Associate Dean for Academic Affairs and Professor of Law
Office: LC 2000E
Campus Phone: 419.530.4107
Fax Number: 419.530.7911
E-Mail: Nicole.Porter2@utoledo.edu
Secretary: Judy Cobb; 419.530.5103
Nicole B. Porter joined the College of Law faculty in 2007. She teaches Employment Discrimination, Employment Law, Disability Discrimination, Contracts, Criminal Law and Feminist Legal Theory. She was previously Assistant Professor of Law at Saint Louis University School of Law since 2004. Her research interests focus on the employment rights of women and individuals with disabilities. Prior to her academic career, Porter was in-house counsel for a manufacturing company in Michigan, and also practiced employment law in a large law firm in Detroit. Porter received her law degree from the University of Michigan Law School, where she was the Editor in Chief of the University of Michigan Journal of Law Reform. Porter graduated from Michigan’s law school with honors, magna cum laude, and she is a member of the Order of the Coif. After law school, Porter began her law career clerking for the Honorable James L. Ryan, on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit.
Publications
Debunking the Market Myth, 12 Georgetown Journal of Gender & the Law 159 (2011).
Relieving (Most of) the Tension: A Review of Samuel R. Bagenstos, Law & The Contradictions of the Disability Rights movement, 20 Cornell J. Law & Pub. Pol’y 761 (2011)
Synergistic Solutions: An Integrated Approach to Solving the Caregiver Conundrum for “Real” Workers, 39 Stetson Law Review 777 (2010).
Why Care About Caregivers?: Using Communitarian Theory to Justify Protection of 'Real' Workers, 58 Kansas Law Review 355 (2010).
The Perfect Compromise: Bridging the Gap between At-Will Employment and Just Cause, 87 Nebraska Law Review 62 (2008).
Reasonable Burdens: Resolving the Conflict Between Employees with Disabilities and Their Co-Workers, 34 Florida State Law Review 313 (2007).
Re-Defining Superwoman: An Essay on Overcoming the “Maternal Wall” in the Legal Workplace, 13 Duke Journal of Gender Law & Policy 55 (2006) (invited symposium piece).
Victimizing the Abused? Is Termination the Solution when Domestic Violence Comes to Work?, 12 Michigan Journal of Gender & Law 275 (2006).
A Review of Gender on Trial: Sexual Stereotypes and Work/Life Balance in the Legal Workplace, 6 U. Pa. J. Lab. & Emp. L. 467 (2004).
Sex Plus Age Discrimination: Protecting Older Women Workers, 81 Denv. U. L. Rev. 79 (2003).
Marital Status Discrimination: A Proposal for Title VII Protection, 46 Wayne L. Rev. 1 (2000).