E. Gary Spitko

Santa Clara University - School of Law

Presidential Professor of Ethics and the Common Good

500 El Camino Real

Santa Clara, CA 95053

United States

http://www.scu.edu/law/FacWebPage/Spitko/

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1.

Arbitration and the Batson Principle

38 Georgia Law Review 1145-1240 (2004)
Number of pages: 96 Posted: 26 Apr 2004 Last Revised: 21 Aug 2015
Sarah Rudolph Cole and E. Gary Spitko
Moritz College of Law and Santa Clara University - School of Law
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Batson, arbitration, arbitrator, discrimination, state action

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From Queer to Paternity: How Primary Gay Fathers are Changing Fatherhood and Gay Identity

24 Saint Louis University Public Law Review 195-220 (2005)
Number of pages: 26 Posted: 01 Aug 2005 Last Revised: 08 Jul 2021
E. Gary Spitko
Santa Clara University - School of Law
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The Constitutional Function of Biological Paternity: Evidence of the Biological Mother's Consent to the Biological Father's Co-Parenting of Her Child

48 Arizona Law Review 97-147 (2006)
Number of pages: 52 Posted: 05 Apr 2006 Last Revised: 06 Jun 2015
E. Gary Spitko
Santa Clara University - School of Law
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parental rights, paternal rights, surrogacy, egg donor, sperm donor

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A Structural-Purposive Interpretation of 'Employment' in the Platform Economy

70 Florida Law Review 409-446 (2018), Santa Clara Univ. Legal Studies Research Paper No. 6-17
Number of pages: 38 Posted: 03 Apr 2017 Last Revised: 25 Jun 2018
E. Gary Spitko
Santa Clara University - School of Law
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platform economy, gig economy, sharing economy, Uber, worker classification, employer, employee, independent contractor, quality control standards, code of conduct

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An Empirical Assessment of the Potential for Will Substitutes to Improve State Intestacy Statutes

85 Indiana Law Journal 409-448 (2010)
Number of pages: 41 Posted: 01 Sep 2008 Last Revised: 12 May 2017
E. Gary Spitko, Mary Louise Fellows and Charles Q. Strohm
Santa Clara University - School of Law, University of Minnesota School of Law and RTI International
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intestacy, will substitutes, non-probate transfers, donative intent, advancements, de facto partners, factorial research design, escheat

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The Will as an Implied Unilateral Arbitration Contract

68 Florida Law Review 49-99 (2016), Santa Clara Univ. Legal Studies Research Paper No. 6-15
Number of pages: 52 Posted: 11 Mar 2015 Last Revised: 28 Sep 2016
E. Gary Spitko
Santa Clara University - School of Law
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arbitration, probate

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Open Adoption, Inheritance, and the Uncleing Principle

48 Santa Clara Law Review 765-804 (2008)
Number of pages: 40 Posted: 22 Apr 2008 Last Revised: 06 Jun 2015
E. Gary Spitko
Santa Clara University - School of Law
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Adoption, Intestacy, Inheritance

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Navigating Dangerous Constitutional Straits: A Prolegomenon on the Federal Marriage Amendment and the Disenfranchisement of Sexual Minorities

76 University of Colorado Law Review 599-652 (2005)
Number of pages: 55 Posted: 04 Feb 2005 Last Revised: 06 Jun 2015
Ronald J. Krotoszynski Jr. and E. Gary Spitko
University of Alabama - School of Law and Santa Clara University - School of Law
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Exempting High-Level Employees and Small Employers from Legislation Invalidating Predispute Employment Arbitration Agreements

43 UC Davis Law Review 591-653 (2009)
Number of pages: 64 Posted: 23 Apr 2009 Last Revised: 06 Jun 2015
E. Gary Spitko
Santa Clara University - School of Law
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employment law, employment arbitration

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Intestate Inheritance Rights for Unmarried Committed Partners: Lessons for U.S. Law Reform from the Scottish Experience

103 Iowa Law Review 2175-2203 (2018)
Number of pages: 29 Posted: 12 Aug 2017 Last Revised: 05 Aug 2018
E. Gary Spitko
Santa Clara University - School of Law
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Intestacy, Unmarried Cohabitants, Family Law (Scotland) 2006

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Reputation Systems Bias in the Platform Workplace

2019 BYU Law Review 1271-1332 (2020), Santa Clara Univ. Legal Studies Research Paper
Number of pages: 63 Posted: 26 Apr 2019 Last Revised: 09 Oct 2020
E. Gary Spitko
Santa Clara University - School of Law
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platform economy, gig economy, sharing economy, reputation systems, customer ratings, employment discrimination, customer discrimination

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A Reform Agenda Premised Upon the Reciprocal Relationship Between Anti-LGBT Bias in Role Model Occupations and the Bullying of LGBT Youth

48 Connecticut Law Review 71-117 (2015), Santa Clara Univ. Legal Studies Research Paper No. 5-15
Number of pages: 49 Posted: 11 Mar 2015 Last Revised: 09 Jun 2021
E. Gary Spitko
Santa Clara University - School of Law
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employment discrimination, LGBT rights

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Federal Arbitration Act Preemption of State Public-Policy-Based Employment Arbitration Doctrine: An Autopsy and an Argument for Federal Agency Oversight

20 Harvard Negotiation Law Review 1-60 (2015)
Number of pages: 60 Posted: 11 Apr 2014 Last Revised: 07 May 2016
E. Gary Spitko
Santa Clara University - School of Law
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Don't Ask, Don't Tell: Employment Discrimination as a Means for Social Cleansing

