Joseph Seiner received his B.B.A., with High Distinction, from the University of Michigan in 1995, where he was an Angell Scholar. Professor Seiner received his J.D., Magna Cum Laude, Order of the Coif, from the Washington and Lee University School of Law, in 1998. Professor Seiner was a lead articles editor for the Washington and Lee Law Review. Following law school, Professor Seiner clerked for the late Honorable Ellsworth Van Graafeiland of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. After his clerkship, he practiced law with Jenner & Block, LLP, in Chicago, Illinois, where he focused on labor and employment matters. In September, 2001, Professor Seiner accepted a position as an appellate attorney with the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission in Washington, D.C., where he presented oral argument as lead counsel in the United States Courts of Appeals in employment discrimination cases. Prior to joining the faculty at the University of South Carolina School of Law, Professor Seiner was an adjunct professor at the Georgetown University Law Center, where he developed and taught a seminar on comparative employment discrimination. Professor Seiner teaches courses in the labor and employment law area, with a special emphasis on comparative employment discrimination.
Articles
Pleading Disability, Boston College Law Review (2010)
A significant failure. That is how the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) has been described...
THE TROUBLE WITH TWOMBLY: A PROPOSED PLEADING STANDARD FOR EMPLOYMENT DISCRIMINATION CASES, 2009 U. Ill. L. Rev. 1011 (2009)
Amorphous. This is how the Supreme Court’s recent pleading paradigm has been appropriately described. In...
The Failure of Punitive Damages in Employment Discrimination Cases: A Call for Change, William & Mary Law Review (2008)
Punitive damages were described by one early court as “an unsightly and unhealthy excrescense.” Although...
Disentangling Disparate Impact and Disparate Treatment: Adapting the Canadian Approach, Yale Law & Policy Review (2006)
The legal framework for alleging disparate impact and disparate treatment claims in cases involving discriminatory...