Our virtual symposium on Contracts and COVID continues today with a contribution from Rachel Arnow-Richman. When we contracts profs have a question about employment law, we hope that Rachel will return our calls. We are grateful to her for sharing her thoughts on the impact of COVID in the employment law context.
Rachel Arnow-Richman is the Gerald A. Rosenthal Chair in Labor & Employment Law. She earned her JD from Harvard Law School and her BA from Rutgers University. She also holds an LLM in Legal Education from Temple University School of Law, where she was an Abraham L. Freedman Fellow. Prior to joining the University of Florida faculty, Professor Arnow-Richman was the Chauncy Wilson Memorial Research Professor and Director of the Workplace Law Program at the University of Denver, Sturm College of Law. She has also held faculty appointments at the University of Colorado Law School, Fordham Law School, Temple University School of Law, and Texas A&M Law School (formerly Texas Wesleyan). Before entering law teaching, she served as a judicial clerk to the New Jersey Supreme Court and practiced employment and commercial law at Drinker, Biddle and Reath LLP in Philadelphia. Professor Arnow-Richman teaches and publishes in the areas of employment law and contracts. She is known widely known for her work on the #MeToo movement and the rights of accused harassers, as well as a series of articles proposing mandatory advance notice and severance pay for terminated employees. She is a past chair of the American Association of Law Schools Committee on Labor & Employment Law and currently serves on the executive committee of the Committee on Contracts & Commercial Law.
