Lorraine 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 a number of articles and books on topics related to feminism, labor, and criminal law; and teaches labor law, ERISA, employment law, criminal law, and a death penalty seminar in which students undertake post-conviction appeals on behalf of condemned Illinois inmates. 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, the American Law Institute, and the Executive Committee of the American Association of Law Schools Section on Labor and Employment Law.
Books and Chapters
- Women on the Row in ISSUES WITH THE DEATH PENALTY (S. Dicks, ed. Spring 2003).
- 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 (West, 1998) (with Maria Hylton).
- Bar None 125 YEARS OF WOMEN LAWYERS IN ILLINOIS, listed in (CBA, 1998).
- Union Security, Chapter 29, THE DEVELOPING LABOR LAW (BNA, 1989; BNA, 1993; BNA, 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, Chapters 8 & 9 in M. Malin, INDIVIDUAL RIGHTS WITHIN THE UNION (BNA, 1987).
- Local Consumer Agencies, Chapter 3, CONSUMER PROTECTION REPORTING SERVICE VOL. II, PART IV (1982).
Articles
- Worksite Enforcement of US Immigration Laws, The Professor's Column, Northern Illinois University College of Law (August 2008).
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- Birth Control as a Labor Law Issue, 13 DUKE JOURNAL OF GENDER LAW & POLICY 139 (2006).
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- Failure of Equity: Discriminatory Plant Closing as an Irremediable Injury Under ERISA, 55 CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY LAW REVIEW 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 LAW JOURNAL 529 (2004) (with Brenda Stephens).
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- Defined Contribution Plans After Enron, 41 BRANDEIS LAW REVIEW 891 (2003).
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- Women and Pension Reform: Economic Insecurity and Old Age, 35 JOHN MARSHALL LAW REVIEW 673 (2002).
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- Keeping Employer Promises When Relational Incentives No Longer Pertain: "Right Sizing" and Employee Benefits, 68 THE GEORGE WASHINGTON LAW REVIEW 276 (2000).
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- Symposium: Work and Family (Introduction), 19 NORTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY LAW REVIEW 1 (1998).
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- Forgiving Guin Garcia: Women, the Death Penalty and Commutation, 11 WISCONSIN WOMEN'S LAW JOURNAL 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 LAW REVIEW 781 (1994).
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- The Impact of Dubuque Packing Co. Upon the Collective Bargaining Practices of Attorneys and Their Clients, 24 STETSON LAW REVIEW 111 (1994).
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- Addicted Pregnancy as a Sex Crime, 13 NORTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY LAW REVIEW 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 JOURNAL OF LAW, ETHICS & PUBLIC POLICY 449 (1992).
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- Workplace Safety and the Union’s Duty After Lueck and Hechler, 38 UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS LAW REVIEW 561 (1990).
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- Integrating Legal Research into Substantive Law Courses, 1 INTEGRATED LEGAL RESEARCH 7 (NOS. 3 & 4, 1989).
- AIDS in the Workplace: Doctors, Lawyers, and Bosses, 41 OKLAHOMA LAW REVIEW 685 (Winter 1988).
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- Illegal Discrimination Against Public Employees, 26 PUBLIC LIBRARIAN 180 (1987).
- Book Review, AMERICAN BAR ASSOCIATION JOURNAL (April 1987) (reviewing K. MacKinnon, Feminism Unmodified).
- Looking for Work: Solicitation by the NLRB, 7 INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS LAW JOURNAL 178 (U.C. Berkeley, 1985).
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Areas of Expertise:
Criminal Law, Death Penalty, Employment Law, Labor Law, Pension Benefits
