Work Law Colloquium: Noah Zatz, “Retaliation as Nonaccommodation”

WORK LAW COLLOQUIUM PRESENTS: 

Noah Zatz

“Retaliation as Nonaccommodation”

Noah Zatz’s interests include employment & labor law, welfare law and antipoverty policy, critical race & feminist theory, and liberal political theory. His writing and teaching address how work structures both inequality and social citizenship in the modern welfare state. Zatz’s primary focus is on which activities become recognized and protected as “work,” how work is defined in relationship to markets, and how the boundaries of markets are themselves mediated by gender and race, among other things. His published scholarship engages these questions by studying the legal concepts of “work” in welfare work requirements and “employment” in labor & employment law, especially with regard to the status of family caretaking, prison labor, workfare, sex work, and court-ordered employment or work programs. Another major interest is how antidiscrimination law, and employment law more generally, address labor market inequality that is jointly produced by workers’ interactions with employers, coworkers, and actors outside the workplace.