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Professor Bisom-Rapp is an internationally known scholar in the field of comparative workplace law, who writes about globalization, equal employment opportunity, occupational safety and health, and the gig economy. She is co-author of the path-breaking casebook, The Global Workplace: International and Comparative Employment Law - Cases and Materials, which was first published by Cambridge University Press in 2007 and in 2012 appeared in its second edition in Wolters Kluwer’s Aspen Casebook Series. Her latest book, Lifetime Disadvantage, Discrimination and the Gendered Workforce, co-authored with Malcolm Sargeant, was published by Cambridge University Press in 2016.
Professor Bisom-Rapp is author or co-author of numerous articles and book chapters. An elected member of the American Law Institute since 2007 and a Fellow of the American Bar Foundation since 2018, Professor Bisom-Rapp also serves on the Academic Advisory Board of the Doctoral Research School in Labour, Development and Innovation at the Marco Biagi Foundation, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Italy. She serves on the Editorial Board of the Employee Rights and Employment Policy Journal. She is 2021 chair and was previously chair elect, secretary, treasurer, and a member of the Executive Committee of the AALS Section on Women in Legal Education. In 2019, she received the Paul Steven Miller Memorial Award for Outstanding Academic and Public Contributions to the Field of Labor and Employment Law Scholarship.
At the law school, Professor Bisom-Rapp was appointed Associate Dean for Faculty Research and Scholarship in 2016, a post she still holds. She was faculty co-director of the Employee Rights Self-Help Workshop from 2013-2018. She served as director of Thomas Jefferson’s Center for Law and Social Justice from 2004-2008. In 2020, she was voted Professor of the Year by the student body. She has served as Distinguished Professor in Residence at California Western School of Law (Fall 2020), Visiting Professor at the University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Italy (Fall 2020), and Visiting Associate Professor at Chicago Kent College of Law (Fall 2003). Before joining Thomas Jefferson’s faculty in 1996, Professor Bisom-Rapp practiced workplace law in New York City, and completed graduate studies at Columbia University as a Wien Fellow and with funding from the Woodrow Wilson Foundation.
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Courses include:
Torts I, Torts II, Employment Discrimination, Employment Law, International and Comparative Employment Law, Labor Law (Public and Private Sector), Scholarly Legal Writing (for law review students).