Discrimination Laundering: The Rise of Organizational Innocence and the Crisis of Equal Opportunity Law (Introduction)

Tristin Green, Discrimination Laundering: The Rise of Organizational Innocence and the Crisis of Equal Opportunity Law (Cambridge University Press 2017).

Univ. of San Francisco Law Research Paper No. 2017-08

24 Pages Posted: 15 Apr 2017 Last revised: 21 Jun 2017

Date Written: 2017

Abstract

While discrimination in the workplace is often perceived to be undertaken at the hands of individual or ‘rogue’ employees acting against the better interest of their employers, the truth is often the opposite: organizations are inciting discrimination through the work environments they create. Worse, the law increasingly ignores this reality and exacerbates the problem. In this groundbreaking book, Tristin K. Green describes the process of discrimination laundering, showing how judges are changing the law to protect employers, and why. By bringing organizations back into the discussion of discrimination, with real-world stories and extensive social science research, Green shows how organizational and legal efforts to minimize discrimination – usually by policing individuals over broader organizational change – are taking us in the wrong direction, and how the law can do better by creating incentives for organizational efforts that are likely to minimize discrimination, instead of inciting it.

Keywords: Employment Law, Employment Discrimination, Workplace Discrimination, Organizational Behavior

Suggested Citation

Green, Tristin K., Discrimination Laundering: The Rise of Organizational Innocence and the Crisis of Equal Opportunity Law (Introduction) (2017). Tristin Green, Discrimination Laundering: The Rise of Organizational Innocence and the Crisis of Equal Opportunity Law (Cambridge University Press 2017)., Univ. of San Francisco Law Research Paper No. 2017-08, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=2952521

Tristin K. Green (Contact Author)

Loyola Law School Los Angeles ( email )

919 Albany Street
Los Angeles, CA 90015-1211
United States

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