Susan . Carle
American University Washington College of LawProfessor Susan Carle is professor of law at American University Washington College of Law in Washington, D.C., where her teaching and research interests lie primarily in the areas of employment discrimination, labor and employment law, and professional responsibility and history. Some of her recent articles include Analyzing Social Impairments under Title I of the Americans with Disabilities Act, 50 U.C. DAVIS L. REV. (forthcoming 2017) and Angry Employees: Revisiting Insubordination Doctrine in Title VII Cases, 10 HARVARD L. & POLICY REV. 301 (2016). She is a past recipient of the Association of American Law Schools' Best Scholarly Paper Award, for Race, Class, Legal Ethics and the Early NAACP, and in 2006 she received the Jean and Edgar Kahn National Equal Justice Library Award for distinguished scholarship on the subject of access to justice. Her book, Defining the Struggle: National Organizing for Racial Justice, 1880-1915 (Oxford, 2013), received the Organization of American Historians' 2014 Liberty Legacy Foundation Award for “the best book by a historian on the civil rights struggle from the beginnings of the nation to the present.” Professor Carle attended Yale Law School, where served as reviews and comments editor of the Yale Law Journal. After graduation she clerked for the Honorable Dolores K. Sloviter of the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit. She then worked as an appellate attorney in the Civil Rights Division of the U.S. Department of Justice and for the union-side labor law firm Bredhoff & Kaiser, where she handled complex and appellate litigation in a wide range of areas related to labor and employment law. She is currently the chair of the American Association of Law Schools' Professional Development Committee and serves on the legal ethics advisory committee of the National Disability Rights Network.
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