Peter Bayer | William S. Boyd School of Law at UNLV

		Peter Bayer
		Lawyering Process Professor


		Phone: 702 895-2480 Email: peter.bayer@unlv.edu

		Curriculum Vitae (pdf)

	Education: M.A., New York University Law School J.D., New York University Law School, 1978 LL.M., Harvard Law School, 1984

	Professor Bayer earned both a J.D. degree and an M.A. in Sociology from New York University Law School in 1978. In 1984, he earned an LL.M. from Harvard Law School. He came to the Boyd School of Law from St. Thomas University School of Law in Miami, Florida where he served as Assistant Professor and Director of the Legal Research, Analysis, and Writing Program. In addition to teaching stints at Boston College Law School, the University of Baltimore Law School, and the University of Miami School of Law, Professor Bayer worked as Senior Patient Advocate for Quantum Health Resources, Trial Attorney for the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, and Staff Attorney for the Center for Advocacy, Research, and Planning. He also clerked for the Honorable Clifford Scott Green, United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania. Professor Bayer teaches Lawyering Process, Jurisprudence, Administrative Law, Employment Discrimination, and Judicial Writing.

	Areas of Expertise: Employment Discrimination Jurisprudence Lawyering Process

	Selected Publications: LAW REVIEW ARTICLES Not Interaction but Melding – The “Russian Dressing” Theory of Emotions: An Explanation of the Phenomenology of Emotions and Rationality with Suggested Related Maxims for Judges and Other Legal Decision Makers, 52 Mercer L. Rev. 1033 (2001). Lexis Westlaw A Plea for Rationality and Decency: The Disparate Treatment of Legal Writing Faculties as a Violation of Both Equal Protection and Professional Ethics, 39 Duq. L. Rev. 329 (2001). Lexis Westlaw Patterson V. McLean Credit Union: What Rough Beast Slouches Towards Bethlehem to be Born?, 21 Colum. Hum. Rts. L. Rev. 401 (1990). Lexis Westlaw Rationality -- and the Irrational Underinclusiveness of the Civil Rights Laws, 45 Wash. & Lee L. Rev. 1 (1988). Lexis Westlaw Mutable Characteristics and the Definition of Discrimination under Title VII, 20 U. C. Davis L. Rev. 769 (1987). Lexis Westlaw BAR PUBLICATIONS Is Including “Under God” in The Pledge of Allegiance Lawful?: An Impeccably Correct Ruling, Nev. Law., May 2003, at 10. Brief Response to Attorney Albright’s Article, Nev. Law., May 2003, at 16. --> More Publications (pdf)

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