Susan Bisom-Rapp
Professor of Law
Director, Center for Law & Social Justice
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. 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. Her co-authored casebook, The Global Workplace (Cambridge University Press, 2007), is the first law school text on international and comparative employment law. Professor Bisom-Rapp is 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. In 2007, she taught in Thomas Jefferson's Study Abroad in China Program at Zhejiang University's Guanghua Law School in Hangzhou, China. In 2003, Professor Bisom-Rapp was Visiting Associate Professor at Chicago-Kent College of Law, and she has taught at Seton Hall University School of Law and Baruch College (CUNY). From 2004 - 2008, she served as Director of Thomas Jefferson's Center for Law and Social Justice. Before beginning her academic career at Thomas Jefferson in 1996, she pursued and completed doctoral work at Columbia University School of Law, where she was Assistant Coordinator of the Women in the Legal Profession History Project, a Lawrence A. Wien Fellow, and taught the required professional responsibility course. Her dissertation research was funded in part by a grant from the Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation. While a law student at Boalt Hall, from which she graduated Order of the Coif, she was Notes and Comments Editor of the Industrial Relations Law Journal and a Robert P. Cowell Labor Law Fellow. Following law school, she practiced labor and employment law at Stroock & Stroock & Lavan in New York City. Professor Bisom-Rapp was elected to membership in the American Law Institute in 2007.
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)
Articles, Book Chapters and Other Article-Length Works
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)
Fearing Minefields, Finding Goldfields: Teaching International and Comparative Workplace Law in China or Anywhere Else __ Int'l J. Comp. Lab. L. & Indus. Rel. __ (forthcoming 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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