Joel Friedman
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Phone: 480-965-4151
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Mail code: 9520Campus: Dtphx
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Joel Friedman joined the Arizona State University Sandra Day O'Connor College of Law in the Fall, 2022 semester. Prior to that, Professor Friedman was a faculty member at Tulane University School of Law from 1976 until June 30, 2022. He graduated from Yale Law School in 1975 and then completed a one-year federal district court clerkship in Los Angeles. He is a nationally known expert in the field of labor and employment discrimination law and has lectured widely on a variety of labor and employment law topics as well as on the subject of the use of developing technologies in legal research, teaching and publication. He also is an active arbitrator and mediator.
Professor Friedman is the author of Cases and Materials on Employment Discrimination Law published by Foundation Press, Inc. and the author of articles on a wide range of employment discrimination topics published in such journals as the Cornell Law Review, Texas Law Review, Vanderbilt Law Review, Iowa Law Review, Tulane Law Review, and Washington & Lee Law Review. He is also co-author of The Law of Civil Procedure, published by Thomson/West. Professor Friedman has been invited to lecture on comparative international law of labor relations and employment discrimination as a Visiting Professor at the Law Schools at the University of Texas, University of San Diego, Chuo University (Tokyo, Japan), University of Tel Aviv (Israel) and Hebrew University of Jerusalem (Israel). In 1990, he received a Fulbright Scholarship to do research and teach in the area of employment discrimination law in Israel. During that time, he worked on a codification project designed to revise Israel’s collection of employment-related statutes. In 1992, Professor Friedman was invited to make a ten day, three city speaking tour of three major cities in South Africa, where he advised labor, management and legislative leaders on law reform in the area of affirmative action.
For over twenty-five years, Professor Friedman was the U.S. Federal Judicial Center’s expert consultant on employment discrimination law. In this capacity, he lectured at annual judicial conferences and made similar presentations to all newly appointed federal district judges and to U.S. Magistrate Judges. Professor Friedman also created and conducted special programs on mediation skills training for U.S. District and Magistrate Judges.
B.S. Cornell Universithy 1972
J.D. Yale Law School 1975
BOOKS:
The Law of Employment Discrimination: Cases & Materials, 14th edition (Foundation Press 2023)
Cases and Materials on Civil Procedure, 6th ed. (West 2023) (with M. Collins)
Employment Discrimination: Examples & Explanations (3d edition, Aspen 2017)
Evidence (Aspen 2010) (with S.L. Emanuel)
Champion of Civil Rights: Judge John Minor Wisdom (LSU Press 2008)
Employment Discrimination Stories, Foundation Press (2006) (Friedman, J., ed.)
ARTICLES:
“The Legal, Political, and Religious Legacy of an Extended Jewish Family,” 18 Southern Jewish History 63 (2015)
“The Impact of the Election of a Mixed-Race President on Civil Rights Enforcement”, 87
Ind.L.J. 349 (2012)
“Gender Nonconformity and the Unfulfilled Promise of Price Waterhouse v. Hopkins,” 14 Duke J. Gend.L. & Pol. 205 (2007)
“Desegregating The South: John Minor Wisdom’s Role in Enforcing Brown’s Mandate,”
78 Tul.L.Rev. 2207 (2004)
“The Emergence of John Minor Wisdom as Intellectual Leader of the Fifth Circuit:
"Reflecting Back on the Forty-Fifth Anniversary of His Joining the Court,” 77
Tul.L.Rev. 915 (2003)
“John Minor Wisdom,” Scribner Encyclopedia of American Lives (2001)
“John Minor Wisdom, The Noblest Tulanian of them All,” 74 Tulane Law Rev. 1 (1999)
“John Minor Wisdom,” Encyclopedia of the American Constitution (1999)
“A Look Back at the Tulane Law School of John Minor Wisdom’s Era,” 70 Tulane Law
Review 2091 (1996)
“Judge Wisdom And The 1952 Republican National Convention: Ensuring Victory For
Eisenhower And A Two-Party System For Louisiana,” 53 Washington & Lee Law Review 33(1996)
“John Minor Wisdom’s Battle Against The Political Bosses To Create A Two-Party
System In Louisiana,” 69 Tulane Law Review 1439 (1995)
“Affirmative Action--The American Experience,” 1 Labour Law News & Court Reports
(South Africa) #10 (1992)
“Rethinking Equality In American Antisdiscrimination Law,” 8 Waseda (Japan) Bulletin
Of Comparative Law 1 (1989)
“A U.S. Supreme Court Constitutional Quandary: Affirmative Action In Employment,”
40 Chuo University (Japan) Comparative Law Journal 1 (1989)
“Constitutional Equality and Affirmative Action In Employment: A Search For
Standards,” 1986 Det. C. of L. Rev. 1113 (1986)(solicited for symposium)
“Redefining Equality, Discrimination and Affirmative Action Under Title VII: The
Access Principle,” 65 Texas L.Rev. 41 (1986)
“Israeli Equal Employment Opportunity Statutory Law: An Appraisal From An American
