Lea S. VanderVelde

University of Iowa - College of Law

Professor

Melrose and Byington

Iowa City, IA 52242

United States

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Scholarly Papers (26)

Wal-Mart as a Phenomenon in the Legal World: Matters of Scale, Scale Matters

U Iowa Legal Studies Research Paper No. 05-36
Number of pages: 46 Posted: 20 Jan 2006
Lea S. VanderVelde
University of Iowa - College of Law
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corporations, Walmart, rule-shifting cases, litigation, repeat player, torts, land use, employment and labor, trademark

Wal-Mart as a Phenomenon in the Legal World: Matters of Scale, Scale Matters

U Iowa Legal Studies Research Paper No. 07-08, Wal-Mart World: The World's Biggest Corporation in the Global Economy, September 5, 2006
Number of pages: 27 Posted: 23 Mar 2007
Lea S. VanderVelde
University of Iowa - College of Law
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corporations, Walmart, rule-shifting cases, litigation, repeat player, torts, land use, employment and labor, trademark

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The Dred Scott Case in Context

Journal of Supreme Court History, Vol. 40, No. 3, pp. 263-81, 2015 , U Iowa Legal Studies Research Paper No. 16-03
Number of pages: 20 Posted: 14 Jan 2016 Last Revised: 29 Mar 2016
Lea S. VanderVelde
University of Iowa - College of Law
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Dred Scott, Slavery, Constitutional Law, Constitutional Theory, legal history, Supreme Court, Coveture, Constitutional History, leading constitutional cases, westward expansion, migration, St. Louis

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The Labor Vision of the Thirteenth Amendment

University of Pennsylvannia Law Review, Vol. 138, No. 437, pp. 1989-1990, 2009, U Iowa Legal Studies Research Paper No. 09-19
Number of pages: 69 Posted: 17 May 2009
Lea S. VanderVelde
University of Iowa - College of Law
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Thirteenth Amendment, Free Labor, Work, Labor, Constitution, Constitutional History, Reconstruction Amendments, Slavery, Abolition, Forced labor, Oppression, working conditions, Legal history, Constitutional theory, Servitude, Property

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The Legal Ways of Seduction

Stanford Law Review, Vol. 48, p. 817, 1995-1996, U Iowa Legal Studies Research Paper No. 09-20
Number of pages: 87 Posted: 29 Apr 2009 Last Revised: 25 Jun 2009
Lea S. VanderVelde
University of Iowa - College of Law
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women, sex, sexual harrasment, autonomy, rape, tort, working women, 19th Century, Legal History

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The Thirteenth Amendment of Our Aspirations

University of Toledo Law Review, Vol. 38, No. 3, 2007, U Iowa Legal Studies Research Paper No. 07-20
Number of pages: 28 Posted: 24 Sep 2007 Last Revised: 27 Apr 2009
Lea S. VanderVelde
University of Iowa - College of Law
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Thirteenth Amendment, Free Labor, Liberty, Work, Labor, Constitution, Constitutional history, Reconstruction Amendments, Slavery, Abolition, Forced Labor, Opression, working conditions, Legal history, Servitude, Property, Constitutional theory

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The Anti-Republican Origins of the At-Will Doctrine

American Journal of Legal History, Vol. 60, Issue 4, pp. 397-449, (2020), U Iowa Legal Studies Research Paper No. 2021-08
Number of pages: 57 Posted: 22 Feb 2021 Last Revised: 01 Apr 2021
Lea S. VanderVelde
University of Iowa - College of Law
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employment at-will, Reconstruction, master and servant, legal history, common law, employment contract, employment status, labor and employment law, railroads.

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Working Group on Chapter 2 of the Proposed Restatement of Employment Law: Employment Contracts: Termination

Employee Rights and Employment Policy Journal, Vol. 13, No. 1, 2009
Number of pages: 50 Posted: 30 Apr 2009
University of Illinois College of Law, University of Iowa - College of Law, Louisiana State University Law Center and University of Minnesota Law School
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ALI, Restatement of Employment Law, employment at will, common law, contracts

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Henry Wilson: Cobbler of the Frayed Constitution, Strategist of the Thirteenth Amendment

Georgetown Journal of Law & Public Policy, Vol. 15, pp. 173-264, 2017, U Iowa Legal Studies Research Paper No. 2017-24
Number of pages: 93 Posted: 04 Apr 2017 Last Revised: 17 Jan 2019
Lea S. VanderVelde
University of Iowa - College of Law
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13th Amendment, U.S. Constitution, Labor Vision, Radical Republicans, Reconstruction, Labor

