Charles A. Sullivan

Seton Hall Law School

Professor of Law Emeritus

One Newark Center

Newark, NJ 07102-5210

United States

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Scholarly Papers (39)

The Under-Theorized Asterisk Footnote

Number of pages: 26 Posted: 27 Jun 2005
Charles A. Sullivan
Seton Hall Law School
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Asterisk, star, footnote, legal scholarship, tribute, acknowledgements

The Under-Theorized Asterisk Footnote

Posted: 24 Jul 2004
Charles A. Sullivan
Seton Hall Law School

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Asterisk, star, footnote, legal scholarship, tribute, acknowledgements

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The FAA Triumphal: A Modest Opinion

Seton Hall Public Law Research Paper No. 2362389
Number of pages: 17 Posted: 02 Dec 2013 Last Revised: 31 Jan 2014
Charles A. Sullivan and Timothy P. Glynn
Seton Hall Law School and Seton Hall Law School
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arbitration, FAA, Concepcion, Gilmer, Italian Colors, CompuCredit, Stolt, ADR, alternative dispute resolution, statutory interpretation, Scalia, employment, employee, class action, procedure, adjudication, labor

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The Law and Genetics of Racial Profiling in Medicine

Number of pages: 94 Posted: 26 Jul 2004
Erik Lillquist and Charles A. Sullivan
Seton Hall Law School and Seton Hall Law School
Downloads 407 (125,235)
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health law, race, discrimination, genetics

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Raising the Dead? The Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act

84 Tulane Law Review 499 (2010), Seton Hall Public Law Research Paper No. 1418101
Number of pages: 45 Posted: 12 Jun 2009 Last Revised: 15 Jan 2016
Charles A. Sullivan
Seton Hall Law School
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Lilly Ledbetter, Fair Pay Act, Retroactivity, Laches, Other practices, Pay discrimination, Compensation discrimination, Legislative override, Discovery rule, Title VII, ADEA, ADA, Charge filing, EEOC, Legislative history, Hulteen, adverse employment action

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Plausibly Pleading Employment Discrimination

William & Mary Law Review, Vol. 52, p. 1613, 2011, Seton Hall Public Law Research Paper No. 1657872
Number of pages: 66 Posted: 14 Aug 2010 Last Revised: 22 Apr 2011
Charles A. Sullivan
Seton Hall Law School
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pleading, iqbal, twombly, swierkiewicz, employment discrimination, Title VII, ADEA, ADA. notice pleading

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The Puzzling Persistence of Unenforceable Contract Terms

70 Ohio State Law Journal 1127 (2009), Seton Hall Public Law Research Paper No. 1373841
Number of pages: 36 Posted: 07 Apr 2009 Last Revised: 18 Dec 2013
Charles A. Sullivan
Seton Hall Law School
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noncompete, noncompetition, postemployment restraint, arbitration, contract, waiver, public policy, unenforceable, clause, voidable, reputational, labor market, transaction costs, blue pencil, severability, covenant, invalid, overreaching, employment, sever, employ, opportunity costs

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The Herfindahl-Hirschman Index and the New Antitrust Merger Guidelines: Concentrating on Concentration

62 Texas Law Review 453 (1983)
Number of pages: 57 Posted: 22 Dec 2013
Neil B. Cohen and Charles A. Sullivan
Brooklyn Law School and Seton Hall Law School
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antitrust, merger guideiines, horizontal merger, HHI, Herfindahl-Hirschman Index, market power, market structure

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Mastering the Faithless Servant? Reconciling Employment Law, Contract Law, and Fiduciary Duty

Seton Hall Public Law Research Paper No. 1777082
Number of pages: 50 Posted: 05 Mar 2011
Charles A. Sullivan
Seton Hall Law School
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The Equal Pay Act of 1963: Making and Breaking a Prima Facie Case

31 Ark. L. Rev. 545 (1978)
Number of pages: 62 Posted: 03 Jan 2014
Charles A. Sullivan
Seton Hall Law School
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Equal Pay Act, Title VII, equal work, unequal pay, establishment, sex discrimination, wage discrimination, compensation discrimination, on the basis of sex, other than sex, skill, effort, responsibility, working conditions, shift differential, economic benefit, least different, most alike

