Stephanie Bornstein

Irving Cypen Professor of Law

Professor of Law

Phone:
(352) 273-0957

Expertise

Administrative Law • Civil Litigation & Procedure • Civil Rights • Critical Race Theory • Discrimination • Employment Discrimination • Employment Law • Feminist Theory • Gender & the Law • LGBT Issues • Sexual Harassment • Title IX • Women, Gender and the Law •

About

Professor Stephanie Bornstein teaches and writes in the areas of employment and labor law, antidiscrimination law, civil procedure, and administrative law. Her scholarship focuses on legal and administrative strategies to reduce racial and gender inequality in the workplace and ensure access to justice in civil litigation. Current projects develop new approaches to close racial and gender pay gaps, counter the discriminatory impacts of AI in the workplace, and foster public/private partnerships to better enforce public law. In 2019-2020, Professor Bornstein served as the Chair of the AALS Section on Employment Discrimination Law. Professor Bornstein currently serves as Co-Director of the Pay Equity & Living Wage Project of the Center for Comparative Equality and Anti-Discrimination Law at U.C. Berkeley Law School.

Professor Bornstein’s scholarship has been cited in enforcement efforts by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) and the U.S. Department of Labor’s Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs (OFCCP). Since 2011, six of Professor Bornstein’s law review articles have been cited in amicus briefs filed by national organizations in six different cases before the U.S. Supreme Court. Her article, Reckless Discrimination, 105 Calif. L. Rev. 1055 (2017), was selected as a winner of the 2017 Southeastern Association of Law Schools (SEALS) Call for Papers competition. Her article, Disclosing Discrimination, 101 B.U. L. Rev. 287 (2021), was selected for presentation at the 2020 Stanford/Harvard/Yale Junior Faculty Forum. Professor Bornstein recently joined as co-author of a leading casebook in the field—Sullivan, Bornstein & Zimmer’s CASES & MATERIALS ON EMPLOYMENT DISCRIMINATION (Aspen).

Prior to joining the University of Florida law faculty, Professor Bornstein served as a Visiting Assistant Professor at U.C. Hastings College of Law; as a Faculty Fellow and Deputy Director of U.C. Hastings’ Center for WorkLife Law; and as a staff attorney at national public interest law center Equal Rights Advocates.

Education

J.D., University of California, Berkeley School of Law
A.B., Harvard University (magna cum laude)

Teaching and Scholarship

Current courses: Administrative Law, Civil Procedure, Employment Law, Employment Discrimination
Other Interests: Labor Law, Comparative Work Law, Technology & Work, AI & Fairness, Title IX, Gender & the Law, Race & the Law, Critical Legal Theory (Race, Gender), Legislation

Publications

Selected Books

When Forum Determines Rights: Forced Arbitration of Discrimination Claims, in A GUIDE TO CIVIL PROCEDURE: INTEGRATING CRITICAL LEGAL PERSPECTIVES (B. Coleman, S. Malveaux, P. Pedro & E. Porter, eds., NYU Press, forthcoming).
Degendering the Law through Stereotype Theory, in THE OXFORD HANDBOOK OF FEMINISM AND LAW IN THE UNITED STATES (D. Brake, M. Chamallas & V. Williams, eds., Oxford Univ. Press, forthcoming).
CASES AND MATERIALS ON EMPLOYMENT DISCRIMINATION (Aspen Casebook Series, 10th ed., 2021) (with Charles A. Sullivan & Michael J. Zimmer).
Commentary on AFSCME v. State of Washington, in FEMINIST JUDGMENTS: EMPLOYMENT DISCRIMINATION OPINIONS REWRITTEN 344 (A. McGinley & N. Porter eds., Cambridge Univ. Press, 2020).

Selected Articles

The Value of Equality Disclosures, 72 Duke L. J. _ (forthcoming 2023)
- • Selected for 2023 Duke Law Journal Administrative Law Symposium
Confronting the Racial Pay Gap, 74 Vanderbilt L. Rev. _ (forthcoming 2022)
Disclosing Discrimination, 101 Boston University L. Rev. 287 (2021) [SSRN]
- Selected for 2020 Stanford/Harvard/Yale Junior Faculty Forum
The Politics of Pregnancy Accommodation, 14 Harvard L. & Pol’y Rev.293 (2020) (invited for special issue on pregnancy and politics) [SSRN]
Public-Private Co-Enforcement Litigation, 104 Minnesota L. Rev. 811 (2019) [SSRN]
The Statutory Public Interest in Closing the Pay Gap, 10 Alabama C.R.-C.L. L. Rev 1 (2019) (invited for symposium on the Equal Pay Act) [SSRN]
Antidiscriminatory Algorithms, 70 Alabama L. Rev. 519 (2018) [SSRN]
Equal Work, 77 Maryland L. Rev. 581 (2018) [SSRN]
- Selected for peer review in JOTWELL
Reckless Discrimination, 105 California L. Rev. 1055 (2017) [SSRN]
- Winner, SEALS 2017 Call for Papers Competition
Unifying Antidiscrimination Law through Stereotype Theory, 20 Lewis & Clark L. Rev. 919 (2016) [SSRN]
Rights in Recession: Toward Administrative Antidiscrimination Law, 33 Yale L. & Pol’y Rev. 119 (2014) [SSRN]
The Legal and Policy Implications of the “Flexibility Stigma,” 69 J. of Soc. Issues 389 (2013) (peer reviewed) [SSRN]
The Law of Gender Stereotyping and the Work-Family Conflicts of Men, 63 Hastings L. J. 1297 (2012) [SSRN]
Work, Family, and Discrimination at the Bottom of the Ladder, 19 Geo. J. on Poverty L. & Pol’y 1 (2012) [SSRN]