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Merrick Rossein, Professor, served as the Acting Dean of the Law School
in 1994-95, teaches the Equality Concentration and courses on employment
discrimination, and is a faculty member of the Law School's Worker, Employment,
Labor Program (WELP). He earned a B.A. from Alfred University and an M.P.A.
degree from New York University before joining the founding class of Antioch Law
School. His extensive background in civil rights and employment law includes
work at the National Employment Law Project, Queens Legal Services, New York
City Bureau of Labor Services, and New York City Commission on Human Rights. In
addition, he has litigated numerous employment discrimination cases, including
landmark sexual harassment cases, drafted legislation and model sexual
harassment regulations, published a three-volume treatise, Employment
Discrimination Law and Litigation, and edited Employment Law Desk Book
for Human Resource Professionals. He drafted an affirmative action plan for
the City of New York and was appointed by Mayor David N. Dinkins to a four-year
term as Commissioner of the City of New York Equal Employment Practices
Commission and by Governor Mario Cuomo to serve on his Task Force on Sexual
Harassment.
Professor Rossein is a member of the ABA Section on Labor and Employment, Equal Employment Opportunity and ADR Committees where he was named Scholar-in-Residence (2007) (inaugural scholar) and the New York State Bar Association Section on Labor and Employment, where he served as Secretary and on the Executive Committee. Scholar-in-Residence (2007) (inaugural scholar). He is an arbitrator and mediator on
the American Arbitration Association's National Employment Disputes Panel and
has been a consultant on equal employment opportunity to the Greater London
Council, the Working Women's Institute, the Women's Law Center in Cape Town,
South Africa and the City of San Francisco, as well as private sector employers,
and has trained recently-appointed U.S. federal judges on employment
discrimination law for the National Judicial Center in Washington, D.C.
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