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The Privilege Gap

The Privilege Gap

Description

Professor Jessica L. Roberts of the University of Houston presented her work The Privilege Gap. The article discusses how privilege contributes to inequality in the American workplace and argues that employment discrimination legislation fails to address privilege.

Presenter

Jessica L. Roberts is the Director of the Health Law & Policy Institute and the Leonard Childs Professor in Law, who specializes in genetics and the law, health law, and disability law. Prior to UH, Professor Roberts was an Associate-in-Law at Columbia Law School and an Adjunct Professor of Disability Studies at the City University of New York. Immediately after law school, she clerked for the Honorable Dale Wainwright of the Texas Supreme Court and the Honorable Roger L. Gregory of the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals.

Workshop Date

2-8-2023

Keywords

Privilege Gap, Healthcare, Law Enforcement, Nepotism

Disciplines

Disability Law | Health Law and Policy

The Privilege Gap

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