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Employing AI

Seton Hall Public Law Research Paper
Number of pages: 29 Posted: 20 Feb 2018
Charles A. Sullivan
Seton Hall Law School
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employment discrimination, artificial intelligence, disparate treatment, disparate impact, big data, workplace analytics, people analytics

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Re-Reviving Disparate Impact

Number of pages: 67 Posted: 25 Aug 2004
Charles A. Sullivan
Seton Hall Law School
Downloads 256 (205,152)
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disparate impact, disparate treatment, employment discrimination, Title VII, McDonnell Douglas, Desert Palace, Costa, cognitive, workplace dynamics, workplace cuture, subtle discrimination

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On Vacation

Houston Law Review, Vol. 43, 1143, 2006, Seton Hall Public Law Research Paper No. 888293
Number of pages: 50 Posted: 04 Mar 2006 Last Revised: 18 Dec 2013
Charles A. Sullivan
Seton Hall Law School
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precedent, opinion, formalism, persuasive authority, vacated, vacatur, norms, unpublished opinions, foreign law, holding, dictum, Anastasoff, Hart, vertical precedent, horizontal precedent, stare decisis, judgment, panel, circuit court, path dependence, authority, deference

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The Phoenix from the Ash: Proving Discrimination by Comparators

Seton Hall Public Law Research Paper No. 1099595
Number of pages: 40 Posted: 03 Mar 2008
Charles A. Sullivan
Seton Hall Law School
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employment, discrrimination, mcdonnell douglas, price waterhouse, desert palace, ash, mendelsohn, expert witness, trade usage, business practices, comparator, similarly situated, slap in the face,

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Tortifying Employment Discrimination

Boston University Law Review, Vol. 92, No. 5, 2012, Seton Hall Public Law Research Paper No. 2012-04
Number of pages: 40 Posted: 25 Feb 2012 Last Revised: 24 May 2012
Charles A. Sullivan
Seton Hall Law School
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The False Claims Act and the Policing of Promotion Claims About Drugs: A Call for Increased Transparency

Number of pages: 77 Posted: 19 Oct 2015
Seton Hall Law School, Seton Hall School of Lawaffiliation not provided to SSRN and Seton Hall University
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fda, off-label, FCA, false claims act, promotion, drugs, pharmaceutical, qui tam, relator, Inspector General

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Disparate Impact: Looking Past the Desert Palace Mirage

Number of pages: 64 Posted: 24 Jun 2005
Charles A. Sullivan
Seton Hall Law School
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disparate impact, disparate treatment, employment discrimination, Title VII, McDonnell Douglas, Desert Palace, Costa, cognitive, workplace dynamics, workplace cuture, subtle discrimination

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Horton Hatches the Egg: Concerted Action Includes Concerted Dispute Resolution

Alabama Law Review, Vol. 64, No. 5, 2013, Seton Hall Public Law Research Paper No. 2235008
Number of pages: 44 Posted: 20 Mar 2013
Charles A. Sullivan and Timothy P. Glynn
Seton Hall Law School and Seton Hall Law School
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Do Law Titles Affect Their Favorability and Memorability? An Empirical Analysis of Tactically Titled Statutes

New York University Journal of Legislation and Public Policy, Vol. 24, No. 611, 2022
Number of pages: 60 Posted: 10 Feb 2022 Last Revised: 11 Nov 2022
Brian Sheppard, Andrew Moshirnia and Charles A. Sullivan
Seton Hall Law School, Monash University - Department of Business Law & Taxation and Seton Hall Law School
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Empirical Legal Studies, Statutes, Legislation, Legisprudence, Congress, Experimental Jurisprudence, Law and Psychology, Law and Sociology, Law and Behavior, Politics

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Legal Regulation of the Use of Race in Medical Research

Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics, Vol. 34, pp. 535-551, 2006, Seton Hall Public Law Research Paper No. 970683
Number of pages: 33 Posted: 16 Mar 2007
Erik Lillquist and Charles A. Sullivan
Seton Hall Law School and Seton Hall Law School
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Race, Medcial Research, Genetics, Clinical Trials

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Poaching

71 Am. U. L. Rev. 649 (2021). , Seton Hall Public Law Research Paper
Number of pages: 44 Posted: 21 Sep 2021 Last Revised: 24 Jan 2022
Charles A. Sullivan
Seton Hall Law School
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poaching, no-poach, no-switch, no-hire, noncompete, noncompetition, postemployment, liquidated damages, restraint of trade, staffing agency, temp agency, leasing employer, contingent worker,