Perspective, » 6 Tel Aviv Univ. Studies In Law 155 (1985)
“Fair Employment Legislation In Louisiana: A Critique of the 1983 Act,” 58 Tulane
L.Rev. 444 (1983)
“Congress, The Courts and Employment Discrimination In Higher Education: A Tale of
Two Titles,” 34 Vand.L.Rev. 37 (1981) (solicited)
“The Burger Court and the Prima Facie Case In Employment Discrimination Litigation,”
65 Cornell L.Rev. 1 (1979)
“Constitutional and Statutory Challenges to Discrimination In Employment Based On
Sexual Orientation,” 64 Iowa L. Rev. 527 (1979)
“Individual Rights In Grievance Arbitration, 27 Arb. J. 252 (1972)
Courses
2025 Spring
Course Number | Course Title |
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LAW 691 | Seminar |
LAW 605 | Evidence |
2024 Fall
Course Number | Course Title |
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LAW 735 | Teaching Assistant |
LAW 518 | Civil Procedure |
SDO 552 | Employ Discrimination: Masters |
SDO 552 | Employ Discrimination: Masters |
SDO 552 | Employ Discrimination: Masters |
SDO 552 | Employ Discrimination: Masters |
LAW 630 | Employment Discrimination |
2024 Summer
Course Number | Course Title |
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LAW 605 | Evidence |
SDO 552 | Employ Discrimination: Masters |
SDO 552 | Employ Discrimination: Masters |
2024 Spring
Course Number | Course Title |
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SDO 552 | Employ Discrimination: Masters |
SDO 552 | Employ Discrimination: Masters |
SDO 552 | Employ Discrimination: Masters |
SDO 552 | Employ Discrimination: Masters |
LAW 691 | Seminar |
LAW 605 | Evidence |
2023 Fall
Course Number | Course Title |
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LAW 518 | Civil Procedure |
SDO 552 | Employ Discrimination: Masters |
SDO 552 | Employ Discrimination: Masters |
SDO 552 | Employ Discrimination: Masters |
SDO 552 | Employ Discrimination: Masters |
2023 Summer
Course Number | Course Title |
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LAW 605 | Evidence |
SDO 552 | Employ Discrimination: Masters |
SDO 552 | Employ Discrimination: Masters |
2023 Spring
Course Number | Course Title |
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SDO 552 | Employ Discrimination: Masters |
SDO 552 | Employ Discrimination: Masters |
SDO 552 | Employ Discrimination: Masters |
SDO 552 | Employ Discrimination: Masters |
LAW 691 | Seminar |
2022 Fall
Course Number | Course Title |
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LAW 518 | Civil Procedure |
SDO 511 | Admin Agencies/Reg: Masters |
SDO 552 | Employ Discrimination: Masters |
SDO 552 | Employ Discrimination: Masters |
Best article published in Southern Jewish History Journal of the Southern Jewish Historical Society for the years 2014-2017 (2017)
2006 Judge John R. Brown Judicial Scholarship & Education Award (awarded by Federal Judicial Center)
Fulbright Scholar, Israel (1990)
Sumpter Marks Award for Scholarly Achievement, Tulane Law School (2002)
Felix Frankfurter Award for Distinguished Teaching, Tulane Law School (1989)
Member, Board of Editors, Federal Courts Law Review
American Law Institute
Labor Law Group
Professor of Law, Arizona State University, Sandra D. O’Connor Coll. of Law (2022 - )
Jack M. Gordon Professor of Procedural Law and Jurisdiction, Tulane Law School (2001- 2022)
Distinguished Visiting University Professor, China University Political Science & Law
(2014-16)
Visiting Professor of Law, Beijing Normal University School of Law, Zhuhai, China (2014)
Professor of Law, Tulane Law School (1982-2001)
Visiting Professor of Law, Hebrew University of Jerusalem Law School (Fall 1990)
Visiting Scholar In Residence, Institute of Comparative Law, Chuo University, Chuo,
Japan (1988)
Visiting Professor of Law, University of Texas at Austin (1985-1986)
Visiting Professor of Law, University of Tel Aviv Law School (1983)
Associate Professor of Law, Tulane Law School (1979-1982)
Visiting Professor of Law, University of San Diego Law School (Summer 1981)
Assistant Professor of Law, Tulane (1976-1979)
Law Clerk, U.S. District Judge Irving Hill (C.D.Ca.) (1975-1976)
Legal Analyst, WVUE Fox8TV New Orleans (2015- present )
Special Consultant, Los Angeles Kings Hockey Team (2013)
Special Consultant, Los Angeles Dodgers (2013)
President, Board of Trustees, Jewish Federation of Greater New Orleans (2001-2003)
Chair, Annual Welfare Fund Campaign, Jewish Federation of Greater New Orleans
(2000-2001)
Project Director, Woldenberg Jewish Community Campus of New Orleans (2000-
2001) (overseeing $6 million capital fundraising campaign and construction and
design of campus)
President, Board of Directors, Woldenberg Village for the Jewish Aged (1995-1997)
President, Board of Directors, Hillel Foundation of New Orleans (1987-1991)
Regional Vice-President, Board of Governors, International Ass'n of Jewish Lawyers &
Jurists--U.S. Section (1992-1995)
President, International Ass'n of Jewish Lawyers & Jurists--Louisiana Branch (1992-
1995)
Vice-President, Board of Trustees, Congregation Shir Chadash (2008-2010)