Director of the Living Civil Rights Law Project

Vicki Schultz is the Ford Foundation Professor of Law and Social Sciences at Yale Law School, where she teaches courses on the family, state and market, family law, employment discrimination law, workplace theory and policy, work and gender, law and social science, feminist theory, and related subjects. Schultz has written and lectured widely on a variety of subjects related to antidiscrimination law, including sexual harassment, sex segregation on the job, work-family issues, working hours, and the meaning of work in people’s lives. She has also lectured on family law and intimate life, including topics related to same-sex marriage and marriage generally. Her published work includes “Feminism and Workplace Flexibility,” 42 Connecticut Law Review 1203 (2010),“The Sanitized Workplace Revisited,” in Martha Fineman, Jack Jackson and Adam Romero, eds., FEMINIST AND QUEER LEGAL THEORY (2009), “Sex and Work,” 18 Yale Journal of Law and Feminism 223 (2006), “The Need for a Reduced Workweek in the United States,” in Judith Fudge & Rosemary Owen, eds., THEORY PRECARIOUS WORK, WOMEN, AND THE NEW ECONOMY: THE CHALLENGE TO LEGAL NORMS (2006), “The Sanitized Workplace,” 112 Yale Law Journal 2061 (2003), “Life’s Work,” 100 Columbia Law Review 1881 (2000), “Reconceptualizing Sexual Harassment,” 107 Yale Law Journal 1683 (1998), and “Telling Stories About Women and Work: Judicial Interpretations of Sex Segregation on the Job in title VII Cases Raising the Lack of Interest Argument,” 103 Harvard Law Review 1749 (1990).

Professor Schultz is currently working on an intellectual history of antidiscrimination law, “Antidiscrimination as Disruption,” that lays out the historical conceptual frameworks for understanding and addressing discrimination and then traces the emergence of a new framework that treats the formation of social identity as a fluid process in which institutional dynamics play a significant role. With co-author Michael Yarbrough, she is also writing an article, “Will Marriage Make Gay and Lesbian Couples Less Egalitarian? A Cautionary Tale,” that analyzes the likely effects of legal marriage on the division of housework and childcare in gay and lesbian households. At the heart of this article are the questions: what is marriage and what work does it do?

Schultz's work has been influential in scholarly circles in both law and the social sciences; her work has also been cited widely in the courts and the national news media. She has been quoted in The New York Times Magazine, The New Yorker, Ms. Magazine, and many major newspapers; she has appeared on The News Hour with Jim Lehrer, The CBS Evening News, ABC World News Tonight, Good Morning America, and National Public Radio.

Schultz has held a number of significant professional posts, fellowships and visiting professorships. She is a past president of the Labor and Employment Section of the Association for American Law Schools and a past Trustee of the Law and Society Association. She has been the Evelyn Green Davis Fellow at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University, a fellow at the Center for the Advanced Study of the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford University, and a fellow at the Whitney Humanities Center at Yale University. She has been a visiting professor at Harvard Law School (her alma mater), and in 2010-2011, she was the MacDonald-Wright Visiting Professor of Law and Faculty Chair of the Williams Institute at the UCLA School of Law. A former trial attorney at the United States Department of Justice, Civil Rights Division, Schultz began her academic career at the University of Wisconsin Law School, where she became interested in law and sociology. At Yale Law School, she runs the Workplace Theory and Policy Workshop and has also headed the Work and Welfare group, an interdisciplinary group of scholars who study inequalities produced by different social welfare regimes, labor market institutions, and family formations.

Advisor

Richard Ugelow was on the faculty of American University’s Washington College of Law from 2002 through 2019, when he retired. At AU he specialized in clinical legal education and in employment discrimination law. Prior to joining the law school faculty, Ugelow served as a trial attorney and Deputy Section Chief of the Employment Litigation Section of the United States Department of Justice Civil Rights Division. There he supervised investigations and litigation to enforce Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. During the course of his twenty-nine year career at the DOJ, he litigated complex Title VII pattern or practice cases against public sector and private employers. He was also the government’s lead trial attorney defending challenges to the constitutionality of federally sponsored affirmative action programs. While at the DOJ, Ugelow frequently spoke at conferences concerning the development of lawful and nondiscriminatory selection and promotional procedures for police officers and firefighters. He has published on the subjects of discrimination encountered by women seeking employment in physically demanding jobs and the role of expert witnesses in employment discrimination litigation. Prior to joining the Department of Justice, Ugelow served four years on active duty as a captain in the Army's Judge Advocate General's Corps. Richard Ugelow now serves as a complaint examiner for the District of Columbia Office of Police Complaints, which is responsible for investigating and resolving citizen complaints filed against members of the Metropolitan Police Department. He is also a member of the Personnel Appeals Board of the U.S. Government Accountability Office. Ugelow also consults on issues of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion.