Anne Marie Lofaso
Professor of Law
University of Cincinnati College of Law
Anne Marie Lofaso is a Professor of Law at the University of Cincinnati College of Law, where she teaches labor law, employment law, employment discrimination law, and constitutional law. She is the former Arthur B. Hodges Professor of Law at the West Virginia University College of Law, where she taught for over 18 years. Professor Lofaso is a labor law expert. She has authored over seventy law review articles, primarily on labor and employment law, and over a dozen scholarly blogs, primarily in the area of human rights, focusing on socio-economic rights. She has co-authored two casebooks, Modern Labor Law in the Public and Private Sectors and Public Sector Employment, and one textbook, Mastering Labor Law. She is the author and editor of two labor law treaties, NLRA: Law and Practice and Drafting the Union Contract, and the editor of several other books including Title VII of the Civil Rights Act After 50 Years: Proceedings of the New York University 67th Annual Conference on Labor.
Professor Lofaso is an active public intellectual who has presented nearly two hundred lectures throughout the world and the United States, has testified before Congress on labor law issues, and has appeared in numerous news outlets such as the New York Times, Washington Times, Wall Street Journal, NPR, PBS, Bloomberg Radio, the Daily Labor Report, and Law360 to discuss labor law topics. Professor Lofaso is a former Special Government Employee who served as the Vice President of the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights and a former Commissioner of the Human Rights Commission for the City of Morgantown. She is a College of Labor and Employment Lawyers member and affiliated with the Oxford Human Rights Hub Blog. Professor Lofaso earned her A.B. from Harvard University, magna cum laude, J.D. from the University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School, and D.Phil. from Oxford University, where she wrote her doctoral dissertation on mass economic dismissals in the U.S., Great Britain, and the European Union.