16 Employee Rights and Employment Policy Journal 179-209 (2012)
Number of pages: 32 Posted: 16 Oct 2012 Last Revised: 06 Jun 2015
E. Gary Spitko
Santa Clara University - School of Law
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'Undemocratic' Trusts and the Numerus Clausus Principle

43 ACTEC Law Journal 325 (2018), Santa Clara Univ. Legal Studies Research Paper No. 2018-5
Number of pages: 7 Posted: 13 Mar 2018 Last Revised: 18 May 2018
E. Gary Spitko
Santa Clara University - School of Law
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trusts, numerus clausus

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Integrated Nonmarital Property Rights

75 SMU Law Review 151-186 (2022)
Number of pages: 37 Posted: 22 Oct 2021 Last Revised: 18 Apr 2022
E. Gary Spitko
Santa Clara University - School of Law
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non-marriage, cohabitants, non-marital property rights

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How Should Non-Probate Transfers Matter in Intestacy?

53 U.C. Davis Law Review 2207-2268 (2020), Santa Clara Univ. Legal Studies Research Paper
Number of pages: 62 Posted: 24 Mar 2020 Last Revised: 09 Sep 2021
Mary Louise Fellows and E. Gary Spitko
affiliation not provided to SSRN and Santa Clara University - School of Law
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intestacy, non-probate transfers, estate planner survey, estate planner interviews, estate administration, escheat, distant relations

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The Expressive Function of Succession Law and the Merits of Non-Marital Inclusion

41 Arizona Law Review 1063-1107 (1999)
Number of pages: 47 Posted: 31 May 2015 Last Revised: 06 Jun 2015
E. Gary Spitko
Santa Clara University - School of Law
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An Accrual/Multi-Factor Approach to Intestate Inheritance Rights for Unmarried Committed Partners

81 Oregon Law Review 255-349 (2002)
Number of pages: 96 Posted: 22 Jul 2002 Last Revised: 11 May 2017
E. Gary Spitko
Santa Clara University - School of Law
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intestacy, de facto partners, cohabitants, reciprocity, reliance, donative intent, administrative convenience

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Reclaiming the 'Creatures of the State': Contracting for Child Custody Decisionmaking in the Best Interests of the Family

57 Washington and Lee Law Review 1139-1212 (2000)
Number of pages: 75 Posted: 31 May 2015 Last Revised: 06 Jun 2015
E. Gary Spitko
Santa Clara University - School of Law
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Gone But Not Conforming: Protecting the Abhorrent Testator from Majoritarian Cultural Norms Through Minority-Culture Arbitration

49 Case Western Reserve Law Review 275-314 (1999)
Number of pages: 41 Posted: 31 May 2015 Last Revised: 06 Jun 2015
E. Gary Spitko
Santa Clara University - School of Law
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Judge Not: In Defense of Minority-Culture Arbitration

77 Washington University Law Review 1065-1085 (1999)
Number of pages: 23 Posted: 31 May 2015 Last Revised: 06 Jun 2015
E. Gary Spitko
Santa Clara University - School of Law
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He Said, He Said: Same-Sex Sexual Harassment Under Title VII and the 'Reasonable Heterosexist' Standard

18 Berkeley Journal of Employment and Labor Law 56-97 (1997)
Number of pages: 43 Posted: 31 May 2015 Last Revised: 06 Jun 2015
E. Gary Spitko
Santa Clara University - School of Law
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A Biologic Argument for Gay Essentialism-Determinism: Implications for Equal Protection and Substantive Due Process

18 University of Hawai'i Law Review 571-622 (1996)
Number of pages: 53 Posted: 31 May 2015 Last Revised: 12 Jul 2021
E. Gary Spitko
Santa Clara University - School of Law
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Arbitration Secrecy

Cornell Law Review, Vol. 109, No. 1, forthcoming
Number of pages: 63 Posted: 10 Mar 2023
E. Gary Spitko
Santa Clara University - School of Law
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[arbitration, privacy, confidentiality, Federal Arbitration Act, preemption, displacement, nondisclosure agreement

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A Critique of the American Arbitration Association's Efforts to Facilitate Arbitration of Internal Trust Disputes

Arbitration of Internal Trust Disputes: Issues in National and International Law (Oxford University Press 2016)
Posted: 13 Jul 2018
E. Gary Spitko
Santa Clara University - School of Law

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Arbitration, Wills, Trusts, American Arbitration Association Rules

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California Dreamin': The Rise of the Iskanian Exception and the Fall of the State Effective-Vindication Exception to Federal Arbitration Act Preemption of State Employment Arbitration Doctrine

Proceedings of the Sixty-Eighth Annual Meeting of the National Academy of Arbitrators (Bloomberg BNA 2016)
Posted: 12 Jul 2018
E. Gary Spitko
Santa Clara University - School of Law

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Federal Arbitration Act, Preemption, Concepcion, Italian Colors Restaurant, Effective Vindication Doctrine, Iskanian, PAGA, Berman Hearing, Gentry, Broughton-Cruz

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Antigay Bias in Role-Model Occupations

Antigay Bias in Role-Model Occupations, University of Pennsylvania Press, 2017, Santa Clara Univ. Legal Studies Research Paper
Posted: 27 Feb 2018 Last Revised: 07 Mar 2018
E. Gary Spitko
Santa Clara University - School of Law

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