom-Rapp served as Director of Thomas Jefferson's Center for Law and Social Justice from 2004-2008. She was elected to membership in the American Law Institute in 2007. Professor Bisom-Rapp was Visiting Associate Professor at Chicago-Kent College of Law in 2003, and has taught in study abroad programs at Zhejiang University's Guanghua College of Law in Hangzhou, China and University of Nice School of Law in Nice, France. She holds J.S.D. and LL.M. degrees from Columbia University, where she was a Lawrence A. Wien Fellow and received a Woodrow Wilson Foundation Dissertation Grant, a J.D. from University of California, Berkeley, School of Law, from which she graduated Order of the Coif and where she was a Robert P. Cowell Labor Law Fellow and Notes and Comments Editor of the Industrial Relations Law Journal, and a B.S. from Cornell University's School of Industrial and Labor Relations. Before beginning her academic career, Professor Bisom-Rapp practiced labor and employment law at Stroock & Stroock & Lavan in New York City.
Scholarship
Books
The Global Workplace: International and Comparative Employment Law - Cases and Materials (Cambridge University Press, 2007) (co-author with Roger Blanpain, William R. Corbett, Hilary K. Josephs and Michael J. Zimmer) (includes extensive instructor's manual)
Editorship
Editorial Board Member, Employee Rights and Employment Policy Journal
Guest Editor, International Journal of Comparative Labour Law and Industrial Relations, Symposium issue: The Pedagogy of Global Workplace Law, 25:1 (2009)
Articles, Book Chapters and Other Article-Length Works
Puzzling Evidence from a Troubled Time: Rethinking State Promotion of Safe Work During the Bush Administration, 14 Employee Rts. & Emp. Pol'y J ___ (2010)
What We Learn in Troubled Times: Deregulation and Safe Work in the New Economy, 55 Wayne L. Rev. ___ (2010)
Fearing Minefields but Finding Goldfields: Teaching International and Comparative Workplace Law in China or Anywhere Else, 25 Int'l J. Comp. Lab. L. & Indus. Rel. 33 (2009)
Diversity, Equality and Integration: A Workplace Perspective from the U.S.; Conclusion, in Diversity, Equality and Integration: Beyond the Law - A Comparative Study (Roger Blanpain, ed, Vanden Broele Publishers, 2008) (chapter authored alone; Conclusion co-authored with Roger Blanpain)
Globization, Equality and Nondiscrimination: An Interdisciplinary Perspective from the U.S. on Diversity Programming, in Global Labour Market: From Globalization to Flexicurity, 65 Bull. Comp. Lab. Rels. 295 (Roger Blanpain and Michele Tiraboschi, eds., 2008)
A Critical Look at Organizational Responses to and Remedies for Sex Discrimination, in Sex Discrimination in Employment: Multidisciplinary Perspectives (Faye J. Crosby, Margaret S. Stockdale & S. Ann Ropp, eds., Blackwell, 2007) (co-authored with Margaret S. Stockdale & Faye J. Crosby)
How Well Do Internal EEO Alternative Dispute Resolution and Litigation Prevention Measures Advance the Traditional Goal of Anti-Discrimination Law?, 11 Employee Rts. & Emp. Pol'y J.141 (2007)
Exceeding Our Boundaries: Transnational Employment Law Practice and the Export of American Lawyering Styles to the Global Worksite, 25 Comp. Lab. L. & Pol'y J. 257 (2004)
Coming to Terms with Zero Tolerance Sexual Harassment Policies, 4 J. Forensic Psychology Practice 65 (2004) (with Margaret S. Stockdale, Maureen O’Connor & Barbara A. Gutek)
Gauging Employer Reactions to the First Maternal Wall Suits: Commentary on Keynote Speaker Joan Williams's "Beyond the Glass Ceiling," 26 T. Jefferson L. Rev. 27 (2003)
An Ounce of Prevention is a Poor Substitute for a Pound of Cure: Confronting the Developing Jurisprudence of Education and Prevention in Employment Discrimination Law, 22 Berkleley J. Emp. & Lab. L. 1 (2001)
Fixing Watches with Sledgehammers: The Questionable Embrace of Employee Sexual Harassment Training by the Legal Profession, 24 U. Ark. Little Rock L. Rev. 147 (2001)
Discerning Form from Substance: Understanding Employer Litigation Prevention Strategies, 3 Employee Rts. & Emp. Pol'y J. 1 (1999)
Bulletproofing the Workplace: Symbol and Substance in Employment Discrimination Law Practice, 26 Fla. St. U.L. Rev. 959 (1999)
Introduction to Chapter on Feminism and Popular Culture, in Feminism, Media, and the Law, 87 (Martha Albertson Fineman & Martha T. McCluskey, eds., Oxford University Press, 1997)
Scripting Reality in the Legal Workplace: Women Lawyers, Litigation Prevention Measures, and the Limits of Anti-Discrimination Law, 6 Colum. J. Gender & L. 323 (1996)
Of Motives and Maleness: A Critical View of Mixed Motive Doctrine in Title VII Sex Discrimination Cases, Utah L. Rev. 1029 (1995)
Contextualizing the Debate: How Feminist and Critical Race Scholarship Can Inform the Teaching of Employment Discrimination Law, 44 J. Legal Educ. 366 (1994)
The Use of Subclasses in Class Action Suits Under Title VII, 9 Indus. Rels. L.J. 116 (1987)
Other Scholarship
Download a list of Professor Bisom-Rapp’s older scholarly works.
Download a list of Professor Bisom-Rapp’s shorter works.
Subjects Include:
Employment Discrimination, Employment Law, Globalization and the Workplace, International Labor & Employment Law, Labor Law, Torts.
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