This session will explore attacks on Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) practices in the legal industry after the Supreme Court’s recent decision striking down affirmative action in admissions programs at Harvard and North Carolina.
Learning Objectives:
- To provide a mechanism for understanding the dynamics of using DEI practices within the current parameters of the legal landscape.
- How firms have legal and moral imperatives to address DEI practices within their offices
- The consequences when opposing Black Lives Matter to diminish any social injustices and how it can impact employee morale and partnerships
- how DEI training and related initiatives should not discriminate against white attorneys
Michael Z. Green is a tenured Professor of Law and Director of the Workplace Law Program at Texas A&M University School of Law in Fort Worth, Texas.
Professor Green’s scholarship focuses on workplace disputes and the intersection of race and alternatives to the court resolution process. He has published dozens of law review articles and book chapters. He is the co-author of Labor Law in a Nutshell (West 2022) and ADR in the Workplace (West 2020). Professor Green was selected as an American Bar Foundation Fellow in 2023, selected as a member of the National Academy of Arbitrators in 2020, elected as a Fellow to the College of Labor and Employment Lawyers in June 2014, and elected as a member of the American Law Institute in October 2006. In September 2015, he received the Paul Steven Miller Memorial Award given to a scholar who has demonstrated outstanding academic and public contributions in the field of labor and employment law. His three most recent articles highlight backlash regarding attempts to improve racial progress and diversity in the workplace:
“(A)Woke Workplaces,” 2023 WISCONSIN LAW REVIEW 811 (2023); “Black and Blue Police Arbitration Reforms,” 84 OHIO STATE LAW JOURNAL 243 (2023); and Symposium Introduction: ‘What Matters for Black Workers After 2020?,’ 25 EMPLOYEE RIGHTS AND EMPLOYMENT POLICY JOURNAL 1 (2021). Also, his forthcoming article discusses how attempts to address racial discrimination in the workplace continue to be stymied as part of a hostile anti-anti-racism movement: “Ending Forced Arbitration of Race Discrimination Claims,” 72 KANSAS LAW REVIEW (forthcoming 2024).
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