Speaker Series: Tristan Green

Tristin Green specializes in laws affecting inequality, especially employment discrimination law. She brings to her teaching and her scholarship a background in journalism and sociology and an interest in human relations and in the ways in which laws and contexts shape those relations. Her research and teaching interests include feminist legal theory, employment discrimination, race, gender and queer theory, status identity and emotions, torts, and administrative structures, including wealth transfer systems and civil procedure. 

Green often draws on the social sciences in her work to better understand how discrimination operates and how laws can be better framed and implemented to reduce discrimination and enhance equality. Her recent book, Racial Emotion at Work: Dismantling Discrimination and Building Racial Justice in the Workplace, was released by the University of California Press in October 2023. The book spotlights the role of our racial emotions in interracial interactions and calls for sweeping changes in how the law and organizations treat and shape racial emotions at work. She has authored more than twenty chapters, articles, and essays, which have appeared in the Southern California Law Review, Yale Law Journal Forum, Harvard Civil Rights and Civil Liberties Law Review, and California Law Review, among others. Her book, Discrimination Laundering: The Rise of Organizational Innocence and the Crisis of Equal Opportunity Law, was published by Cambridge University Press in 2017. 

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