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Mrs. Dred Scott

106 Yale L.J. 1033 (1997)
Number of pages: 90 Posted: 23 Feb 2015 Last Revised: 05 Mar 2015
Lea S. VanderVelde and Sandhya Subramanian
University of Iowa - College of Law and Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals
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feminist history, constitutional history, intersection of race and gender, husband and wife, master and slave, coverture, legal history, constitutional law, leading constitutional cases, subordination principles

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Social Inclusion as a Substitute for Equal Treatment as the Means for Just Outcomes in Anti-Discrimination Efforts: A Response to Hugh Collins

University of Iowa College of Law Legal Studies Research Paper Series, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 7 Posted: 26 Apr 2005
Lea S. VanderVelde
University of Iowa - College of Law
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society, race, equality, inclusion, social exclusion, discrimination

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Where Is the Concept of Good Faith in the Restatement of Employment?

Employee Rights and Employment Policy Journal, Vol. 21:335-375, 2018, U Iowa Legal Studies Research Paper No. 2018-04
Number of pages: 42 Posted: 01 Feb 2018 Last Revised: 15 Mar 2018
Lea S. VanderVelde
University of Iowa - College of Law
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contracts, employment at-will, good faith, good faith and fair dealing, job security, intentional harm, termination, Restatement, employment law

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The Role of Captives in the Rule of Capture

Environmental Law, Vol. 35, 2005, U Iowa Legal Studies Research Paper No. 05-23
Number of pages: 35 Posted: 04 Oct 2005
Lea S. VanderVelde
University of Iowa - College of Law
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Commons, slavery, Locke, Indians, Native Americans, capture, legal history

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Introduction to the American Tradition of Free Labor

Rothstein, Craver, Schoben, Schroeder, VanderVelde, EMPLOYMENT LAW, West, 1994, U Iowa Legal Studies Research Paper No. 09-33
Number of pages: 29 Posted: 24 Jun 2009 Last Revised: 18 Aug 2016
Lea S. VanderVelde
University of Iowa - College of Law
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free labor, Right to Quit, Employment at will, Legal History, working conditions, work labor, labor contracts

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A Singular Conscience: In Re Summers

Employee Rights and Employment Policy Journal, Vol. 14, pp. 153-206, 2010, U Iowa Legal Studies Research Paper No. 10-27
Number of pages: 55 Posted: 19 Jun 2010 Last Revised: 14 Sep 2010
Lea S. VanderVelde
University of Iowa - College of Law
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Constitutional Law Free Exercise of Religion, Conscientious Objector, Privileges & Immunities, Legal History, Access to Employment, Law & Humanities, Role of Lawyers, Bradwell v. Illinois, Ethical Issues, Rights & Liberties, Pacifism, Labor & Law Employment, Legal Ethics, Professional Responsibility

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The Gendered Origins of the Lumley Doctrine: Binding Men's Consciences and Women's Fidelity

101 Yale L. J. 775, (1992)
Number of pages: 78 Posted: 23 Feb 2015
Lea S. VanderVelde
University of Iowa - College of Law
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contracts, contract remedies, injunction, women's history, subordination principles, negative specific performance, actresses and performers, legal change, women's status,19th century morals, women as workers,theaters,theater history,exclusivity clauses,covenants not to compete,restrictive covenants

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The Last Legally Beaten Servant in America: From Compulsion to Coercion in the American Workplace

39 Seattle U L Rev. 727, 2016, U Iowa Legal Studies Research Paper No. 2017-02
Number of pages: 60 Posted: 04 Jun 2016 Last Revised: 21 Jan 2017
Lea S. VanderVelde
University of Iowa - College of Law
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History of Thought, History of Civilization, Legal History, Labor Management Relations, Employees Labor, and the Workplace, 13th Amendment, Constitutional Law, Law and Society Labor and Employment Law, History of Violence, Corporal Punishment

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The Proposed Restatement of Employment Law at Midpoint

Employee Rights and Employment Policy Journal, Vol. 16, pp. 359-393, 2012, U Iowa Legal Studies Research Paper No. 13-21
Number of pages: 36 Posted: 07 May 2013
Lea S. VanderVelde
University of Iowa - College of Law
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restatement of employment law, common law, employment termination, employee privacy, duty of loyalty, at-will, covenants not to compete, theories of employment protection, methodologies to assess multiple states’ common law, wrongful discharge, master-servant

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Coercion in At-Will Termination of Employment and Sexual Harassment

Directions in Sexual Harrassment Law, Edited by Catharine A. MacKinnon & Reva B. Siegal, Yale University Press, pp. 496-515, 2003, U Iowa Legal Studies Research Paper
Number of pages: 20 Posted: 03 Jan 2013 Last Revised: 09 Jan 2013
Lea S. VanderVelde
University of Iowa - College of Law
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Abuse of Power, At-Will, Employee Autonomy, Workplace Bullying, Coercion, Grievance, Harassment, Intentional Infliction of Emotional Distress, Mobbing, Prerogative Contract, Privacy, Sexual Harassment, Title VII, Unwelcomeness, Wrongful Discharge, Patterns of Legal Change, Progressive Legal Reform

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Sowing the Seeds of Chinese Exclusion as the Reconstruction Congress Debates Civil Rights Inclusion

Tsinghua China Law Review, Vol. 12:185, U Iowa Legal Studies Research Paper No. 2020-24
Number of pages: 50 Posted: 17 Sep 2020
Lea S. VanderVelde and Gabriel "Jack" Chin
University of Iowa - College of Law and University of California, Davis - School of Law
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Reconstruction, Constitutional Amendments, Chinese Exclusion Acts, caste, anti-Chinese discrimination, immigration, legal history

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A Fair Process Model for the Union's Fair Representation Duty

67 Minn. L.Rev. 1079 (1982), U Iowa Legal Studies Research Paper
Number of pages: 86 Posted: 08 Nov 2012
Lea S. VanderVelde
University of Iowa - College of Law
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due process, fair representation, unions, merit based decisions, fair process, grievance, arbitration, fair procedure, balancing conflicting employee interests

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Servitude and Captivity in the Common Law of Master-Servant: Judicial Interpretations of the Thirteenth Amendment's Labor Vision Immediately after its Enactment

William & Mary Bill of Rights Journal, Vol. 27, Issue 4, Article 5, U Iowa Legal Studies Research Paper No. 2019-18
Number of pages: 35 Posted: 09 Jul 2019 Last Revised: 18 Oct 2019
Lea S. VanderVelde
University of Iowa - College of Law
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Labor Law, Legal History, Constitutional Law, Common Law, master and servant, slavery, 13th Amendment, anti-subordination

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A Case Study in Text Mining: Textual Analysis of the Territorial Papers

Digital Scholarship in the Humanities, 2019, U Iowa Legal Studies Research Paper No. 2019-04
Number of pages: 26 Posted: 01 Mar 2019 Last Revised: 22 Feb 2021
Johannes Ledolter and Lea S. VanderVelde
University of Iowa - Department of Management Sciences and University of Iowa - College of Law
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text analysis, digital history, legal history, territorial papers, American frontier, text mining, big text databases, 19th century history, settler colonialism, American expansion

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The Moral Economy of the Purchase of Freedom: Ethical Lessons from the Slave Narratives

Cardozo Law Review, Vol. 17, 1983, U Iowa Legal Studies Research Paper Forthcoming
Number of pages: 11 Posted: 28 Mar 2021
Lea S. VanderVelde
University of Iowa - College of Law
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slavery, ethics, freedom, moral choice

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Local Knowledge, Legal Knowledge, and Zoning Law

75 IOWA L.REV. 1057-1075 (1990). Reprinted in 23 LAND USE & ENVIRON. L.REV. 59 (1992). Reprinted in A LAND USE ANTHOLOGY, Jon W. Bruce, ed. (1998)
Number of pages: 19 Posted: 28 Mar 2021
U Iowa Legal Studies RPS Submitter and Lea S. VanderVelde
University of Iowa College of Law and University of Iowa - College of Law
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Zoning, variances, neighborhoods, legal realism, law in action, the built environment.

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Legal Pluralism and Equal Treatment in The Context of Zoning Variances

33 J. LEGAL PLURALISM 91 (1993)
Number of pages: 15 Posted: 05 Feb 2021
Lea S. VanderVelde
University of Iowa - College of Law
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Equality, Zoning, legal pluralism, local custom

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Making Good on Vaca'S Promise: Apportioning Back Pay to Achieve Remedial Goals

32 U.C.L.A. L.REV. 302 (1984), U Iowa Legal Studies Research Paper Forthcoming
Number of pages: 94 Posted: 28 Mar 2021
Lea S. VanderVelde
University of Iowa - College of Law
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Apportionment of damages, Hybrid section 301 actions, duty of fair representation, collective bargaining agreements, unions