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Spring 2025

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Equal Opportunity and Venture Capital

Victoria Plaut - Professor, Law

Status: Full- no new appr needed     Weekly Hours: to be negotiated     Location: Off Campus

Despite the enormous impact of the Venture Capital (“VC”) industry—it has helped anoint the world’s four most valuable companies—there is effectively no legal backstop that ensures non-dominant groups (e.g., women and Black people) have an equal opportunity to share in its wealth creation and innovation. Furthermore, while...

 Social Sciences

Examining Reactions to University Inclusion Policies and Their Social and Legal Contexts

Victoria Plaut - Professor, Law

Status: Full- no new appr needed     Weekly Hours: to be negotiated     Location: On Campus

This project seeks to uncover the social psychological underpinnings of the debate around inclusion policies and free speech. As college campuses nationwide have instituted policies designed to promote inclusion (e.g., safe spaces, trigger warnings, hate speech codes, and pronoun usage policies), furor and debate have ignited. On the one hand...

 Social Sciences

Judicial Decision Making at Summary Judgment

Victoria Plaut - Professor, Law

Status: Full- no new appr needed     Weekly Hours: 6-8 hrs     Location: Off Campus

This study will examine judicial decision making at summary judgment (a particular phase of trial) in race and gender-based employment discrimination cases. RAs will assist with legal research and qualitatively code judicial opinions. RAs will gain experience using LexisNexis and Westlaw legal research databases (which are routinely used in...

 Social Sciences

Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion Within Organizations (Multiple projects)

Victoria Plaut - Professor, Law

Status: Full- no new appr needed     Weekly Hours: to be negotiated     Location: Off Campus

This series of projects examines equity, diversity, and inclusion across various institutional domains (e.g., tech, education, etc.). Some areas of interest include understanding how diversity is perceived by both dominant and non-dominant groups and how this affects belonging, and how people interact with policies that may or may not...

 Social Sciences

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