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Tending the Garden: Restricting Competition via 'Garden Leave'

Berkeley Journal of Employment and Labor Law, Vol. 37, No. 2, 2016, Seton Hall Public Law Research Paper
Number of pages: 30 Posted: 16 Jan 2016 Last Revised: 05 Feb 2016
Charles A. Sullivan
Seton Hall Law School
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garden leave, noncompetition, preliminary injunction, severance pay, employee mobility, attorney ethics, financial sector

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Clergy Contracts

Employee Rights and Employment Policy Journal, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 31 Posted: 22 Aug 2018 Last Revised: 19 Sep 2018
Charles A. Sullivan
Seton Hall Law School
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Ministerial Exception, Hosanna-Tabor, Clergy, Contracts, Holy Trinity, Religion Clauses, Free Exercise, Establishment, Ecclesiastical Abstention, Church Courts

Clergy Contracts

Employee Rights and Employment Policy Journal, Forthcoming, Seton Hall Public Law Research Paper
Number of pages: 31 Posted: 22 Aug 2018
Charles A. Sullivan
Seton Hall Law School
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Ministerial Exception, Hosanna-Tabor, Clergy, Contracts, Holy Trinity, Religion Clauses, Free Exercise, Establishment, Ecclesiastical Abstention, Church Courts

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Making Too Much of Too Little?: Why 'Motivating Factor' Liability Did Not Revolutionize Title VII

Seton Hall Public Law Research Paper Forthcoming
Number of pages: 39 Posted: 06 Aug 2019
Charles A. Sullivan
Seton Hall Law School
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mixed motives, motivating factor, but-for causation, Price Waterhouse, McDonnell Douglas, minimum causation, same decision defense, implicit bias

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Noncompetes in a Downsizing World

Seton Hall Public Law Research Paper , 58 SAN DIEGO L. REV.. 677 (2021)
Number of pages: 38 Posted: 02 Feb 2021 Last Revised: 10 Nov 2021
Charles A. Sullivan
Seton Hall Law School
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NCA, noncompetition, noncompete, layoff, reduction in force, Restatement of Employment Law, for cause discharge, termination

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Restating Employment Remedies

Cornell Law Review, Vol. 100, Pg. 1391, 2015
Number of pages: 32 Posted: 02 Oct 2015
Charles A. Sullivan
Seton Hall Law School
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faithless servant, mitigation, lowered sights, inevitable disclosure, employee remedies, employer remedies, public policy tort

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Revisiting the 'Neglected Stepchild': Antitrust Treatment of Postemployment Restraints of Trade

1977 Ill. L. F. 621
Number of pages: 48 Posted: 02 Jan 2014
Charles A. Sullivan
Seton Hall Law School
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Blake, Goldschmid, antitrust, noncompetition, postemployment, restraint of trade, rule of reason, per se rule

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Retaliation and Requesting Religion Accommodation

Case Western Reserve Law Review, Vol. 70, 2020, Seton Hall Public Law Research Paper Forthcoming
Number of pages: 25 Posted: 28 Oct 2019
Charles A. Sullivan
Seton Hall Law School
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retaliation, religion, reasonable accommodation, Abercrombie, undue hardship, Hardison

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Ricci V. Destefano: End of the Line or Just Another Turn on the Disparate Impact Road?

104 Northwestern University Law Review 411 (2010)
Number of pages: 16 Posted: 03 Jan 2014
Charles A. Sullivan
Seton Hall Law School
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Ricci, DeStefano, City of New Haven, disparate impact, business necessity, job relation, strong basis in evidence, disparate treatment, reverse discrimination, martin v, wilks, civil rights act of 1991

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The Curious Incident of Gross and the Significance of Congress's Failure to Bark

90 Texas Law Review See Also 157 (2012)
Number of pages: 13 Posted: 25 May 2012 Last Revised: 20 Jul 2012
Charles A. Sullivan
Seton Hall Law School
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Accounting for Price Waterhouse: Proving Disparate Treatment Under Title VII

