Elaine Shoben

Judge Jack and Lulu Lehman Professor of Law
Phone: 702 895-2437
Education:
A.B, Barnard College
J.D, Hastings College of the Law

Publications

Books

Mark A. Rothstein, Charles B. Craver, Elinor P. Schroeder and Elaine W. Shoben, Employment Law (4th ed., West 2010).

Russell Weaver, Elaine W. Shoben & Michael B. Kelly, Principles of Remedies Law (West 2007).

Elaine W. Shoben, William Murray Tabb & Rachael M. Janutis, Remedies:  Cases and Problems (4th ed., Foundation Press 2007).

William Murray Tabb & Elaine W. Shoben, Remedies in a Nutshell (Thomson West 2005).

 

Book Contributions

Elaine W. Shoben, Princess in the Tower, in Law Touched Our Hearts: A Generation Remembers Brown v. Board of Education 184 (Mildred Wigfall Robinson & Richard J. Bonnie eds., Vanderbilt Univ. Press 2009).

Elaine W. Shoben, From Antinepotism to Programs for Partners: Legal Issues, in Academic Couples 226 (Marianne A. Ferber & Jane W. Loeb eds., Univ. of Ill. Press 1997).

Elaine W. Shoben, Foreward to Frances Lynch, Draw the Line: A Sexual Harassment-Free Workplace ix (Oasis Press 1995).

Elaine W. Shoben, Defining the Relevant Population: The Legal Issues, in Statistical Evidence of Discrimination (David H. Kaye & Michael Aickin eds., 1987).

 

Articles

Elaine W. Shoben, Evidentiary Wisdom and Blinders in Perspective: Thoughts on Misjudging, 7 Nev. L.J. 500 (2007).

Elaine W. Shoben, Let the Damages Fit the Wrong: An Immodest Proposal for Reforming Personal Injury Damages, 39 Akron L. Rev. 1069 (2006).

Elaine W. Shoben, Disparate Impact Theory in Employment Discrimination: What's Griggs Still Good For? What Not?, 42 Brandeis L.J. 597 (2004).

Elaine W. Shoben, Spinning Restitution: From Cauliflower to Coconut, 36 Loy. L.A. L. Rev. 1027 (2003).

Elaine W. Shoben, Alternative Resolution of Employment Discrimination Claims: American and Australian Experiences: Proceedings of the 2001 Annual Meeting, Association of American Law Schools Section on Employment Discrimination, 5 Emp. Rts. & Emp. Pol'y J. 603 (2002).

Rosemary C. Hunter & Elaine W. Shoben, Disparate Impact Discrimination: American Oddity or Internationally Accepted Concept?, 19 Berkeley J. Emp. & Lab. L. 108 (1998).

Elaine W. Shoben, Test Defamation in the Workplace: False Positive Results in Detecting Lies, AIDS, or Drug Use, 1988 U. Chi. Legal F. 181.

Elaine W. Shoben, Employee Recruitment by Design or Default: Uncertainty Under Title VII, 47 Ohio St. L.J. 891 (1986).

Elaine W. Shoben, The Use of Statistics to Prove Intentional Employment Discrimination, 46 Law & Contemp. Probs. 221 (1983).

Elaine W. Shoben, Compound Discrimination: The Interaction of Race and Sex in Employment Discrimination, 55 N.Y.U. L. Rev 793 (1981).

Elaine W. Shoben, In Defense of Disparate Impact Analysis Under Title VII: A Reply to Dr. Cohn, 55 Ind. L.J. 515 (1980).

Elaine W. Shoben, Probing the Discriminatory Effects of Employee Selection Procedures with Disparate Impact Analysis Under Title VII, 56 Tex. L. Rev. 1 (1977).

 

Commentaries, Essays, and Reviews

Elaine W. Shoben, Uncommon Law and the Bill of Rights: The Woes of Constitutionalizing State Common-Law Torts, 1992 U. Ill. L. Rev. 173 (1992).

Elaine W. Shoben, Book Review, 2 Const. Comment. 494 (1985) (reviewing Raymond Wolters, The Burden of Brown (1984)).

Elaine W. Shoben, Book Review, 59 B.U. L. Rev. 582 (1979) (reviewing Michael O. Finkelstein, Quantitative Methods in Law: Studies in the Application of Mathematical Probability and Statistics to Legal Problems (1978)).

Elaine W. Shoben, Differential Pass-Fail Rates in Employment Testing: Statistical Proof Under Title VII, 91 Harv. L. Rev. 793 (1978).

 

Elaine Shoben on the Scholarly Commons

Curriculum Vitae
Bio

Areas of Expertise
Appellate Law
Employment Discrimination Law
Employment Law
Remedies
Tort Law