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Nicole B. Porter joined the College of Law faculty in 2007 and was the Associate Dean for Academic Affairs from 2010-2012. Prior to Toledo, she was an Assistant Professor of Law at Saint Louis University School of Law. Professor Porter earned her JD, magna cum laude, from the University of Michigan Law School, where she was a member of the Order of the Coif and the Editor in Chief of the University of Michigan Journal of Law Reform. After law school, Porter was in-house counsel for a manufacturing company and practiced employment law in a large law firm in Detroit. She also clerked for the Honorable James L. Ryan, on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit. Her research interests focus on the employment rights of women and individuals with disabilities. She teaches Employment Discrimination, Disability Law, Criminal Law, Contracts, and Feminist Legal Theory. Porter is spending the 2012-13 academic year as a Visiting Professor of Law at the University of Denver Sturm College of Law.

 

Publications

Women, Unions, Negotiation, --- UNLV L. REV. --- (forthcoming 2013)

Martinizing Title I of the Americans with Disabilities Act, Georgia Law Review (forthcoming 2013)

Embracing Caregiving and Respecting Choice: An Essay on the Debate over Changing Gender Norms, 41 Southwestern L. Rev. 1 (2011).

Debunking the Market Myth, 12 Georgetown Journal of Gender & the Law 159 (2011).

Relieving (Most of) the Tension: A Review of Samuel R. Bagenstos, Law & The Contradictions of the Disability Rights movement, 20 Cornell J. Law & Pub. Pol’y 761 (2011)

Synergistic Solutions:  An Integrated Approach to Solving the Caregiver Conundrum for “Real” Workers, 39 Stetson Law Review 777 (2010).

Why Care About Caregivers?: Using Communitarian Theory to Justify Protection of 'Real' Workers, 58 Kansas Law Review 355 (2010).

The Perfect Compromise: Bridging the Gap between At-Will Employment and Just Cause, 87 Nebraska Law Review 62 (2008).

Reasonable Burdens: Resolving the Conflict Between Employees with Disabilities and Their Co-Workers, 34 Florida State Law Review 313 (2007).

Re-Defining Superwoman: An Essay on Overcoming the “Maternal Wall” in the Legal Workplace, 13 Duke Journal of Gender Law & Policy 55 (2006) (invited symposium piece).

Victimizing the Abused?  Is Termination the Solution when Domestic Violence Comes to Work?, 12 Michigan Journal of Gender & Law 275 (2006).

A Review of Gender on Trial: Sexual Stereotypes and Work/Life Balance in the Legal Workplace, 6 U. Pa. J. Lab. & Emp. L. 467 (2004).

Sex Plus Age Discrimination: Protecting Older Women Workers, 81 Denv. U. L. Rev. 79 (2003).

Marital Status Discrimination: A Proposal for Title VII Protection, 46 Wayne L. Rev. 1 (2000).

 

Professor Porter's CV