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Lorraine SchmallLorraine A. Schmall
Professor of Law

B.A., University of Illinois - Chicago
M.A., Columbia University
J.D., George Washington University

 

 

Email: lschmall@niu.edu
Phone: (815) 753-0480
Room: 199C

Biography

Lorraine Schmall came to NIU in 1989 from Wake Forest University School of Law where she had been a member of the faculty since 1987.  Prior to that she was in the private practice of law in Chicago, a Bigelow Fellow at the University of Chicago Law School, and a visiting assistant professor at IIT Chicago Kent College of Law.  She has published dozens of articles and books on topics related to feminism, labor, criminal and comparative law.  Professor Schmall teaches Labor Law, ERISA, Employment Law, Criminal Law, and advanced issues in criminal law.  She is a contributing editor for the ABA/BNA Developing Labor Law hornbook, and a member of the Developing Labor Law Committee of the ABA, and the Executive Committee of the American Association of Law Schools Section on Labor and Employment Law.  She is an elected member of the American Law Institute and serves as a consultant to the Restatement of Employment Law.  She is associated with the Chicago Volunteer Legal Services which provides free or low-cost legal services.  She is a member of a Study Group on Regulating for Decent Work, a part of the International Labor organization within the United Nations, in Geneva, Switzerland. 

Recent Activities

  • Appointed to three-year term on the NIU Faculty Development and Instructional Design Advisory Committee in August 2010.
  • Presenter, Regulating for Decent Work (RDW) Conference, International Labor Organization, Geneva, Switzerland (July 2009); member, RDW Study Group.
  • Visiting Scholar, King's College, London (Spring 2009).
  • Book review editor for Perspectives on Work, a refereed publication.
  • Panelist, USF Law Review Symposium: The Evolving Definition of the Immigrant Worker (Feb. 2009). More information at http://www.usfca.edu/law/academic/journals/lawreview/symposium.html.
  • Serves on the Consultative Group for the Restatement on Employment Law.
  • Elected as a research fellow at the Employee Benefits Research Institute, a not-for-profit and nonpartisan research organization in Washington, D.C.

Books and Chapters

  • Pardons and Commutations in The Oxford Companion to American Law (Kermit Hall & David Scott Clark eds. Oxford University Press 2002).
  • Employee Benefits Law: Cases and Materials (1998) (with Maria Hylton).
  • Bar None 125 Years of Women Lawyers in Illinois, listed in (1998).
  • Union Security, in The Developing Labor Law (1989-1995) (Contributing Editor, Section on Labor & Employment Law, ABA).
  • The Duty of Fair Representation: Substantive Rights & Responsibilities, and The Duty of Fair Representation: Enforcement & Remedies, in Individual Rights Within the Union (1987).
  • Local Consumer Agencies, in 2 Consumer Protection Reporting Service pt. 4 (1982).

Articles

  • One Step Closer to Mental Health Parity, ___ Nev. L. Rev. ___ (forthcoming).
  • ICE Raids: Worksite Enforcement of Immigration Laws, ___ U.S.F. L. Rev. ___ (forthcoming).
  • Worksite Enforcement of US Immigration Laws, The Professor's Column, N. Ill. U. C. L. (Aug. 2008).
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  • Birth Control as a Labor Law Issue, 13 Duke J. Gender L. & Pol'y 139 (2006).
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  • Failure of Equity: Discriminatory Plant Closing as an Irremediable Injury Under ERISA, 55 Cath. U. L. Rev. 81 (2005) (with Nathan Ihnes).
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  • ERISA Preemption: A Move Towards Defederalizing Claims for Patients' Rights (Twentieth Annual Carl Warns Labor & Employment Institute), 42 Brandeis L.J. 529 (2004) (with Brenda Stephens).
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  • Defined Contribution Plans After Enron, 41 Brandeis L.J. 891 (2003).
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  • Women and Pension Reform:  Economic Insecurity and Old Age, 35 J. Marshall L. Rev. 673 (2002).
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  • Keeping Employer Promises When Relational Incentives No Longer Pertain: "Right Sizing" and Employee Benefits, 68 Geo. Wash. L. Rev. 276 (2000).
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  • Symposium: Work and Family (Introduction), 19 N. Ill. U. L. Rev. 1 (1998).
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  • Forgiving Guin Garcia: Women, the Death Penalty and Commutation, 11 Wis. Women's L.J. 283 (1996).
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  • Toward Full Participation and Protection of the Worker with Illness: The Failure of Federal Law After McGann, 29 Wake Forest L. Rev. 781 (1994).
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  • The Impact of Dubuque Packing Co. Upon the Collective Bargaining Practices of Attorneys and Their Clients, 24 Stetson L. Rev. 111 (1994).
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  • Addicted Pregnancy as a Sex Crime, 13 N. Ill. U. L. Rev. 263 (1993).
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  • Women & Children, First, But Only if the Men Are Union Members: Hiring Halls and Delinquent Child-Supporters, 6 Notre Dame J.L. Ethics & Pub. Pol'y 449 (1992).
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  • Workplace Safety and the Union’s Duty After Lueck and Hechler, 38 U. Kan. L. Rev. 561 (1990).
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  • Integrating Legal Research into Substantive Law Courses, 1 Integrated Legal Res. 7 (NOS. 3 & 4, 1989).
  • AIDS in the Workplace: Doctors, Lawyers, and Bosses, 41 Okla. L. Rev. 685 (Winter 1988).
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  • Illegal Discrimination Against Public Employees, 26 Pub. Libr. 180 (1987).
  • Book Review, A.B.A. J. (Apr. 1987) (reviewing K. MacKinnon, Feminism Unmodified).
  • Looking for Work: Solicitation by the NLRB, 7 Indus. Rel. L.J. 178 (U.C. Berkeley, 1985).
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Areas of Expertise:

Criminal Law, Death Penalty, Employment Law, Labor Law, Pension Benefits