Maria Linda Ontiveros

Maria Ontiveros's SSRN Page

Books

Employment Discrimination Law: Cases and Materials on Equality in the Workplace, 7th ed. (St. Paul, Minn.: Thomson⁄West, 2004, with statutory supplement and other supplementary materials) (with Robert Belton, Dianne Avery, and Roberto L. Corrada).

Book Chapters

"Immigrant Workers and the Thirteenth Amendment," in Tsesis, Alexander, ed., Promises of Liberty: Thirteenth Amendment Abolitionism and Contemporary Relevance (Columbia University Press, forthcoming 2009). [Pre-publication SSRN Abstract]

"Harassment of Female Farmworkers: Can the Legal System Help?" in Sharon Harley, ed., Women's Labor in the Global Economy: Speaking In Multiple Voices (New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press, 2007), at 103. [Pre-publication SSRN Abstract]

"Female Immigrant Workers and the Law: Limits and Opportunities," in Dorothy Sue Cobble, ed., The Sex Of Class: Women Transforming American Labor (Ithaca: ILR Press, 2007), at 235. [Pre-publication SSRN Abstract]

Articles

"Fair Collective Bargaining," Executive Counsel (May⁄June 2009) [Summary available on Executive Counsel site.]

"The Thirteenth Amendment and Access to Education for Children of Undocumented Workers: A New Look at Plyler v. Doe," 42 University of San Francisco Law Review 1045 (2008) (with Joshua R. Drexler). [SSRN]

"Out of the Shadows and into the Spotlight: Immigrants and Organized Labor," 11 WorkingUSA: The Journal of Labor and Society 157 (forthcoming 2008).

"Immigrant Rights and the Thirteenth Amendment," 16(2) New Labor Forum 26 (Spring 2007).

"Noncitizen Immigrant Labor and the Thirteenth Amendment: Challenging Guest Worker Programs," (Symposium: A New Birth of Freedom: The Thirteenth Amendment — Past, Present and Future.), 38 University of Toledo Law Review 923 (2007). [SSRN]

"Immigrant Workers' Rights in a Post-Hoffman World: Organizing Around the Thirteenth Amendment," 18 Georgetown Immigration Law Journal 651 (2004).

"Work in the 21st Century — Creating the Social Architecture" (Symposium: Work in the 21st Century), 37 University of San Francisco Law Review 511 (2003) (introduction to symposium issue).

"Lessons from the Fields: Female Farmworkers and the Law," 55 Maine Law Review 157 (2003) (symposium issue).

"Introduction: Forging Our Identity: Transformative Resistance in the Areas of Work, Class, and the Law" (LatCrit IV Symposium: "Rotating Centers, Expanding Frontiers: LatCrit Theory and Marginal Intersections"), 33 U.C. Davis Law Review 1057 (2000).

"Adoptive Admissions and the Meaning of Silence: Continuing the Inquiry into Evidence Law and Issues of Race, Class, Gender, and Ethnicity," 28 Southwestern University Law Review 337 (1999).

"A Vision of Global Capitalism that Puts Women and People of Color at the Center," 3 Journal of Small and Emerging Business Law 27 (1999) (symposium issue).

"Rosa Lopez, David Letterman, Christopher Darden, and Me: Issues of Gender, Ethnicity, and Class in Evaluating Witness Credibility," 6 Hastings Women's Law Journal 135 (1995).

"Fictionalizing Harassment⁄Disclosing the Truth" (Reviewing Michael Crichton's Disclosure and Celia Morris's Bearing Witness), 93 Michigan Law Review 1375 (May 1995).

"Three Perspectives on Workplace Harassment of Women of Color," 23 Golden Gate University Law Review 817 (1993) (reprinted in Critical Race Feminism: A Reader (1997) and in The Latino⁄A Condition: A Critical Reader (1998)).

"To Help Those Most in Need: Undocumented Workers' Rights and Remedies Under Title VII," 20 New York University Review of Law and Social Change 607 (1993⁄1994).

"The Myths of Market Forces, Mothers and Private Employment: The Parental Leave Veto," 1 Cornell Journal of Law & Public Policy 25 (1992).

Presentations & Symposia

"The Politics of the Sonia Sotomayor Confirmation Process," USF School of Law Constitution Day (San Francisco, California, September 17, 2009) (with Professors John Adler and Julie Nice).

"Review of Labor and Employment Cases Decided in the 2008-09 Term," Bar Association of San Francisco (July 7, 2009) (with Michelle Travis).

"Immigrant Workers and the Thirteenth Amendment," Conference: Slavery, Abolition, and Human Rights: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on the Thirteenth Amendment (Chicago, Illinois, April 18, 2009).

"Labor Coalition Challenges to Government Action: Defending the Civil Rights of Low Wage Workers," USF School of Law Faculty Teaching and Scholarship Workshop Series (San Francisco, California, April 7, 2009).

"Creative Lawyering: How We Can Make a Difference — Focusing Primarily on the World of Work Law," USF School of Law Justice Forum (March 4, 2009).

Moderator for the panel "New Legal Methods and Approaches for the Newly Defined Immigrant Worker," Symposium on the Evolving Definition of the Immigrant Worker: The Intersection Between Employment, Labor, and Human Rights Law, University of San Francisco School of Law (February 27, 2009).

Moderator for the panel "ICE Raids: Raising Human Rights Issues in the Immigrant Worker Context," Symposium on the Evolving Definition of the Immigrant Worker: The Intersection Between Employment, Labor, and Human Rights Law, University of San Francisco School of Law (February 27, 2009).

"The Importance of Teaching the 'Sui Generis' Cases" (a presentation on Plyler v. Doe, 457 U.S. 202 (1982), which guaranteed access to public education for undocumented children), Society of American Law Teachers Conference: Teaching for Social Change, Berkeley, California (March 2008).

Panelist, "Panel One: Women and Children First? New Strategies in Anti-trafficking Initiatives" (Symposium on gender equality, and labor and employment in the international context), 6 Georgetown Journal of Gender & the Law 193 (2005) (with Leslie Wolfe, Laura Lederer, and Joy Zarembka).

Other Service

Member, American Law Institute (elected September 2009)