Handbook of employment discrimination research

Thisvolume containsacollection of original papers by leading legal scholars and social scientists that develop new perspectivesonanti-discrimination law, with an emphasisonemployment discrimination. Thearticles were written for a conference held at Stanford Law Schoolin Spring 2003 that was sponsoredbythe American Bar Foundation and Stanford Law School. The purpose of that conference, thisvolume, and ongoing workbytheDiscrimination Research Group based at the American Bar FoundationandtheCenterforAdvancedStudyintheBehavioralSciencesistoadvance the social scienti?cunderstanding of employment discrimination and the operation of employment discrimination law as a social system, and to consider the legal and policy implications of this emerging bodyof social science. Now isapivotal moment for an attempt at a deeper understanding ofdiscrimi- tion andlaw. After three decades of theoreticaldevelopment and empirical research onemploymentdiscriminationanditstreatmentinlaw,itiscrucialthatlawyers,social scientists,andpolicymakersassesswhatweknowanddonotknowaboutemployment discrimination andits treatment by law. To date, there are several streams of active research that only occasionally engag