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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 SciencesVictoria 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 SciencesVictoria 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 SciencesVictoria 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