Professor of Law and William M. Rains Fellow Tristin Green serves as Associate Dean for Research at LMU Loyola Law School. In her Associate Dean role, Green principally supports faculty research and scholarship. She has been thrilled to work with her LLS colleagues, a deeply intellectual and internationally renowned faculty across a diverse range of fields, who together build a rich scholarly community with real-world impact.
In her own scholarship and teaching, Green specializes in laws affecting inequality, especially employment discrimination law. She brings to her teaching and her scholarship a background in journalism and sociology and an interest in human relations and in the ways in which laws and contexts shape those relations. Her research and teaching interests include feminist legal theory, employment discrimination, race, gender and queer theory, status identity and emotions, torts, and administrative structures, including wealth transfer systems and civil procedure.
Green often draws on the social sciences in her work to better understand how discrimination operates and how laws can be better framed and implemented to reduce discrimination and enhance equality. Her recent book, Racial Emotion at Work: Dismantling Discrimination and Building Racial Justice in the Workplace, was released by the University of California Press in October 2023. The book spotlights the role of our racial emotions in interracial interactions and calls for changes in how the law and organizations treat and shape racial emotions at work. She has authored more than twenty chapters, articles, and essays, which have appeared in the Southern California Law Review, Yale Law Journal Forum, Harvard Civil Rights and Civil Liberties Law Review, and California Law Review, among others. Her book, Discrimination Laundering: The Rise of Organizational Innocence and the Crisis of Equal Opportunity Law, was published by Cambridge University Press in 2017. Green co-organizes the Equality Law Scholars’ Forum, an annual forum aimed at mentoring junior scholars and engaging with new scholarly currents in the field of equality law, broadly conceived. She is also a recent co-founder of The Legal DEI Project, an educational resource on employment discrimination law that aims provide clear, accurate, and objective information on the law to help people distinguish between legal rules and political rhetoric
Green holds an MS in Journalism from the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern and a JD from UC Berkeley Law. She served as a law clerk for Judge Garland E. Burrell in the Eastern District of California and Judge Dolores K. Sloviter on the Third Circuit Court of Appeals. She has been a visiting professor at Berkeley Law and taught at Seton Hall Law before joining the University of San Francisco Law School in 2010, where she was co-director of the Work Law and Justice program and served as Associate Dean for Faculty Scholarship and Associate Dean for Academic Affairs. She joined the LMU Loyola Law School faculty as a visitor in 2022 and as a tenured professor in 2023.
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