Robert Belton 1935-2012
Professor of Law Emeritus
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Email: robert.belton@vanderbilt.edu
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Research Interest(s)
Employment law, civil rights law
Education
J.D., Boston University
B.A., University of Connecticut
Biography
Robert Belton is a leading scholar in the fields of employment law and civil rights law. Before joining the law faculty in 1975, Professor Belton was a nationally prominent civil rights attorney, first as Assistant Counsel with the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, and then as a partner in one of the first racially integrated law firms in the South. His 2004 casebook (with Avery, Ontiveros and Corrada) on employment discrimination law is the first to extensively integrate critical race and feminist theory in a published set of teaching materials on employment discrimination law. Professor Belton has also authored a number of important articles on employment discrimination law. Reflecting his research and scholarly interests, Professor Belton teaches Employment Discrimination Law, Race and the Law, the Law of Work, and Constitutional Torts. He has been a visiting law professor at Harvard Law School, North Carolina School of Law, and was the first Distinguished Charles Hamilton Houston Visiting Professor at North Carolina Central School of Law.
Representative Publications
Books
- Employment Discrimination Law: Cases and Materials on Equality in the Workplace (West Group, 7th ed. 2004) (with Dianne Avery, Maria Ontiveros and Roberto Corrada)
- Remedies in Employment Discrimination Law (John Wiley & Sons, 1992 and supplements 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998 & 1999)
Articles
- "Brown as a Work in Progress: Still Seeking Consensus after All These Years," 34 Stetson Law Review 487 (2005)
- "Title VII at Forty: A Brief Look at the Birth, Death, and Resurrection of the Disparate Impact Theory of Discrimination," 22 Hofstra Labor & Employment Journal 431 (2005)
- "Mixed-Motive Cases in Employment Discrimination Law Revisited: A Brief Updated View of the Swamp," 51 Mercer Law Review 651 (2000)
- "The Unfinished Agenda of the Civil Rights Act of 1991," 45 Rutgers Law Review 921 (1993)
- "The Dismantling of the Griggs Disparate Impact Theory and the Future of Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964: A Need for a Third Reconstruction," 8 Yale Law & Policy Review 223 (1990)
- "Discrimination and Affirmative Action: An Analysis of Competing Theories of Equality and Weber," 59 North Carolina Law Review 531 (1981)
Presentations
"Opportunities and Challenges of the Supreme Court's Employment Discrimination Decision in Desert Palace v. Costa," panelist at the 20th Annual Convention of the National Employment Lawyers Association, Rancho Mirage, California (June 26, 2009)
"Problems of Compliance with Workplace Laws," panelist at the AALS 2009 Mid-Year Meeting, Workshop on Work Law, Long Beach, California (June 11, 2009)
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