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Professor Jarod S. Gonzalez

Jarod S. Gonzalez Professor of Law
(806) 742-3990 x223
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Admitted to practice in Texas.

Professor Gonzalez joined the faculty in 2004. Before entering teaching, he practiced law with the Dallas firm of Thompson & Knight and clerked for two federal judges - the late John H. Hannah, Jr., Chief Judge, Eastern District of Texas and Judge Robert M. Parker (retired), United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit. His teaching and research interests include civil procedure and employment law.

Curriculum Vitae (September 2009)

Degrees

B.B.A., summa cum laude, University of Oklahoma, 1997

J.D., University of Oklahoma, 2000

Courses

Texas Pretrial Civil Procedure, Texas Civil Procedure: Trial and Appellate, Employment Discrimination, and Employment Law

Selected Publications

A Tale of Two Waivers: Waiver of the Jury Waiver Defense under the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure, 87 Nebraska Law Review 675-711 (2009) (proposing a novel solution under the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure for the procedure and timing problems that are currently present with respect to raising a contractual jury waiver challenge to a jury demand in federal district court)

Employment Law Remedies for Illegal Immigrants, 40 Texas Tech Law Review 987-1000 (2008) (argues that providing full employment law rights to undocumented workers should be tied to the public policy goal of decreasing the number of people illegally working in this country)

State Antidiscrimination Statutes and Implied Preemption of Common Law Torts: Valuing the Common Law, 59 South Carolina Law Review 115-145 (2007) (develops a tailored legal test for determining whether the mere presence of a state antidiscrimination statute preempts common law tort claims based on discriminatory forms of workplace harassment)

SOX, Statutory Interpretation, and the Seventh Amendment: Sarbanes-Oxley Act Whistleblower Claims and Jury Trials, 9 University of Pennsylvania Journal of Labor and Employment Law 25-85 (2006) (article addresses whether the Seventh Amendment guarantees a jury trial for SOX whistleblower actions brought in federal court)

A Matter of Life and Death–Why the ADA Permits Mandatory Periodic Medical Examinations of "Remote-Location" Employees, 66 Louisiana Law Review 681-731 (2006) (article argues that the ADA should be interpreted to allow mandatory periodic medical examinations of current employees in some cases)

A Long Time Coming–United States Supreme Court adopts the 'Rule of Reason' Test for Vertical Maximum Price Fixing Cases in State Oil v. Khan, 52 Oklahoma Law Review 645-663 (1999) (note analyzes antitrust law cases involving vertical maximum price fixing)

You can access my papers on the Social Science Research Network (SSRN) at http://ssrn.com/author=415781.