Professor Lu-in Wang

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Ph.: 505-277-5877
Fax: 505-277-9958
Office: 3115

Lu-in Wang

Professor of Law
J.D. 1986, University of Michigan Law School
B.A. 1983, University of Pittsburgh
B.S. 1983, The Pennsylvania State University

Curriculum Vitae SSRN

Profile

Lu-in Wang teaches and writes in the area of anti-discrimination law. She joins the UNM law faculty after teaching for 19 years at the University of Pittsburgh School of Law, where she received the University of Pittsburgh Chancellor's Distinguished Teaching Award in 2001 and the Student Bar Association's Excellence in Teaching Award in 2000 and 2006.

Wang’s scholarship examines ordinary and extraordinary forms of discrimination and the connections between them. Her recent work explores the relationship between social and economic stereotypes and how the law reinforces their connection. Her latest project examines tipped service transactions as a vehicle for discrimination on both the customer and server sides, as well as the employer’s role in promoting that discrimination. Her book, DISCRIMINATION BY DEFAULT: HOW RACISM BECOMES ROUTINE (New York University Press 2006), draws on social psychology to detail three commonplace but generally unrecognized ways in which unconscious assumptions lead to discrimination in a wide range of everyday settings and how these dynamics interact to produce an invisible, self-fulfilling, and self-perpetuating prophecy of racial disparity. Wang’s earlier work examined more extreme forms of discrimination. In addition to being the author of HATE CRIMES LAW (West 1994), the first legal treatise on that subject, Wang has published several articles that apply insights from historical, sociological, and social psychological literature to illuminate the legal issues related to bias-related violence. Wang's articles have appeared in journals including the Southern California Law Review, the Ohio State Law Journal, the Boston University Law Review, the Lewis & Clark Law Review, and the Michigan Journal of Race and Law.

Before she began teaching, Wang practiced with firms in Chicago, Illinois, and Ann Arbor, Michigan, and as a staff attorney for The Center for Social Gerontology, a national support center on law and aging. She also served as a law clerk for the late Justice Ralph J. Cappy of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania.

Wang is an elected member of the American Law Institute and The Fellows of the American Bar Foundation.

Courses

Employment Discrimination

Employment Discrimination

This course will examine federal statutory law as it applies to discrimination in the workplace. We will focus on Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and its amendments; the Age Discrimination in Employment Act; and civil rights statutes from the post-Civil War Reconstruction era, including 42 U.S.C. § 1981. The course will explore the substantive meanings of “discrimination” under these acts, the models of proof for establishing a claim, the theoretical underpinnings of the statutes, and some of the procedural and remedial issues relevant to employment discrimination law.

Evidence

Evidence

The course will consider the principles of law and rules governing the admissibility of testimonial and documentary proof in civil and criminal trials, including the concept of relevancy, the use of demonstrative evidence, direct and cross-examination of witnesses, impeachment of credibility, expert testimony, and hearsay. Traditional case materials, the federal rules of evidence, problems, and simulations will be employed to illustrate evidentiary concepts.

Publications

At the Tipping Point: Race and Gender Discrimination in a Common Economic Transaction, ___ VA. J. SOCIAL POLICY & L. ___ (forthcoming 2013), available at http://ssrn.com/abstract=2224143.

Negotiating the situation: The Reasonable Person in Context, 14 LEWIS & CLARK L. REV. 1285 (2010)

Mary A. Crossley and Lu-in Wang, Learning by Doing: An Experience with Outcomes Assessment, 41 UNIVERSITY OF TOLEDO L. REV. 269 (2010).

Morrison v. Department of Public Welfare and the Pennsylvania Revolution in Scope and Standard of Review, 47 DUQ. L. REV. 609 (2009).

Janet Schofield, Lu-in Wang, and Pat K. Chew ,and Janet Schofield, Culture and Race in Provider-Client Relationships, 23 J. HEALTH & SOCIAL POLICY 1 – 33 (2007).

DISCRIMINATION BY DEFAULT: HOW RACISM BECOMES ROUTINE (NYU Press 2006).

Hate Crime Laws, ENCYCLOPEDIA OF AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES (Routledge 2006).

Race as Proxy: Situational Racism and Self-fulfilling Stereotypes, 53 DEPAUL L. REV. 1013 (2004).

Unwarranted Assumptions in the Prosecution and Defense of Hate Crimes, 17 CRIMINAL JUSTICE 4 (Fall 2002).

Hate Crimes: Influences Of and On the Social Context, 4 RUTGERS RACE & THE LAW REVIEW 1 (2002)

"Suitable Targets"? Parallels and Connections Between "Hate" Crimes and "Driving While Black," 6 MICH. J. RACE & L. 209 (2001).

Recognizing Opportunistic Bias Crimes, 80 B.U. L. REV. 1399 (2000).

The Complexities of "Hate," 60 OHIO STATE L.J. 799 (1999).

The Transforming Power of "Hate": Social Cognition Theory and the Harms of Bias-Related Crime, 71 S. CAL. L. REV. 47 (1997).

HATE CRIMES LAW (Clark Boardman Callaghan 1994; Supp. 1995, 1996; 1997; 1998; 1999; 2000) - treatise on federal and state law concerning hate crimes.

Prosecuting and Defending Hate Crimes After R.A.V. and Mitchell, 1 CRIMINAL PRACTICE LAW REPORT 57 (Sept. 1993).

Anne M. Burns and Penelope A. Hommel, Trends in Guardianship Reform: Roles and Responsibilities of Legal Advocates, 24 CLEARINGHOUSE REVIEW 561 (Oct. 1990).

Penelope A. Hommel, Lu-in Wang and James A. Bergman, Trends in Guardianship Reform: Implications for the Medical and Legal Professions, 18 LAW, MEDICINE & HEALTH CARE 213 (Fall 1990).

Thomas P. Sullivan and Lu-in Wang, Selected Issues Under the Federal Rules of Evidence, FEDERAL CRIMINAL PRACTICE (Illinois Inst. Continuing Legal Educ. 1987).