[Smlr_net] Bias in the Air: Rethinking Employment Discrimination Law

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Title: Bias in the Air: Rethinking Employment Discrimination Law

*Author: *Richard Ford Thompson

*Source: * SSRN

*Date:* Nov 26, 2014

*Summary**:* Employment discrimination jurisprudence assumes that key concepts such as “discrimination,” “intent,” “causation,” and the various prohibited grounds of discrimination refer to discrete and objectively verifiable phenomena or facts. I argue that all of these concepts are not just poorly or ambiguously defined; most are not capable of precise definition.

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