Anne Lofaso is Professor of Law at the University of Cincinnati College of Law, where she teaches Labor Law, Employment Law, Employment Discrimination, and Constitutional Law. She previously held the Arthur B. Hodges Professorship at the West Virginia University College of Law, where she taught for over eighteen years, and served as Associate Dean for Faculty Research and Development. She is a member of the College of Labor and Employment Lawyers and the Labor Law Group, and a Life Fellow of the American Bar Foundation. She holds a D.Phil. in Law from Oxford University, a J.D. from the University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School, and an A.B. magna cum laude from Harvard College. She is also an OxHRH Associate.
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If Frozen Embryos Are Unborn Children Then What Is IVF’s Future in the United States?
In Dobbs v Jackson Women’s Health Organization (2022), the United States Supreme Court overturned Roe v Wade(1973), and the fate of reproductive freedom fell to the political whims of state legislators. As of January 2024, 14 states ...
Vaccine Mandates in the United States: Multi-level Actors and Rights in Tension: Federal Government Mandates (Part III)
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State government vaccine mandates raise complex legal and ethical questions, some of which are discussed in Part II of this series. But these complications pale in comparison with those ...
Vaccine Mandates in the United States: Multi-level Actors and Rights in Tension: State Mandates (Part II)
Image description: A woman with a vaccine at a mass vaccination site.
While private employer vaccine mandates have proven somewhat controversial in the United States, the real source of controversy has been government bans. Unlike ...
Vaccine Mandates in the United States: Multi-level Actors and Rights in Tension: Private Employers (Part I)
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Several states, municipalities, and even private entities in the United States have imposed COVID-19 vaccine mandates. But it was not until September 2021 that the federal government ...
Justice Anthony Kennedy’s Human Rights Legacy: Introduction to the Blog Series
Anthony McLeod Kennedy, born on January 23, 1936, to Irish Catholic parents, announced his retirement on June 27, 2018, after thirty years on the United States Supreme Court. Known as the “swing vote” after Justice Sandra Day ...
Scalia’s Record on Labour Rights as Human Rights – Justice Denied
During Justice Scalia’s nearly thirty-year term, the Court decided nineteen private-sector labour cases in which the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) was a party. Three cases concerned whether the Court/NLRB/President had the ...
United States Labor Relations Board Cowardly Punts its Duties
Earlier this month, the United States witnessed a major setback for freedom of association. The National Labor Relations Board (the Board)– the U.S. agency charged with “encouraging the practice and procedure of collective bargaining” ...