56 Brooklyn Law Review 1107 (1991)
Number of pages: 58 Posted: 03 Jan 2014
Charles A. Sullivan
Seton Hall Law School
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McDonnell Douglas, Price Waterhouse, pretext, mixed motives, direct evidence, circumstantial evidence, motivating factor, substantial factor, determinative factor, but-for causation, shifting burdens, litigation structure, Title VII

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Breaking Up the Treble Play: Attacks on the Private Treble Damage Antitrust Action

14 Seton Hall Law Review 17 (1983)
Number of pages: 57 Posted: 22 Dec 2013
Charles A. Sullivan
Seton Hall Law School
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antitrust, treble damages, private enforcement Sherman Act,

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Enforcement of Government Antitrust Decrees: Third Party Beneficiary Rights and Intervenor Status

123 U. Pa. L. Rev. 822 (1975)
Number of pages: 75 Posted: 20 Dec 2013
Charles A. Sullivan
Seton Hall Law School
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third party beneficiary, consent decree, intervention, antitrust, private enforcement, Department of Justice,

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Consent Decree Settlements by Administrative Agencies in Antitrust and Employment Discrimination: Optimizing Public and Private Interests

1976 Duke Law Journal 163
Number of pages: 63 Posted: 21 Dec 2013
Charles A. Sullivan and Michael J. Zimmer
Seton Hall Law School and Loyola University Chicago School of Law
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consent decree, public enforcement, private enforcement, antitrust, employment discrimination antitrust procedures and penalties act, administrative agency, intervention

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Commentary on Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. v. Dukes

Commentary on Tristin K. Green, Wal-Mart v. Dukes Rewritten (October 17, 2018), available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3269474, in Ann C. McGinley & Nicole B. Porter, eds., Feminist Judgments: Employment Discrimination Opinions Rewritten (Cambridge Univ. Press, 2020), Seton Hall Public Law Research Paper Forthcoming
Number of pages: 9 Posted: 21 Sep 2021
Charles A. Sullivan
Seton Hall Law School
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Wal-Mart v. Dukes, class actions, rule 23, systemic disparate treatment, commonality, predominance

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The Enforcement of Title VII: Meshing Public and Private Efforts

71 Northwestern University Law Review 480 (1976)
Number of pages: 55 Posted: 20 Dec 2013
Charles A. Sullivan
Seton Hall Law School
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private suit, public suit, EEOC, charge of discrimination, section 706, commission charge, pattern and practice, collateral estoppel, offensive, intervention, section 707, Title VII

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Judging Judgments: The 1991 Civil Rights Act and the Lingering Ghost of Martin v. Wilks

57 Brooklyn Law Review 995 (1992)
Number of pages: 54 Posted: 20 Dec 2013
Andrea Catania and Charles A. Sullivan
Seton Hall Law School and Seton Hall Law School
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martin, wilks, res judicata, collateral estoppel, issue preclusion, claim preclusion, finality, judgments, civil rights act of 1991, intervention, consent decree, due process, rule 24, rule 19

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The Structure of Title VII Individual Treatment Litigation: Anderson v. City of Bessemer City, Inferences of Discrimination, and Burdens of Proof

9 Harvard Women's Law Journal 25 (1986)
Number of pages: 34 Posted: 21 Dec 2013
Michael J. Zimmer and Charles A. Sullivan
Loyola University Chicago School of Law and Seton Hall Law School
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Title VII, litigation structure, discrimination, disparate treatment, McDonnell Douglas, Anderson, Bessemer City, burdens of proof

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Circling Back to the Obvious: The Convergence of Traditional and Reverse Discrimination in Title Vii Proof

46 William & Mary Law Review 1031 2004, Seton Hall Public Law Research Paper No. 6
Posted: 25 Jul 2004 Last Revised: 15 Jan 2016
Charles A. Sullivan
Seton Hall Law School

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Grutter, McDonnell-Douglas, Desert Palace, Reverse Discrimination, Background Circumstances, Proof Structures, Race, Gender, Sex, Affirmative Action, Equal Protection, Title VII, Discrimination

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The World Turned Upside Down?: Disparate Impact Claims by White Males

Posted: 02 Dec 2003
Charles A. Sullivan
Seton Hall Law School

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disparate impact, discrimination, equal protection, African American, white, male, racial minorities, age discrimination, reverse discrimination, women