Elaine Shoben | William S. Boyd School of Law at UNLV

		Elaine Shoben
		Judge Jack and Lulu Lehman Professor of Law


		Phone: 702 895-2437 Email: elaine.shoben@unlv.edu

		Curriculum Vitae (pdf)

	Education: A.B, Barnard College, 1970 J.D, Hastings College of Law, 1974

	Professor Shoben earned her A.B. from Barnard College and her J.D. from the University of California Hastings College of Law where she served as Editor-in-Chief of the Hastings Law Journal and graduated Order of Coif. Professor Shoben was the Edward W. Cleary Professor of Law at the University of Illinois where she was the recipient of the Campus Award for Excellence in Graduate and Professional Teaching. She has authored text books in the areas of remedies, employment, employment discrimination, and human resources, as well as published numerous articles. Professor Shoben teaches Torts, Employment Law, Judicial Remedies and American Legal Education.

	Areas of Expertise: Employment Discrimination Employment Law Remedies Torts

	Selected Publications: BOOKS Employment Law, two volume treatise, 1994, 2d ed. 1999, 3d ed. 2003, 4th edition forthcoming 2008) (with Mark A. Rothstein, Charles B. Craver, and Elinor P. Schroeder). Concise Hornbook on Remedies (2007) (with Russell Weaver and Michael B. Kelly). Remedies: Cases and Problems, (1989, 2d ed. 1995, 3d ed. 2002, 4^th ed. 2007) (with William Murray Tabb and Rachael M. Janutis). Nutshell on Remedies, 2005 (with William Murray Tabb). Employment Law, 1994, 2d ed. 2000, 3d ed. 2005 (Hornbook) (with Mark A. Rothstein, Charles B. Craver, and Elinor P. Schroeder). BOOK CHAPTERS Princess in the Tower, chapter in Law Touched Our Hearts: A Generation Remembers Brown v. Board of Education, (R.J. Bonnie and M.W. Wigfall, eds.) (in press with Vanderbilt University Press, 2008). From Anti-Nepotism to Programs for Partners: Legal Issues, in Academic Couples (M. Ferber and J. Loeb, eds.), University of Illinois Press(1996). Defining the Relevant Population: The Legal Issues, in Statistical Evidence of Discrimination (David H. Kaye and Michael Aickin, eds., 1987). LAW REVIEW AND OTHER ARTICLES Evidentiary Wisdom and Blinders in Perspective: Thoughts on "Misjudging," 7 Nev. L. J. 500 (2007). Hein Lexis Westlaw Disparate Impact Theory in Employment Discrimination: What’s Griggs Still Good For? What Not? 42 Brandeis L.J. 597 (2004). Hein Lexis Westlaw Compound Discrimination: The Interaction of Race and Sex in Employment Discrimination, 55 N.Y.U. L. Rev 793 (1981). "Differential Pass-Fail Rates in Employment Testing: Statistical Proof Under Title VII, 91 Harv. L. Rev. 793 (1978) (cited favorably by the Supreme Court in Watson v. Fort Worth Bank & Trust, 487 U.S. 977, 108 S.Ct. 2777, 101 L.Ed.2d 827 (1988)). --> More Publications (pdf)

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